Crew Thompson – First week back! 🎉

1st September 2023Kate Thompson

What a first 3 days back! This week we have been working towards answering our guiding question: What does crew mean to me? As a crew we have focussed on developing our communication skills and our ability to work as a team. We have done lots of different activities such as jigsaw puzzles, communication games and baking!

We created a crew bunting from leaves we found in the forrest. We worked together to collect lots of leaves and even managed to find some huge ones!

What a fantastic first week back in Year 3!

Day 2- Crew Marsh working hard to get smart in English

31st August 2023Kirsty Atherton

Today I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Crew Marsh during their first English lesson. They listened again to the Rainbow Fish story and talked about how this linked to our ‘be kind’ HoWLs. Then they completed some activities linked to their ‘be kind’ story to help them to really understand the importance of being kind in Crew Marsh and how being unkind can make people feel.

I was blown away by the way they all concentrated throughout the lesson. They carefully watched Miss Marsh model sentence writing and then had a go. I cannot believe how amazing they did. I also loved seeing the children work independently in their labs creating their fish.

Spreading Kindness 🥰

31st August 2023Laura Godley

This week in Crew we have explored what it means to be kind and how we can show this in the wider community. Tomorrow KS1 will deliver their kindness stones and books to the local community for them to find, here’s a little sneak peak of our product being developed……

Budding Artists

31st August 2023Laura Godley

Crew Robson and Crew Godley have been working hard, to get smart today by creating their own colour wheels using their art skills. We will be using our background knowledge to create a piece of crew art work tomorrow – watch this space!

We began by exploring what a colour wheel is and how we can vary shades and tints of colours by adding black or white. We were amazed by the children’s resilience and determination to achieve the desired effect.

Day 2 ✅

31st August 2023Laura Godley

Crew Godley have had a fantastic two days developing ‘Crew’, we’ve worked incredibly hard to show we are ready for the challenges of Year 2! We have developed our relationships and communication skills by listening carefully to one and other an allowing everyone to have a voice within our crew.

We have built crew by creating our own crew bunting using printing skills, played crew games to develop our communication skills, carried out our stewardship roles to keep our environment looking beautiful whilst also having time to take part in some yoga 🧘‍♀️ It’s been a bust two days!

Nice wee bun

31st August 2023Ruth Shields

As part of our first week back, we are focusing on crew and building our positive relationships. To give us focus, Year 4’s guiding question is: How can we work together to achieve an end goal?

To allow children an opportunity to do this, they worked in small groups to make some buns. However, they were only given the ingredient but no instructions. The children then had to use experts in their group to support them. Thankfully, everyone was successful and they got to enjoy a bun during afternoon crew.

When I asked the children how this activity helped answer the guiding question, they explained that they had to communicate (talk about what to do and how), they used others as experts because these children baked regularly, everyone had a responsibility to ensure they had the correct ingredients and equipment, they supported each other, they took turns but also allocated each other with jobs to ensure everyone was involved. By doing all of these things, it meant they were able to make a bun which was edible.

Printing

31st August 2023Ruth Shields

Today we carried on with our art learning. Children had to create their printing block based on their interests. They’d been asked to create an image that represents them. It was lovely seeing some of the children supporting their peers when they’d completed their own.

Then it was time to print which required children to work quickly and carefully. It’s important to not allow the paint to dry otherwise the print would be unsuccessful. We discussed how we could improve if we were to complete the project again. Children suggested making their images bigger or using more paint which would allow a clearer image.

Library Visit

31st August 2023Ruth Shields

Despite it being the first day back, Crew Shields made a visit to the library so that children could get cracking with reading at home. We know the importance of reading regularly to support children with their fluency and understanding. We discuss that I will be checking books on a Friday and recording their reading sessions. Raffles up for grabs for those avid readers.