Tomato Mummies!

16th April 2026Thomas White

This week, during Hook Week in Crew White, we have stepped back in time to learn about the ancient Egyptian ritual of mummification. Of course, we were unable to get our hands on recently deceased pharaohs so we had to make do with all the tomatoes available at the local supermarket.

We learnt about the embalming process and preparing the ‘body’ for the afterlife. We cut off the top of the tomato, scooped out its insides and covered it with salt. We will observe the tomatoes over the next few weeks and see what happens.

Endangered and extinct

16th April 2026Josie Farrow

Crew Farrow have been learning about endangered and extinct animals in expedition. Their challenge was to sort different animals into endangered and non endangered categories. Can you name one endangered animal? 🐼🦁🦔

Web Crawlers

16th April 2026A Welburn

Crew Gray have been learning all about web crawlers today and how search engines create index pages of all of the websites using web crawlers and hyperlinks. We explored how web crawlers work using non-fiction books to find information from the index and contents pages, and realised that this can take a long time for a human to complete, especially if you have to look through more than one book to find the correct information. We then looked further into how Google uses web crawlers and found that these are not actual people, so can get the job done much faster! After that, we became web crawlers around the classroom and rated our classroom objects using a table. We included the quantity of the object, the quality and the distance from where we were. These numbers then totalled up and we were able to rank the resources from highest to lowest. From this, we were able to see how search engines rank different websites using the quantity of times a key word is used and the quality of the information on the page, and how this affects the order that websites appear within search engines.

Easter buns.

15th April 2026Nicole Tymon

If you’re stuck with lots of Easter eggs, do what we did and melt them to make yummy Rice Krispie buns.

We broke the chocolate into small pieces, melted it in the microwave, and added as many Rice Krispies as we could fit in the bowl.

We shared the mixture out evenly and added our special mini eggs on top!

Took them home to share with family. YUMMY 🙂

Decomposition, coding and debugging

15th April 2026A Welburn

Today in Crew Colclough, we have been learning about decomposition in computing. We’ve learnt how this means breaking a big task down into smaller chunks to make it more manageable. We demonstrated our understanding through turning our brains into computers and breaking big tasks down into smaller tasks to make them more manageable and to solve the problems that we have been set.

Hook Week – Day 1 🪝

15th April 2026Josie Farrow

Welcome back Crew Farrow! We had a lovely first day back, immersing ourselves into the new summer expedition. KS1 went on an animal hunt, to see what wildlife thy could spot in the woods, and then we learnt about endangered and extinct animals. 🐿️🦔🍃