Our Independent Diary Up-levelling ✏️

1st February 2026Hannah McLoughlin

By children in Crew McLoughlin.

While Miss was working with part of the class to redraft a plot point, we were independently up-levelling our Tudor diary writing. Our diary is all about attending a royal Tudor banquet and we have been editing and improving it using ‘ARMS’ to add, remove, move and substitute ideas.

We have been including what we learned in grammar lessons, like expanded noun phrases, pronouns, adverbials, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions and parenthesis.

Our diary writing shows how the Tudors lived their daily lives and how sometimes their punishments didn’t fit the crime. We have really enjoyed revising our plot points and becoming more independent confident editors of our own work. We are proud of how much our writing has improved!

Sharing and critiquing our wonderful writing!

30th January 2026Megan Gray

In Crew Gray this week, we have been sharing our fantastic writing from our recounts of our Tudor banquet with one another. We shared two stars and a wonder for each others work, allowing us to edit and revise them, before we share them with Miss Ramsey our audience for this piece of writing.

Role-Play Sparked creativity

30th January 2026Gillian Gilliland

Crew McLoughlin has had a fun and creative learning experience today in order to redraft a plot point of their diary.We took part in an imaginative role-play activity, where we pretended to be a Tudor getting ready to attended a special banquet. We imagined waking up, getting dress and walking into the hall. This is to help us write a diary about our day- what we saw, felt and did.

Sticky Knowledge – Maths Reasoning

29th January 2026Thomas White

Each week, in Crew White, we have a different reasoning focus then the following week we find out how much of that learning has stuck. Last week, the focus was all about matching questions: fractions, decimals and percentages. Today, we tackled two short reasoning questions to see how well the learning stuck and thankfully it’s still in our brain ready for when we need it. This is something called retrieval practice.

Gymnastics in Crew White

29th January 2026Thomas White

In Crew White, we have been working hard to perfect our back bridges. It has been challenging for some people, but in Crew White we believe that with determination, resilience, and encouragement we can do it. Some people have displayed incredible skills, determination and a lot of resilience: Tommy Thompson and Debbie-Mae Bell.

There were so many people we could have picked. Be determined, be resilient and trust in yourself and you can do anything!

Written by Praise Shoyemi

Read Write Inc Practice Sheets

29th January 2026Elizabeth Frost

This week, the children have began using Read Write Inc. practice sheets. These help them to develop their letter formation skills and create clear, recognizable letters. This will be an ongoing activity throughout their school year.

The children practice saying the picture of the sound, the letter sound , then they practice using the picture cards. They then say the phrase as they write, and finally say the sound again while forming the letter. This supports their phonics and early writing development.

We look forward to sending these sheets home as part of home learning and seeing the amazing work that Crew Frost continue to produce.