We have had a lovely week in Crew Mcloughlin despite it being assessment week. I am so proud of our hard work and determination to achieve our expected targets. We really have had much to celebrate with Crew Mc’s scores and progress made this year and it just shows we are getting smarter 😁 I am truly blown away, despite the strange year we have had, that the children have been able to achieve what they have, true heroes!

With being in summer term the assessments did challenge us and I know we have been disheartened at some point along the way this week but I just love how much as a Crew we care and want the very best for ourselves.🥰 But we need to remember we have not had a normal year and the majority of us are making fab progress and every single one of you should be proud of your achievements this year!

This week our HoWL average 2.8 doesn’t fully reflect the ‘work hard’ week we have had, as a number of our Crew have been absent. We need to show an improvement in our attendance as we know Crew Mc had the lowest in our phase last week ☹ Remember we only have 3 weeks left together too! 😪

I definitely think Crew Mc deserve a treat and a well earned rest over the weekend ready for a week full of sports day, fish and chips and finalising our expedition product.

Have a lovely weekend!

This week, we have smashed our final assessments 🤩. I am so proud of how well they have done to say they’ve lost so much of their learning time over the past 18 months. They really have worked hard to get smart!🥳

During our write stuff sessions, we have create some super newspaper reports…

We’ve used our crew time to continue working on our Final Word presentations. Children have reflected on their character growth and beautiful work. Next week, we will begin to celebrate their academic success, ready to begin practing our presentation skills 😀.

What a great week we have had in Crew Gerrard as we were put to the test, quite literally – it was assessment week! I am really proud of how hard we have worked to achieve our best. I know that most of us have given it our all and I could not ask for more.

Assessment week is challenging, as it tests our resilience and makes us quite tired. We were trying to improve on our Spring assessments, as we wanted to show how ‘smart’ we have become during our final few weeks of Year 5.

This week, we also said goodbye to Miss Scott who has been a massive help to Crew Gerrard. We are sad to see you go Miss Scott, but will try our best to keep in touch. We wish you nothing but success in your new school and know that you will smash it there, just like you have here!

Our HoWL average doesn’t fully reflect the positive week we have had, as a number of our Crew have been absent. We need to show an improvement in our attendance to help make sure we can beat our weekly HoWL average, week in week out! It was 2.7.

Have a well deserved rest, Crew Gerrard and see you all on Monday! 😆

Highlight of the week:

I am so impressed with our crew this week. They have absolutely smashed assessment week and every single one of them has shown me just how smart they have got over the past year! Well done Crew Welburn 🌟⭐🌟

In between all of our assessments, we have had lots of opportunity to build our communication and trust as a crew. We’ve really enjoyed our jigsaw sessions this week as part of this, as we’ve thought about what makes a good friend and how we can be better friends in our crew to show how kind we are.

We have also been writing up some of our pieces of work ready for our new display to go up in the next couple of weeks. I’ve been blown away by some of the handwriting progression that I’ve seen this week, particularly with Harry’s work. Have a look at one of his first pieces of writing from autumn term, and the piece which he has just produced for display…

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard and Get Smart: All of Crew Welburn deserved to be my work hard and get smart HOWL Heroes this week!

Be Kind: Evie

HOWL Score: 3.4 A fantastic score today Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.3 Well done Crew Welburn!

Learning legend: This week’s learning legend is Frankie Foster-Cutts. Frankie has been a superstar this week in Crew Welburn, especially in her writing! She has worked hard to write using chunks of sense, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces, and she has been brilliant at critiquing her handwriting to try and make it beautiful in her expedition book. Frankie has also shown what a kind member of Crew Welburn she is, by looking out for people to praise throughout the day, to help us all to reflect and celebrate the positives in our crew. Well done Frankie, you are a fantastic member of Crew Welburn!

The children this week have tried hard to discuss the different emotions they feel during different circumstances. We have looked closely at how we are feeling ready for transition and thought about ideas to support each other.

We also got a chance to spin the wheel during assembly this week for an improved HOWL score. My lovely children’s were given a great prize! A chance to sponge the teacher!

Have a look at the video! They definitely enjoyed themselves.

Crew Shields are winners! Read on to find out more…

This has been an exciting week as it has seen us complete our second case study in expedition.

During the case study, the children had to design a healthy lunchbox based on the Eatwell guide. Crew Shields worked as mini crews to design and present their ideas. They then voted for their favourite which was the lunch they made.

Their lunchbox was a chicken,cheese and lettuce wrap with mayo. Cucumber and carrot sticks with a yoghurt, pure orange and a small cake bar for a balanced meal.

On Thursday afternoon, we made our lunch while also learning about the importance of life skills and hygiene when cooking. The children had the opportunity to cut, peel, grate and ensure they presented it well. I am extremely Proud of how the children conducted themselves.

We were lucky enough to have Mr Tucker, Miss Whitehead and Aimee from the kitchen join us judge our products.

Chloe and Georgie presented our design along with the other crews. They did a great job of this and shared their books that showed their instructions and itinerary.

Crew Shields were the winners. The judges loved how the children not only wrote clear instructions to make their lunch but also considered the hygiene aspects such as washing hands, tying up hair and washing the fruit/vegetables.

I would like to say a massive well done to the Crew Shields, it was a well deserved win!

What a busy week. This week we have had smiles and tears across the week, as we learnt. experienced. innovated and waved good bye to new friends.

In Maths this week, we have continued learning about fractions. We tried our hand at comparing and ordering. Even though it is such a tricky concept, we have been blown away by the children’s perseverance.

Writing, has seen us continue creating non-fiction reports on the different parts of the digestive system . This will eventually be displayed our expedition finished product.

Expedition saw us designing, making and tasting our healthy packed lunches, as part our expedition – Why is the body a miraculous machine? The children thought about the healthy eating wheel, created their own, discussed and refined as a crew and then refined further to create one whole crew packed lunch. Thursday saw us create and taste this, before presenting to the judging panel. We were absolutely delighted with the way all the children shared the process and the bravery for each of our crew mates to talk in front of the phase.

Sadly, this week also saw us wave goodbye to our three fabulous trainee teachers. We have loved having them join our crew and we are sure they will go on to become fabulous teachers in the year to come.

Highlight of the week:

Crew Welburn have really impressed me with their writing this week in expedition lessons. We have carried out two pieces of independent writing and the quality has absolutely blown me away! I can’t believe that five and six year olds can write such amazing fact files!

We have also been working really hard in maths this week, looking at arrays. We picked this up really quickly and everyone felt really confident at making arrays for different numbers in multiple ways.

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Kairen

HOWL Score: 2.8 This is a good score considering we have had a lot of children off today ⭐

This week’s HOWL average: 3.2 Well done Crew Welburn!

Learning legend: My learning legend this week is Darcie Fraser. Darcie has been a superstar in maths over the last half term. She has been working really hard with her addition and subtraction number sentences, and in her mental maths for her number recognition,place value and number formation. I am really impressed with how smart she has got! Keep it up Darcie!

We have had a fantastic week in Crew Wilson this week! We have worked so hard to get through all of our learning and have really demonstrated an improvement with our listening and attention!

Highlights of the Week:

Expedition: We have really enjoyed exploring the Arctic and Antarctic continents this week. We have written fact files for animals in these climates, have explored food chains and have created some fantastic pointillism footprints too!

Maths: We have continued with our arithmetic work, answering number sentences presented in different ways. We have also explored vertices and sides of 2D shapes and have had a practice at representing numbers with arrays.

Crew: We have completed lots of fun things in our daily Crew sessions this week. We have used directional language to guide our blindfolded friends around the playground, we have practiced our communication skills with whisper games and have used praise, notice and wonder as part of our gallery walk. We have loved looking back through our work and giving each other praise for what we have accomplished!

Howl Average: We have ended the week with an average score of 3.6 – a great achievement. Let’s see if we can beat it next week by working hard, getting smart and being kind.

Learning Legend:

Perrie is Crew Wilson’s learning legend this week as she always strives to achieve her best in all areas of learning. Perrie is a maths whiz and consistently gets on to extension questions in every lesson, and is trying very hard to improve her writing. Perrie is working so hard and we are so proud of all she has achieved this year! 

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We have had a fantastic first week back after half term in Crew Wilson and we have definitely been spoiled with the beautiful weather. We seemed to have turned a corner with our attitude to learning and demonstrating our howls throughout every lesson. We’ve had a lot of 4,4,4’s this week which is a brilliant achievement. However, we still have some work to do on our chattiness so that we can get through all of the learning planned, as it isn’t very long till the end of term and we have still got lots to do before then!

Highlights of the Week:

Maths: We have been looking at splitting numbers into 10’s and 1’s, using manipulative objects to support us. It was quite tricky but we soon got the hang of it, and by the end of the lesson we were identifying the different parts of numbers up to 50! Well done Crew Wilson!

Expedition: We have had a never-ending list of tasks to complete this week for expedition, as our final product is being created next week so we had lots to finish off. We have practiced our art skills lots this week, working on colour mixing, pointillism and collage and we have created some beautiful work to go on our information board at Flamingo Land. We are very excited to see what our final product will look like when all of our work is pulled together!

Crew: In crew this week we have been working on building trust and developing communication skills, working in mini crews and pairs to complete different activities. Our favourite was our blind-folded trust walk, it was tricky to rely on a friend to guide us around the playground and not peek from under our blindfolds but we trusted our partners and did very well. Next week we will make it a bit more difficult with an assault course to navigate, watch this space!

Howl Average:

We have ended the week on a 3.7 – a very good score for us! Let’s keep this momentum going and work very hard, get even smarter and be kind all the way up to the summer holidays!

Great work this week Crew Wilson, I am very proud of all we have achieved in our first week back!