Year 3 (Class 9) - Commando Joe's - Obstacles

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Today we developed our teamwork skills by overcoming obstacles in the Amazon. 

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Commando Joe's - Memory Skills

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Class 11 have been testing their memory skills this week in Commando Joes.

They had 15 seconds to check which equipment was under the cammo sheet and what position they were in.

They then had 5 minutes to recreate it in their groups.

Overall the children did very well. 

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Year 1 (Class 3) - Commando Joe's - River Crossing

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Class 3 really enjoyed their commando joes session today.

They had to find a way to cross a river without falling in.

They showed great teamwork to complete the task. 

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Commando Joe's - Obstacles

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Class 11 have been thinking about the obstacles Ed Stafford may come across on his journey down the Amazon.

We thought about how he may have to cross the river at some point and how he would have to use anything he may have around him to make a bridge.

The children used the equipment given…

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Year 4 (Class 10) - Commando Joe's - Food for a Long Journey

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Class 10 had a great time learning about Ed Stafford’s adventures in the Amazon rainforest.

We thought about which foods would be beneficial to us when travelling long distances. We then had to work as a team to collect the food we needed, making sure that other teams didn’t steal our…

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Year 3 (Class 10) - Commando Joe's - Food for a Long Journey

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Class 10 had a great time learning about Ed Stafford’s adventures in the Amazon rainforest.

We thought about which foods would be beneficial to us when travelling long distances. We then had to work as a team to collect the food we needed, making sure that other teams didn’t steal our…

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Year 4 - Class 11 - Commando Joe's

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Class 11 enjoyed their first session of Commando Joes.

They are looking at Ed Stafford and how he walked the full length of the Amazon River, over 4000 miles, in 860 days.

Their first part of the mission was to get fit. We did this by a round of circuit training. 

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Year 2 (Class 6) - Commando Joe's

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Class 6 enjoyed our first Commando Joes session of the year, starting our new topic, 'The Queen'.

We had to work in teams to make a royal carriage! 

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Year 3 (Class 9) Commando Joe's - The Valley of Kings

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Today we visited the Valley of the kings as Nellie Bly did on her adventure around the world in 80 days.

We had to use the hieroglyphics to crack the code in order to find safe passage through the tomb to the ancient Egyptian treasure. We had to work in teams and communicate clearly.

It hold…

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Commando Joe's - Map of the World

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Class 11 have enjoyed looking at Nellie Bly who talented the world in 72 days back in 1888.

The children then used a variety of equipment to represent a map of the world. 

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Commando Joe's (25.04.2023)

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Class 11 have been looking at increasing their strength by training like Romans.

We had an obstacle course laid out and the group had to complete it within a certain time. However, each time we repeated it, their Jerry can was filled with more water to make it heavier.

The heavier it got,…

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Year 2 (Class 7) - Commando Joe's - Great Fire of London

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Class 7 take part in Commando Joes every 2 weeks.

They work together as a team to complete tasks. This week they were all in boats on the Thames during the Great Fire of London.

They had to avoid the fire and wreckage and get to the other end of the river to collect their gold all while…

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