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In our writing lesson today, we had the opportunity to use our new dictionaries and thesauruses when editing and redrafting our work. First, we used our target grids to help us unpick the targets we need to work on and then we collaboratively chotted a model redraft. We then had a go at redrafting independently.
Today, Crew Hamill began their next art slice by looking at our new focus artist – Jessa Dupuis. Before we were given any information on our artist, we were shown some of her art work that we critiqued using our critique norms – be kind, be specific and be helpful. We loved looking at her work and found it unique compared to some of the other art work we have studied this year. We loved the use of colour and loved how the images appeared to layer on top of each other. Once we’d finished our critique, we looked through information on Jessa Dupuis to find out more about the inspiration behind her art. We loved that she was inspired by the weird and wonderful! We cannot wait to use her collage technique to begin our own piece of collage work.
Following our book talk for the first half of this week, we spent yesterday completing some demonstration comprehension questions. We watched as Miss Hamill explained how to identify key information within the question which we could then find in the text and read around in order to support us in finding an accurate and specific answer. We then worked in pairs to use these strategies to identify the answers to some further questions about the book.
This week, we focused on our new book – Dear Vampire. We have spent a lot of time making ourselves familiar with the vocabulary within the book to ensure we can read fluently. We made initial predictions on what we thought the story might be about before we read the introduction which gave us a sneak peek. Following this, we predicted what we thought would happen next and were interested to have our first read to see if we were correct. We have delved deep into what the story is actually about within our book talk lessons and answered some retrieval questions using Fastest Finger and some inference questions that have made us think!
Today we thought about Tomās Journey to the Arctic. We made origami paper boats and then sailed them across the frozen water in our tough tray. We talked about what Tom would see on his journey and the effects big and small waves would have on his boat. We also talked about the vastness of the ocean and how he might feel lonely on his adventure.Ā Great work crew, I am looking forward to reading your writing!
When we got in from break today we heard our classroom door make a strange noise, we had been delivered a newspaper that told us the great explorer (Tom’s Dad) had gone missing in North Pole.
We decided that we wanted to help, so we all wrote our own newspaper describing what Tom’s Dad looked like and where he had gone missing. We then told the rest of the school about this by posting it under their classroom doors.
In our book talk session this morning, we started a new book “Polar Bear”. We began by unpicking the front cover and deciding whether it is a fiction or a non-fiction book. We the chorus read the text while we text marked anything that was important or what we didn’t know/understand. We found lots of important facts in the pages we were reading.
As part of their Expedition āOnce Upon a Timeā, students in EYFS at Plover have raised money to provide boxes of books to local community organisations, including Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospital Trust. They posted this update on their social media this week from their Childrenās Ward, thanking students for their generous donation.
Across the Trust we have always researched and celebratedĀ Doncaster’s railway story through expeditions. Lots of our students’ work is already out there in the community – including railway stationsĀ and parks. Our latest book, Rail City, is also on sale in Waterstones and the Danum Gallery, Library and Museum.
On the 23rd April a remarkable new exhibition – Gresley: Genius of Steam and Speed – will open at DGLaM, featuring artifacts, letters and stories about the man who engineered the Flying Scotsman and the Mallard in Doncaster.
Students from the Trust will be co-creating an audio guide which will be accessibleĀ through an app for the exhibition. We will also be helping to create rail related resources for the summer holiday programme of children’s events at DGLaM.
More on the story in the Doncaster Free Press here
Crew Parks Tree Planting @ XP Gateshead
Easter Maths Hunt @ Norton Infants
Class 6 read anywhere, any table, any chair… @ Green Top
Crew Tubman Year 10 Beautiful Work @ XP
The beat goes on @ Carcroft School
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We had an extended crew this morning doing cojo. They really enjoyed this and making the assault course bigger each time.
In arithmetic, we have been looking at finding fractions of an amount. We looked at both unit and non unit fractions. We were encouraged to use the method which helps to ensure we calculate the correct answer. Some of use moved on to worded problems that required us to use the skills we’d learned.
