What a tremendous Tuesday!

Today I want to give a massive shout out to the whole Crew – Crew Godley have absolutely worked their socks off today! They have worked so hard to show all of their teachers what “Working Hard” looks like when they are working with an adult. I am very proud!

Highlights of the Day

RWI Another day of fantastic phonics progress. Today I had the pleasure of teaching our children the phoneme ‘m’ – Maisie, Maisie, Mountain! The children sorted objects beginning with the sound ‘m’, identified the grapheme and successfully blended CVC words including the sound ‘m’. We then tried really hard to write the grapheme ‘m’, well done everybody!

Math’s The children have been focusing on number recognition on exploring lots of different ways to represent the numbers they have been focusing on. We were super impressed with how some children are beginning to form their numbers and becoming focused on 1:1 touch counting.

Crew Learning In Crew learning today we have being thinking about how a rainbow 🌈can symbolise our thoughts and feelings. The children were very excited to share their experiences during COVID and how the rainbow helped them during the difficult time🌈 . We then used colours to show how different things made us feel. Grace used the colour pink as this made her feel loved💕 She then drew a fantastic picture of ‘Mummy’ as she loves her 👩‍👧 and labelled this with a ‘M’ for Mummy. We love to see children applying their phonics skills!

Crew Shields have been continuing to practice their computing skills this afternoon. They have worked as pairs to code. In addition, they have started to make contributions to their very own website which is our final product for the expedition.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.0

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

To improve further, Crew Shields need to start building on their independence. This will allow them to take ownership of their own learning.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Get Smart hero today is Tommy!

Tommy was able to deepen the moment in writing today by using a simile. This shows that he has been paying attention to the modelling in writing. Well done Tommy.

My star moment in class today is our writing lesson. In writing we have looked at the features of a diary entry and pieced them back together using our actions to help us.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.5! 🙌

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.3

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh needs to make sure they are working hard on their learning and showing this by completing work and listening.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Be Kind hero today is Max!

Max has tried really hard all day to be kind to everyone in his crew. He has made sure he has been a good friend to his peers, and played nicely at break time.

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

Work hard: McKenzie 🐱‍👤

Get smart: Deacon 😎

Be kind: Chloe and Crystal 🤳

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 2.9! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means.

Well done Crew Kent 👍

Wow today has absolutely flown by! 😴 Today the children had so much energy to burn when they came to school, so what a perfect start to the day having P.E with Kixx. The children worked on their gross motor skills pretending to be kangaroos 🦘 jumping in the hoops. I was amazed how the children used different techniques such as crouching down to jump!

Later some children went to forest school where they did a gruffalo hunt 🌳🍃🍂 The children were working hard and working as crew by helping each other. They have built lovely relationships and really look out for each other. I have noticed them helping each other to zip each other’s coats up and helping tidy away together. This is excellent team work! 🌟

HOWL Heros

Working Hard – Lily-Ann

Lily-Ann gave her maximum effort in P.E and has been working hard during maths finding me an object to demonstrate her understanding of the number 1. Great work Lily-Ann 🌟

Happy Monday! 😊

Despite it being a miserable Monday to start with 🌧 it didn’t take long for the sun to start shining in Crew Elmer! ☀

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today I praise how AMAZING Crew Elmer have been ALL day today! 🤩 However, the ‘star moment’ of the day for me was the questions that the children generated to ask our expert when we do a ‘meet and greet’ session on Thursday. The excitement 😁 that the children showed when I told them that they would be meeting a real life miner was unreal and then the thoughtful questions that they listed relating to mining were excellent. Watch this space for a list of our fabulous questions…

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.0

This is a great score for a Monday and also means that we are on track for getting a spin on the wheel if we keep this up! 💪

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Elmer need to make sure that we are continuing to ‘be kind’ at all times especially at play times and lunch times as this seems to be where most problems are arising. Remember our rules for ‘playing kindly’ at crew times. 💕

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Esme for being our ‘kind’ ‘HoWL Hero! This girl has played really nicely with her crew at break and lunch times today and this was recognised by lots of the crew. I have also noticed Esme volunteering to hand books out, hold doors open, support children with their learning and use her manners when speaking to her crew members. Keep this up Esme, you are setting a really good example to the rest of us! 👏👍🙌😊❤

Good evening everyone. We have had a marvelous Monday in our Crew today.

Highlights of the day:

It started with a lovely Crew session this morning, although a lot of children were feeling tired this morning, it has not stopped us writing a wonderful story opener in English and counting in 2s in maths followed by a fabulous book talk lesson where the children made some great predictions. Our lovely day was finished with a fantastic PE lesson where the children have been listening carefully. I could definitely see an improvement this afternoon. Well done everyone.

In English We have some lovely story openers with some children including expanded nouns phrases independently which is just amazing. A special mention to Jacob for writing ‘One bright, sunny morning my head was full of wonder.’ Such a great start to your story.

HOWLs

Our Crew average for the day was 3.4. A brilliant start to the week. I wonder if we can follow instructions carefully between lessons so we can make the most of our learning time tomorrow.

HOWL heroes

Work Hard

Billy has stood out today for working hard during English and maths. He also showed great sportsmanship during PE and was eager to see his ‘mini crew’ succeed.

Get Smart

Millie – for listening carefully and taking into consideration appropriate times to talk to her friends.

Be Kind

Our Crew chose Amelia for our Be Kind certificate today. She has been kind to her friends on the playground at playtime and lunchtime which is just lovely to hear.

I wonder who our HOWL heroes will be tomorrow.

A busy start to the week in Crew Thiede!

Highlight of the day 

We had a visitor in our Crew today, when she left she shared lots of praise for our crew! It is wonderful to know that our crew mates show their HOWLs all the time.

HOWLs

Today our crew average score was 3.2. An excellent start to the week!

Today our HOWL heroes were…

Work hard

🌟 Preston for impressing our visitor with his hard work

Get smart

🌟 Theo for using his phonics in all his lessons

Be kind

🌟 Talia for showing kindness and helpfulness to our visitor

What a marvelous Monday we’ve had 😊 The children were so settled after the weekend, it was lovely to see so many happy, smiley faces this morning. A big shout out to Freddie who always greets his teachers with a smile and a ‘good morning’, such beautiful manners.

Highlights of the Day:

RWI and name writing: All the children have taken part in their RWI session today with such a positive attitude. The adults were so impressed with how the children were ‘getting smart’ by listening carefully and producing some beautiful work.

The children were so eager to continue their name practice, they asked to take their learning outside 😊 Kyla even demonstrated to her peers how to hold her pen correctly. She used the nip, flip, grip method and produced some beautiful handwriting.

We would like all children to be able to recognise their name by October and begin to write it, if we can all write our name by Christmas🎄 that would be amazing!! We already have some little✨ ‘s who can write their name already 😊

Forest School: The children went on a Gruffalo hunt today and found lots of characters from the story. This encouraged some fantastic speaking and listening skills.

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This Howl goes to Taylor, Teddy and Noah for showing their teachers their ‘green standard’ work today in Crew Circles and RWI . The boys listened to all the instructions, followed them carefully and tried their best in every lesson today, well done boy’s keep up the great work!

See you all tomorrow with your great big smiles ready for school photos 😊

Monday is complete, and what a great day we’ve had!

Highlights of the Day:

PE: Today we have been working on our communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal and I feel that these or developing more and more every day. Today we tested non-verbal skills in PE, asking the children to work together to move an object from one side of the playground to the other, without talking to each other. This was a struggle for some children to start with but we got there by the end, great work Crew!

Computing: Today we have recorded an algorithm that has moved the BeeBot around the map to our desired location, using directional language such as forward, backwards, left and right. We found the arrows were quite tricky to draw, but we rose to the challenge and worked through the challenges with resilience and managed to get the BeeBot to the treasure without having to De-Bug it, well done Crew!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This Howl goes to Tommy for showing all of his teachers his ‘green standard’ work today. Tommy has made sure he has listened to all the instructions, followed them carefully and tried his best in every lesson today, well done Tommy!

Get Smart: This Howl goes to Stevie today for showing fantastic listening skills. Stevie has gone above and beyond today in every single lesson, contributing to discussions and helping her friends when they got stuck. Well done Stevie!

Be Kind: This Howl goes to Tia today for helping her friends, keeping the classroom tidy and showing her teachers how sensible she can be in transition times. Well done Tia!

Howl Average:

3.4 today, we are going to work as a crew tomorrow to get this score back up!