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Today we began to look at Maya artwork in preparation for creating our own sculptures.
We conducted a gallery walk to explore Maya artwork.
Then we looked at some Maya glyphs and chose our favourite to incorporate into our own artwork.
We copied them carefully ready for some peer critique next lesson.
Crew Godley’s investigation took an unexpected turn when a mysterious blue substance filled the room! The police came to make sure everyone was safe and a scientist has taken away the mysterious substance.
Not ones to stay silent, we’ve decided to write to the Doncaster Free Press to share our concerns about this ever-growing mystery. Today we have started to plan out our own newspaper reports, Firstly, we carefully unpicked an example report and discovered that similar strange events have been happening across the whole country. As we analysed the newspaper report, we looked at lots of important features, including headlines, quotes, the what, when and where. Using these features, we are now ready to plan and write our own reports about the mysterious events at Crew Godley.
We kick started our first day back after a long weekend with the importance of exercise for our brains. The miserable weather did not stop us from having a smile on our face this morning. Some of us enjoyed it that much we did it at wet break!
In Crew Godley, we are learning how to recognise our own feelings in the moment and understand how others might be feeling too. In our Crew session today, we explored different everyday scenarios and decided which ones made us feel happiest and which made us feel least happy. We challenged ourselves to explain why we felt this way.
By sharing our reasons, we discovered that everyone can feel differently about the same situation and that all feelings are important, building empathy.
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead
Crew Hamilton: Orienteering Extraordinaires @ Norton Infants
Academic Thursday in Crew White @ XP East
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This week in our Life Skills lesson we made chocolate chip biscuits. We spoke about how we need to have clean hands and surfaces to bake. The children listened to instructions and both waited patiently while taking in turns to mix the ingredients. Getting their hands stuck in and feeling new textures, using our rolling skills and being careful placing them on the baking tray. Altogether taking 10 biscuits home for our families to share.
Today I had a visit from 4 of our Y5/6 Pupils who were keen to share their diary entries- they were so entertaining to listen to. I also loved the way the children read their work aloud, loud and proud, using their reading voices…
Within their writing, they have been focussing hard on writing for effect and I loved their varied sentence structures. It was also good to see them improving their work to make it even better using their purple polishing pen.
Finally, it was also good to see that handwriting was improving after a slight decline in standards over recent weeks, it was clear pupils were trying to ensure high quality work consistently. A super visit- thanks Crew McLoughlin.
So today in life skills the children made apple monsters. They used apple’s for the head. Next they cut a mouth shape and added some peanut butter , strawberry for his tongue, mini marshmallows for the teeth . Finally the used some icing for its eyes.
IN p.e today they started to look at football. They learnt how to kick a ball with the side of their foot and not their toes. Then they had ago at kicking it in the goals.
