Hook Week – What does caring look like?

Last week Nursery were hooked into our Be Kind, How do we show we care expedition with the launch of our key text The Everywhere Bear. Miss Tunney kindly provided Nursery with their very own Everywhere Bears that we can learn to care for, by taking them home each weekend for adventures.

Nursery learned that caring is looking after each other and our things. In our text, the Everywhere Bear gets lost and we have been thinking hard about how we could care for the bear to keep him safe. We thought how our own families are special and what belonging to a family means, as they help, love and keep us safe. The children took part in special family orientated crews on Wise Wednesday and Thoughtful Thursday, piecing together what makes our families special… quite literally.

The children took part in a thought shower of ideas that would keep the bear safe, from our own experiences of how our parents look after us. The result was that we decided to make identity bracelets for the bears.

Nursery then agreed it would be kind to share the love and safety around the school, to any other class or crew bears, to help be able to identify them easily if they ever got lost and to keep them safe. So the children gifted each class and staff members bracelets for their teddy bears.

Such beautiful and powerful learning to the beginning of expedition, to truly understand what it means to care for someone or something else – Well done Nursery!

🧚‍♀️📚 Does Crew Stop at the School Gates? 📚🧚‍♂️

Today, Class Five took our guiding question beyond the classroom… and beyond the school gates!

Does crew stop at the school gates?

We decided that if our crew is about looking after one another, being part of something bigger and making a difference, then perhaps our crew should reach much further than our classroom.

We started by choosing some of our favourite books together. We talked about the stories we love, the books that make us laugh, the ones that teach us something new and the ones we think other people might enjoy too.

Then came the fun part…

We became Book Fairies! 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

The children designed their very own Book Fairy characters and created special labels to go inside our books, explaining what our mission was all about.

And then we headed out on our crew mission…

Beyond our school gates and into our community! 🌳📚

Armed with our books and our Book Fairy labels, we hid our books in different places around Norton for members of our community to discover.

But there was an important part to our mission…

We weren’t giving the books away forever. We wanted the people who found them to read, enjoy and then re-hide them for somebody else to find.

So our books could keep travelling.

Our crew mission had gone beyond the school gates, but so had something else…

❤️ Our love of reading!

We loved imagining someone walking through Norton, discovering one of our books and wondering who had left it there. We wondered where our books might travel next, who might read them and whether they might make someone else’s day a little bit brighter.

It made us think about how being part of a crew isn’t just about what happens when we are together. It is about what we choose to do for the people around us — even people we might never meet.

So, after lots of discussion this week, we think we might have an answer to our guiding question…

Does crew stop at the school gates?

Absolutely not. ❤️

Our crew stretches into our community, our kindness can travel further than we can, and today… our books did too. 📚🧚‍♀️✨

Class Six March Around Norton

As part of our expedition “How can I be a superhero where I live?” we have been looking at the book Let The Children March. We decided that we would host our own KS1 march in aid of Askern CRY Foodbank.

We have spent lots of time creating our pop art inspired signs, choosing slogans, colouring, designing and painting.

This afternoon, we went out into the community and marched in aid of the foodbank. We were showing off our amazing signs and chanting all about helping people and supporting the food bank.