Last week, we made Cauliflower pie using basic ingredients. This was an opportunity for us to get a feel for what it was like during the war and the challenges there would have been due to rationing. Everyone pushed the self out if their comfort zone and tried it. There were mixed reviews. Some enjoyed the crunchy top while others preferred the soft inside. Some were pleasantly surprised to discover that they actually really enjoyed it and had seconds.
Last week, we became a human number line to help us understand the different intervals. We started quite simple so children could understand that each person went up a set amount. Once we were feeling more confident with it, we missed some numbers out and children had to work together to figure out the missing intervals.
Last week, we had a reteach lesson on common nouns and Proper nouns as we still weren’t 100% confident. To start we sorted some words into groups to remind us that a noun is the name of a person, place or thing. We then completed an activity we’re we had to match the common noun with the proper noun. E.g. shop – Asda
In our grammar session today, we deepened our understanding of verbs and learnt about irregular verbs. The root verb in irregular verbs change when writing it in the past tense. For example, the root verb “drink” has to be “drunk” when writing it in the past tense. We did lots of sorting activities where we sorted irregular and regular verbs. We also played bingo which we loved and can’t wait to play it next week!☺️
Today we became bakers for our next castle job. We were given the task of designing and making biscuits for the King and Queens Friday Night Banquet.
We took time to design our biscuits and then made them. They looked so delicious that we decided to eat them, hopefully the queen wont be too upset!
We are holding October camps from Active Fusion again this October, please click the link below to sign up https://www.activefusion.org.uk/camps/
This year, we were lucky enough to have new Year 7s from both XPD and XPG working closely together at the Ullswater and Howtown Outward Bound centres. As a result, we were able to capture these wonderful highlights of both sets of students building Crew and expressing what it means to be Crew at the end of their week in their first ever presentation of learning.
More beautiful work has been made public this week – in both Plover and Carcroft School. Look at these awesome selections from final products, now curated for all to see!
Our Heads, Admin, Facilities and Comms Crews came together to further develop positive relationships and build Crew at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. They spent the day exploring Case Studies to improve communication and conceptual understanding around day-to-day crucial aspects of what we do at XP Trust.
The day was extremely positive and productive – thank you to YWP for your hospitality!
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Temporary SEND Learning Coach (TA) at Green Top
Crew Spencer Mindfulness @ XP East
For our second case study we are exploring what life was like in a castle during medieval times. We learn about the Feudal System and how the higher up the feudal system you were the more power and money you had. We began by experiencing life as a peasant by doing lots of hard jobs such as cleaning and sweeping.
For our next job we became candle makers. We talked about how there was no iPads, phones, TVs or electricity in a castle during the 12th Century so children had to find other ways to entertain themselves. No electricity also meant no lights so candles were essential.
I wonder what jobs we will experience next!
The board for our Summer Term expedition ‘Diverse Doncaster’ was installed in school this week. The children loved going to see their artwork and photographs on display and we loved talking about what they learnt in Year 1.
Today we discussed the need for making rations spread further and creating meals from the foods people had available, including those they had grown in the ‘Grow for Victory’ campaign. We explored a range of recipes, looking at the ingredients needed and the method involved. We discussed that as ingredients were rationed, this made the recipes really simple. We worked together to make a wartime foods – carrot cookies, carrot fudge, sweet potato chocolate spread and cauliflower pie. Once we had created our wartime food we discussed how the dishes in WW2 were different to our favourite meals today. The sweet potato chocolate spread certainly didn’t taste as sweet as it does today!
