Today, we kick started our geography case study… recapping how to read maps, globes and how to use compasses. 🗺🌏🔎
Category : Curriculum
Crew MI
Happy new year everyone! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
It has been so lovely to welcome all the children back into school. We have had a busy couple of days! Children have made a great start to hook week, they have taken part in both a Geography day and a Science day. The children have really enjoyed both days and have made a great start thinking about our next expedition.
On Monday children thought hard about climate change, what it is, how it has an impact on the world we live in and what we can do to help. We watched a variety of clips to support us with this. We then thought about climate change in our local area and the wider world.
From here we started to think about the benefits of rainforests. We used a variety of media to support us with this. Next we started to think about what Geography was. We discussed the different types of Geography and our thoughts on our next case study. From here we started to discuss key terms and showed these terms on a map and atlas. We then got creative and took part in an activity outside looking at key terms. We had to use a map and coordinates to do this.
In the afternoon we started to think about the country Colombia. We worked together and took part in a Kahoot quiz. We then built a bank of facts for our display. After this we looked at the story of coffee before taking part in some Colombian dancing!
Science jamboard
LKS2: Visit and new Expedition
This half term the children will be starting their new expedition – What a wonderful world – Why should we protect our beautiful planet?
As part of this expedition the children will be completing three case studies:
- Case Study 1: Geography
- Case Study 2: Science
- Case Study 3 : Music
Next week the children will be visiting Yorkshire Wildlife Park. Please could we ask that all consents have been completed and lunches ordered. Please contact the office team if you have any queries. This can be found on parentpay.
Throughout the expedition, you can visit the expedition website to see what the children have been learning about and seeing pictures and examples of the completed work.
KS1 New Expedition
This half term the children will be starting their new expedition – Circle of Life: How will what I do today affect the world tomorrow?
As part of this expedition the children will be completing three case studies:
- Case Study 1: Science – Animals and their lifecycles
- Case Study 2: Geography – Weather, seasons, seas and continents
- Case Study 3 : Art – Recycled sculpture.
Next week the children will be visiting The Deep. Please could we ask that all consents have been completed and lunches ordered. Please contact the office team if you have any queries.
As always, we would love to hear from any local experts. We would really like to hear from anybody who has knowledge of birds, as part of the Big School’s Birdwatch, animals or any geographers.
Throughout the expedition, you can visit the expedition website to see what the children have been learning about and seeing pictures and examples of the completed work.
If your child is isolating, this week’s work can be found by clicking this link. There are some hook activities to complete along with the children in school.
LKS2 Final Product – Coming to Doncaster; why then and why now? (16.12.21)
LKS2 are proud to reveal their final product for their Autumn Expedition, in which the children show of their beautiful work and aim to answer the Guiding Question – Coming to Doncaster; why then and why now?
We are really proud of the work and learning that has taken place by all of the children across Year 3 and 4, especially their speaking on this video.
Please also look at the website to see the range of work in the other Case Studies.
Here’s the link to our Website: https://sites.google.com/carcroftschool.co.uk/lks2-autumn21-expedition/home
Fraction Carousel
The children really enjoyed their maths learning today; here’s a quick snippet of some of us working hard.
Matilda Art Work
As part of Case Study 3, the children have been working on sketching in the style of Quentin Blake. Using the process of Austin’s Butterfly, the children have created multiple drafts, critiqued their piece of art and tried to make their beautiful work even better.
Click the link to see a gallery of their beautiful work.
Inference Detectives! (8.12.21)👮♀️👮♂️
Year 3 practiced their inference skills today, in mini-Crews. But first, we had to practice our fluency of reading with echo reading – job well done, guys! We then moved onto being inference detectives as we became confident with reading between the lines of a book and explaining our reasons. What a great lesson Year 3! 😆
Experience Day! (7.12.21) 🚓
LKS2 played a game of Hide and Seek, in order to experience the dangers of being found in public, during Curfew time. The adults played the role of the Wujing, the secret police in the book we are reading – Running on the Roof of the World. The children experienced different feelings, including exciting and worried about being caught. Check out the images below:
