Do you want to make a pizza?

Yesterday the children in Crew Robson practiced their chopping, grating and spreading skills to make their very own pitta pizzas. They really impressed me with how they worked together to support each other. It was lovely to see them enjoying their fruits of their labour too! Great work Crew!

Investigating our outdoor area

To support our expedition, we had a discussion around a tray of items that Miss McGlone had brought in for us to look at. There were binoculars, insect pots and magnifying glasses. We talked about what each item was used for and how we could use them in our outdoor area. Working in small groups, we took the items outside and took it in turns to see what we could discover using this special equipment. Unfortunately, we didn’t find many bugs or insects – just a worm who tried his best to escape from Hunter’s fingers! We noticed birds in the trees and flying through the sky by looking through the binoculars and we saw lots of plants growing in more detail after looking at them through the magnifying glasses. We are going to continue to use our equipment throughout the year to see what wonderful things visit our outdoor area in the different seasons!

Our Guitar Lessons !

Today in Crew Wilkinson, we had an awesome guitar lesson, and we’re excited to share. Some students loved learning a new chord, while others enjoyed strumming along to a song.It was exciting to hear music come to life!

Equivalent Fraction Families

To bring our unit on fractions to a close, we have been exploring equivalent fractions and identifying as many families as we can. To begin with, we created our own fractions walls and then used these to follow the lines to help identify which fractions were the same (of equal value). We then realised that we could use our times table knowledge to support with this and created some fraction flowers using this skill.

Book Talk and Increasing Fluency

This week, we have been focusing on a new book by Marcus Rashford called “You Can Do It”. We started the week by looking at the front cover and the blurb and pulling apart as much information as we could from what we could see and read. This helped us to understand a little bit more about what the book was about before we began to read any of it. Lots of us thought it might be a book about football due to the fact he is such a famous footballer. However, after reading the blurb, we were surprised to discover that it is actually about injustice and the injustices he has experienced first hand. Following this, we have pulled out a summary section on the first chapter and identified tricky vocabulary, making sure we can read all of these words and understand what they mean to support with our fluency. We also looked at our automaticity words and challenged a partner to read these automatically in a random order. We have then taken part in echo reading alongside our teacher and had another go at our words per minute challenge to see how close we are to the year 6 expected standard of 185 words per minute.

Changes in History

Today, Crew Hamill continued their history case study by exploring how life has changed since the early 20th Century. We used various sources of evidence to answer a number of questions in mini crews, focusing on how schools, housing and women’s rights have changed over the last century. We were shocked to see how different things were for the wealthy compared to the poor!

Challenge Crew

In today’s challenge crew, Crew Hamill had to work as a team to pass a beach ball around crew circle without using their hands. After a few troubleshooting ideas, they first decided to use their elbows and this was successful! After this, they were challenged to find another way. They tried with their knees but found this much trickier and ended up using their feet.

Bob Marley discussions in MI

Our crew check in this morning allowed us to choose which Bob Marley song we preferred- Three little birds or Jamming! We enjoyed listening to parts of the songs and explaining our answers. We then moved onto to discussing more on Bob Marley, we looked on google earth at where he lived and explored different pictures. We then explored reggae music in a little more detail, we listened to ‘Hold Em Joe’ and clapped along to the beat. We then explored other famous reggae musicians and songs. We thought about the similarities and differences between the songs and explained our ideas. We then started singing some of the songs by Bob Marley which we all loved 🙂