Last week was assessment week and the whole of Crew Overson was awarded the learning legend due to their amazing attitudes towards tests and learning.Ā Shelby was a ‘Can-Do-Colin’ and blew us away and Lily, Darcey and Emily achieved the most HoWLs points for the week!Ā You are all awesome!Ā Keep up the great work guys!
Last week we enjoyed our virtual assembly with NSPCC hosted by Ant and Dec!Ā We spent time afterwards discussing what makes us happy and made links to our HoWLs – ‘Be Kind’!Ā We are all working on what this looks like and how we can ensure we are always being kind.
As part of our expedition ‘how can we help the world we live in?’ we have focused on deforestation and the importance of trees. We had an expert visit us in school to teach us how trees adapt to their environment and we had a look around our grounds at some of the different trees. We were shocked how different all of the trees were and the different ways they had adapted to their surroundings!
Last week we came across a news article and we couldn’t believe what we saw!Ā A river of rubbish through a Brazilian rainforest!Ā It made us reflect on the need for recycling and how we can ensure our community tackles litter.
Check out the news report here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1arrrYf5sS6219unZxyQEEea7RwE0tHBgHdKgFCwaMrg/edit#heading=h.ib2295gju664
As part of our geography case study we have looked at locating and labelling places in the UK using our research skills. We then progressed our learning to locating rivers within the UK and around the world!
Watch our video to see some of our learning in action!
This week marks ‘National Tree Week’ so we investigated this further and also linked it to our expedition, ‘How can we help the world we live in?’.
We discussed the importance of trees, why we need to work together to protect them and why they are important to us.
We reflected upon our findings during crew by adding facts and pledges to our environment.
We have been very excited this week launching our updates from the behaviour policy.Ā We can’t wait to receive HoWLs points for working hard, being kind and getting smart!Ā Watch this space to find out who has received the most HoWLs points this week!
I just want to do a HUGE shout out for Lily and Olivia in Year 6 who have completed these beautiful collages! The fact that they are currently accessing their learning from home hasn’t stopped them from working hard and getting smart! As a result they have produced some gorgeous art work! Well done girls!
Year 5 and 6 have been so lucky today by having Firefighter James Fenwick in to talk to them about the devastating fires at Hatfield Moors back in May 2020- this linking to our expedition surrounding Deforestation.
James was one of many of the brave firefighters that worked tirelessly at the moors to combat these fires for 6 weeks and explained to us the effects the fires had on the local wildlife and their habitats as well as showing us lots of different images and explaining his journey on this job; from the start of the fires, all the way through to the end. We were all so shocked at the damage that was caused by a disposable bbq!!
The children had lots of questions for James about the moors fire and found it really interesting hearing the ins and outs of his job role. A huge thank you to him for answering them so well and for taking time out of his busy, important schedule to come and talk through this with us. We really appreciate it!!
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Yesterday, we attempted the first draft of our sketch of a tree which turned out amazing. The children āworked hardā to focus on proportion and using different shading techniques to create a mirror image of their tree.
Today, we peer critiqued our first draft and focussed on how we can improve on this in our second draft.
Iām so impressed with how well the children have listened and taken this critique on board and have improved their sketches tremendously! So many Connecting Connieās and Choosing, Checking, Changing Charlieās!!!!
Well done guys! I know it wasnāt easy and it has been a challenge with lots to think about but sometimes we have to grapple with something before we get to the finish line! 🌟
