This week has been an interesting week, in Crew Gerrard.

We have been working hard on our maths, continuing to work on our decimals. We especially loved our lesson on Thursday, after we had been practicing how to add and subtract decimals. During this lesson, we worked collaboratively as mini-Crews as part of challenge to solve the decimal problems. I am really proud of how hard Crew Gerrard worked and rose to the challenge!

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In writing, we have continued to write up our scientific report. This is a nice challenge and one that we’re eager to meet. We have been able to complete our first draft and have began to write up our second.

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In expedition, we have continued to work on our art skills. This week, we have been continuing to practice our drawing techniques, such as scumbling, sketching and using spirals. We have used these skills to also draw a space boot, from the book Where we once stood. The children have really challenged themselves. Here they are in action!

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It has been a really strange week in Crew Gerrard and I know that we are keen to improve next week. I know that we will and we are looking forward to a fresh start after the weekend. I wonder if Crew Gerrard can think carefully about how they will work hard all week?

Our HoWL average was 2.8 and our Learning Legend was Brayden! 😆

What a fantastic week Crew Elmer has had! We have done some great learning especially in writing with such creative minds. The children have worked hard to go above and beyond by smashing targets and improving in many ways this week.

Star moment of the week ☀ : 

This week’s star moment has got to be the way the children actively took part in learning about the muscles in our expedition lessons ‘Why is the body a miraculous machine?’. The children really enjoyed taking part in a series of activities including: a mindfulness activity; a cut and stick skeleton activity where they had to add muscles and label them; and also an active lesson using different exercises to see the effect on their muscles. The children had heaps of fun while learning key vocabulary about the muscles.

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This week’s HOWL average is: 3

We have reached last weeks target! We have smashed it this week but lets make sure we keep pushing for those 4’s to keep our crew average up there! Try to keep working on our ‘Get smart’ ‘Work hard’ and ‘Be kind’ to ensure we are progressing in our HOWL scores! Overall Crew Elmer has had a great week and has stood out by making sure that they are all working hard.

This week’s HOWL target is: 3.1

We can develop this week by focusing on being kind as we move into our new crews next week. Make sure we are including everyone and pushing to work hard together so we can strengthen our crews.

Today Learning Legend is: Jazmin. Jazmin does not always find learning easy and sometimes lacks the confidence in her ability. However, she should not have any doubts as she has been working incredibly hard this half term already and this is enabling her to make massive progress especially in her writing and arithmetic. She has a great positive attitude towards her learning and her confidence is blossoming! She is participating more in class and this is allowing her to gain the maximum amount of learning and knowledge from each lesson. Keep this up Jazmin and continue to believe in yourself because you can do it and you sure are brighter than you believe! Well done Jazmin! 

This week’s HOWL Heros were: Kacey-leigh, Frankie, Laila, Jazmin and Ray.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend! I will see you all on Tuesday (when I am back in class), refreshed and ready to learn.

Highlight of the week:

This week has been fantastic in Crew Welburn. We have worked really hard on our HOWLs, and as a treat, we had a special visitor – Teddy! We had so much fun playing with Teddy in the playground and on the field, and we worked on our throwing skills. We even made sure that we were still working hard in all of our lessons, even though Teddy was in the room. Miss Welburn was really impressed!🐾🐾

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Lylah

Get Smart: Charlie

Be Kind: Jamie

My learning legend for this week is Evie England. Evie has worked really hard with her writing this week. She has practiced saying her sentence to adults, to her partner and to herself to make sure she remembers what she is writing, and then has written it using beautiful writing in her writing book. Not only has she done this and met gold standard, she has then challenged herself to deepen the moment and meet green standard. Well done Evie, it is fantastic to see you focusing so well on your writing.

HOWL Score: 3.5 Well done Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.5 Well done Crew Welburn, this is amazing!

From September we’re going to be bringing back music lessons! Will your child(ren) be in year 4, 5 or 6 from September? Are they interested in music?

Then check out our music letter for more details.

We have had such a lovely start to May! The children have worked so hard.

Maths week for NSPCC

We have had lots of fun this week exploring number! We started the week by counting how many pieces of fruit we need in a smoothie!

They were so yummy. We like how they tasted sweet and fruity. We also got to talk about colours, the children suggested which fruits made our smoothie green and were surprised to hear that it was a vegetable!

We have also been working as a crew to represent numbers using ourselves! The children used their counting skills to get into groups of different amounts.

Our maths has been so exciting, even Farmed Duck wanted to get involved! He sent us a letter and a list asking for some maths equipment! The children counted out the items ready to send to him!

Crew Challenge

How many numbers can you spot over the weekend? See how many numbers are in your environment and bring a picture to school on Monday to show your crew!

Shoutouts!

Oliver – after a tricky week Oliver got to green today! He blew the adults away with his recall of Farmer Duck, ‘How goes the work?’

George and Charlotte – when asked why we sit in a circle George shared that it is what makes us special and Charlotte said this is what makes us a crew.

Rose and Thomas – the adults in Crew have seen a big change in these two this week. There confidence is really starting to shine through!

NSPCC Maths Week ➕✖️➖➗

We’ve had lots of fun carrying out different maths challenges this week in Crew Godley. We’ve made our maths learning really fun by using practical activities to futher develop our number skills. We played parachute games, dominoes in Crew which developed our subitising skills and numicon bingo. Reggie was so excited when he won! We’ve had so much fun and topped it our with our number dress up day – Zach looked great with his numbered t-shirt!

Highlight of the week:

Our highlight of the week has to be our progress in phonics. Today the children who work with myself and Miss Tabone have really showed they have been working hard to get smart, by recalling all of their set one sounds and moving onto the next group. The Crew were so proud of them.

HOWL:

This week’s HOWL average: 2.9 We’ve had a very rocky week this week, after our notices and wonders in crew next week I am hoping we can all work on our pledges to get back into the threes next week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone 🙂

In Crew Mc this week we have been trying our absolute best to Work Hard in order to Get Smart… lets see how…

Maths week

We have loved building our confidence with decimals and being so proud to have completed so many reasoning and problem solving in our books, our explanations are improving day by day. We also have been completing extra arithmetic to consolidate learning to make it stick such as division, timetables and place value ✖➗

Expedition- CS3 Art

In our Expedition we have moved onto our next case study Art, which the children are very happy about! As you can see we have been practising our sketching techniques.

Crew

In Crew we also focused on ways we can control our emotions. Using controllers, we gathered strategies on how we can prevent and control ourselves when feeling red. Hopefully children can refer to these and use these controls in school and at home.

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Our proud moment🤩

We also had Mrs Fox pop into our lesson today and she was blown away at how hard we were working- she rated us as a 4 for Work Hard. We were all super proud of ourselves 😁😁😁 Keep it up Crew Mc you are amazing!

It’s been a busy maths week in Crew Shields as we have continued to explore fractions and develop our arithmetic skills. We are continually trying to get smart by ensuring we are using the correct methods to solve problems. ✅

In crew, the children have had some brain teasers that has required them to really pull on their prior knowledge of number. 😀 It was lovely seeing them work together to solve the number puzzles and how they encouraged each other. 👍

In computing, the children were given the opportunity to practice their timetable skills by playing a range of timetable games. I love how the children supported each other to solve the calculations and how their confidence is building each week. We have some budding mathematicians on our hands. 😊

This week, we have been working really hard on maths. We have loved learning about decimals and the different ways we can represent and read decimals. It hasn’t always been easy, but we are now able to read decimals with thousandths. Our vocabulary is becoming really strong and we are confident explaining.

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In Writing, we have been completing a scientific report about the experiment we participated in, during Expedition. This has been something that has really challenged our thinking, which was to be like scientists.

During Expedition, we completed our experiment for the European Space Agency (ESA). They have loved designing their rockets and seeing if their prediction was correct. We thought that the bigger the surface area on a parachute, the slower it would fall. This did not come true and we need to figure out why our prediction was not accurate.

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During expedition, we started our 3rd Case Study, which is art. We loved being able to critique the art work in the fantastic book Where Once we Stood. We then even had a go at trying our own version of the images. We have also reflected on the mural that we are creating and have thought about how we can make this better. We have discussed it and then put our ideas into action.

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This week has been an odd week, as it has had one day less. We are keen to have an improved one next week. Our HoWL average for the week was 2.8! We really need to ensure that we are working hard all of the time.

Our Learning Legend was Keegan 😁

Our Golden Ticket winner for Handwriting was Emily! ✍

Have a great weekend, Crew Gerrard and remember, next week is a fresh start! 😆