What a first week back for Crew McLoughlin!

1st September 2025Hannah McLoughlin

Week 1 Highlights

We’ve had a fantastic first week back, diving straight into developing our crew. We spent time unpacking the mini HOWL (Habits of Work and Learning) strands, focusing especially on teamwork, patience and kindness through our Challenge Crew activities.

Our guiding question for the week was“How can crew be strengthened through acts of service?”
To explore this, we created inspiring postcards filled with positive quotes, aiming to brighten someone’s day and show how small acts of kindness can make a big difference.

We also explored the crew text The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan, which led to some deep discussions about the importance of belonging. We thoroughly enjoyed hot seating the characters! We learned that it’s easy to become so wrapped up in our own lives that we forget to truly see others. The story reminded us that when we slow down and pay attention, we can help others find a sense of purpose and connection.

To wrap up our fun-filled week, we celebrated with a vibrant Colour Run – a joyful and energetic way to end a week full of learning, laughter and crew spirit!

Fieldwork to Murton Park

1st September 2025Nicola Robson

LKS2 have had an amazing day at Murton Park immersing themselves into life as Romans. We have made oil lamps, learnt Latin, joined the Roman Army and fought the Celts.

The children conducted themselves so well and we are extremely proud of them all.

Hopefully everything we have learned today we can build on over the course of our expedition as we learn more about the Romans and why they decided to come to Doncaster.

Our very first week.

1st September 2025Elizabeth Frost

The children have spent a lovely first week in crew Frost settling in and exploring their environment. They have loved the new construction area and learning all about our story of the week- Owl’s babies!

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Colour run 2025

31st August 2025Natasha Holdsworth

We were so excited that every child was able to join in the colour run so we got to enjoy the experience as a full crew with the rest of school. Some of us were a little bit nervous but in true style of crew, the children supported and encouraged each other and had the best time! What a fantastic way to end our week!

VR Experience

29th August 2025Laura Hamill

To bring Hook Week to a close, before revealing our guiding question, UKS2 took part in a Virtual Reality experience that immersed them into the rainforest. They got to look at each layer of the rainforest as if walking around it and come face to face with some of the animals that live there including sloths, tarantulas, capuchin monkeys and jaguars. Throughout this experience, the guide was sharing his wide range of knowledge with the children which they were fully engaged with listening to. What a fantastic experience!

Hook Week in Crew Barber

29th August 2025Natasha Holdsworth

The first guiding question the children are going to investigate is “Not all hero’s wear capes. How can I be a hero in my local community?” The first hero which we’re looking at is a Fire Fighter. Crew Barber have started their first week in year 1 by getting creative in making their own Tudor style houses to replicate the buildings which caught alight in the Great Fire of London, we then set our houses on fire so we could see how quick the fire spread. After watching fire safety talks the children then chose to dress up and engage in role play during their outdoor breaktime, acting out scenarios and having a great time!

Hooking into our new expedition

28th August 2025Nicola Robson

Crew Robson have loved getting creative this week as we begin to reveal our new Autumn term expedition.

On Tuesday we looked at various artefacts which were clues about the time period we will be learning about. After that we looked closely at some coins from the past before re-creating our own out of clay. Finally we took our time to create some patterned mosaics using colourful paper.