Happy Monday! ☀

Today the sun has been shining in and outside of the classroom! It has been a glorious day!☀

Star moment of the day:

Today I was super impressed with how hard children worked in our ‘expedition’ lesson. The children had the task of deciding what they thought ‘community’ meant. To support children they were given some statements which they had to read and then decide whether they thought that was ‘a community’ or ‘not a community’. The children worked really well as ‘mini crews’ and were so inclusive with the responses that they gave. Making me feel really proud to be part of the ‘Carcroft Community’.

      

Once we established what we thought a community was the children then created their own ‘Community Circles’ to show the different communities that they belonged to. Below are a few snaps but please ‘be kind’ as these are working progress…

       

Another ‘star moment’ of the day was being able to share some birthday highlights with the children during Crew time. The children enjoyed looking at my pictures and I felt that it has really helped us to build a strong crew.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.1

This is a great class average Crew Elmer (especially as we are missing two of our crew members today!) so well done! 👏

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 to each other and that we are consistently ‘working hard’ in all parts of the lesson.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Harry for ‘working hard’ all day. Harry is always focused on his learning and tries his best. He has shown a positive attitude to all of his learning today especially in Maths where he enjoyed partitioning numbers and in expedition where he created a fantastic ‘community circle’. Well done Harry!  👏

     

Hi all,

Star moment of the day:

Today in PSHE, the children had to make a carrot car using a range of materials. The focus was how they worked as a crew to create a car that moved. The key skills we were looking for was communication, listening and collaborating their ideas. It was lovely to see the children working together and sharing their thoughts on how to improve their car.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.0

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Shields need to continue working on their pace and ensuring that they are starting learning without being prompted by staff.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

This week we are concentrating on working hard because if you work hard, you get smart!

Our work hard hero today is: IJ!!

IJ has been working hard to ensure that he is listening to all instructions so he is able to complete his learning. He has has been listening carefully in phonics and he is becoming more independent with blending his words. IJ has attempted all learning and is eager to try and answer questions.

Hi all,

Star moment of the day:

I thoroughly enjoyed our writing lesson today, the children have started planning their own writing using what we have just been writing about: moving house. Everyone was super at this! They all drew what they could notice, hear and imagine, and then they wrote some adjectives and adverbs down to help them when it comes to writing their independent piece.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.1!

Weekly HoWl target: 3.0

How can we improve this tomorrow?

In the afternoon, Crew Marsh need to make sure that they are listening to instructions and working hard.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

This week we are concentrating on working hard, as if you work hard, you get smart!

Our work hard hero today is: Aaliyah!

Aaliyah has worked so hard all day and has had a positive attitude in every lesson.

Well done Aaliyah!

Hi all,

What a busy day we’ve had! We’ve been working tremendously hard in math’s today. We have been adding one more to a given number. We used ten squares, monkey ladders and even dice to support our learning. We then used our “one more” knowledge to create our own number line. This was great fun!

 

Our HOWL Heroes for the day are:

Work Hard: Tiarna, for supporting the teacher and having a positive attitude to all her tasks undertaken.

Get Smart: Mariama, for listening carefully to instructions and trying hard to implement her new learning through her Independent tasks.

Be Kind: Kairen, for treating other crew members with respect and supporting them when they were feeling blue.

Well done HOWL Heroes!

Our average today was 3.4 a lovely day. Keep up the good work.

Well done today Crew Kent!! You worked extremely hard this morning in math’s on the tricky topic which is rounding. Ensuring that you are confident in rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000’s. Next you battled through some new spelling words sounding them out and trying to see the pattern in them. After break you worked solid right yup until lunch developing ideas for the next chunk of writing trying to make sure to include dialogue in you work with the use of speech marks. In the afternoon you had fun comparing and contrasting maps of different cities around the world and how they compare to Carcroft. Check out the organised chaos below. Linking different maps and stating the differences and similarities.

Finally we had some good honest conversations about working hard and how we are going to improve our focus and effort especially during the input part of the lesson.

Howl Heroes – Working Hard = Roxanne, Get Smart = Abigail and Being Kind = Deacon

Class Howl Average = 3.0

Hi everyone!

A massive well done to all the children in Crew Thiede this week, they have worked so hard.

Highlight of the day
We have had a great day in Crew Thiede today! The children have been discussing what they already know about the life cycle of a human, I was so impressed with the knowledge they have! Crew Thiede are starting to work well as a crew and we are really enjoying our morning circle up 😀

Highlight of the week

This week Crew Thiede had a really successful COJO challenge! They used everything they have talked about in crew time to work together and strengthen their crew bond! 👏🏻

HOWLs
Our CREW average for the day was 3.6 which is our highest score yet! ⬆️

Next week we want to improve even more! To do this the Crew Thiede need to think about how we work hard and be kind during break and lunchtime.

Our HOWL heroes were:
Work Hard
🌟Isaac – For working really hard when writing his recount of the walk Coffee Corner
Get Smart
🌟Charlie E – For creating a beautiful sentence that he is proud of.
Be Kind
🌟Taylor – For being kind to me and the class by listening when we are talking and respecting everyone. She does this every day.

This week our learning legend was… Milena!

Milena has been working so hard since coming back to school. She is putting all her effort into getting smart and we can see that it is paying off! Keep up the hard work! 👍🏻

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Wow! What another wonderful week at school. It is fabulous to see all the children settling into year 2.

 

Highlight of the day:

In science, the children have blown me away with their knowledge of the life of a human. The children showed such enthusiasm to share their thoughts, it was wonderful to see. They loved to tell me about babies in their families and how they love to sleep, crawl and play with toys.

 

Learning Legend 

Where to start with our learning legend this week. Hollie is an absolute star who strives to achieve and challenges herself in every lesson.

HOWLs

Our Crew average for today was an amazing 3.4. Well done Crew Flaherty, such a brilliant end to our week.

HOWL heroes

Work Hard

Millie – for staying focused during her lessons.

Get Smart

Chase – for listening carefully especially in RWI

Be Kind

Jenson – for being kind to his friends at playtime.

 

Weekly overview

Every morning, we enjoy our Crew time together. It is lovely to hear how many children enjoy coming to school to learn, see their friends and even me. It brightens up my day….every day! In English, the children have been writing a wonderful recount of their journey to Coffee Corner. In maths, we have continued to learn about place value and how to partition numbers up to 100. Crew Flaherty have also impressed us when they counted in tens backwards and forwards to 100. We were Crew and no one was left behind. This week we have been focusing on one of our HOWLS work hard and the children have been demonstrating this in their lessons. I wonder if next week, Crew Flaherty can make sure they are focused at all times when an adult is talking. I know we can do it!

 

What an amazing week it has been, I look forward to seeing you all on Monday  and I wonder what next week will bring?

Yay! It’s the WEEKEND! 😁 Other exciting news… It’s Mrs Elmer’s Birthday tomorrow! 🎈

We had a tricky start to our learning in Crew Elmer this morning but that didn’t stop us all from having a Fantastic Friday! 🤩

Star moment of the day:

Today I was incredibly impressed with children’s knowledge of solids, liquids and gases, as well as how quickly they all grasped our new scientific vocabulary: ‘particles’, ‘vibrate’ and ‘collide’. Children were also able to list the properties of the three different states as well as list some examples of each. Many children also deepened their learning by writing some ‘I wonder’ questions to enable them to achieve ‘Green Standard’. Take a sneak peek below:

                 

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.4

Today our Crew average is back up there! 🙌 I believe that this is down to so many children being engaged in their learning today. Both in Science and Maths lots of children were ‘working hard’ and as a result achieved ‘Green Standard, showing just how ‘smart’ they are. Children have also been working on being ‘kind’ to each other today. Well done Crew Elmer! More of this next week please! 👍

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.3

How can we improve this next week?

Next week, Crew Elmer need to continue to ‘work hard’, ‘get smart’ and ‘be kind’. I would especially like to see EVERYONE in Crew Elmer working hard – no fiddling with rulers, pencils etc. when someone is talking and making sure that they are focused at all times!

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Laila for HoWL Hero today for ‘getting smart’. Laila was nominated by several children in Crew Elmer as well and Mrs Elmer and Miss Hart. This lovely young lady always gets on quietly with her work and as a result achieved ‘Green Standard’ in both her Science and Maths work today. Well done Laila! You may be quiet but we’ve all noticed you ‘getting smart’!

       

Learning legend: 

Where do I even begin with our ‘Learning Legend’ for last week?! When I joined Carcroft I was told lots of stories about this child. Despite this, being new to the school everyone joined my crew and was given a fresh start. From the onset this boy greeted me with smiles, used his manners to speak to me, joined in in class by putting his hand up, completed every task I asked of him to expected standard if not ‘Green Standard’, and has been kind to us all. The start that he has had in Year 4 has blown everyone in school away! Both academically and behaviour wise this boy has been fantastic! His has produced some high quality work including his art work in expedition which impressed the whole class and was nominated for display! He has also been following HoWLS well and achieving 3’s and 4’s most days. Last of all, his behaviour on our micro adventure was exceptional and his knowledge of the area kept us all interested! We are all incredibly proud of you Harley! Keep up the great behaviour and your enthusiasm to learn! 🥇🏆

The children have really settled well into Crew Elmer and I love doing Crew every morning and hearing how many of the children are in the ‘Green Zone’ because they love coming to school and being in this crew. It is heart warming to hear 💕 and makes coming to school to teach you all even more enjoyable! We have done lots of learning in Year 4 including partitioning, rounding and writing numbers in Maths, drawing particles in Science, planning our own stories in The Write Stuff, learning about our local area in Expedition and developing our language knowledge through listening to our class book, ‘The boy at the back of the class’. A great week Crew Elmer! I wonder what next week will bring?!

       

Crew Attendance: 

Our latest attendance was  90%. This means that we are working towards the minimum expected standard (97%) this week!

Day Highlights✨

Crew Mcloughlin had an amazing day today filled with kindness, working hard and getting smart. The children love joining in with the virtual celebration and seeing the other Crew achievements. We started with morning off with science where we learned about Foetal development and after Crew Mcloughlin being very inquisitive we learnt lots of other science too. We created a timetable of the stages of development and had a discussion about ourselves as newborns. We then practised our numbers in Spanish and learnt how to ask ‘how old are you?’ in Spanish and respond. We even had some children who wanted a challenge and thought counting up to ten in Spanish was easy peasy so we watched a video to help us learn our numbers to 50.  

Learning Legend

Our Learning Legend was Noah for constantly working hard and never giving up, he takes pride in every piece of work he produces and ensures he is achieving beyond expectations. We are all lucky to have you in our Crew and you should be so proud of yourself!

 

We are ending the week on a Crew average of 3, well done Crew Mcloughlin!

My highlight of the week has definitely been experiencing and watching us all bond together, we really have formed a fantastic Crew here. You will all soon see if we get Crew right, we get everything right! Lets see if we can go above and beyond to reach 4 next week. We can do this!

Have a lovely weekend, don’t miss Crew Mcloughlin too much!

Hi all,

Star moment of the day:

The children worked really hard in Maths today learning to add  and subtract 1, 10 and 100.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.7 ✅

This weeks HoWL average is: 2.7 ✅

Weekly HoWL target: 2.7

I wonder…….

I wonder if Crew Longley could work hard to ensure they develop their listening skills. This means looking at the person listening, listening carefully and taking turns to talk.

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s Hero is Ruby. She has really been amazing across the week and I would like to praise her attitude, smile and handwriting

This week’s Learning legend: 

Lacee-May

I have chosen Lacee-May to be our learning legend this week because she has really tried hard to get smart since we came back in September. I have enjoyed seeing the smile spread across her face when she achieves the minimum expectation in her learning. My favourite moment was seeing Lacee-May learning to count in 100’s and then help her friend when she was stuck. Well done Lacee-May

This week in Crew Longley:

This week in Crew, the children have continued to learn about working hard and what their dream school would look like. We discussed positive learning habits and have been working hard to show these across all of our lessons.

in English, we have continued to develop our writing skills, while using the new writing rainbow. We have decided to continue trying to develop our handwriting and presentation.

In Maths, our Crew have been developing our understanding of place value. We have been brilliant at using practical equipment and learning the new diagnostic 5 system. Our crew are becoming more confident mathematicians by the day.

Across expedition and theme we have been exploring plant life cycles, map skills and community. It has been a really busy week, but it has been lovely seeing everyone really trying hard to get smart.

Crew Attendance: 

Our latest attendance was  97.5%. ✅ This means that we have met the expected standard (97%) this week!
Well Done Crew Longley!