We’ve absolutely smashed ratio in maths sessions! Lots of reasoning and problem solving to really deepen our understanding of calculating ratio.
Our English sessions have been filled with adventurous writing to create a character description of the mysterious character from a short flip clip ‘Roads End’. The crew have generated some great ideas independently and this has proven how far they’ve come since September!
We are so close to finalising our expedition, ‘How has space shaped our past and how will it shape our future?’ So watch this space for our final product…
Crew Shields started the week with some team building which involved a lot of concentration and communication. The children worked as mini crews to lower the hula hoop to the floor using just their fingertips. They found this tricky to start but preserved until they were successful.
In writing, we started our new unit of a non chronological report about the digestive system. This is a new form of writing for the children but they have made a great start.
This has been a much improved week for Crew Shields with our Howls. It has been lovely seeing the children consistently work hard, get smart and be kind. 😁
We have had a much improved week in Crew Gerrard, which is great for our first week back after half term. It’s been a busy one and I’m pleased to see a desire to learn. Crew Gerrard know that there is not much time left until they are Year 6s and they are keen to be ready to hit the ground running in the new academic year.
In writing, we have been collaborating with each other. It’s been great fun to watch Crew Gerrard work together and think of interesting vocabulary, which will add to their writing. They have loved learning about our new and creepy video Road’s End and I am sure all of the hard work will pay off. I can’t wait to read them Crew Gerrard!
In Maths, we have been learning about perimeter. This has been a fun challenge for Crew Gerrard, as they started off the week by measuring and are now confident in finding the perimeter for rectilinear shapes. It’s been fantastic to see the children working hard to challenge their learning, in order to get smart!
Practicing Perimeter!
Our art sessions have been fun and required patience, as Crew Gerrard worked on their independent pieces of art. I have been impressed by how resilient the children have been, as we have had to complete a couple of drafts. The effort has certainly been worth it and I am pleased with how our sketches are looking!
Super sketching!
As I have said, this week has been much improved by our Crew. We have had a really solid week. We all need to ensure that we are working as part of our Crew, so that we are helping push each other on. Our HoWL average for the week was 2.6 and I want to see that rise next week. Enjoy your weekend! 😆
We have had a lovely first week back in Crew Welburn, and the sunshine has made it even better as we’ve been able to move some of our expedition lessons outside! We have worked really well on all of our HOWLs this week, and our scores have been amazing! We’ve really impressed our teachers in expedition as well as we’ve started to pull together our pieces of work for our final products. Take a sneak peak at the pictures to see what we have been up to! 🖌🎨🖼
This week, we’ve also been trying extra hard to be kind, and the crew pointed this out on Tuesday as they praised each other at the end of the day for playing so nicely together in the afternoon. This was really lovely to hear from the children and I am sure it will continue throughout the rest of this half term. We used crew time on Tuesday to build different relationships in our crew by working with someone we do not usually work with. We had to use our communication skills and trust to guide each other around the obstacle course wearing blindfolds!
HOWL Heroes:
Work Hard: Harry
Get Smart: Mariama
Be Kind: Lylah
HOWL Score: 3.1 Well done Crew Welburn!
This week’s HOWL average: 3.4 You have worked so hard on this this week Crew Welburn, keep it up! 🌟✨🌟
We have been kindly given a limited number of Panini sticker books for the Euros.
If anyone would like one of these, they will be available from the front of school tomorrow afternoon on a first come, first served basis until they have all gone.
Crew Boswell and Crew Marsh both won a spin on the wheel for getting great HOWLS the last week before half term, so tomorrow will be a non-school uniform day for both crews.
A little bit delayed but here is some beautiful work from the XP Trust, the week before the half term break. As always, the children have worked incredibly hard.
It also features our logo rebrand video too, for anyone who may not yet have seen this.
Happy half term! It seems the weeks are absolutely flying by as we near the end of this academic year.
Crew Shields have been extremely busy this week as we have continued with our expedition. There has been lots of collaborative learning as they worked towards creating a healthy lunchbox option. It was lovely hearing them discuss and reason their decisions.
Fractions have really got out brains working this week as we started looking at equivalent fraction, comparing and ordering fractions. The children were extremely resilient even when they found some aspects tricky. A fabulous skill to be developing as the children get Year 4 ready.
We ended the week with soak the teacher, thankfully this was Mr Longley. This was a reward for the children from winning a spin on the shell for their howls.
Thank you for your continued support this half term, it is really appreciated. Have a great half term and keep safe.
The day has finally come to write Crew Elmer’s final blog after our final day together…😥 However, we have had a lovely last day altogether 💕
Today’s star moment ☀ :
Today’s star moment has got to be the whole day! However, some moments that stood out were making pizzas 🍕, designing biscuits 🍪 and pass the parcel 🎁.
It has been an absolute pleasure teaching Crew Elmer and I really will miss all of them! Fingers crossed I will be back after half term and will get to spend some time with them all before my maternity leave starts! Have an amazing and well deserved half term and I will see you all after half term! 😊
Wow! What a week we have had in Crew Welburn. I am amazed by the children’s writing this week as we’ve begun writing our fact files for our final product to display at Flamingo Land. We’ve used all of our knowledge from expedition lessons to build sentences around giraffes and zebras, ready to send off for the final product. We also shared our fact files from farm animals with Foundation Stage today, using our big, clear voices. We hope they learnt a lot from them!
This week, we’ve also been doing lots of team building, communication activities in crew time. We have played listening games where we have to listen and clap rhythms, and we’ve used our communication skills to get ourselves into height order.
HOWL Heroes:
Work Hard: Harriet
Get Smart: Harry
Be Kind: Frankie
My learning legend for 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!
HOWL Score: 3.1 Well done Crew Welburn!
This week’s HOWL average: 3.1 Keep it up Crew Welburn!
