This week, we have been practicing our fine motor cutting skills by building and making things out of the big cardboard boxes. The children have enjoyed making superhero outfits and houses. We are going to paint them next week and add different things to improve on them.
Crew Godley have been working incredibly hard to improve their writing by adding adjectives and conjunctions, as well as remembering our presentation. Oliver worked incredibly hard to get smart, by applying everything he knew, independently ✍️
Thank you to all of our grown up who came to our celebration of learning yesterday! It was lovely to see so many of you and Crew MW loved showing off all of their beautiful work from their Autumn Term expedition. We are so proud of everything that they have achieved in such a short space of time!
Love this idea @xpgateshead – we are getting to know our near neighbours by creating and delivering Christmas hampers to them 🎅…we will be putting in some Christmas chocolates 🍫 too 🙂 pic.twitter.com/F86ENdvQ3A
— Mark Lovatt (@mlovatt1) December 7, 2023
Class 8 Christmas Jumper Day @ Green Top
Crew Stanton Christmas Movie Night @ XP Gateshead
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas @ Norton Juniors
Working Hard in Human! @ XP East
Christmas Dinner @ Carcroft School
Our week in Class 1 so far @ Norton Infants
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A great time was had by all during lunchtime as we enjoyed our Christmas dinner. Some amazing singing from the children.
We’ve had a lovely morning in Crew Shields as we explored a new artist and became familiar with the critique norms.
We looked at pieces of art and started to think about praises and wonders for each piece. We also considered the pieces that we liked and the ones we weren’t so keen on. There was a discussion about how people like different styles of art but this is down to personal preferences.
Our new artist is Waltraud Nawratil so we spent some time building up some background knowledge on the artist we’ll be staying out art after.
Then, we recapped some sketching techniques and watched a video on acrylic paint techniques. Crew Shields are excited to get cracking on their first draft tomorrow.
Crew Dorman had our Celebration of Learning this morning!
It all started in September, with the Expedition – ‘Exploring our World’ our guiding question was ‘What do stories tell us about Autumn?’
All term we have been exploring our nursery indoors and out, reading stories and getting used to all of our play areas and daily routines.
In Case study 1 our focus story was ‘Owl babies’ and we learnt about our family and other families like ours.
In Case study 2 we looked at non fiction books on ‘Diwali’ and ‘Bonfire night’ and learnt the rhyme ‘5 Little firemen’ with actions!
Finally, in Case study 3 our focus story was ‘Percy the Park Keeper – After the Storm’. We used what we had found out about our environment and forests in our stories, to look closely at the animals and plants in Percy’s park. We were incredibly creative throughout all of our expedition. We made lots of artwork, building up our art skills and confidence, to be creative with lots of different materials inside and outside!
During our celebration of learning, we showcased our ownership of our learning environment, by showing our parents where we like to play. We showed off our crafting and printing skills making ‘Clay hedgehogs, ‘Leaf man’ pictures and Autumnal handprints! We also talked about our favourite stories R said to Mrs Dorman “I like the Leaf man story!” and N said “I like the Percy book!”
Thank you to everyone who has made our expedition so magical and a big thank you to everyone today for celebrating all of our wonderful learning! What a fantastic day! Well done Crew Dorman!
Why don’t you practice the rhyme ‘5 Little leaves’ at home or take a look at one of our favourite stories ‘Leaf Man’.
KS1 really enjoyed their festive Christmas lunch with their Christmas jumpers on 🎄
This week in our citizenship crew we discussed what a community is and what it means to belong to one. We thought about our school community, who is part of it and how each person contributes. We thought about the term ‘community spirit’ and what it means to us. We then worked in mini crews to explore some images of a community. We thought about what is happening in each picture, how the people are contributing to the community and how the people are showing ‘community spirit’. In our debrief we thought about how we all could positively contribute to our communities and we made our own pledges. A great session crew MI 🙂
In Crew Haddock today they have done a Roman Mosaic for expedition
