Year 5/6 have had an awesome day today! They started the day selecting their house team from the sorting hat before attending Hogwarts for the day. They attended a potions class, a transfiguration lesson, played Quidditch, made magic and battled their fears in a defence against the dark arts class! I can’t wait to see the wonderful videos Mr Taylor and Miss Knowles are putting together……watch this space!
In crew today, we used musical instruments which he had to pass around the circle whilst trying to ensure that they made no noise whatsoever! The crew showed great communication, lots of patience and lots of resilience! Well done guys!
Our crew challenge today was to try and get the whole crew stood on as few carpet tiles as possible!
We managed to get down to three tiles but couldn’t quite manage it. However, I have never seen a crew so determined to achieve something so we are going to give it another go tomorrow! Everyone had great ideas and really developed their strategies throughout to try new things. Everyone had also listened to feedback from the previous days and tried to ensure that they were listening to each other and communicating successfully.
This afternoon, we recapped our learning aliens and tried to match them up to our Work Hard, Be Kind and Get Smart HoWLs. We looked at the different characteristics of each alien and decided how best they support us with our learning – it was quite tricky as lots of the aliens were all of our HoWLs! There was lots of lovely collaboration going on throughout! We all definitely worked hard!
For our crew activity today, we worked in teams and used our hands to pass water down the line and to get as much as we could into the jug! It was a great activity and I was very surprised with how dry everyone managed to stay! The teams worked brilliantly to pass the water and they really acted upon the feedback yesterday to strengthen their crew. It was great to see each team adopting a method and trying out new techniques to see what worked best for them!
Great work Crew Knowles!
Welcome back everyone – it has been a wonderful first day! In Crew Knowles, we really enjoyed our team building activities this morning which consisted of building towers with our shoes and holding paper using our bodies! Although it may sound strange, it was lots of fun and we picked out lots of strengths and areas we can work on to further strengthen our crew!
 
 
Year 6 were working on their team building skills today where we discussed the importance of strengthening our crew ethos. I am looking forward to next year where we continue to develop and strengthen each of the Year 6 crews!
The new Crew Knowles have continued to have lots of fun today! We have continued to looked at diversity and how we are all unique in our own way! We furthered our learning by looking at the history behind the Berlin Wall and then recreated art work to represent love and freedom.
I had lots of fun with my new crew today! They worked really hard thinking about our HoWLs and how we can work hard, get smart and be kind next year! We also enjoyed the story ‘Mixed’ and discussed diversity and the importance of celebrating our differences.
It may not have come home but Y6 were supporting England fully last week and are so proud of the England squad for getting to the final!
