Book talk in MI

9th September 2024Stacey McClare

Our entry ticket today allowed us to recap the vocabulary we had unpicked and worked on over the last few sessions. We worked well in mini crews to read each definition together and match to the correct word. From here we looked at our new vocabulary before text marking in the text as we read. We used a partner read, independent read and echo read today. We also used timers to practise the speed of our reading. We are becoming more confident with this. Our reasons to read helped us to reflect on what we had read and to ensure we had understood the story so far. We made predictions in our exit ticket and are all excited to know what happens next in the story!

Magic Maths

9th September 2024Laura Godley

Today in magic maths we’ve been exploring our times tables and how we can use a place value chart to support multiplying by ten. The challenge, wasn’t a challenge at all! I’m so proud of the progress Crew Godley are making with their maths!

Music – We’ll Meet Again

6th September 2024Ruth Shields

As part of our history hook week, we’ve spent some time looking at the music of War time and the importance of this to boost morale. One of these songs was We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn. Then we used instruments to create a soundscape of sounds from the war.

Henry Moore – Artist

6th September 2024Ruth Shields

Hook week continued this week as we started to explore a local artist who does perspective drawing. This is what we’ll be focusing on in our final case study. Children worked together to research this artist before we critiqued some of his pieces of work.

World War 2 visitor

6th September 2024Ruth Shields

On Tuesday, we were fortunate to have Time Travel Education come into school to learn about different aspects of World War 2. First, we were introduced to the beginning of the war and the key people: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. We learnt about the air raids and the role of the wardens. Then we had to opportunity to help get rid of the fire bombs that had been dropped. This required teamwork to keep everyone safe.

Evacuation was our next area to learn about. The children got to learn about the upheaved to family life to ensure the safety of the children. They packed their bags and were given an insight into rationing. We had a shop keeper and some customers who came to spend their vouchers. We’ll build on this later in the case study.

In the last session, we learned about how the Wardens would deliver first aid and met Ernie (dummy) who had become trapped in a building that had been blown up. Once we seen how to treat a broken femur, we had the opportunity to treat our partner for the same condition.

In between the sessions in the hall, we had access to boxes of artefacts which came with reading materials to help us learn about each one.

Our favourite one was as craft that had a map printed on it. Aircrew would wear this so that if their plane went down they’d have a map on them to help navigate their way to safety.