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This week we have continued to delve into our history case study, exploring WW2. We started by looking at the different organisations involved in the wartime effort. We discovered there were 4 organisations that people belonged to: the Armed Forces, the government, special operations and the home front. We explored different people within the organisations – we recorded key facts, roles and responsibilities. This was an opportunity to practice our reading within our expedition lesson.
In Crew Marsh we have been looking at different materials. We organised them into different categories – wood, metal, fabric, glass and plastic. We then spoke about what properties each material had. We applied this to our castle learning and thought about what material we would want to use to build a castle – we voted for metal.
This week at Plover, students in EYFS completed a sponsored Bear walk as part of their new Expedition! They raised £1148 to support their local community – and dressed up as bears to perform bear related exercises and have fun during the process! Beautiful work!
Last week, Comms installed some new wonderful displays of student work at XP Gateshead. These wall displays are culminations of recent Expeditions and Activism from the last year.
Last Monday, our staff worked closely with Steplab to start implementing their ICT platform for coaching across XP Trust. Staff spent the day looking at effective coaching and learning and how Steplab can help create a positive culture around it.
Over the coming week’s we’ll be sharing more stories of Crew from our recent Outward Bound Expedition – here’s another from Crew JPO/JNO!
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Reuben was chosen today to receive a special magic pen for his effort and perseverance in his handwriting lessons. Great job Reuben!
To begin today’s session we recapped some of the new vocabulary that we identified in lesson 1 of Book Talk such as, ‘override’, ‘pacing’, ‘vast’, ‘mesmerised’ and ‘observation’. We ensured that we all knew what the words meant and discussed how they had been used in the text by the author. We then worked with our partners to read the text. We took it in turns to read sentences/paragraphs/whole pages each. We listened and observed carefully so that we could critique how well our partner had used the punctuation such as commas and full stops in the text. We then went through some reasons to read together which required us to use our skimming and scanning skills to allow us to retrieve information from the text. We were fab at this! We then completed a true or false quiz based on what we had read. We then completed the session by listing 3 facts, 2 opinions and 1 question. Another great Book Talk session Crew Elmer! Well done!
Today in PE we continued to develop our listening skills and working together as a crew to achieve our end goal. Our first challenge was ‘Sheep huddle’. We worked in pairs, the sheep was blindfolded whilst the farmer gave the instructions using positional language to herd the sheep into their pen. We had to think very carefully about our one step and two step instructions. We then finished off with our favourite challenge, Spiders Web. Great work again today, Crew Godley!
Crew Marsh demonstrated their knowledge of number by writing the missing number on a number line on their whiteboards. Mrs Atherton gave us critique to ensure our numbers were the right way round, we then fixed our work if we needed to.
In Crew Hamill, first we recalled key information about the text. Then we enjoyed drawing illustrations to show what we thought the “contraption” looked like from the text we were reading. The children really thought about what they could use within their classroom to create their designs. We loved how Jake selected the bottom of a glue stick to draw the cog. Great idea Jake.
This afternoon, Crew Shields welcomed a visit from the fire service. They had come to school to talk about how to keep themselves safe at home and also while near open bodies of water.
They were given the opportunity to discuss where we should have smoked alarms inside our homes to keep us safe. Then they started to identify fires that are good and bad.
Hopefully children have come home today and asked where the smoke alarm is and if they could check it was working.
We also learned what to do if we were ever in a position where our clothes had caught fire. We should STOP, DROP and ROLL.
Children then role played calling in an emergency and someone being the operator.
Super impressed with our nouns recap today! We played lots of short games to demonstrate our understanding of common, proper, collective and partitive nouns. We showed some great learning really showcasing what we have remembered over the last couple of weeks! I look forward to seeing how well you do tomorrow in your touch down! Great work MI 🙂
