Book talk in MI

9th October 2024Stacey McClare

We really loved the activate part of our reading lesson today, an inference activity. We read a short passage and discussed the questions in mini crews. I was blown away with some of the ideas the children came up with! We then moved onto another non fiction extract on evacuation. We used lots of our expeditionary learning when discussing the text further. There was some great skimming and scanning of the text today to find answers during our reasons to read. I was particularly impressed with the questions children were asking and how engaged they were. Our exit ticket really showed children’s improved confidence with skimming and scanning.

Applying our knowledge of women’s roles

9th October 2024Stacey McClare

Today we built on the knowledge we had gained on women’s roles during WW2 and applied this to a short piece of writing. We thought about what life was like for women before the war and why the opportunities of women were different to men. We then wrote about how the experiences of women changed when WW2 broke out and why this changed happened. From he we thought about how women’s lives then changed after the war and peoples attitudes towards women. This was a great exit ticket helping us reflect on our learning.

PVPG

8th October 2024Hannah McLoughlin

Crew McLoughlin are blowing me away with our knowledge of nouns and verbs! In our latest unit focusing on verbs we have not just covered verbs to be, verbs to have and action verbs but secured our knowledge on singular and plural, simple past, present and future tense. Whilst covering this we have discussed standard English and the use of regular and irregular verbs in verb phrases.

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This is a lot to get your head around but the children have met their HoWL targets every lesson and as a result met their learning targets. Check out our learning journey of our PVPG so far!

Roman numerals…

8th October 2024Emily Ibbotson

Today in Crew MI, we enjoyed learning about roman numerals. We decided it was like trying to crack a code. We learnt that different letters meant different symbols and we had to put them in the right order to create our numbers. We then put this into practise a completed a task on my maths.

Single Clause Sentences…

8th October 2024Emily Ibbotson

We had a great lesson in Crew MI where we began thinking how we could build single clause sentences that included a subject and a verb. We were able to identify these and then decide where the capital letter and full stop should go. Some of us even had a go at including a conjunction to link the clauses.

How Does Movement Affect Our World?

8th October 2024Hannah McLoughlin

Last week, we applied all what we had learnt in physics to help partly answer our guiding question and reflect on the case study. Great understanding was shown as well as beautiful books that look Y6 standard!

After completing our science touchdown, we needed to consolidate some gaps in our learning so in challenge crew this morning we completed a Kahoot quiz. We worked together in submarine mode to consolidate learning and repeatedly answered questions to ensure our knowledge stuck. Great effort Crew Mcloughlin!

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Oreo-ver the moon

8th October 2024Hannah McLoughlin

In expedition, we focused on the phases of the moon. We discussed what the moon looks like and how sometimes it can look different; it is always a spherical shape but doesn’t always appear this shape in the sky. More importantly we delved deeper to find out why…

It turns out that we can only see the moon thanks to the biggest light source of them all – the sun!

We looked at the names of the eight moon phases and then the children had an INCREDIBLE time creating the moon phases using OREOS! It was great seeing children working together, delicately picking apart the biscuits in order to accurately show the eight phases of the moon.

If only every science lesson involved Oreos…

Thrive/Team building

8th October 2024Tracy Haddock

Crew Hamill worked really well today. They supported each other when working together to complete the challenge. They did the amazing shrinking blanket, bucket challenge, getting the ball from one end of the hall to the other using their crew mates but without no hands! Then we used our skills to remember what action the person infront did and then passed it down the line to the last person.. But we didnt alway manage this and this is something we need to work on.

WW2 Evacuation

8th October 2024Laura Godley

Today we explored evacuation in our expeditionary learning, building on the knowledge we already had acquired during hook week. We imagined we were evacuees living in London and how we and our families would feel going on a journey we had no idea how it would end. We had to think carefully about the items we would be able to take and how to transport these. We concluded that our gas mask box and gas mask would be the most important items to ensure we were able to protect ourselves in case of a gas attack.

Our first task was to design a net for a gas mask box, we created miniature gas masks using clay. We thought about how we could make these attractive for younger children to wear, using bright colours. This will be our next task. Our designs are coming along lovely. Watch this space for the finished product.