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What an amazing first week back we have had; I have been so impressed with the resilience and maturity of everyone and I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together this year.
Here are just a few of our highlights!
Crew Challenges
Crew challenge – egg drop
Becoming bucket fillers
Hiding our rocks
Kindness badges
Climbing Frame
Crew Godley have been exploring the wonderful text this week, Have You Filled Your Bucket Today? and thinking carefully about what it means to show compassion towards others.
We have been learning that our words and actions can have a big impact on how people feel. Just like filling someone’s bucket can help them feel happy, valued and cared for, small acts of kindness can make a huge difference to the people around us.
As a Crew, we have been challenging ourselves to become bucket fillers! We have thought about how we can show compassion through kind words, helping others, including people, listening carefully and noticing when someone might need a little support.
Our challenge now is to keep looking for opportunities to fill the buckets of others and make Crew Godley a place where everyone feels valued, cared for and included.
Year 4 kicked off the new academic year with an exciting trip to Austerfield! In Crew this week, our guiding question has been, “How do we work as a team to achieve an end goal?”—and our time at Austerfield really challenged us to dig deep and find the answer. Through a mix of orienteering challenges and team-building games, the children showed incredible determination and collaboration. As a well-deserved reward for all their hard work, they even got to meet some of the amazing animals that reside at the center! It was a fantastic day of growth, teamwork, and fun.
This week in Crew Nursery, we have been learning all about our Be Kind HOWL. We have looked at sharing, helping each other, how a smile can cheer our crew up, and how to put our hand up when we want to share our ideas. We’re working really hard to show our Be Kind HOWL!
Crew White have been developing their artistic skills by exploring watercolour techniques. We experimented with controlling the amount of water and paint on our brushes, creating washes, blending colours and building different tones.
We also discussed how to use watercolours carefully and appropriately, including looking after our brushes, keeping colours clean and using just the right amount of water.
A calm, creative session with some fantastic results! 🎨
We have been undertaking various crew challenges this week to really pull together as a Crew. Here we are using stepping stones to cross a lava and ice river. We worked together to pass the steps along our line and step carefully, holding each other up all the way! We also Great work, Crew Ramsay!
Crew Ramsay are proud to be the new owners of a new Year One Classroom and a new way of learning. We have a Continuous Provision Setting with various areas of enhancements such as Maths, Reading, Writing and Expeditions. This week we are learning to make good choices in our ‘Choosing time’ which will look slightly different to EYFS choosing time. In Year One we lead our own consolidatory learning by accessing Rainbow Challenges. We are determined to complete all 5 by Friday when Miss Ramsay will check our progress! Here we are practising our learning in the various areas. What brilliant learning we are doing!
Today we have been busy learning about kindness through our story ‘The Rainbow Fish’. We discussed the impact of being kind on the people around us and went on to begin a FWB Art project. Here we are sponge painting our fish ready to add the scales and eyes tomorrow! We will be creating a Kindness Fish Tank Display. This display will remind us to be kind to each other, as a good crew. Well done guys, beautiful crew building and beautiful work!
Thank you so much to all those who have already sent sponsor money in for the tough runner/mudder event for this Friday.
CHILDREN ARE TO COME IN THE CLOTHES YOU ARE HAPPY TO GET MUDDY AS THEY WILL GET MUDDY.
PLEASE ALSO SEND IN A CHANGE OF CLOTHES, TOWEL AND A SPARE PAIR OF TRAINERS PLUS A CARRIER BAG TO PUT THE MUDDY CLOTHES IN 💙
Sponsorship forms have been shared with all pupils. Alternatively, you can send sponsor money into school in a an envelope with your child’s name on.
Please note the event is with an external company so we have paid for this event, so we really do need to raise as much as possible for this amazing memory for the children.
What a fantastic start we have had to our first week back in Crew McLoughlin! And we’re only part way through the week! 😄
We have been busy getting back into the swing of school, reconnecting with our friends and beginning to explore our crew guiding question:
How can we work together to achieve an end goal?
Miss McLoughlin was super impressed this morning when some of the children could already remember our guiding question! We have been discovering that reaching an end goal takes teamwork, perseverance, listening, concentration and sometimes a few attempts before we get there.
🍬 The Jelly Baby Challenge
We completed our Jelly Baby Challenge and the children were SO excited! Their challenge was to work together to keep their jelly babies safe while resisting the temptation to eat them. Amazingly, our jelly babies survived… although there were definitely a few very suspicious sniffs and licks! 😂
🎶 Copycat Orchestra
We put our listening and attention skills to the test with Copycat Orchestra. The children had to listen carefully, concentrate and copy the sounds and actions. It was lots of fun and a great way to practise the skills we need when working effectively as a crew.
➕ Maths Board Game
We have also been developing our arithmetic skills through a maths board game. The children tackled challenges, shared their thinking and enjoyed a little bit of friendly competition along the way!
Fun at Break
There has been plenty of time for fun too! The toy cars and playing on the tyres have been a big favourite, alongside lots of imaginative games of mums and dads. It has been lovely to see the children settling back into routines, enjoying their play and reconnecting with one another.
📖 Who Are We?
We read My Name Is Not Refugee and used it as a starting point to think about identity and what makes each of us unique. The children then created their own identity portraits, using adjectives to describe themselves. It was wonderful to see the range of thoughtful and positive words they chose!
🎢 Marble Run Rollercoasters
Our marble run rollercoasters have really tested our teamwork skills! Working successfully as mini crews was trickier than we thought and we definitely discovered that achieving an end goal doesn’t always happen straight away. But we’re not giving up! After our debrief, we’ll be having another go tomorrow. We’ll think about what worked, what didn’t and what we can change to make our teamwork even stronger.
And this is only so far… there is still plenty more to come this week! We can’t wait to see what else Crew McLoughlin can achieve together. 💪🌟
