A Mysterious Blue Substance Hits Crew Godley!

Crew Godley’s investigation took an unexpected turn when a mysterious blue substance filled the room! The police came to make sure everyone was safe and a scientist has taken away the mysterious substance.

Not ones to stay silent, we’ve decided to write to the Doncaster Free Press to share our concerns about this ever-growing mystery. Today we have started to plan out our own newspaper reports, Firstly, we carefully unpicked an example report and discovered that similar strange events have been happening across the whole country. As we analysed the newspaper report, we looked at lots of important features, including headlines, quotes, the what, when and where. Using these features, we are now ready to plan and write our own reports about the mysterious events at Crew Godley.

Wonderful Writing in Y5/6

Today I had a visit from 4 of our Y5/6 Pupils who were keen to share their diary entries- they were so entertaining to listen to. I also loved the way the children read their work aloud, loud and proud, using their reading voices…

Within their writing, they have been focussing hard on writing for effect and I loved their varied sentence structures. It was also good to see them improving their work to make it even better using their purple polishing pen.

Finally, it was also good to see that handwriting was improving after a slight decline in standards over recent weeks, it was clear pupils were trying to ensure high quality work consistently. A super visit- thanks Crew McLoughlin.

Solar Sounds

Crew Godley had a blast in ‘Create Your Own Verse’ today! We explored space through poetry, thinking about what we could see, hear, or feel, and turned our ideas into short, creative lines. We also practised reading our poems aloud to the crew with expression. It was lovely to see how hard everyone worked.

Name Recognition!

In Crew Frost we like to be prepared! For the summer term, we are aiming for the children to able to recognise their own name and even write some letters for their own name!

To support this, during their choosing time the children are offered opportunities to spot their name, work on their pencil grip, pronounce the first sound in their name, and begin letter formation for their name. They were so excited to see their very own name cards this week, and we can’t wait to do more fun name-recognition games with them. We can wait to see this fine motor skill develop. Well done Crew Frost – you are working very hard!

Hooking into our new expedition…

Crew Godley have been blasting off on an exciting journey through the Solar System! We have discovered fascinating facts about the planets and proudly created our own fact files, brought coding to life through fun Star Wars themed projects, and begun designing our very own solar systems. Watch this space to see our solar system evolve!

Peer Critique!

In Crew Ramsay, we have enjoyed independent writing which culminated in peer critique time today. We read our work loud and proud and received critique from a peer. We have already edited our work so didn’t make any changes to our actual work but we did think about our feedback and pledged to consider it going forward. Check us out using our actions and signs for our critique protocol: I praise, I notice, I suggest, I wonder. What a compassionate, courageous morning!

Super Letter Writing in Crew Colclough

Today I had the pleasure of teaching in Year 4. We were writing the introduction for a formal letter and I was really impressed by the way in which the pupils carefully selected ideas from their support sheets to help them. We worked hard to ensure that our spelling was accurate using the support sheets to help us. I was also blown away by the pupil’s prosody when reading their work aloud at the end.