Conductors and Insulators

14th February 2025Emily Ibbotson

We really enjoyed learning about and investigating conductors and insulators. We discussed how to keep our test fair and what variables were keeping the same and changing. We wrote our own methods ensuring we were using time fronted adverbials. In mini-crews we then carried out the investigation to see which materials were conductors (allowed electricity to pass through) and insulators (did not allow electricity to pass through). We then recorded this in a results table and wrote our conclusion.

Scooter Time!

14th February 2025Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill were very lucky as they got to take part in some scooter reward time today that they had earned for taking part in the NSPCC TTRS competition. Carcroft school came 617th out of 3623 schools which is absolutely amazing!! As a crew, Crew Hamill came in 508th place! Well done, Crew Hamill!

Case Study Reflection

14th February 2025Laura Hamill

To end Case Study 1, Crew Hamill worked together to consolidate all of our learning from the last 5 weeks. We worked together to create a mind map of all of the key elements of our expedition and how they helped us to answer the guiding question.

Once we had done this, we used this information to complete our case study reflection, answering our guiding question: How Can One Moment Influence Out Future.

Pulling Apart Written Comprehension

14th February 2025Laura Hamill

This week, Crew Hamill have looked in depth at their written comprehension answers, pulling apart the questions and identifying the steps needed in order to answer them correctly. We have identified as a crew that we are much stronger at answering comprehension questions on texts that we are familiar with so we have been challenged over the last two weeks to complete our written comprehensions on unseen texts. These have been much trickier as we have no awareness of the text before we answer questions on it, similar to how it will be in our SATs and assessments. We worked as a crew to discuss how we identify question types from the wording of the question and then how we use the information within the question to find the answer in the text. For any questions we got wrong, we purple penned our answers.

We are Scientists – Series Circuits

14th February 2025Ruth Shields

In expedition we have continued to be scientist by starting to learn about electricity. Children were given some equipment in small groups and they had to problem solve together to create a working circuit. This was a chance for children to demonstrate their resilience as they’d only been given the equipment and no further instructions. It was great hearing the children talk through what they’d done already and what they could try next. The majority of the groups managed to construct a working circuit and either make the bulb light up or the buzzer work.

Working on our Heat Maps

14th February 2025Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill were inspired by last week’s TTRS battle for NSPCC in which they came first in the school and earned themselves some scooter reward time. Since then, we’ve worked hard to improve our times tables and have tried our best to improve our heat maps. We’re excited to see if we can use our new times table knowledge to beat Mrs Ibbotson in today’s times table battle!

Silent Line up

14th February 2025Ruth Shields

This morning in Crew we were set a challenge to line up with a predetermined characteristic but we weren’t allowed to speak. We had to order ourselves in height, shoe size and hair length. We worked in 2 groups which worked very differently. One group had 2 children who took a lead and directed the rest of the children with hand signals or guiding them to where they needed to be. The other group figured it out between them and didn’t have anyone that appeared to be leading the rest of them, however, both groups were successful.