Crewso Returns!

4th October 2023Sarah Winkley

Last week we welcomed back two very special individuals. Crewso, the Early Years Crew Bear, who had been enjoying his summer in Leeds. He has been meeting new children and soaking up all of the local History of Leeds and surrounding areas within Leeds City Museum. Crewso had taken part in the “Leeds Going On a Bear Hunt” initiative to raise money for the Leeds Children’s Hospital, a cause very close to our hearts and community. However, when Crewso heard through the grapevine of the return of one our reception pupils, Bruce, he knew it was time to come home.

We would like to thank all of the families who took part in the Leeds Going on Bear Hunt, in Leeds this summer. We would be delighted if you would share your photos with us, by sending them to your class teacher via Dojo. We would also like to thank all of the EYFS children and children across the campus for designing and creating such a beautiful bear to help share our story and supporting such a worthy cause. We are Crew!

Bird Feeders.

29th September 2023Sarah Winkley

As part of our expedition of “What do stories tell us about Autumn?” The Nursery children have been thinking about wildlife and how the birds will feed as the weather changes. Nursery have made their own bird feeders using their fine motor skills, threading cereal onto pipe cleaners. We then hung them onto the trees and bushes around Nursery. During our Thoughtful Thursday Crew we have also examined bird seed and filled up see through bird feeders to hang in Nursery’s garden, so we can watch the birds feed.

Community Meeting

21st September 2023Claire Goodyer

We are so proud of all our crew champions this week. It was lovely to hear about all the wonderful things they have been doing in crew the have led to their friends and crew leaders nominating them for our special award.

Crew Champions

14th September 2023Laura Parsons

We launched our brand new crew champion awards in our Community Meeting today! It was lovely to hear crew leaders and children talk about each others howls and character traits.

Well done to our first group of recipients including our Miss Tinker!

We are looking forward to next week already!

Mrs Parsons xx

Mindful Monday

11th September 2023Laura Parsons

We started our week with some yoga. Kate said it made her feel ready for the week, Ava said it was a little bit tiring and Henry said it made him ready to learn!

Great job everyone,

Mrs Parsons x

The Paper Dolls

7th September 2023Laura Parsons

After some of us listened to The Paper Dolls we decided we wanted to make our very own paper dolls. We talked about what kinds of things connect our crew just like the paper dolls!! I was really impressed with everyones resilience because we soon discovered making paper dolls is fiddly business!

Mrs Parsons xx

Does Crew stop at the school gate?

31st August 2023Laura Parsons

We have a guiding question this week – does Crew stop at the school gate? We decided that it definitely didn’t and we wanted to spread kindness far and wide! We have designed and painted wood cookies in class and then this morning we headed out into Norton to hide them hoping our local community will smile when they see them or take one and hide it somewhere else for someone to find and make them smile.

Awesome job Class Five – you have definitely shown kindness today 💕

Our classroom 💛

30th August 2023Laura Parsons

We have spent the morning talking about what we want our classroom to look like, sound like and feel like. The coloured dots represent the each child’s main priority. Interesting to see what is important to each other so that our classroom works for everyone!

Great job class five xx

Crew Challenge ⛓

30th August 2023Laura Parsons

This morning we had the challenge of making the longest paper chain in our crews. We could only use two pieces of poster paper, tape and scissors. We had to work really hard to communicate and work together. We all did a great job and surprisingly all ended up with the same length paper chain!

We are looking forward to our crew quiz tomorrow – I wonder who will win – Crew Tinker, Crew Goodyer or Crew Thurman?

Mrs Parsons xx