Today in PE, we practiced our balancing and climbing skills by building an obstacle course together using different objects. 🧗🏻♂️🧗🏻♂️🧗🏻♂️
Crew Pashley PE
Polar Bear Reading Challenge 🐻❄️
Crew Hamill have been set a brand new reading challenge!! Each member of our crew has their own polar bear that they need to try and save from sinking on the disappearing iceberg 🧊 Every time they read at home, their polar bear takes one footstep closer to the safety of shore! The first person to the safe iceberg wins a prize! And every polar bear that doesn’t suffer the dreadful fate of many polar bears by making it onto a paw print will also be rewarded! 🐻❄️🧊🎁 Who will be first to the top?! 👀
Treasure hunt
In Crew Haddock, the children worked together to find the 7 clues to work out our guiding question for expedition-‘How can we protect our wonderful world?’. They used the 4 points of a compass to work out which direction they had to go in 🧭
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Writing about polar bears.
In writing today we wrote about the polar bears and what we could see in the pictures from our experience day.
Hook Week in nursery!
We have started our Spring expedition here in nursery. It is called “Once Upon a Time” and our guiding question is “Who is hiding in the pages of this book?” During hook week we have read the story ‘The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster’ and explored the different nursery rhymes in the book. We made a list of nursery rhymes we liked, sung nursery rhymes in class and acted out nursery rhymes in our nursery puppet theatre. Our parents came in to share a story or rhyme with us this Friday and we have had lots of fun making ‘Rhyming stones’ for our outdoor area. Phew! We have even met lots of new friends that started nursery this week and have helped them to settle in.
Well done FS1!
Sharing our Stories: 12/01/2024
Beautiful Work This Week
Another brick in the wall: Beautiful Work from XP Gateshead
In Autumn 2023, students in Year 9 studied a joint HUMAN and STEAM expedition called ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ where students had to answer the guiding question: ‘How are structures important in helping us to explain our world?’
For the final product, students used plaster to create sculptures in the brutalist aesthetic. The Presentation of Learning (PoL) was an unveiling of an installation to the community and dedicated to the people of Gateshead, who have suffered due to the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis; both examples of failings of societal structures. Experts, including architects from SOS-UK and Ryder Architecture, whom the students had worked alongside throughout the learning expedition, came along to speak at the PoL at the Farrell Centre, Newcastle University.
The work will be on display there for the foreseeable future!
We Are Artists at Plover
Mel from the XP Trust Comms Crew visited Plover as an Expert Artist – showing Year 5 how to draw trains and teach them about perspective and the vanishing point. The children enjoyed seeing her amazing drawings and made a great start on having a go at their own drawings.
Carcroft’s Fabulous Foyer!
Whilst making an impromptu visit to Carcroft Primary in December, we noticed this! We simply had to get the phone out and take some photos of the wonderful displays on show in the Carcroft foyer area. The array of work exhibited was interesting, engaging and of high quality; and was curated impeccably by the staff – beautiful work!
Top of the Blogs
Who’s hiding in the pages of this book? @ Norton Infants
Crew Jackson – Science Investigations @ Green Top
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
C30 – HSBC Money Management @ XP East
Amazing Fieldwork at YWP! @ Carcroft School
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Maths(Measuring)
In Crew Haddock we have been learning how to measure different items and people using different resources. We worked together has a crew.
Majestic Polar Bears
Amazing Fieldwork at YWP
Today has been such a wonderful day. Where we’ve seen lots of different animals however, the highlight of the day was definitely the polar bears. It was a privilege to see such majestic creatures. We look forward to finding out more about them and the reasons why polar bears need our help.
Polar Bear art
Our expedition working wall is an important feature in our classroom as it shows the journey of our learning. Therefore I needed some help to add some pieces to it. We’d planned to make some art using the the rubbish we’d recycled on Monday, however, we wondered how hygienic this would be. Although, we weren’t able to use the rubbish we collected we’d done a good thing by tidying up our environment.
