Today to consolidate our maths learning we made our own arithmetic challenges for our friends to complete! We then had to check our friend’s answers!
Arithmetic Challenge
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Final Product Preparations
Today we began thinking about the designs we want to include on our final product.
I can’t wait to see the end designs!
Memory in Action
For this week’s crew challenge, Crew McLoughlin and Crew Gray worked on strengthening their memory skills. They were given 15 seconds to carefully observe a selection of objects on the board before they were covered up. The children then had to recall and list as many items as they could remember. It was wonderful to see their focus, teamwork, and determination as they challenged themselves to improve each round.
Exploring Our Features: Self-Portrait Drafting
Today Crew Gray have been drafting their Tudor self-portraits, focusing carefully on our eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows. The children have been learning about proportion and placement, noticing the small details that make their faces unique. It has been lovely to see their concentration and growing confidence as their portraits begin to reflect who they are as Tudors.
Waking up our brains!
We began our first week back after the half-term holidays by waking up our brains with an 8 minute HIIT (high intensity interval training) activity! 35 seconds of work followed by 25 seconds of rest got us warmed up for the day ahead.
Becoming Hans Holbein the Younger
This week, we started our Case Study 3 Art study of our current expedition. With a focus on proportion and creating beautiful work, Crew White have stepped back in time to the Tudor Court.
Our current task is to create portraits of ourselves at Tudors using significant artist, Hans Holbein, as inspiration. Stay tuned over the next few weeks to see our progress.
Writing part 5
So today in writing we had to see if we could hold a sentence by remembering what the sentences said the day before. This is how we did
Sharing our Stories: 27/02/2026
Beautiful work this week
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Writing Part 4
Today in writing they copied the sentence making sure they used a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence followed by a full stop at the end of the sentence. We made sure that we had finger spaces in between our words. In activate (do now ) we checked that we knew what who?, doing? and where? .We made sure by completing a task first before our writing.
Pancakes
In life skills today we made pancake. Pancake day was in the holidays so we thought we would make them the first week back in life skills.
