A wonderful Wednesday in Crew Flaherty today.

 

Highlights of the day:

Our morning started with a fantastic Cojo session where the children took turns to complete the task. The children worked extremely well in their Crew and it was great to see them communicating effectively to complete the task. In maths, we have seen some amazing work comparing numbers up to 100. Lots of children were able to access our reasoning task. What incredible mathematicians we have. In the afternoon, we have been practising our letter formation to improve our handwriting. All the children focused on their letter formation which was fantastic.

HOWLs

Our HOWL average for the day was 3.0. A great score but I wonder if we can improve it tomorrow.

 

HOWL heroes

Work Hard

Daisy – for having a positive attitude

 

Get Smart

Maria – for listening carefully in every lesson.

 

Be Kind

Chase- for being kind and helping adults tidy up the equipment in the classroom.

 

I wonder who will be our HOWL heroes tomorrow.

Star moment of the day:

It has been a lovely day today with our first full house of crew members! My favourite momnet was the kindess pledges the children helped to create in Crew. I hope you enjoyed the homework kindness tasks the children were describing from their time at home yesterday.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.9

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 2.7

How can we could develop this tomorrow?

Tomorrow, Crew Longley need to continue being kind to each other and holding each other to account.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Be Kind hero today is Alkim!

We chose Alkim today becasue he was brave enought to stand up and be the first person from our crew to recieve ‘Phase Praise’ in assembly. Well done for being so brave!

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

Work hard: Kelby 👩

Get smart: Abigail 👩

Be kind: Milena 👩

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 3.0! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means.

Well done Crew Kent 👍

In crew this morning, the children made pledges about kindness. They discussed acts of kindness they could do to support their crew and show kindness to others. All the children made pledges and we are looking forward to seeing these develop over the coming weeks.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.0

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Tomorrow, Crew Shields need to continue working on their kindness to others and ensure they are sharing.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Work Hard hero today is Holly!

Holly has been working hard on her independence. This has really shown in her writing as she has been writing independently and not relying on an adult for support.

Wednesday ✔

What a lovey day we have had in Crew Welburn today. I have seen such a change in the way the children have come together as a crew. They have really worked hard at working with a partner to check that they are listening, following instructions and putting their hands up.

Highlights from today:

Writing:

Today we finished our recount from our walk to Coffee Corner. The children were looking through the feelings lens and came up with some really good vocabulary. They even listened to Grandma Fantastic’s new word – relieved – and tried to use this in their work!

Our HOWL Heroes:

Miss Wroe chose our HOWL Heroes today as she has worked with the children. She chose:

Work Hard: Scarlett had to be my work hard HOWL hero today after trying so hard in her writing to sound out words using her Fred fingers!

Get Smart: Charlie did a fantastic job today when speaking to Mrs Fox about our learning. He showed just how much he has learnt over the past few weeks in our expedition and he made me feel ever so proud 😊

Be Kind:  Jamie has tried really hard today to be kind to the adults by putting his hand up to contribute his ideas. This is much kinder than shouting over the adults and other children Jamie, thank you.

HOWL average: 3.1. Keep it up Crew Welburn 🙌🙌

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

Work hard: Aiden 🦸‍♂️

Get smart: Chloe 🦸‍♀️

Be kind: Shay 🦸‍♂️

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 3.3! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and literally gave out the loudest cheer ever 🤩

Well done Crew Fox 🦊

What a busy day we have had in Crew Godley today with so much learning and fun going on 😊

Highlights from today:

RWI (Read, Write, Inc)

I was absolutely blown away by the progress the children are making in their RWI sessions. Somany children had remembered most of their sounds and we had lots of children who are becoming confident when blending sounds together to make words. Fred, our RWI Frog is only able to speak in sounds, not whole words. We call this Fred Talk. For example, Fred would say ‘m-a –t’ we would say ‘mat’. Fred talk helps children read unfamiliar words by pronouncing each sound in the word one at a time. … The following video is an example of blending sounds with Fred.

We are exploring the text, Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

We discussed what makes us special and why our friends and family love us, we also thought about how we can show our family and friends that we love them. Sydney shared that her Mummy and Daddy love her because they are always giving her kisses and cuddles ❤ she drew Mummy a picture to show her that she loved her.

Here is Miss Ferguson sharing the story.

Our HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard:

Shelby

SJ

Lydia

These children worked extremely hard in RWI and even asked if they could do some more phonics in the afternoon 😊 Well done, keep up the great work, your positive attitude was fantastic!

A terrific Tuesday in Crew Flaherty today.

Highlights of the day:

Our day started with a fabulous maths lesson comparing objects and numbers up to 100 using the greater than and less than symbols. You all did a great job and impressed me with how quickly you can partition 2 digit numbers to be able to order them.

In art, our Crew worked carefully and sensibly to create a colour wheel using primary and secondary colours. We were super impressed with their concentration skills and their perseverance to mix the colours accurately.

 

 

In English, all the children enjoyed part 1 of our experience lessons based on our class text ‘The Wonder’ by Faye Hanson. It was lovely to hear the children generate vocabulary ready for our story writing next week as well as working collaboratively. You were superstars sharing your thoughts and ideas

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Part 2 to follow tomorrow…

 

 

HOWLS

Our HOWL average for the day was a wonderful 3.3. Not as high as yesterday but still a fantastic score. Well done everyone.

Work Hard

Kira-May for focusing on her learning especially in art. She has produced beautiful work.

 

Get Smart

Archie – for listening carefully and producing beautiful work.

 

Be Kind

Brodie – for being a kind friend in his Crew.

 

I wonder who our HOWL heroes will be tomorrow.

Tuesday ✔

A busy day in Crew Welburn today with so much learning going on!

Highlights from today:

Transitions:

I had the opportunity to take a step back today and observe Crew Welburn for a little bit and I was amazed at how sensibly they move around the classroom. This is such a big improvement since week 1 and I was really proud of all of them for being sensible as they moved from one part of the class to another.

Provision:

The children have accessed indoor provision today and they have worked so hard at their maths skills to find 1 more and 1 less, their writing skills to think of sentences from the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’, and to practice their fine motor skills in the Finger Gym. Well done Crew Welburn!

Our HOWL Heroes:

Miss Wroe chose our HOWL Heroes today as she has worked with the children. She chose:

Work Hard: Kairen

Get Smart: Tiarna

Be Kind:  Kyden

HOWL average: 3.2. That’s more like it Crew Welburn 🙌🙌

What a Tremendous Tuesday! 🤩

Star moment of the day: 

Today I was really impressed with the children’s knowledge of ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ in Maths this morning. The children were able to use their previous knowledge and apply this to 4-digit numbers represented in different ways! This was fantastic to see and meant that many children were able to move on to reasoning and problem solving, resulting in them achieving ‘green standard’. Excellent work my set of mathematicians in Crew Elmer! Well done! 👏

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.1

This is our best score for a few days so well done Crew Elmer! 👍 I think that having Leo back and moving some of your table places has enabled us to be much kinder to each other today. I really hope that we can keep this up! 🤞

This week’s HoWL target is: 2.9

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Elmer need to make sure that we are continuing to ‘be kind’ at all times and our focused on our learning, especially in the afternoon!

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Sienna for being our class ‘get smart’ hero 🥇. Sienna has been working really hard on listening at all times in class and this has enabled her to understand the task fully and achieve ‘green standard’ in all of her lessons today! She has also produced some beautiful work that both her and the whole of Crew Elmer are very proud of! Excellent work Sienna! Well done! 👏