A  wonderful Wednesday in Crew Flaherty today. Well done everyone.

HOWLs

Our HOWL average for the day was 2.7. A little lower than yesterday, let’s see if we can improve it tomorrow Crew Flaherty by listening carefully.

Work Hard

Billy – for working hard during Cojo this morning and supporting his Crew.

Get Smart

Archie – for always listening to his Crew and adults. Archie always follows instructions the first time they are given.

Be Kind

Chase – for helping children in his Crew at lunchtime.

I wonder who will be our HOWL heroes tomorrow.

Today, we could’ve given anyone HOWL hero… but the lucky 3 were:

Work hard: Chloe 😊

Get smart: Crystal 👩

Be kind: Skyler 🌹

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 3.2! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means.

Well done Crew Kent 👍

Terrific Tuesday! 🤩 (As suggested by Sienna!)

Despite it being another wet day today 🌧 and having a timetable change and a few interruptions including photographs 📸 we have had a successful day in Crew Elmer! 👍

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today I praise how hard children worked in ‘The Write Stuff’ today to piece together a diary entry from the mining era. The children were also great at identifying the key features including the date, dear diary, introduction, past tense, key facts, feelings, who it was from, informal tone, paragraphs etc. Great work Crew! 👏

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.7

This is a little bit lower than yesterday but I feel that this is down to several children in our crew being really honest about being unkind at lunchtime today. I praise your honesty Crew Elmer. 👍

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Elmer need to make sure that we are continuing to ‘be kind’ at all times especially at play times and lunch times as this seems to be where most problems are arising, especially when it’s wet. Remember our rules for ‘playing kindly’ at crew times. 💕

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Laila for being our ‘kind’ ‘HoWL Hero! I praised this young lady for her kind comments during PE today when children were evaluating each others dens. Her praises for Kacey-Leighs den were lovely. 💕 Lots of crew members also said how lovely Laila had been at break and lunch times which was also pleasant to hear. Well done Laila! ❤🙌👏👍😊

Our star moment of the day was our step back in time as we ventured down the mines and read a diary from a child miner in preparation for our own work.  Everyone worked well together on the tasks and there were no accidents or children falling asleep in the tunnels!

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.0

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

I wonder if…

I wonder if we can continue to show the amazing support for each when we see someone struggling with something.  #wearecrew

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Work Hard hero today is Ryan!

Ryan has oozed positivity and determination today.  It has been great to see him refuse to give in when faced with a challenge and his contributions to discussions proved that he was entirely focused on his learning today.  Great stuff!

HoWL Heroes 

Work Hard 🦸‍♀️ Kenley

Get Smart 🦸‍♂️ Harry

Be Kind 🦸‍♀️ Shaydon

HoWL average: 3.2! We have met our target! I am so proud of you all 🤩

I have thoroughly enjoyed today Crew Mcloughlin we have ALL worked so hard. Keep up the hard work! 😊

Crew Fox have had a very productive & successful day today!

Our HOWL heroes are…

Work hard: Jack🦸🏼‍♂️

Get smart: Gabby🦸🏼‍♀️

Be kind: Alex 🦸🏽‍♀️

🤩 Our HOWL average was 3.0 today 🤩

Evening everyone!

Another productive day in Crew today!

Highlight of the day

We had our class photos today! The children looked so smart and were wonderfully polite to the photographer! 📸

We also had a lovely PE lesson with coach Cara 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

HOWLs

Today our class average score was 3.3 ⬆️

Today our HOWL heroes were

Work hard

🌟 James for using commas in a list accurately in his writing

Get smart

🌟 Jude for an improved attitude to his writing

Be kind 

🌟 Ellie-May and Catalina for working together as a team even though it was tricky at first

Tuesday ✔

Highlights from today:

DT:

The children have worked really hard in pairs this afternoon to begin to create tree sculptures for their model village. They made sure they were supporting each other, listening to the instructions and taking turns.

Our HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Bronwyn has worked really hard in DT to follow all of the instructions. Well done Bronwyn!

Get Smart: Nathan worked well with his partner to carry out all of the steps to create his sculpture. Keep it up Nathan!

Be Kind: Darcie has made sure everyone in the crew had someone to play with today and has had a lovely smile on her face all day. This was really kind Darcie.

HOWL average: 2.9. Let’s get this score even higher tomorrow Crew Welburn!

What a terrific Tuesday we have had in Crew Wilson.

Highlights of the day:

Moving around school: Today we had school photographs and our Crew were showing the ‘Green Standard’ to everyone they saw around school. They have made their teachers very proud at how sensible they have been, well done Crew Wilson!

Phonics: Today we have been smashing our Read Write Inc phonics! We know that reading and writing is very important, so we have been practicing lots of speedy sounds throughout the day! We have got so fast at this, we managed to get through our Set 1 sounds twice in 60 seconds!! Tomorrow’s target is to get through the pack three times in a minute – We can do this!!

If you would like to help with this at home, there is a video that you can watch with your children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYuzt5qv1ZI – the faster they can do this, the better their recognition is.

Theme: In our theme lesson we have been continuing with our box model representation of our community – today’s focus was on the wonderful trees that we can see out of the school windows and along the streets of Carcroft. We were being wonderful sculptors, taking our time to mould chicken-wire to get our desired shape, then added pipe-cleaners for branches, which will then be paper-mached and painted. We found working with metal was quite tricky but the Crew were very resilient and worked collaboratively to make sure everyone had a good final product.

Howl Heroes

Work Hard: This Howl goes to Eva for showing the ‘Green Standard’ across the board in our class today, Eva is always willing to have a go and will try doing something herself before asking for help, great resilience Eva!

Get Smart: This Howl goes to Finlay for contributing to class discussions with some great points – especially when we have recapped our learning so far this term in Crew this morning. Finlay has shown that he is actively engaged in our lessons as he can explain and describe everything we have learned about so far, well done Finn!

Being Kind: This Howl goes to Miami today, for contributing to our classroom organisation and keeping areas tidy. Miami noticed that coats were on the floor and went to find their owners without being asked, brilliant work Miami!

Howl Average

3.8 today! We have worked hard today to get our average score up, the biggest improvement today has been our listening skills!