What a lovely sunny day we have had! It was the perfect opportunity to spend the afternoon outside exploring the forest school for the first time! The children did fantastic listening, they focused on learning and kept themselves and their crew safe! They are all looking forward to next week’s forest school already! 🌳🌿

We also kept in the shade inside and practised our gross motor skills by dancing to some action songs. We had so much fun!

Our HOWL Hero 

Be Kind – Well done to Charlotte who did excellent sharing today to cheer up one of her crew members! This is lovely to see!

Hi all,

Star moment of the day:

In writing today the children have worked really hard with piecing their sentences together and ensuring their handwriting and presentation was neat. Well done 😊

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.2!

Weekly HoWl target: 3.0

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Again, tomorrow Crew Marsh need to make sure that everyone is listening to every instruction the first time.

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: Jake!

Jake has tried really hard with his handwriting and spelling in his writing lesson today, this is a great improvement Jake, keep it up!

Good afternoon ☀

What a very hot 😅 but lovely day it has been today in Crew Elmer!

Star moment of the day:

Today I have yet again been blown away by the writing that has been produced in Crew Elmer! The children have impressed me with their use of verbs, emotive sentences and even some onomatopoeia! I wonder who will be on our ‘sentence stacker’ wall tomorrow?

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.4

Today our Crew average is higher than yesterday so well done Crew Elmer on ‘working hard’, ‘getting smart’ and ‘being kind’!

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Elmer need to make sure that everyone is being kind to each other.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Harry for HoWL Hero for ‘working hard’ all day. I agree! Harry your maths knowledge is amazing! Well done! 😁

Hi all,

Star moment of the day:

Today in writing, the children have been doing some drama and considering what characters would be feeling or saying at various points during a video clip. I was really impressed with the wide range of vocabulary that they felt would be relevant for this point in the story.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.9

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Shields need to continue working on their listening skills so they understand what they are required to do for their learning.

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: Brooke!!

Brooke has been working hard on improving her listening so she is able to complete her learning to the best of her ability.

Star moment of the day:

Today we have worked super hard becoming computer scientists. We have also started modelling how we can ‘Work Hard’ each day.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.8

Our weekly target HoWL is: 2.7

Children score themselves HoWL points on the end of every school day, they score against Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind. Crew Longley has become very honest with scoring themselves at the end of the day and can justify why they think this.

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Longley need to make sure that everyone is actively listening to instructions and each other.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Today’s HoWL Hero is Layton Emery. He has worked hard to show kindness across all the lessons and break time. I have really enjoyed seeing him smile and helping his friends. Well done Layton !

Well done Crew Kent!! Another brilliant day. Special mention to our writing lesson today which was absolute superb. Children really working hard to use commas in lists as well as adding alliteration and similes to their writing. This afternoon was lovely as well with the children going outside to draw their field sketches. Taking their time to check all the details focusing on the human and physical geography of Carcroft.

Howl heroes for today – Hard Work = Sophia, Get Smart = Skyler and Being Kind = Grace

Hi everyone from Crew Gerrard!

We would just like to give you an update about how our day has been. We have had a great day working hard, trying our very best to get smart, whilst trying to be kind to our Crewmates. We have been learning how to work out jumps on a number line and estimate missing values. Whilst writing we have been adding the next chunk to our amazing writing – photos to follow soon! This afternoon we have had a relaxing lesson for our expedition, where we have been completing our very first field sketches.

Today’s HoWL heroes are –

• Tyler for working hard all day and for producing a beautiful field sketch, well done!
• Ruby for get smart – you have tried your very best in everything that you have done – keep it up.
• Ellie-May for being kind – you could win this everyday, you are a role model!

Our HoWL average for today was 3.5.

From,

Crew Gerrard 😃

What an amazing day we’ve had today. Such a brilliant start to the week.

Our whole crew focus today was work hard and well what can I see, they have done an amazing job in every lesson. We are so proud of all the children.

Highlight of the day:

Watching children supporting each other with their learning and discussing how to use tens and ones in maths. All the children in our CREW were able to use the base 10 equipment carefully to be able to compare numbers to 50. Keep up the hard work 🙂

HOWLS

Our HOWL average for today was an incredible 3.3

Our HOWL heroes were:

Work Hard

Amelia – for focusing on her learning throughout the day.

Get Smart

Honey-J – for producing beautiful work especially in English.

Be Kind

Harley – for being kind to his CREW and always using his manners

We looking forward to sharing our learning and HOWL heroes again tomorrow 🙂

Evening 🌙

WOW! 🤩 What a fantastic day Crew Elmer have had! 👍

Star moment of the day:

Today I have been blown away by the writing that has been produced in Crew Elmer! The children have impressed me with their use of powerful verbs, specific adverbs and alliteration. I wonder who will be on our ‘sentence stacker’ wall tomorrow?

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.2

Today our Crew have been working to develop our HoWLs (Habits of Work and Learning). At the end of every school day children score themselves HoWL points against: Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind. Crew Elmer are very reflective and have been very honest in assessing themselves.

This week’s HoWL target is: 2.9

How can we improve this tomorrow?

Tomorrow Crew Elmer need to make sure that everyone is working hard and that they are always focused on their learning.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Crew Elmer nominated Sienna for HoWL Hero for ‘working hard’ all day. I agree! Sienna your sentences in ‘The Write Stuff’ this morning were fab! Jane Considine would be very impressed if she read them! Well done! 🤩

Today’s highlights✨

Crew Mcloughlin have been reading and estimating numbers on number lines up to 10,000! Now that is tricky! Most children applied this knowledge to reasoning problems too! During The Write Stuff lesson we have nearly finished writing our first paragraph. Our stimulus is the film Inside Out so the children are loving watching clips and narrating the story in the third person.

This afternoon we used the programme Scratch to design our computer games we had planned previously. The children worked fantastically to support each other to ensure our assets were designed and had different costumes. We even used the microphones to record our own sound effects- which the children loved! Watch this space for future game designers!

HoWL Heros

Work Hard- Lila- always focusing on her learning whatever the lesson and has shown this today by contributing well to class discussion, especially in our writing lesson.

Get Smart- Shaydon- Living by our crew motto if you work hard you get smart – Shaydon has shown exceptional listening throughout the day and has exceeded his expected standard and hit his green targets in writing by using a metaphor.

Be kind- Lacey has shown great teamwork skills within crew and has stood out due to her patience when helping others in our crew that need help in all lessons.

I cannot wait for another fantastic day filled with smiley faces and lots of HoWL points! 😊