Celebrating Maths Day in Crew Jackson

4th February 2022Jillian Jackson

It was lovely to see so many children dressed up for the NSPCC Maths Day. Big shout out to Summer-Mai and Jakobi who won a small prize for creating their own unique maths themed tops.

We enjoyed a chilled out afternoon to end a work of hard work by eating biscuits and practicing our times tables on ttrockstars. Our Crew are determined to win Mr Ambler’s Year 5 Battle of the Bands!

This week we realised how important knowing our times table facts is. We needed to know them for converting fractions to the same denominator and also for calculating perimeter during our maths talk session.

Keep practicing guys!

Mrs Jackson

We are biologists!

1st February 2022Jillian Jackson

This afternoon, in Crew Jackson we began our case study 2 on the biology of animals. Today we focused on animal classification. Everyone was full of enthusiasm for sharing their prior knowledge and then after research we shared further knowledge we had gained. The children were very proud of the anchor charts they created.

Digital Leaders

27th January 2022Jake Taylor

Notice for all students in Year 2 to Year 5!

Students in Year 2, 3, 4 and 5 have an amazing opportunity to become a Digital Leader within their class.

This is a fantastic opportunity for children to develop their own individual skills when it comes to the latest technology. Children who are successful will get the opportunity to visit XP East and potentially the Apple Store to have further training on how to use technology including iPads, MacBooks and some of the other great products that are used throughout school. Our Digital Leaders will then become the experts who can then pass on their knowledge to others.

Below is a link to the Digital Leaders website where you can find out further information.

https://sites.google.com/xpeast.org/digital-leader-applications/home

Applications will need to be sent to Mr Taylor by Thursday 3rd February explaining why you would make a fantastic Digital Leader. This can be done in a format of your choice including a letter, slides or even a video showcasing your IT skills.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

Climate change

25th January 2022Jillian Jackson

This afternoon in Crew Jackson, we discussed the causes and effects of climate change. The children were really interested in finding out new information as well sharing what they already knew. It was really powerful to see how passionate some children are about helping our world survive!

Keep up the great work guys! Mrs Jackson

Crew Jackson Maths Talk

25th January 2022Jillian Jackson

This week in our daily maths talk, we have focused on position and direction. Today we reflected on what we can recall about coordinates. The children were fab at recalling how we work them out and record them.

Well done guys! Mrs Jackson

Beautiful story writing in Crew Jackson

21st January 2022Jillian Jackson

Over the last two days we have done some beautiful story writing in Crew Jackson. The children were challenged to write the next part of our class text ‘My name is River’. The children worked really hard to include exciting verb choices, fronted adverbials, descriptive language, similes, personification as well as the tricky task of speech punctuated correctly! They loved reading their stories to a friend and gave excellent feedback about what they were proud of in their work linked to the fishbone features.

Decimals work in Crew Jackson

17th January 2022Jillian Jackson

This morning we grappled with our maths learning as we learnt about multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. We had to apply our knowledge about place value to support us with our understanding. We used place value grids to support us in our understanding.

Check out the videos below to help you with your understanding.