Thrilling Thursday! Today the children all felt a great relief after completing their final test today! 🤗 Well done Crew Elmer for working incredibly hard and getting through all of the tests this week! 👏

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s star moment of the day had to be our ‘Expedition’ lesson. I was super impressed that the majority of children could remember our key question and could also talk through the journey that we have been on so far to get to this moment. The children’s knowledge of Christianity and the Christmas story in today’s lesson also stood out. In addition, as part of some of the work that the children completed this week on Sikhism, the children enjoyed completing a Bollywood style dance today! Watch this space for the final video! 🎬📽📼

Todays HoWL average is: 3.0

We haven’t quite matched this week’s HoWL target…however this is an improvement on yesterday and this week, with 3.0 being the highest score that we have achieved. This is ‘expected’ standard so I am happy with this 😊 Well done Crew Elmer! Hopefully we can improve this a tad more next week and hopefully get that spin on the wheel! It’s been a while since we ‘cream pied’ anyone! 😂

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.1

How can we develop this next week?

Crew Elmer need to ensure that all crew members demonstrate a positive attitude towards their learning at all times, and on top of that ensure that they are being kind to not only themselves but also classroom equipment.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Today’s HoWL hero went to Ray! This was incredibly well-deserved! 🙌 Today was Ray’s first day back this week and as soon as he entered the door (after being greeted with a HUGE smile by everyone 🤩) he was bombarded with test after test 📝 but he took this in his stride and sailed through each and every test! As a crew we all admired this and praised how hard he had worked. Just one more test left for Monday Ray! That is if Buddy the Elf hasn’t ripped it up! 😂

Additional Work: 

The children have been provided with a number of resources to complete at home tomorrow including some reading, punctuation work and a sheet to develop their arithmetic skills. Please support children with completing these as required and return to school on Monday. If you have any queries then please send me a Dojo message.

Have a lovely long weekend! 🎄🎉😁📒✏

Good evening,

Day 3.  Our toy of the past today is Monopoly.

Did you know that the longest game of Monopoly ever recorded lasted for 70 days?  Can you imagine the cheating that took place during that game?  And the arguing?  Or is that just my games…

This morning we enjoyed our experience of Bollywood dancing and will be looking to practise this some more over the coming weeks.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.5

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

I wonder if…

I wonder if any parents are brave enough to challenge their children at the multiplication checks.  Breakfast in bed for the winner perhaps?

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Be Kind HoWL Hero today is Tyler!

Tyler is always kind and always sets the example when it comes to looking after each other but today he has outdone himself.  During a piece of drama, he recognised that one of his crew mates was struggling a little and stepped in to help without a word from anyone else.  We could all use a friend like Tyler!

Good evening everyone.

Today the children have completed this weeks assessments in style! They have been amazing this week and have worked so hard. They have shown real resilience and work ethic. I am immensely proud of each of them! 🌟😁

Today the children let off some steam during their PE session by playing bench ball. It was very entertaining and gripping to watch. 🏐 Dare I say it “better than football” 🙊 They had to ensure they worked as a crew to pass the ball 3 times before trying to score. This seemed harder than it sounds at times. 🧠 The children had to communicate between each other and work as a team. 🤾‍♂️🤾‍♀️

We finished off the day by practicing out times tables during our IT session. We logged on to timetables.co.uk and in pairs worked through the challenges. It was such a fun and easy website to navigate all the children were excited to learn. 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

Have a lovely long weekend Crew Kent. You have worked your socks off this week. 🧦 See you Monday. Miss Ferguson x

A busy end to a busy week. We had a rather messy visit from the elf, completed our assessments, ran to the North Pole and began writing our independent version of the story.

Today’s HoWL average 3.2 👌

Our Weekly HoWL average is: 3.2 💚

Our HoWL target is: 3

How can we develop Think about creating a picture in the readers head when we write next week.

Our Hero today was EVERYONE. We have been so proud of everyone’s effort that it was just too hard to choose one person. Well done!

Golden Handwriting Ticket

Our lucky hand writer was Ruby. Well done!

Homework.

This week 50% of our crew read all week and completed their homework. These lucky crew mates had a lucky dip today.

My star moment today is watching the children carry out their drama to show me how the Three wise men gifted to Jesus, this was to help us understand the origin of gift giving. See if they can remember why they gave Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. ✨👍

Average is: 2.8

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.3!

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Next week, we need to make sure that we try not to be as chatty! This has increased the more we have got excited for christmas, however we still have lots of learning to squeeze in before we break up.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Be Smart hero today is Frankie!😁

Frankie always shows me that she is listening and makes sure she turns her body to show me. Frankie has also worked really hard this week on her tests! Well done! ✔👌😊

A busy end to a busy week! Wow, we have worked hard this week!

Highlight of the day

We have been blown away today by the children’s continued hard work in their assessments! Some of the scores have knocked our socks off 🧦

We also did our Club 11’s, some children have made it to Club 33 already! Meaning that they have progressed to a new club every week!

Highlight of the week

We have loved seeing how creative our children are this week! In between all their assessments the children have been able to express themselves with rangoli patterns which were beautiful!

We also had a lovely morning with Reverend Paul. It gave us lots to think about and started us thinking about the world around us! Hopefully we can start to answer some of the questions on our walk next week!

Check out This Week in the Phase for all the pictures of our busy week!

HOWLs

Todays HOWL score was 3.3!

Todays HOWL heroes were

🌟 Work hard AND be kind – Rome has totally blown us alway today! He nearly doubled his score in maths reasoning all while showing compassion and kindness to his crew mates!

🌟 Get smart – Darcie for showing perseverance in her assessments

Time for a week deserved rest Crew! See you on Monday ready for another fun week!