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

Work hard: Alicia 🦸‍♂️

Get smart: Riley 🦸‍♂️

Be kind: Lucas 🦸‍♂️

Learning Legend: Riley 👌

Golden Ticket: Alicia 🎟

We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today was a whopping 3.5! You have been absolutely phenomenal today Crew Gerrard and I especially loved how hard you worked on what you would make a stand for. It was really pleasing to see you all discussing what matters in this world.

Well done Crew Gerrard and make sure that you have a well deserved rest! 😆

Happy Friday!

Crew Fox have managed to beat last weeks HOWL average which means a spin on the wheel for us!

We’ve began our new science topic of evolution and inheritance this week and have thought about what characteristics we’ve inherited from our parents.

Our expedition ‘when is it right to make a stand for what we believe in?’ has enabled us to have some great discussions and debates about our personal opinions.

Head over to our expedition page to see what we’ve been up to!

This week in the phase…….

We have had a brilliant week in Foundation Stage, exploring our new expedition, ‘Who will we find in the woods today?” 🌲🌲🍁🍂 During our shared story sessions we have begun to use The Write Stuff, Fantastic Lenses. This has given us lots of opportunities to explore words and texts in a vocabulary rich environment with our shared class texts. The children have been so motivated to write, discuss and story-tell in our role play areas linked to the texts, the Owl Babies 🦉and the Gruffalo.

​We have drawn and labelled the Gruffalo so we can warn others of his appearance. Nursery drew some fantastic mice 🐭 from the story! They worked so carefully to draw the shapes. We are so proud of the progress all of the children are making with their fine motor skills, in F2 we can nearly all write our name and even some F1 children have mastered this!

We had a fantastic PE session with our Kixx coach Shelley, working as a crew to create our own dance. Our teachers were blown away by how well we did and how much rhythm some of us had! We can’t wait to add these moves into our final performance.

We have achieved so much this week! We can’t wait to share it with everyone, please keep checking our expedition website and crew blogs to find out what your children are doing in school.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Foundation Team

I have had the opportunity to read with some of our children this morning to see how well they are doing with their reading books. I was absolutely blown away with how confident some of the children have become with their reading! Their Fred talk and blending has improved so much an I can tell that they have practiced at home! We’ve had 12 children read 4 times this week which is fantastic Crew Welburn!

Our HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Lylah 🙌

Get Smart: Bronwyn🙌

Be Kind: Harry 🙌

This week’s highlights:

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.2

This weeks HoWL average is: 3.3

Weekly HoWL target: 3

✨ Well done Crew Welburn! You have been superstars this week! 🌟

We have had a lovely day in Crew Mcloughlin! Everyone has worked so hard it has been a tough decision to make…

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

Work hard: Mckenzie 🍗

Get smart: Lexie 🤣

Be kind: Keegan 🍔

Learning Legend: Maxi 👌

Golden Ticket: Deacon 🎟

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 2.7! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means. However we really need to improve attendance in order to increase our HOWL average!!

Well done Crew Kent 👍

Teachers are spending the day planning and researching their next expedition for the Spring Term. They are busy thinking about what the children need to learn and researching this to improve their own knowledge and understanding of specific areas. In addition, they are busy thinking of ways to make the learning engaging for the children. A productive planning day for all involved!

Foundation Stage are just playing about with their provision in the classroom to make it an even better place to learn for your little ones

Thanks to parents for your support and we look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. 🥰🙌

A busy week and day full of reading, maths, writing and dance today. One of our favourite days of the week.

Today’s HoWL average 3.1

Our HoWL target is: 2.9

How can we develop  Continue to focus on reading the question and making sure we are answering it correctly.

Howl Hero

Our Hero today was Isabella. She has really worked hard to develop our new dice skill this afternoon.