An active start in MI

14th September 2022Stacey McClare

This morning in crew, we started to think about the Queens life. Different facts about the Queen were scattered outside of the classroom. Children worked in mini crews, one being the researcher (they had to nip outside, read the information and bring a fact back.) They shared this will another crew member who added this to their sugar paper. This process continued with everyone taking a role in the task. In our debrief, we shared the facts we had gathered about the Queens life and discussed the importance of doing this.

Setting descriptions in MI

13th September 2022Stacey McClare

Today MI created their own setting description linking to the work we have been doing in expedition. We imagined that we were one of the first people to land on the moon and used the feelings lens for support. We applied our learning from our experience day and grammar day and used our anchor charts to support our ideas. We really thought about our get smart howl by reflecting on our achievements and challenging ourselves to improve after critique. We also used our target grids well for support.

Arithmetic – Addition

13th September 2022Ruth Shields

This afternoon, Crew Shields have been working hard on their addition and remembering to exchange when needed.

Really impressed with Lacey P who has shown great resilience when working out tricky problems.

The more you read, the more you will know…

13th September 2022Kirsty Atherton

This is certainly the case in Year 5 and 6 at Carcroft. This morning during an Expeditionary Reading Lesson, the pupils were continuing to develop their knowledge and understanding of their Science Case Study as part of this term’s expedition whilst continuing to consolidate their reading skills at the same time.

I was particularly impressed by the way in which the children were working hard to get smart with their shoulder partners and they were also demonstrating real kindness towards one another too. They were really listening to one another and taking turns to share their opinions and viewpoints.

I also spotted pupils text marking to support them with their summary statement and children using their purple pens to self critique their work and make some changes.

Keep up the fabulous work UKS2- you are such fabulous role models for our younger pupils.

Tuesdays crew challenge

13th September 2022Lauren Marsh

Miss Marsh decided she wanted to wake up this morning by challenging us to a water crew challenge. We had to pass the water over our shoulder to a crew member who was holding a cup. Luckily no one got wet and lose much water in the process!

Thank you Summer for the great photos.

A great Monday in MI

12th September 2022Stacey McClare

This morning Crew MI took part in their Caring Crew where we talked about who is in our family, who loves us and why our families make us feel safe. We worked in small groups to build back up a jigsaw using a variety of different families then we discussed what we noticed about the pictures thinking about what was the same and what was different. There was some great collaborative working during this activity which was lovely to see. We then drew our families, describing characteristics about each member, what they are like, what they do and what they enjoy. We then shared these things with the rest of the crew. During our debrief, we thought about what our jobs are as a member of Crew MI and we made pledges for moving forward. Crew was fantastic this morning! Great job Crew MI 🙂

In our expeditionary learning we took part in a grammar lesson thinking about figurative language. We explored similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. We worked collaboratively to build our own examples linking them to space and linking to the chapter we have been unpicking in our reading lessons.

A great day in MI, our HOWL score was 3.5 🙂 Lets keep this up MI.

Crew Welburn’s Exciting Expedition

12th September 2022A Welburn

Crew Welburn had an exciting week in expedition last week – we’d had a visitor in our classroom! The visitor had left some footprints leading around the room, which we used to draw a map, and he’d even been caught on the cameras! It was very exciting and we spent lots of time searching the classroom to see if he was still there!