Such an amazing start to the week Crew Flaherty.

Highlights of the day:

It was lovely to hear all about your weekend in our Crew this morning and especially our very own superstar footballer Dylan, who brought his trophy to show us. We are all very proud of you Dylan and can’t wait to hear more about your training sessions and matches ⚽️

English

The children have amazed me with their writing over the last couple of weeks and these are just a few examples of our wonderful recounts so far. You have impressed me 😁

Keep up the hard work Crew Flaherty. I am so excited to see what you write next.

HOWLs

HOWL average for last week was 3.0 which is amazing but I wonder if we can improve it this week.

HOWL average for the day is 2.7.

HOWL Heroes

Work hard

Maria – for staying focussed on her learning and asking for help when she needed it

Get Smart

Jacob – for listening carefully in every lesson.

Be Kind

Daisy – for being kind to her Crew on the playground and making sure every could play together.

Your Crew are very proud of our HOWL heroes today.

Happy Monday! 🌞

It has been lovely catching up with the children and hearing about the weekend adventures in aquariums, Blackpool, zoos and escaping roaring lions!🦁 (although perhaps a little artistic licence applied 😀)

Star moment of the day:

Today I was super impressed with how hard the children worked in our Jigsaw Crew Session. We worked as crew to develop a learning charter for working hard as a group. The children came up with their protocols. We then put these to the test by working in teams to create a Carrot Car. It was fantastic to see the children fully engaged a working collaboratively to build a car, in just 10 minutes, that could travel 2m. I’m sure you’ll agree they are fantastic. 🥕🏎

We then worked to further embed these group skills across our maths and PE lessons. Working together in Maths definitely helped make the learning easier.

 

 

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.7✅

This week’s HoWL target is: 2.7

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Longley need to make sure that we are consistently ‘working hard’ in all parts of the lesson, especially as part of a group.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Longley’s Howl Hero for today is Ava K. She has really shown a determination to work hard today and I have loved watching her try, work as a group and work independently. Ava has really shown a positive attitude towards her learning and I have been so proud of this today. Well done! 👍👏

 

Hi everyone! We have had a calm and successful day in Crew Thiede today.

Highlight of the day
The children have been particularly great today during crew time. They listened to each other’s opinions and feelings, and praised each other on their successes. Well done guys! The children have also been fantastic during phonics today, their attitudes are great 😊

HOWLS
Our CREW average for the day was 3.6 again which is our highest score! ⬆️
Our HOWL heroes were:

Work Hard
🌟Charlie R – For focussing on his work all day.

Get Smart
🌟Ellie – For contributing fantastic ideas in book talk and producing beautiful work all day.

Be Kind
🌟Ellie-May – For being kind to me and the other children by listening to our opinions.

Good evening,

Star moment of the day:

Our star moment of the day today is the way in which we circle up.  We’ve been practising this new routine over these first few weeks and it’s great to see leaders stepping up to ensure that all voices are heard and that everyone has chance to say how they’re feeling and why, especially those who are feeling as ready to learn as the rest.  What a great crew spirit!

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.9

Our best start to the week so far and I think that now we’re becoming used to the routines and timetable, we’re starting to show more of what we’re capable of and push ourselves that little bit further.

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Some of us struggle with some of the lessons and that’s ok.  The easy HoWL to continue to improve is Be Kind as we can all look after our equipment and we can certainly carry on our kindness and consideration beyond circling up.  That’s where we’ll all look to improve tomorrow and I think we’re all capable of hitting that ‘4’ at the end of the day for Be Kind!

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Work Hard – Tia!  Tia continues to become more positive about her work and refuses to give up when something doesn’t come easily or straight away.  Her perseverance and concentration has produced some great maths work today and I’m sure she’ll continue to push on throughout the rest of the week!  You’ve been a great role model to us all today, well done!

Todays Highlights✨

As a Crew we have really enjoyed making our video for our phase assembly tomorrow so we can show off how hard we work and what it means to be ‘working hard’. We cannot wait to show it to the rest of the Crews! In our maths work today we have been focussing on rounding and have used visuals to help us with this. Rounding is tricky but Crew Mcloughlin worked so hard and focussed, that most of us managed to complete our reasoning task! Alot of children were beaming with pride at how well they had done as we had forgot how to round numbers prior to the lesson. Amazing achievement!

HoWL Heros 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

Shaydon- Working Hard- Shaydon is a trooper! he constantly carry’s out every aspect of working hard throughout all subjects.

Lacey- Get Smart- for constantly ensuring she listens to everything I say and uses working walls around the room to help her with her learning.

Lewis- Be kind- for constantly cheering up everyone around him with his lovely smile and kind words. Lewis is a good friend to have in Crew.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.6

Weekly HoWL target: 3.0

 

I wonder…🤔

In the end of day Crew, Noah said ‘I wonder if as a Crew we can ALL work really hard tomorrow to be even better’ I feel this perfectly summed up what we as a Crew need to achieve. We need every single Crew member to be working hard.

Keep working hard Crew Mcloughlin so we are the best Crew we can be!

Happy Monday everyone.

Today has been a busy one! We have focused on negative numbers in maths today and have worked hard on accessing Fluency and reasoning problems.

During English, we have continued to write about Riley’s journey to San Francisco and she has just spotted the Golden Gate bridge! Here is our class sentence stackers so far…

This afternoon we’ve continued to create our story boards ready to create our own games in computing sessions. Crew Fox are super excited to begin making these next week.

HOWL Heroes today are…

Work hard – Alicia

Get Smart – Gabby

Be Kind – Leah

Monday ✅

Another fantastic day full of craziness, collaboration and Crew! See our achievements below and test your children tonight to see what they remember!

Highlights from today:

Maths: Continuing with our counting to 10, the children explored writing the numerals and counting ‘one more’.

Computing: After last weeks taster lesson, the Crew really took on board directional language (forwards, backwards, left right) and remembered the top tips for programming the Beebot. They had great fun sending it to their friends in the group, although there were couple of detours along the way. The independent activities on the laptops were a hit too! (once the children realised they weren’t touch screen!).

Howl Heroes:

Working Hard: This Howl goes to Tia for being motivated and working hard to meet the Green Standard in all of our lessons today – Gold is good but Green is the best! Keep up the great work Tia!

Getting Smart: This Howl goes to Stevie for showing her listening skills are improving day by day! Stevie is getting so much better at following instructions and always tries to produce beautiful work, well done Stevie!

Being Kind: This Howl goes to Aleks today, for being so kind to his friends in group activities, helping others when they are stuck and for showing our Crew what Green Standard looks like on the carpet (ask the kids, they definitely know what it means!). Keep up the good work Aleks!

Howl Average: 3.5

Howl Daily Total : 68

WH –21

GS -24

BK – 23

Howl Target (Weekly) 200 –  132 to go!

Hi everyone!

Today, in Crew Gerrard, we have made a solid start to the week. During our Crew time, we discussed how we could really work hard as a group and individually, even making a class pledge. Then we moved onto rounding in maths, which we are continuing to build our confidence in.

After break, Crew Gerrard came in and started their first few sentences of their third paragraph in writing. We’re really looking forward to seeing how these continue to develop over the coming days. We then continued to read our text, The Giver.

Once lunch was over and the children had regained some of their energy from a busy morning, the our Crew worked in groups and compared the map of Carcroft to maps across the world. Each group looked into a city and looked at what similarities and differences these places had. Some of the cities were Las Vegas and Tokyo. (see the images below).

We then celebrated the day and decided on our HoWL scores, which came to an average of 2.9.

Our HoWL heroes were:

• Ellie-May for working hard, something that we know she will do everyday. Not just in her work, but helping out myself and Ms Penfold, too. Well done!
• Emily for trying to get smart all day. I thought she would explode like a firework during our maths lesson, in particular – keep it up!
• Sapphire for being kind. Sapphire always makes sure that others are okay and that they are feeling better. This is fantastic to see.

Let’s make tomorrow even better and remember to work hard!

Mr G 😆

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.