In computing today, it has really challenged our resilience because we had to solve a debugging problem. We had to work together as a mini crew to find the solution. When we solved it, we were able to play a quick game. Crew Shields are really enjoying our computing curriculum and some are discovering they are quite talented at this.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.7

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

To improve further, Crew Shields need to ensure that they are not chatting when they should be listening.

Our Work Hard hero today is IJ!

Today, IJ has been working on his independence and trying to complete tasks with minimal adult support.

In crew today we have looked at our finished brochure design! The children are blown away with how professional it looks and cannot wait to have their own copy! We have discussed that this is something to cherish for a lifetime and that they should be proud of themselves at what they have produced! Head over to parent pay to buy crew McLoughlin’s brochure now! 😀

Hi everyone,

Today, we’ve had a solid start to the week. We have worked really well in pairs and I am really impressed with the support we have given to each other. You guys have shown what it means to be Crew! It was difficult to choose the HoWL heroes for today, and they are:

Working hard: Jolie 🦸‍♂️

Get smart: Hassan 🦸‍♂️

Being kind: Sapphire 🦸‍♂️

Our HoWL average was 3.0!

I want at least 3.2 tomorrow for our HoWL score, so let’s see if we can beat it! 😆

Manic Monday! After a whirlwind of a weekend catching up with teachers, doing planning, updating the blog and preparing for more live teaching this week I honestly can’t believe that it’s Monday already! At least I am one day closer to being free and being able to return to school! 😬 Today has been a very busy day in Crew Elmer with flu jabs, learning about Sikhism and answering questions about our text, ‘Pony in the Dark’.

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘Star moment of the day’, has to be seeing Miss Hart’s smiley face back in Crew Elmer today! 😊 I know the children in Crew Elmer have missed Miss Hart as much as Miss Clarke and I have! So welcome back Miss Hart! 🖐 It’s lovely to have you back with us! 💕 Only a few more days and our crew family will be fully reunited! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Another ‘Star moment of the day’ with the children was our Expedition lesson this afternoon. I was impressed during ‘Popcorn’ how much some of the children already knew about Sikhism and how this related to our new question around valuable gifts. The children learnt about how Sikhs serve their community, give to charity and selflessly volunteer to help others. The children created some great quizzes to share the knowledge that they gained from today’s lesson. Watch this space for some photos. Great work Crew Elmer! 🤩✏📝

Todays HoWL average is: 3.0

This is possibly one of the lowest scores that Crew Elmer have had for a little while. However, 3.0 is still a good score and as long as we don’t go any lower I’m not disappointed  😊 I do believe that this score is down to a lot of children being honest when completing their HoWLs as well as having 2 children absent. Hopefully we can improve this tomorrow! 🤞

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.4

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Elmer need to continue to work hard, get smart and be kind to each other to enable them to achieve 3’s if not 4’s in their HoWLs tomorrow! 👍

Today’s HoWL Hero:

I was fortunate enough to contribute towards the praises that were given to different children this afternoon. I praised Leo for being honest when it came to his HoWL scores this afternoon as he is always very self reflective and truthful when it comes to the scores he gives himself. Miss Clarke further praised Leo’s great attitude and determination in Maths this morning. Leo is often down on himself and finds Maths challenging. However, today he sought help and this worked in his favour and allowed him to have a successful lesson. Therefore for these reasons Leo is Crew Elmers HoWL hero today for working so hard. Excellent work Leo! Well done! 🤩🙌👍👏

Today has been a brilliant learning day down in crew Godson. 🌟

Our Maths learning today was so much fun! We have learnt a new way of adding cubes together using the part/ whole model. It was tricky to start with but we worked “smart” together. 👩‍🎓 The children were amazing at adding all the cubes together and partitioning them back up again. We observed the many ways of making one number. 🔢 Miss Ferguson was so impressed with all the children she gave them a class HOWl hero for getting smart!

Reggie recieved our HOWL hero for working hard today. He finds PE difficult but managed to follow coach Shelley and her amazing dance routines very well.

SJ received out being kind HOWL hero today after going first in the class to have his flu jab. Showing the other children to be brave.

Well done everybody, it’s been a great day.

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

Work hard: Kelby 👩

Get smart: Chloe 👩

Be kind: Deacon 🧑

🤩 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.

Monday ✔

Highlight of the day: 

Today, we have really enjoyed our PE lesson with Coach Shelley. We have been learning some dance moves to a Christmas song! Our dancing is getting better by the week! We have also really enjoyed our phonics lesson and having a go at our new challenges in provision.

Our HOWL heroes are…

Work hard: Heartley 👏

Get smart: Nathan 👏

Be kind: Lylah 👏

Our HOWL average was 3.2 today. Well done Crew Welburn!

Friday ✔

Highlight of the day

Today the children did their arithmetic checks after a busy week of learning. We were so impressed by the progress the children have made, some of us more than doubled our score. 🧮

Highlight of the week

This week we have started a new case study in DT. The children really enjoyed evaluating candles.🕯Today we began to design our own candles, they created some beautiful designs. I can’t wait to see them when they are made.

HOWLs

Today our HOWL score was 3.2

This means that we end our week on 3.1

Our learning legend this week was Rome! Well done! 👏🏻

Today’s HOWL heroes were

🌟 Work hard – Theo

🌟 Get smart – Milena

🌟 Be kind – Charleigh

This has been our best week yet!  We’ve learned more about writing our own newspaper reports as well as looking at the origins of The Salvation Army and how one man’s beliefs led him to founding the charity.  We’re continuing to explore movement in PE and have started to develop our own counter-balances with a view to including them as part of a sequence.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.2

Our Weekly HoWL average is: 3.3

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

I wonder if…

I wonder if we can focus on developing our resilience and perseverance on Monday by working through any challenges that we might face with our learning.  If we find it easy, then we’re not learning anything new!

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Work Hard HoWL hero today is Ethan!

It’s been a great day for Ethan today.  Offering to help others, smiles and a great focus on his work has been noticed by all of us.  It has been great to see him working hard and can see that he’s getting smart because of it!

Learning Legend:

Ryan!

Ryan, you’ve had a great week!  It has been wonderful seeing your confidence improve and even better to see that you’re pushing yourself to contribute in every session.  You’re fast becoming our expert for remembering previous learning and key facts!  Keep building on this and keep believing in yourself, we all know you can do it!

This Week in Phase:

Be sure to watch our video to see what we have been up to as a phase.

Expedition:

Click the link to visit our exciting expedition website to find out more about what we’ve been learning about.

What is the most valuable gift we can give?

We have had a whirlwind of a week in Crew Wilson!

Highlight of the week:

This week we have been continuing on with our expeditionary learning, exploring how religious stories influence celebrations with a focus on Diwali. We are confident re-telling the story of Rama and Sita and can explain why candles are an important part of Hinduism. We have now started the next phase of our expedition: planning a product! The children are so excited to apply their learning to what they are going to make, watch this space for their fabulous creations!

We have being learning about instructions in computing, and had to programme a ‘Sandwich-Bot’ to make a Jam Sandwich. The Crew really enjoyed this and were dying to try it out themselves – maybe they could help make a sandwich over the weekend to practice their instruction skills?

I want to also give a big shout-out to the seven children who have earned their chocolate bar by reading at home four times this week, keep up the great work guys and hopefully we’ll have more children enjoying a reward next week!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard : This Howl goes to Tommy T today for having a brilliant attitude towards his learning and showing his teachers how hard he can work when he concentrates, well done Tommy!

Get Smart: This Howl goes to Bobby-J today for also having a great attitude towards learning and consistently contributing to group discussions, great work Bobby-J!

Be Kind: This Howl goes to Daisy today for helping out her Crew without being asked by an adult. Daisy has shown great compassion for her friends who were stuck on tricky questions today, well done Daisy!

Howl Average:

We have ended the week on a Howl average of 3.45 (very specific, i know!). We have had a good week as a Crew but some people need to show their teachers the ‘green standard’ expectations with less reminders throughout the day to earn those higher howl scores.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!