It’s okay to be okay!

7th October 2021Jillian Jackson


In Crew Jackson we have explored our new feeling charts and the 5 point scale they represent. We have spent time in crew circle discussing how it is okay to feel okay! We explored how in the past the children have said they are feeling angry or sad but now when they reflect they realise they are “ okay but tired…okay but something upset them…okay but something hurts.”

We talked about how it feels, what it looks like and what it sounds like when we have a serious concern or are out of control. It was good to hear the children reflect on behaviours linked to these feelings.

 

 

 

Class 6 Learning Legends

7th October 2021Jayne Rodgers

Lots of fantastic learning attitudes in Class 6 yesterday in all areas of the curriculum.

Olivia showed she was a real Have a go Henry in our maths blast off by challenging herself to give every question a try no matter how tricky.

Harrison’s hand was forever in the air as he volunteered answers to every question asked during Mrs Walton’s RE session in G Block.

And Logan produced some outstanding adjectives to label a picture of himself in our Literacy Labs.

You are all-round, out of this world superstars Class 6 and we are very proud of you!

Daddy Bear or Baby Bear?

By Rebecca Kendrew-Jones5th October 2021

In Nursery this week we have been getting better at using mathematical language to describe the size of different objects. We started this topic by reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears and comparing big Daddy Bear, middle-sized Mummy Bear and tiny Baby Bear. Today the children were given the challenge of sorting out which items belonged to Daddy Bear and Baby Bear. They loved exploring the feely bag and deciding which shoes, socks, tshirt, shorts, cup and spoon belonged to who. I was so impressed with their use of words such as ‘bigger, smaller, huge, little and tiny’. Well done Nursery Crew!

We are Artists

4th October 2021Jayne Rodgers

Class 6 have been showing their artistic flair today by drawing Matilda from our new core text in the style of it’s illustrator, Quentin Blake. I’m sure you will agree, Reeva, Deacon, Harrison and Imogen thoroughly deserved our Learning Legend postcards today.

Great job guys!

On-line classroom invitations for Year 1.

30th September 2021Jayne Rodgers

Just a quick reminder to accept our invitation to Year 1’s on-line classroom. Not only is it a great place to catch up on work if you are not in school for any reason, but also to share your school work with your family, upload photographs of anything you are doing out of school, find spelling and reading lists and get handy tips and tricks to improve your learning.

What’s not to love?

Here is the link if you missed the invitation

Year 1 on-line classroom

 

Brilliant day in Class 6

30th September 2021Jayne Rodgers

What a great day we have had in Class 6 today…Kalab showed us his fishing medal, Ellis his Pokemon drawing and Deacon an acorn that he found which he intends to plant to see if he can grow an oak tree!

We also tried our hand at acting by reading, rehearsing and performing speeches we had written linked to our class text Let the Children March which tells the story of the Birmingham children’s marches in 1963 organised by Martin Luther King in support of civil rights. See our videos here.

Our Learning Legends today were Elina, for showing her Be Kind
HoWL by helping her friends and Savannah for her fabulous performance in our speeches.

Awesome job as always everyone!

 

The clean water challenge

By Andrea Hardman28th September 2021

Today Crew Ambler arranged themselves into 5 teams to take on the ‘Clean water challenge.’
Each group was given a bottle of muddy/dirty water and their challenge was to use various equipment and methods to separate the mud form the water. The winner would be the team with the cleanest water after 45 minutes!
They were given equipment including sieves and filter paper to work together and decide which equipment and which ways were best to separate the mud from the water.

After 45 minutes these were the results and the winners were Georgie, Danny and Ashton!

Well done everyone!!

Balancing and shape work in PE

By Andrea Hardman15th September 2021

Crew Shaw thoroughly enjoyed their first PE lesson today.
They made wide shapes on their feet…

and wide shapes on the floor…



They then made themselves into the smallest shape possible before making different shapes with a partner.


Their next task was to balance on different parts of their bodies, before finishing the lesson with a class circle, where everyone held hands and balanced on one leg.

Well done Crew Shaw, you were amazing today! Xx