Today in xp outdoors the children made spiders from toilet tubes. They used scissors to make the legs, painted it black and then gave it some eyes.
XP Outdoors KS1 AP (Spider’s)
A day in the life of a baker 👩🍳 🍞
In KS1 we are answering the guiding question, What will I do to be a hero in our community? To begin our expedition we are exploring firefighters 🚒 a very brave hero!
To hook us into our new writing we looked into our new book – Vlad and the Great Fire of London. We pieced together the book front cover, predicted what might happen and then became bakers for the morning, experiencing how Vlad and Boxton would have felt in the bakers shop. We baked and tasted some delicious bread 🥖
Football club
We have loved our first football club today, thanks coach 🥰
Our first week as Crew MW! ✨
It’s been a fun-filled first week back in Crew MW. We have been extremely busy exploring our new learning environment, working together in provision and catching up after our summer holidays. We have particularly enjoyed playing in the home corner, listening to stories on the Yoto player, and getting our groove on in the music area!
What a fabulous first week back!
This week we have been busy establishing a strong crew, building character and getting back into those relentless routines in order to create a safe and happy environment in Crew Mcloughlin. We did this by answering our guiding question ‘How can we get everyone to the top of the mountain?’, which will be a common thread throughout Y6. On Thursday morning we took this literally and set off to Langsett Reservoir to achieve our biggest challenge yet. Our journey to the mountain was filled with laughter, great scavenger skills, a desire to be successful and not forgetting chocolate biscuits to help us along the way. Throughout, the crew did nothing but impress, from taking it in turns to carry each others belongings, giving reassuring words to those who needed it the most and even picking up litter left behind. It’s safe to say I am looking forward to what this year brings as I am already so proud of them all🤩
FS1 Crew Building Week!
Cracking Crew
Wow! It’s been an amazing day as Crew Shields took part in a full day of Scotty’s heroes.
The children started the day off taking part in a murder mystery. They had to find clues to allow them to open the chests so they could discover the victim and the murderer. Throughout the task, children had to use their communication skills and make inferences from the information they’d been given. They learned that if they were to complete the task again that it’s about taking your time and processing the information. Well done to the second group that pretty much cracked the case.
Then they had to solve the mystery of the stolen sweets. Outside, children had to play detective to find the missing sweets. We had an evidence officer and another officer who marked the evidence found on the map. Children had to work slowly and carefully to find the evidence and report to the evidence officer. By marking it on the map, they could track the movements of the sweet thief. As with the previous task, they reflected that they needed to slow down and be methodical in their search methods. Added bonus they’ve been given the sweets to share next week. 😊
Next, children spent time in the forest where they had to get a fire going and keep it burning. Once the fire was going, they had to boil water to purify it. This required lots of team work as some children needed to find fuel for the fire while others kept it going. One team was successful and got their water boiling.
The day ended with a recon operation. Children had to observe an enemy camp and they replicate it using the same equipment. They had a certain length of time to look and go back to their own camp. Throughout the time they were given further opportunities to check the camp so they could ensure theirs was correct. 1 team did a great job of replicating the enemy camp and this was due to their great observational and communication skills. They were able to allocate certain areas to each person so they had a small area to focus on.
It’s been a great day and one I feel the children have taken a lot from. When we completed our debrief of the day, they were able to articulate that they were successful by working together. That communication, cooperation and patience were important skills for today. It was also lovely to be able to observe the children in a range of activities and get a real feel for how they work with each other.
Crew Marsh kindness fish tank 🐠💕
From all our hard work this week in labs and experience lessons we have created a rainbow fish and jellyfish to go in our fish tank.
Crew Marsh act of kindness 💕
To end our week of kindness crew Marsh took theirs kindness stones and books to the local woods for children in the community to find and take home to read. We hope it has put a smile on a lot of families faces.
Perfect, pictorial printing!
Today we completed our art project, printing! Over the last 3 days we have carefully designed our print, crafted the template and then printed it onto card. First we had to think about the design, something to represent us and our hobbies. We then meticulously added the string to our template, making sure we followed our design and had the string in the right places. Finally, we then painted the string on the design and printed it onto card. The results are fantastic and really show how hard Crew Thompson worked and concentrated. Well done! 🎉
