We ended celebrating this week by Crew Mcloughlin and MI reading to Y3/4 children. Y6 were so excited to share their recent setting description and diary’s that they had written; we felt like real authors! It was lovely to see so many kind words of praise from the younger children (not so much between siblings 😬). Y3/4 praised our beautiful handwriting, how thought out and detailed our writing was and even voted some children to be hoWL hero. All the Y6 children thought it was an amazing experience and have said we should do it again!
UKS2 break time
Another day, another activity packed break time in UKS2. We really appreciate having an endless choice of activities at break times: we love participating in a football match, perfecting our aims in the basketball hoop, scooting, skipping with friends or playing bat and ball, balancing on the trim trail or just having a good chat on the bench 😊
Safer Internet day 2023
Safer Internet Day 2023 will take place on the 7th of February 2023, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online. It is an annual event organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre, which aims to promote safe, responsible, and positive use of internet technology. The internet plays a huge part in the lives of young people today. It can be used positively, helping young people learn new skills, express themselves creatively, and strengthen social bonds. However, the use of many popular online platforms has also been linked to low self-esteem and anxiety. Next week we will explore how we can empower our children with the tools to continue to be safe whilst using technology online. Look out for our crew blogs on Tuesday!
XP Outdoors
Sharing our Stories: 03/02/2023
Happy Friday! Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit http://xptrust.org/stories #WeAreCrew
National Story Telling Week
Crew Robson and Crew Welburn ended National Story Telling Week by sharing stories together in Crew Welburn this morning. The Year 2 children came down to Crew Welburn with some of their favourite stories to share and read them to our foundation children. Thank you for coming Crew Robson, we really enjoyed having you!
Developing our gross motor skills
Crew Godley have worked really hard this morning to develop their gross motor skills. We used our muscles we’ve been exploring in expedition to move across the trim trail.
Storytelling with EYFS
Crew Godley shared some our favourite stories with Crew McGone today. It was so lovely to see our younger children showing kindess and respect to each other. We all demonstrated lovely listening skills 📚🥰 and we can’t wait to return next week 🥰
Setting description
Today, we have started our writing unit for Case study 2 which will involve a setting description for the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King.
We have spent time today starting to use the lens to generate ideas for aspects we could write about and some ideas for figurative language. In our next lesson, we’ll be starting to put these ideas into complete sentences so we have had practice and opportunities to magpie from our peers.
Vocabulary Game
This morning in reading, we’ve enjoyed playing imposter.
During the game, the children had to find either the antonym or synonym that matched their word. This really got the children’s brains working as some of the words are words they may not use day to day. I was very impressed with how they completed the activity because they moved around sensibly, used great communication until they found their matching word and we found the imposter (word without a match).
