Today in maths we learnt how we translate a shape, we described the shapes position then translated it. We also looked at how we reflect a shape across the x and y axis. Some great work MI 🙂
Translation and reflection
After school club
Why don’t you come and join one of our after school clubs. The children will learn lots of new skills with plenty of fun and laughter as well as getting to make new friends.
Monday – Scooter Skills for KS1&KS2
Tuesday – Rounders for KS1&KS2
Wednesday – Multi Skills for KS1&KS2
Thursday – Cricket for LKS2(Y3/Y4) or Arts & Crafts for KS1&KS2
Friday – Forest School for KS1&KS2
These all run straight after school till 4pm. For more information please look on parent pay or speak to the school office(Limited places available)
Rounders(After School Club)
In after school club today (This half term) they are doing rounders. We have the prefect weather for it too. The children loved splitting into 2 teams. One team was batting and the other were fielding. The aim of the game was to hit the ball and get round the four cones to the end without the other team catching the ball or dapping the cone before they got there. lots of fun and laughter seen today.
Sketching in the sunshine
Crew Shields made the most of the sunshine this afternoon by going out and sketching with charcoal. As part of our hook week, we have been discussing the community and recapped how Carcroft came into existence because of the coal mining industry. They learned that our school was built for the purpose of educating the miners children so it was only fitting that we sketched some of the building with charcoal.
We haven’t used charcoal as a medium for art before so this was a new experience but something we all enjoyed. Even better that we were catching some rays of sunshine.
Chinese Whispers
During our crew building activity, the children had to use their listening, verbal and memory skills. Mrs Rhodes had a shopping list that one child had to remember. They then went to their group and had to pass it down the line. When it reached the back, that child had to tell Mrs Rhodes what the shopping list was. In some cases, they remembered some of the items but it took them a couple of times before they got the full list.
The children explained that they found it easy as there was only 4 items to remember but they found it difficult because they had to rely on others to give the information. Definitely one to try another time.
Map work – Hook Week
Hook week is always an important time before we start an expedition to give children a taste of what we’ll be learning but also an opportunity to revisit previous skills.
Children used an atlas and google maps to locate some of the coal fields in the United a kingdom which led to discussions around why they thought lots of the coal mines were close together.
Hook week in Crew Welburn!
This week, we are hooking in to our new expedition – Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things? We’ve started our expedition by looking at vehicles within our local area that passed our school and thought about where they might be travelling to. We decided that the cars could be doing short journeys, like to the shops or to work, or they could be going further away to the sea side! We thought that the bicycle we saw was going to work or going home, because it would hurt your legs to cycle all the way to the sea side from Carcroft! When we looked up in the sky, we saw an aeroplane and we decided that this was taking people on holiday to a different country!
Provision fun!
We’ve had lots of fun in provision over the last couple of days and we have loved having our children back in the classroom! We can’t wait to see what the rest of the week brings!
Setting our butterflies free! 🦋
We had an exciting job to do today in Crew Welburn – we needed to set our butterflies free! Miss Kelly kindly offered to help us to guide them out of their house and we watched carefully as they flew away to find their new homes!
LKS2 Earth Day 2023 Celebrations!
Dear Parents/Carers,
On Saturday 22nd April 2023 it is Earth Day! Due to us not being in school on that day we will be celebrating the event on Friday 21st April 2023.
Earth Day is an annual event that is focused on supporting environmental protection. The theme for this year is ‘Invest In Our Planet’. As part of our Year 3/4 Expedition for the Summer Term, ‘Earth Shattering Events’, ‘What happens when nature strikes?’, we will be thinking about how amazing and beautiful our planet is!
During our Expedition lessons on this day each crew in Year 3/4 will participate in a range of engaging activities, including Earth Day crafts such as making a paper plate earth, creating a collage of the structure of the Earth, making an Earth Day crown and much more! We hope that these will support and engage children in our learning around the planet Earth, as well as allow children to recap their previous knowledge from this current half term where they have been looking at sustainability.
Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day so that you can all see the exciting things that your child/ren have been getting up to throughout the day!
We are also inviting you (parents/grandparents/carers/guardians) into classrooms on this day, Friday 21st April 2023 to come and participate in some of these exciting activities with your child/ren! This will take place from 1:30pm until the end of the school day.
Also as part of this exciting day we are asking for the children (and staff!) in Year 3/4 to come to school dressed in Earth Day colours, examples such as, brown for soil, yellow for the sun, red for the sunset/core of the Earth, green for grass. The Earth is full of many colours so any colour/s will do!
Either at the end of this day or in preparation for the day it would be lovely for you to discuss with your child/ren different ways that we can look after our planet such as, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, recycling etc.
We look forward to seeing your child/ren dressed in a variety of colours for this special celebration!
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Mrs Elmer
Year 3/4 Phase Lead