Today in our second guitar lesson, we had a wonderful time learning new notes and practicing together. We also enjoyed singing along, which made the lesson fun and lively!
Guitar Lesson.
Category : Curriculum
Amazing Arithmetic!
This week in Year 6, we’ve been working extra hard in our afternoon maths intervention sessions. In our groups, we’ve been focusing really well and challenging ourselves with tricky problems.
It hasn’t always been easy, but we’ve shown lots of resilience and kept going even when things felt tough. We’re really proud of how much progress we’re making and how well we’ve supported each other along the way.
Maths can be challenging, but with determination, we’ve proved we can do it!
Why did the Romans invade Britain?
In our expedition, Coming to Doncaster, Why then, Why now? We have been exploring why the Romans came to Britain. We learned that they wanted treasures like gold and silver, as well as land and power. After that, we wrote a letter pretending to be a Roman soldier on their way to Britain. We enjoyed imagining what it would be like to be making such a voyage.
Variables when coding
In year 4, we have continued exploring Scratch and learning about variables. Children learned that variables can store lots of different answers and the programme will respond accordingly. We played some games where children had to ask their crew the name of an animal or food but had to erase the previous answer if it was different. This allowed children to see that the variables were limitless. Working as a crew, we built the code on our iPads as this was new learning for us. Once we’d built the code, we experimented with different questions and answers. In our next session we will build on today’s learning.
Tudor house with charcoal
This afternoon, Crew Ramsay have been continuing using charcoal as a medium for art. Today, they were drawing a Tudor house using a marking making, blending, lines and shapes. We spent some time looking at the shapes used to help us structure our own drawing. We discussed the shapes and how to put these together to draw a Tudor house. Once we had finished, children conducted a gallery walk and started to think of the class praises and wonders.
Confidence is key!
Today in our reading lesson, we worked really hard as a crew and showed just how confident we have become at discussing the texts we read. We had in-depth discussions about our text and made some great links to our expedition topic. Mrs. Rankin was incredibly impressed with our ideas and opinions, and we were proud of how well we used our retrieval skills to answer questions. We are really growing as readers and enjoying our non-fiction texts along the way!
Inputs – How do we control a computer?
In year 1, we have been learning about how to control a computer and that we usually do this by pressing buttons. Before we started our new learning, we recapped our learning from last week. We recapped our actions to help us remember monitor, mouse, keyboard and printer before using an interactive game to place the labels in the correct place.
The children were really excited to learn that Miss Shields had a remote control that allowed her to control the actions of the children. When she pressed the blue button, the children had to jump up and wave their arms. When she pressed the red button, they had to tap their knees. Then when she pressed the green button, they had to lie down and pretend their were sleeping. This was great fun which helped us understand that buttons result in actions.
We then worked together to design a robot that we thought would help Mrs Barber. The children suggested help with RWI and all the things she needs to remember.
Crew Ramsay as artists
Today in expedition we have been artists. We have worked really hard to use charcoal effectively to create our own sketch of Carcroft School. We had a practice of using different skills and techniques before applying this knowledge to our learning. Miss Holdsworth was really impressed that we remembered some of our key words when praising each others work, such as blending and outline. We were so proud of the beautiful work we produced, we showcased this by completing a gallery walk.
Inputs in computing
In computing, we started the lesson by recapping the different parts of the computer and the purpose of these parts. We then started to investigate inputs which was focused on type buttons we have on different devices. When we press buttons, we are giving the computer commands and asking it to perform a job. We then designed our own robot thinking about the commands we would like to be able to give it. Miss Shields modelled drawing a robot that could do her weekly shop but most importantly put the groceries away. It was great seeing the children confidently sharing their robot design in-front of the rest of their crew.
Text Marking
Today in Crew Robson we tried to text text marking for the first time. We talked through what all the symbols mean and then unpicked an example before having a go independently.
