Rounding to the nearest 1000

4th October 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill have worked really hard this week to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and then 1000. We began by identifying the multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 that was before and after our number. For example, if our number was 1235, the thousand before would be 1000 and the thousand after would be 2000. We then had to decide, using a number line to support, which multiple it was closest to and therefore which number we would round it to. We then learned a rounding rhyme to help us solve this more easily:

  • Find the place (which place you are rounding to)
  • Look next door (look at the column to the right)
  • 5 or bigger? +1 more
  • 4 or less? Let it rest

Regular Verbs and Verb Phrases

4th October 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill continued their grammar lessons by deepening their understanding on regular verbs, focusing on how the suffix that is added to them changes their tense (e.g. if you ad -ed, it becomes past tense – walk, walked and if you ad -ing, it is present tense – walk, walking). We then spent some time working in mini crews to write down as many regular verbs as we could think of. Following this, we linked our new knowledge of regular verbs with our previous learning of ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ verbs and began to identify verb phrases which are made up of two verbs together (e.g. are swimming).

Building on evacuation in MI

3rd October 2024Stacey McClare

Yesterday we continued our expeditionary learning on evacuation where we built on the knowledge we already had. We imagined we were a parent of two small children living in London’s docklands. We had to decide whether or not to evacuate our children. We considered the factor cards in front of us, reading them aloud with our partner. If we thought the factor card was a reason for evacuation we moved our counter forward on our board. If we thought it was against evacuation we moved it backwards. After doing this, we reviewed the cards again, this time ranking the cards by how important they are to us. We then explained our decision using the sentence starter, “If I were a parent, I would/would not not evacuate my children because… We worked really well in mini-crews, discussing our thoughts and ideas together.

Arithmetic Superstars!

3rd October 2024Hannah McLoughlin

In academic crew this morning, Crew Mcloughlin have reflected on their performance in their latest arithmetic test and wow did we deserve a massive celebration! A high percentage of children have improved their score and some by a whopping 15 marks! We could not be prouder of each and every child in our Crew. The hard work is definitely paying off!

Case Study 1 Reflection

3rd October 2024Laura Hamill

Yesterday, Crew Hamill completed a Padlet in which each child added their own statements to each section, detailing the information they could remember from everything we have learned during our first science case study. Miss Hamill was impressed with just how much we’d remembered!

Becoming Gardners

3rd October 2024Nicola Robson

Today we became Gardners for our fifth castle job. We learnt about how important Gardners were as they planted fruits and vegetables for the kings, queens, lords and ladies to eat at their banquets.

We planted our very own seeds and have taken them home to look after.

Regular verbs

3rd October 2024Ruth Shields

In grammar this week, we have been learning about regular verbs and how they change based on whether they are in the past, present or future tense. E.g. The dog barked = past tense, The dog barks = present tense, The dog will bark = future tense.

Children worked in pairs to decide whether a sentence was the last, present or future tense.

Pumpkins

2nd October 2024Tracy Haddock

Crew Welburn got to go to xp outdoors again this week and because we are now in October we decided to decorate a pumpkin using the natural resources from the forest area.