Showing Resilience in Handwriting

19th November 2024Laura Godley

Crew Godley have been determined to get their letter formation right! We have been practising so hard to form our letters correctly – we have so much remember! Our pencil grip, starting at the correct points and forming our letters within the correct lines. Our dough disco always helps warm up our fingers and today we can see a big improvement when forming our letters in a word rather than solitary.

We then played a game where we had to listen to our crew mates describing a letter by its formation, a letter ‘Guess Who’, we had to show we’d listened and formed the letter correctly to get a point. It was very tricky at times! Sharni-Mae loved tricking her crew mates!

Positive Vibes on a Friday in Crew MI

8th November 2024Emily Ibbotson

Today we talked about how a positive attitude is good for our mental health. We talked about what is a happy mind and what a different that can make to our lives. We spoke about what made us happy. We all agreed that when someone else says something positive that then makes the rest of us happy. We worked together to compose a positive statement to share with the crew. We read some some inspirational quotes and decided which one we liked the best- these helped us with our own. We spoke about how some people can struggle with their mental health and how this then can be difficult to feel happy. To help this, we spoke together about what those people could do like talk to a trusted adult.

Bonfire week in Crew Tymon.

8th November 2024Abbie Hanson

This week in Crew Tymon we celebrated bonfire night. We explored mixing paints together with our hands to make fire paintings. We also put the fire out in phonics using spray bottles. Using our hand eye coordination to roll a ball to make a beautiful firework picture, we also practiced our cutting and fine motor skills. To end the week we had a sparkle and shine disco, and we showed everyone our best dance moves.

Anne Frank in MI

16th October 2024Stacey McClare

We have really enjoyed learning about Anne Frank in our expeditionary learning this week. We learnt about Nazi persecution on Jewish people and all about the Holocaust. We have all been so engaged in this subject area this week with so many questions raised. We were all very mature in our approach to this subject and really showcased our best selves.

Identifying subjects in a sentence

24th September 2024Laura Godley

Today we explored ‘subjects’ in a sentence, we discovered that sometimes a subject may be made up of one word, sometimes, its many words. For example, we found that ‘ran’ is an example of a verb, or action, it cannot be the subject of a sentence because it is not a noun (person, place or thing). We then created our own sentences for our crew to order and identify the subject. It was great fun!

The Blitz in MI

24th September 2024Stacey McClare

Today we continued our expeditionary learning and started to find out about the Blitz and the impact it had. We looked at the areas affected by the Blitz and how British civilians responded. One of the activities allowed us to explore different pictures thinking about what we could see, what we thought was happening and what we wondered about the pictures. We showed some great collaborative working during this activity and all shared our ideas during our whip around.

Book Talk in Crew Hamill

11th September 2024Kirsty Atherton

We created illustrations to go alongside our text- The Contraption. We thought really hard about the description and tried to add all these details. We really enjoyed creating these. We led our own learning by thinking about what we could use to create the shapes. Jake used the bottom of a glue stick for the cogs which Mrs Atherton thought was great!