LKS2 Tuesday 🕵️‍♂️🕵️

6th September 2022Simon Gerrard

We started the day off with another active Crew. This time, we worked on building up trust, talking clearly and encouraging our crew mates. We had to walk with our eyes closed and give instructions of where to walk. We then debriefed with our steps to success and our feelings during this time.

During maths, we continued to work on place value by consolidating what we already new about base 10 representations and actual numbers. We worked together to solve these and showed how much we have become smart over recent lessons!

Then, it was Expedition for the rest of the day. We continue to delve deeper into how war changes lives! We explored the lives of evacuees. We watched propaganda videos and discussed whether the children were as happy as they looked. We had a silent conversation to see what we noticed and wondered about evacuees. Finally, we studied what would have gone into an evacuees suitcase and when children began to be evacuated to the countryside.

LKS2 Monday 😃

6th September 2022Simon Gerrard

The first two days of this week have been busy, but we’ve started the week really settled and with a great attitude to learn. We started the week off by drawing someone who is a friend to us as part of Crew, to put a smile on the faces of our friends.

During our Expedition, we have have continued to build up our knowledge of the Second World War. We completed a KWL to share what we already knew about this interesting period of history and asked questions about what we would like to know. We continued to act out the life of an evacuee with the book Bombs and Blackberries as we shared our performances with the Crew and critiqued them with praises. Lots of praise being for expression and performing in front of others!

Listening – Crew Shields

6th September 2022Ruth Shields

This morning in Crew we have had a big focus on developing our listening skills. Children were given instructions which they had to follow but to keep things interesting we then swapped what they had to do. For example – walk meant stop, stop meant walk, clap meant shout their name and name meant to clap.

This definitely highlighted that our listening skills will have to be a big focus over the next few weeks.

Book talk in MI

5th September 2022Stacey McClare

Some great collaborative working during our reading lesson today. Children worked with their partner to read part of our reading text then answer book talk questions. They shared their thoughts and listened to the opinions of others 🙂

P.E in Crew Nursery

5th September 2022Rebecca Chapman

Today in Crew Nursery we had our first P.E session, the children explored different ways they could make movements, working hard to listen to the different instructions they were given.
Check out our super stomping elephant and slimy snail moves!

UKS2 Fieldwork that was out of this world 🚀

4th September 2022Hannah McLoughlin

 Y5 and Y6 were able to visit the National Space Centre on Wednesday where we had time to explore all the different interactive galleries and the UKs largest planetarium. The children had the opportunity to see shuttles, rockets, space suits and even a real piece of the moon.

During the day, they were able to read lots of information which then allowed them to answer some questions around our second case study for this expedition focusing on forces.

We also took part in a workshop all about the Sun, Earth and Moon. We took part in a quiz then took part in a practical activity around how we get day and night and seasons. Afterwards, they explored the phases of the moon and then produced a turn wheel to help them remember each phase.

Every child displayed awesome HoWLs and they really did themselves and school proud. This fieldwork has really hooked us in to our learning and we cannot wait to get started learning even more about our expedition!

LKS2 Wilderspin trip (2.9.22) 🇬🇧

3rd September 2022Simon Gerrard

LKS2 were transported back in time to the Second World War. The children entered the church at Wilderspin, dropped off their supplies and were ready to learn about the British home front. Churchill’s Carcroft Cogs demonstrated the British Bulldog spirit on the home front.

The groups were lucky to meet Betty, an ARP warden. She taught the children about the different groups that helped keep Britain safe during the Second World War and the threat of enemy raids, particularly from the air. We then were lucky enough to sort out scrap ready to aid our soldiers on the front line, check out the Anderson Shelter and then see the variety of gas masks. Keep an eye out for the baby gas mask!

In the other group, we had a particularly strict teacher leading us in class, checking on supplies and then protecting us through an enemy bombing. The children were not afraid though and displayed tremendous bravery, as sirens rang, bombs whistled and the air defences boomed.