Sportsmanship in PE lessons

Starting this week, as a school we are beginning to look at sportsmanship. The children in their crew sessions are going to learn what sportsmanship is, what sportsmanship looks like, how we can change our mindsets about winning and losing and build on crew strengths.

What is sportsmanship? Sportsmanship is fair and generous behaviour or treatment of others, especially in sporting contests.

What are the 5 characteristics of a good sportsperson?

  • Have a positive attitude at all times during sports play
  • Give their best effort
  • Encourages and support their crew mates
  • Accept calls given by referees or coaches
  • Treat the opposition team with respect

The sessions have got off to a great start and the children have really thought about how they can show sportsmanship in their PE lessons. Look out for your children coming home with a Kixx sporstmanship certificate …

Crew Wilson Daily Blog: 20.4.2021

Another fantastic day in Crew Wilson!

Highlight of the day:

We have had a very busy day today and have squeezed lots of learning in. Our Crew highlight of the day was making it to the end of our Write Stuff lesson after writing six chunks! Our brains were exhausted by the end of the lesson but we were so proud of how much we achieved. Tomorrow we will work on completing our writing even faster than today, watch this space!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Stevie today for getting cracked on with her learning and exceeding her own expectations! Stevie missed our first Wizard of Oz writing lesson yesterday but didn’t let that stop her from completing her sentences today, keep it up Stevie!

Get Smart: This goes to Brandon for independently sounding out adjectives for his writing about the Tin Man today. Brandon is still relatively new to our crew but is proving how big his brain is getting by showing off his newly acquired phonics skills, well done Brandon!

Be Kind: This goes to April. April never needs reminders for being kind to both her teachers and her crew, and will always go out of her way to help others and find jobs to do, great stuff April.

Howl Average: 3.1 – a decent score – we still require some improvement from the Crew for listening skills but a better day in terms of attitude to learning, lets keep it up!

Crew Gerrard Blog (20/4/21)

We have had a whirlwind day today, in Crew Gerrard! We started off this morning discussing what sportsmanship is, during Crew. Then we headed into working on our decimals. After break, we then completed some reading around See you in the Cosmos. Before we knew it, we were then on with writing, Gravity. Our HoWL Heroes today were:

Work Hard: Kai for showing an improved attitude and determination to his work! 😁

Get Smart: Tyler for producing some fantastic writing (independently)! 😃

Be Kind: Alicia for helping keep her classroom tidy and being a fantastic role model to her Crew! 😄

Our HoWL average was 3.1 today! I wonder if we can show more resilience during our writing? 😆

Daily Blog Crew Godley 19.04.2021

Magnificent Monday! 

Today we launched our new expedition; Who lives on Old McDonald’s farm? This meant we had some very exciting visitors in school! 

Farmer Ian very kindly brought us lots of animals for to see! We met Fred the tortoise 🐢, Jessica the goat 🐐, Quack and Quackers the ducks 🦆, Meg the dog 🐕 and even Marshmallow who is an alpaca 🦙 as well as sheep, rabbits and guineapigs! 


Farmer Ian taught us all about where the animals live and what they like to eat! We then got to brush the donkey and pony as well as play with Meg! She was very clever and knew lots of tricks! 

Fred the tortoise was a big hit with the children. Farmer Ian let him have a walk on our field and we had to keep finding him in the long grass, can you spot him? 

Make sure you keep your eyes 👀 peeled at the end of the week for This Week in the Phase to see even more of our very exciting day! 

Today’s HOWL hero’s were:

Getting Smart: SJ

Working Hard: Teddy

Being Kind: Roseanne

Well done everyone ❤️ Our HoWL average was 3.1! Great start to the term Crew Godley 🙂

Crew Elmer Daily Blog 20.04.21

Terrific Tuesday! ☀

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has got to be ‘The Write Stuff’ lesson. I was super impressed with how well the children joined in with reading the text, ‘Demon Dentist’. The children enjoyed ‘echo reading’, ’round robin reading’ and ‘missing gap’ reading. Following this the children created some excellent storyboards to show what happened in Chapter 3, their illustrations and captions were great! Great work Crew Elmer! 👏🙌🌟📝✏

Todays HoWL average is: 2.8

Another slightly low score but again we had a few absences today so considering this we performed well as a crew!

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

All crew members need to support each other in ensuring that everyone is trying their best to get at least a 3.0 for their HoWLs.

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Sienna! It was a close call but as a crew we voted and Sienna was chosen! Sienna was praised by several crew members for working hard and being kind today. I praised Sienna for blowing me away in reading and The Write Stuff today! Sienna grasped an excellent understanding of the story in both lessons and demonstrated this well! Great work today Sienna! Well done! 🙌🤩👏👍🖍

Crew Marsh: 20/4/21

Star moment

Star moment today was productivity in our math lesson, I was so impressed with how hard the whole crew worked in math today. Well done Crew Marsh, this was impressive!

Average is: 2.6!😢

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh’s target for tomorrow is making sure that we have a positive attitude towards our learning, some children in Crew Marsh can be negative to some of the lessons we have through out the day “I hate reading” “Why have we got to do handwriting”. This is something as a crew that we really want to get right.

Howl Hero:

Our Work Hard Hero today is Millie!

Millie has worked so hard today, she has made sure that all of her work looks beautiful and completed all of her learning. 😊😊

Crew Welburn’s Daily Blog 20.4.2021

Tuesday✅

We had lots of favourite parts of the day in Crew Welburn today. We loved our writing and we worked really hard to write our sentences about the tin man from the Wizard of Oz. We also really enjoyed printing our stone pattern in expedition this afternoon, although it was a little messy! 🎨🖌

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Darcie 👏

Get smart: Heartley 👏

Be kind: Darcie 👏

HOWL Score: 2.8 We will work on our score tomorrow Crew Welburn.

Crew Longley – 20.04.2021

Today we have been learning how to find a quarter of an amount, started to investigate the Demon Dentist and learnt a little more about how the digestive system works.

Our HoWL avergae today was 2.9

Our weekly target for HoWls is 2.9

We need 7 more ‘3’s’ for our Nelli day 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

Our HoWL hero was Jemma. Her first day back was a real success. Everyone was so happy to have her back and Jemma has worked ever so hard in her phonics and maths.