What makes a great setting description?

14th January 2022Sophie Myers

Today it was a pleasure to teach English to both my Crew and Crew Faulding. In groups, the children read through a model text of a setting description which was taken from our new Class text. They then identified the features that had been included and spoke about the purpose of each feature.

I was so impressed with all the children’s knowledge as well as their collaborative skills and how kind and helpful they were to each other! I can’t wait to see lots of great writing features in our extended write on Monday!

YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE PARK!

14th January 2022Sophie Myers

Here are some more pictures of Year 4 enjoying our day at YWP yesterday. We had such a great time seeing all the animals and learning lots of amazing facts about Polar Bears and how they survive in the wild.

A big well done to you all for your fab behaviour representing the school yesterday.

We are crew!

14th January 2022Jillian Jackson

This afternoon we used our PE time to do some crew building. As our expedition is about the rainforest, we used the trim trail as a walkway in the canopy layer and finished at the ‘waterfall’. We had to be a crew that encouraged and worked together to ensure no one fell off and was ‘eaten by piranhas’!!! We managed to complete it in less than 5 minutes! Well done everyone!

What are the features of an adventure story?

14th January 2022Jillian Jackson

This morning in Crew Jackson we explored the features of an adventure story through reading through an annotated example, discussing the story mountain and collaborating on generating an anchor chart through role on the wall.

Well done for a fabulous day. I can’t wait to start writing stories next week!

A great week of ALL Block (Language and Literature)

13th January 2022Chris Mumby

What a great week in Crew Mumby- especially in our ALL block sessions. ALL block is a chance for children to immerse themselves in a range of texts, discuss them as part of a group and develop a range of reading strategies for unpicking the meaning. This week I have been blown away by the high levels of child-led collaboration and dedication to use the time effectively. Above all, we have just LOVED reading this week!! On top of this, we have also begun our new class novel ‘My Name is River’ we have enjoyed learning about the main characters Dylan and Floyd and their quest to find Floyd’s brother who is missing in Brazil.

The photos below show our crew working hard in an ALL block session:

A ROOAARRsome day for Class 10!

13th January 2022Rebecca Barnett

We had a fantastic day at Yorkshire Wildlife Park today. Not only did we get to see lots of animals but we learnt all about polar bears in our classroom activity. Did you know a polar bear actually has black skin and it’s fur isn’t really white?!

Check out all the animals we saw here.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park!

13th January 2022Luke Oldridge

Crew Oldridge and Crew Myers following up their visit to ‘Project Polar’ with a polar bear workshop. They’ve learn everything from what features a bear has to survive in the Arctic Circle to how climate change is effecting their habitat. All in all, a fantastic day and it has been terrific to see how enthusiastic the children were about every part of it.