Creating Confidence in Crew 🎭😊🌈⭐

14th March 2024Sophie Elmer

This morning during our Crew session we discussed what ‘confidence’ meant. We then shared times when we felt most confident and times when we felt not very confident at all. We then discussed how we could feel more confident about something at times when we are feeling shy or nervous. Although when we experience these feelings its hard to feel confident we thought of ways or strategies to help us with this such as, having positive thoughts, sending positive vibes, talking to our family and friends, smiling and standing tall. We then created our own ‘confidence masks’ that we could wear at times when we weren’t feeling confident to give us the confidence boost that we needed. We shared our ideas before we began and discussed the power of rainbows, bright colours, stars, positive symbols, smiles and love. Below are some of our designs!

Book Talk Round 2⃣in Crew MI 📚📖🗣🌍🌞🎨

14th March 2024Sophie Elmer

We began today’s Book Talk session by completing an entry ticket to support us in developing our inference skills. We had to infer as much as possible from the picture given, it was tricky but with a few prompts from Mrs Elmer we were able to list lots! We then recapped the title, purpose, audience and genre of our current text and revisited the map (of Africa) that we had looked at in the previous session. We located Ethiopia and looked at the other countries that surrounded it. We soon realised that it was a ‘landlocked’ country. We then made predictions using the picture clues on the map to predict what we thought Ethiopia might be like. We then ‘echo read’ the text and everyone had a go at independently reading a sentence or two using the ‘round robin’ reading approach. As we read we discussed some of the new, more challenging, topic related words that we came across such as Rastafarians, murals and seized. We then looked at some reason to read questions that required us to ‘trawl for evidence’ in the text. 🕵 At the end of the lesson we then completed an ‘exit ticket’ to share some of the interesting facts that we had learnt about Ethiopia, such as did you know that they started the habit of drinking coffee?! ☕

RE in Crew MI ⛪✝💕🧑‍🤝‍🧑

14th March 2024Sophie Elmer

In our RE lesson today we began by working in mini crews (teams) to use our bodies to create different words such as ‘love’, ‘me’ and ‘yes’. This was challenging yet fun and really got us to think about ‘what makes a good team?’. We came up with a list and some of these were communication, listening, all taking part, having a leader and being supportive. We then looked at Christianity and discussed the quote ‘Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it’ taken from the Bible. We thought about why the church is considered the ‘body of Christ’ and how Christians can also demonstrate the ‘body of Christ’ individually as well as in groups. Some ideas were that the church is the central place where Christians go to worship and pray, and Christians themselves act like Jesus (caring, kind, helpful) and share Jesus’ stories with others. We then discussed the church more and listed reasons why we thought Christians might go to church on a Sunday such as, to worship, to pray, to celebrate and to take part in communion. We also looked at Quaker worship which is more of a silent approach to worship. We then finished our discussions thinking about what is more important, people/Christians or places/churches? We had some really great conversations and all contributed well. We then concluded the session by listing on post it notes everything that we had learnt and there was lots!! 📝

Active Fusion Festival of Sport trip tomorrow

14th March 2024Lauren Marsh

The Active Fusion Festival of Sport trip is tomorrow (Friday 13th March), this trip is held at Sheffield Institute of Sport. We will leave school at 9am and arrive back at no later than 3:30pm. We leave Sheffield at 2:30pm so I am hoping we have given plenty of time for traffic.

Children need to come to school at normal time wearing their PE kit (red top and dark bottoms, with trainers on). Children in KS2 who are not FSM will need to bring a pack lunch with them.

Thank you, any questions please ask the office or Miss Marsh 🙂

Which materials are magnetic? 🧲

14th March 2024Ruth Shields

Yesterday afternoon, we explored a range of materials to investigate which were magnetic or non magnetic. We sorted our materials into 2 groups. We also discovered that that attraction was stronger with some items. To help us understand why some metal materials are magnetic we watched a video that explained for an item to be magnetic, it just contain cobalt, iron or nickel.