LKS2 Writing Planning

13th October 2025Shannon Colclough

Today in Crew Colclough, we started to plan our own historical narratives based on ‘Escape from Pompeii’. Pupils drew their own text maps and then orally rehearsed their own versions of the story.

HoWL House Points

10th October 2025Laura Godley

Our HoWL house competition is heating up! This week, Carrs are leading the scoreboard with 1,484 points, followed closely by Smithies with 1,430 points. Canaries and Billiards are also putting in fantastic effort, showing determination and teamwork.

Throughout the term, every point earned has celebrated our hard work, kindness and work towards. At the end of Autumn Term, the winning house will enjoy a special Christmas Movie Afternoon, complete with hot chocolate and popcorn in the hall. Keep up the amazing work, crews – every point counts!

Beautiful written work in Crew Colclough

10th October 2025Kirsty Atherton

We are so proud of this young man. He has created two amazing paragraphs over the last couple of days. His effective word choice is particularly impressive. However, the reason I felt the need to blog this today was because of his expressive reading. We have been working on our fluency skills and today, Henry today demonstrated excellence in this.

Year 3/4 football tournament

9th October 2025Natasha Holdsworth

Today 5 pupils from both year 3 and year 4 headed out for the afternoon to compete in a football tournament. They were one of 10 teams, unfortunately we didn’t place in the top 3 but I was so impressed with the children’s efforts, resilience and sportsmanship. Out of the 10 teams, which was over 100 children in total, one of our year 4 pupils was given a medal for his stand out sportsmanship. We were all so proud of him, what a great achievement! Here’s a few photos to showcase our fantastic afternoon!

Algorithms vs a jam sandwich

9th October 2025Ruth Shields

We have moved on to our next computing unit which is understanding an algorithm. An algorithm is a clear set of instructions that we give to a computer to fulfil a task that we need it to do. Unfortunately, if the instructions aren’t clear then the computer will become confused. To help with their understanding, the children had to help Miss Shields make a jam sandwich but unfortunately this didn’t go to plan. The instructions Miss Shields received resulted in questionable jam sandwiches.

First, she was told to spread the butter on the bread then spread the jam on the bread. So children were quite surprised when this happened.

Another set of instructions was to get out the bread, get out the butter and get out the jam but children weren’t happy when I plopped these on the table and not the actual bread.

After a couple of failed attempts, children refined their instructions, however, they forgot to tell Miss Shields to use a knife so they were quite surprised when she spread the butter and jam with her hand. They then remembered to tell me that I needed to use a knife.

By following the unclear instructions, children were able to start understanding that an algorithm has to be clear instructions so that a computer knows exactly what to do and doesn’t get confused.