The children have checked on their sunflower today and we are happy to say that they’ve started to grow. The childrem are really looking forward to taking these home at the end of term.
XP outdoors planting in crew MI
Final word presentations in MI
Today we worked in small groups to present our final word presentations to an audience. Our presentations to our parents are getting closer so we are refining our speaking and listening skills ready for the big day 🙂 It was lovely for children to share their journeys with other crew members then give critique for improvement.
RE in Crew MI
Today we started a unit of work on Christianity. We looked at a variety of pictures from a family home, thinking about what we could see and then thinking about what type of home the pictures have come from. We then discussed the pictures in more detail thinking about how some of the pictures related to Christianity. We then became detectives where we tried to make links between the items and thought about the importances of each item. From here we ordered our items from the most important to the least important which raised some great discussions! We really challenged each others thinking.
We then moved on to looking at a weekly calendar thinking about our families and what would go on our own weekly calendar. We then watched a clip on a boy called Nathan. We thought about all the things he does in his week and added this to a calendar. We annotated the calendar to say why he is choosing to do certain things.
In our debrief we thought about challenges Christian’s face and what a Sunday morning may look like for a Christian compared to our Sunday morning. We also thought about all the good things about being a Christian. What a fantastic lesson this was! Such great collaboration and discussions taking place 🙂
Bob had his lunch on the moon 🥪🌕
At 12pm Bob/Crew Marsh enjoyed their lunch on the moon. We had fruit, a jam sandwich and milk. Yummy!
Sharing our Stories: 23/06/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Deeper Learning 2023
This week we hosted the first day of Edge Future Learning’s ‘Deeper Learning’ at XP East! Delegates from across the UK gathered at XP to hear our CEO Gwyn ap Harri talk about Courageous Leadership and our CAO Andy Sprakes talk about Activism in the Curriculum.
G29 Presentation of Learning: Do Your Bit – King’s Hall, Newcastle University
Top of the Blogs
KS1 Father’s Day Breakfast @ Carcroft School
Beautiful work from Penny @ XP Gateshead
Fun in the sun! @ Norton Juniors
Crew Blessed make it to second! @ XP
Giving back to the community @ Plover
Crew Pashley Reading Superstars
On Thursday, we celebrated the children in Crew Pashley who have been reading everyday. We celebrated by going outside on the scooters in the sunshine. With our mini first aider, Jenson, keeping everyone safe and keeping plasters close by!
Wheeley good fun! 🌊🌧🔄
This afternoon, in Crew FE we learnt a little bit more about ‘The Water Cycle’, including ‘precipitation’, ‘condensation’ and ‘evaporation’. Crew members had lots of great questions to ask to enhance their learning further which was amazing to see and I loved how involved everyone got! We then spent the rest of the lesson making our own ‘Water Cycle Wheels’ so that we could share them with everyone else!
Crew Welburn’s super readers!
I’m so proud of all of the children in Crew Welburn for trying their very best each and every day with their reading. Our books are becoming a little bit more tricky as we move further through the year, but everyone is challenging themselves to use special friends, Fred talk, read the word, to show how smart they are getting in their reading. It is lovely to see the children working in their pairs to support each other and to cheer each other on 🙌🏻
Father’s Day Breakfast
We loved welcoming all of the male figures into school today! It was lovely to see everyone and we hope you all enjoyed your breakfasts…The children were definitely full!
