In P.E they were learning skills on how to play cricket.They had to remember that they could not throw the ball under arm and that they had to throw it over arm.
P.E
Category : Curriculum
Mathematicians
Web Crawlers
Crew Gray have been learning all about web crawlers today and how search engines create index pages of all of the websites using web crawlers and hyperlinks. We explored how web crawlers work using non-fiction books to find information from the index and contents pages, and realised that this can take a long time for a human to complete, especially if you have to look through more than one book to find the correct information. We then looked further into how Google uses web crawlers and found that these are not actual people, so can get the job done much faster! After that, we became web crawlers around the classroom and rated our classroom objects using a table. We included the quantity of the object, the quality and the distance from where we were. These numbers then totalled up and we were able to rank the resources from highest to lowest. From this, we were able to see how search engines rank different websites using the quantity of times a key word is used and the quality of the information on the page, and how this affects the order that websites appear within search engines.
Decomposition, coding and debugging
Today in Crew Colclough, we have been learning about decomposition in computing. We’ve learnt how this means breaking a big task down into smaller chunks to make it more manageable. We demonstrated our understanding through turning our brains into computers and breaking big tasks down into smaller tasks to make them more manageable and to solve the problems that we have been set.
Mathematicians
Well done to the children in maths, who were exploring number bonds within 10 using cubes. You worked incredibly hard! 🔢💡
Mummifying a Tomato! 🏺🍅
In the first day of hook week we became real-life ancient Egyptians… by mummifying a tomato!
To kick off our new history topic about the Ancient Egyptians, we wanted to understand how and why the civilization spent 70 days preparing a dead body. Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, and preserving the body was very important so the person’s soul could live on. By doing this experiment, we were able to see the science behind this fascinating tradition. Instead of using a real body (of course!), we used tomatoes to represent a human body because they are soft and full of water – just like our organs.
First, we carefully observed our tomatoes and made predictions about what might happen to them over time. Then came the exciting (and slightly messy!) part. We covered the tomatoes in salt, which represented natron – a natural substance the Ancient Egyptians used to dry out bodies.
Over the next week, we will observe our tomatoes and recorded any changes. This will help us understand how mummification preserved bodies for the afterlife.
Easter Week.
Before the Easter Holidays, we finished our paper mâché nests and decorated them, ready for the Easter Bunny. The children have also made Easter cards, creating bunnies out of handprints.
Using concrete resources, we incorporated Easter into our maths lessons with number matching and colour-by-number activities. We then used Easter in our phonics lessons to support blending CVC words. These activities were completed with minimal adult support—fantastic work!
Hope you all had a lovely Easter break!
Beautiful work in Crew McGlone
A selection of beautiful work and provision from Crew McGlone this week, including name writing, sentence writing, expedition and independent learning in provision.
Times table relays
Crew Gray have been Getting Smart by working in small teams to complete our times table relays. This was fun and active way for us to continue consolidating our times table knowledge.
Ordering and comparing our height
Crew Gray have been working hard in Maths, we have been ordering and comparing decimals. To consolidate and tie all of our learning together, we were challenged to measure our heights and ordered these in ascending order.
