World Cup Blog

18th November 2022Olivia Fox

Dear parents and carers, 

As I am sure many of you are aware, the world cup is fast approaching. We know that there is controversy surrounding the hosts of this and that there are some issues regarding Qatar. Many of our students are asking whether we will be watching the England match next week.  The purpose of this letter is to clarify our position around the controversy and what we intend to do with students to support their education in regards to this. 

It is important that we share the concern regarding the ongoing human rights record in Qatar. As a school, we have activism as a pillar of our curriculum and know it is important that as citizens of the UK we support our pupils in learning how to respectfully fight for what they believe is right. At the heart of our education, we teach our pupils the importance of having choice and valuing the choices they have in the UK. 

We will have special crew sessions next week planned to ensure that pupils are aware, at their sensitive level of understanding,  of what the controversy is about and we are using this as an opportunity to continue to develop children’s understandings of British Values.

On Tuesday 29th November, school will have a non uniform day where children can come dressed in their football/England shirts, however this is not essential as we understand some parents may be opting out of watching the World Cup this year. 

This week in Crew MC! Narrated by Max, Millie, Ellie, Lottie and Kacey

18th November 2022Hannah McLoughlin

Monday

Today was very very busy, it was the first day of assessments ( which is where we take tests). We were a bit fussy due to been out of our normal routine but we didn’t let that affect our learning. We turned it around with our writing, we planned and chotted our chunk about mechanisms for our non-chronological report. Miss kept our energy levels up with some of our favourite biscuits😋 Well done everyone for trying so hard today!

Tuesday

Today we started redrafting our double page spreads (non-chronological reports) by making our title and introduction. Keep your eyes peeled for these at our expo! Next, we did our reading assessment; miss is getting us ready for our SATS. We had a wet break including extra break! We ended the day with handwriting then had crew and went home. We definitely needed some rest!

Wednesday

Today we enjoyed playing on the guitars and listening to different songs. Well done everyone for having a go at Scotty’s Heroes, it was so fun. Wow…how hard was arithmetic? Get ready for Thursdays test.

Thursday

Today we went into our groups to do two tests- reasoning and arithmetic. We then started our case study 2 reflection, recapping our learning journey. We then made a start on reading our new text, which was very engaging. It was called ’First Woman in Space’.

Friday

Today we did celebration crew and then our reasoning test, well done everybody for working so hard! Then we did a Joe Wicks workout because we were sat down for so long and it was super fun ! After, we did our double page spread for expedition and we are almost finished. After dinner, we then finally finished our double page spreads and ended the day in crew. We appreciated each other (adults and children) for being so positive and working so hard this week. Bring on Monday !

Check out our beautiful writing, we are so proud of ourselves

Fun in provision

16th November 2022A Welburn

We’ve had so much fun in provision this morning! The boys really impressed Miss Welburn in the construction area by using the mobile to build models. They followed their instructions and perservered when they were finding it challenging and did not give up! Have a look at some of their creations…

We also had lots of fun practicing writing our sounds on whiteboards and blending them into words. We were doing this independently which knocked Miss Welburn’d socks off!

Over lunch time, we explored how to make our own bubble wands. It was a little bit tricky trying to keep our fingers from popping the bubbles, but we got there in the end! Keep up the fantastic work Crew Welburn!

Arithmetic – decimals

15th November 2022Ruth Shields

In Maths, the children have been applying their addition and subtraction skills to decimal numbers. We discussed the importance of layout and how they need to remember the decimal point.

We then had another grouping with Mrs Rhodes who were looking at multiplying a decimal by 10, 100 and 1000.

Crew Challenge – 15/11/22

15th November 2022Ruth Shields

Another great challenge from Mrs Rhodes.

This morning the children worked in pairs – one drawing and one giving instructions. As part of the challenge the person had to describe the image with shapes and position to help their partner recreate the image. This is a tricky thing to do as it requires clear precise instructions as well as excellent listening skills. Pleasingly quite a few children managed to accomplish this task.