Today, we were unpicking a quality model of excellence and finding our Y6 gold and green standards within the writing. We worked collaboratively to find the different features and discuss why they made the model of writing green standard!
Today, LKS2 looked into the consequences of rationing and how it worked. As part of answering our Guiding Question, How does war change lives?, LKS2 looked into the sharing of food during the Second World War. We learned that, due to rationing, the enemy tried to make us starve so that we gave up and surrendered. We learned that chocolate, much to our dismay, would only last a week. Despite this, there were many positives! Rationing stopped us from starving and we actually became healthier as a result of the food eaten!
I am very excited to announce Carcroft is holding active fusion camps again.
They are Monday 24th October – Friday 28th October.
Unfortunately this is not a funded event as they do not receive funding from the local government. There will therefore be a small fee.
This week in expedition, we focussed on the story ‘The Everywhere Bear’ and looked at the question, ‘How do we care for bears?’. We started looking at how bears are made in factories. Miss Welburn then showed us that we had our very own Everywhere Bear for Crew Welburn. We worked together to carefully stuff his stuffing into his arms, legs, head and tummy, then we added in his hearts for love and kindness, and finally, we velcroed him up. We even had a little Carcroft School t-shirt for him so that he really is part of our crew!
LKS2 have had an amazing day, learning all about The Blitz. We have used various sources to learn about what The Blitz was, why it happened and how it happened. We have done notices and wonders around pictures, watched video clips, built anchor charts, read some information texts and made fact files. LKS2 really do know How War Affects Lives. Keep up the amazing work, crews.
We have all created a wide variety of posters to show off this learning today and it is lovely to see so much beautiful work from Year 3 and 4. We also found it particularly interesting that during the Blitz, Buckingham Palace was bombed twice!
What a great start to the week, LKS2! 😆
This morning in Crew, Mrs Rhodes tested our memory. There were 2 packs of cards turned upside down on the floor and then we had to work in groups to find the most pairs.
It took us some time to realise we needed to ensure the rest of our group could see the cards we turned over and that we needed to use our voices to help each other. Great way to get our brains kicked started after a 4 day weekend. Good job everyone!
MI started the day well in our challenge crew session. MI had to work together to pass around objects without making a sound. As we made progress with this, we added more objects, changed the direction in the circle and added time limits. A great sense of team work and encouragement from all.
MI have started planning their independent write today. We built our own target grids based on the features from the rubric that we had used previously in our first narrative and used the lenses too. We then used our graphic organiser well to build our own ideas. Children used post it notes to build some of their own sentences using both their target grids and graphic organiser as support. I can’t wait for children to get writing tomorrow and to read their first plot point.
We’re looking for Primary Teachers, Primary Learning Coaches (Teaching Assistants) and Secondary STEAM/Humanities Teachers across XP Trust!
Visit xptrust.org/vacancies to find out more and apply!
Please can we remind parents that we are a smoke free zone. This means that smoking, including e-cigarettes, are not permitted on any areas of the school premises including the playgrounds and car park.
LKS2 have created some Beautiful Work this week. We have been writing postcards, putting ourselves into the shoes of an evacuee. We really loved how the children used the vocabulary built up from our drama days to put into their writing. We noticed some great adjectives to describe their experiences. We loved how the children worked really hard to add feelings and emotions – these were great. The children have have critiqued each others work and edited; they have then made a best draft which they wrote up on to a postcard!
