Tremendous Thursday! Crew Shields have had a very productive day in Writing, maths and expedition. In maths, they were finding a third of amounts and understand that thirds is 3 equal parts. They are starting to use a good range of vocabulary to help answer reasoning questions. There are some children who are also starting to show their calculations and working out. This method of workings shows they understand the concept being covered in our Maths unit.

Crew Shields Average : 3.1

Targets for this week : 3.4

How can we improve?

To further improve, Crew Shields need to ensure they are moving around school in a sensible manner.

Crew Shields Get Smart Howl Hero – IJ

I was super impressed with IJ this afternoon as he could use actions to model the movement of food through the digestive system.

Thrilling Thursday! Today has been our best day of the week yet. We have worked incredibly hard on our fractions and decimals today. The pride the children showed in their work was fantastic. We then worked just as hard chotting and writing up our sentences in the 10 minute time slot. We had a fantastic discussion during the afternoon session about gravity and read our letter from the European Space Agency (ESA). Our HoWL Heroes are:

Work Hard: McKenzie for contributing ideas all day, especially in Expedition this afternoon! 😁 (From Keegan)

Get Smart: Keegan for having an improved day and completing all of his tasks! 😃 (From McKenzie)

Be Kind: Skyler for having one of her best days yet in Crew Gerrard – you’ve been such a help today! 😄

Our HoWL average was 3.2! I wonder if we can all complete the chunks in 10 minutes? 😆

Today we have been busy exploring who lives on Old MacDonald’s farm – which animals and what their young are called. We paired animals together and wrote their names, we couldn’t believe what some of the young animals were called, who’s have thought a baby goat would be called a kid! I would like to praise those children who have been practising their phonics at home as we could really see those children who were independent, confident writers when writing the animal names.

We also had the pleasure of listening to the nursery rhymes we are exploring this week read by our crew. Shania and SJ read some lovely nursery rhymes to us. The rest of the crew sat beautifully showing green standard as they listened. Great crew work!

Thursday ✅

Today, we have added the finishing touches to our model of Lincoln Castle. We worked really hard to record our voice overs ready to go on our video to share with the rest of school and Lincoln Castle. We have also enjoyed our activities outside. We worked hard to make sure we were all being kind and sharing the equipment. In writing, we have been writing up our stories making sure our work was beautiful, ready to share with our grown ups at home – watch this space for a fantastic story appearing!

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Charlie 👏

Get smart: Darcie 👏

Be kind: Evie 👏

HOWL Score: 3 We have tried much harder today Crew Welburn. Well done 😁

Highlight of the day:

Today we worked very hard in our maths lesson, using number lines to help us answer subtraction questions. It was very tricky to subtract teen numbers but we were resilient and reached our desired standard by the end of the lesson, well done Crew!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Toby for independently correcting his writing in Write Stuff, ensuring he had capital letters and full stops in his sentences, well done!

Get Smart: This goes to Stevie for going above and beyond with her adjectives in her writing about the Lion from the Wizard of Oz, great work Stevie!

Be Kind: This goes to Eva for keeping the classroom organised and keeping her group on track in maths, well done!

Howl Average: 2.3

Unfortunately we have had quite a fall from grace for our Howls today, as lots of reminders had to be given to the whole crew throughout the day and we have not seen the positive learning behaviours that we have been practicing since September. We spent some time this afternoon reflecting on our attitude towards learning and will hopefully see an improvement for tomorrow.

Wonderful Wednesday! 🌟

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our Expedition lesson. The children really enjoyed exploring the digestive system in a practical way and certainly learnt lots! Watch this week’s TWIT to see some snap shots! 📸👍🥪🥛🍴

Todays HoWL average is: 2.7

A slight dip in our HoWLs today but again we have had a few absences and I also feel that we have been very honest with our HoWLs today and justifying our scores. Well done for your honesty crew Elmer!

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

All crew members need to work together to ensure that all crew members are working hard, getting smart and being kind ALL day.

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Harley! Harley was praised by Miss Hart and I for ‘working hard’ all day and maintaining a positive attitude towards his learning. This isn’t always easy for Harley but today he absolutely smashed it and as a result produced some great pieces of work and achieved his Gold Targets in EVERY lesson! Well done Harley! An amazing day! Keep it up! 🙌🤩👏👍🖍

We have had a lovely few days in Crew!

We have been spending lots of time outside and working on our maths! We used the building blocks and our imagination to create castles and houses. Then we counted to see how tall they are!

Today we were working on our Fred talk! The children worked so hard to recognise the names of animals on Old MacDonald’s. We had p-i-g, c-o-w and sh-ee-p!

Our HOWL heroes are…

Messiah for working hard and impressing all the adults with his positive attitude.

Rose for being kind and comforting a new friend when they were upset.

Star moment

Star moment today was seeing the children in our science experiment this afternoon, in smaller crews the children acted out the digestive system – it was messy and a lot of fun! I think everyone’s favourite part was when our digestive system was ready for pooing. 💩💩

Average is: 2.9!

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 Harlie!

Harlie was chosen by the crew today for working hard, Harlie has completed all of her learning today, making sure she is concentrated in every subject and being a great role model in Crew Marsh. Well done Harlie the crew and I are so proud of you! 😊😊