Our flexible Friday crew session pivoted down a rather odd path today as our children sampled a variety or pastry based foods including pies, pasties, sausage roll and quiche. The backstory? One of our crew members was reading a book: Horse Pie – the conversation quickly descended into favourite pie fillings, pastry based dishes…you get the picture. Anyhow, the culmination of all these conversations resulted in the children wishing to try out some savoury treats. After some meaty conversations (sorry) where our heads we’re truly scrambled (loose quiche reference), our vote determined that the humble steak slice was the king of our pastry products today.
6EG have spent this week learning all about perimeter! It began with measuring the perimeter of various shapes and objects around school, and led to solving complicated perimeter SATs style questions to challenge and consolidate their learning.
This week, beautiful work from LKS2’s last Expedition ‘Coming to Doncaster – Why then, why now?’ has been curated outside the school! Be sure to stop and take a look at their work on migration, Roman history and sharing stories!
Beautiful Work in the Community: Earth Emergency
In Autumn 2023, Green Top School’s UKS2 children undertook a learning expedition called Earth Emergency. The guiding question was: How can we help our planet survive? Their beautiful artwork is on display on a shopfront on Fieldside in Thorne.
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6CC enjoyed a first session recapping perimeter – a bit of hands on learning to begin the topic area using a variety of measuring equipment. Top effort from all and they were even brave enough to face the cold outside for some measuring and calculations! 👍🏼😁
4GC have been tackling some tricky maths problems this week; thinking deeply about their structure and unlocking the key information within each question. The culmination of this was a series of tasks to grapple with during an online learning session today. What resilience this lot show by the way!
At the end of last year, we asked students in C29 to reflect on the learning that took place outside the classroom and how this has helped them to build Crew.
Beautiful Curation: Carcroft School
Look at this collection of recent work which is now on display in the corridors of Carcroft School. Be sure to stop and admire students beautiful work from across phases and Expeditions!
This week 5HJ have been working hard conquering the world of fractions. Here were are playing dominoes by matching improper fractions with their mixed number partner. What started out as a tricky task soon turned into a competitive game which deepened understanding!
During our expedition ‘The Power of Change’, 6EG studied the work of William Morris, an artist who was a great revolutionary force during the Victorian era. The children learned how he influenced other artists and believed the Industrial Revolution was making people less creative. We looked at many examples of his work and recreated some of his famous tapestries.
Recently, 4TE have discovered that our English writing focus for this half-term is to create a setting description! To get us started and show the importance of being incredibly detailed and specific, the children had a go at describing different settings to their partner (without their partner seeing) with their partner then having to draw the setting being described to them! There were some very creative pieces of work created from some very detailed and specific narrators!
