Crew Gerrard Weekly Review and Maths Week

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.

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.

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.

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! 😆

Crew Elmer Weekly Blog 07.05.21

Well what a wonderful week it has been in Crew Elmer this week! We have been very busy learning lots but have also had lots of fun! We have especially enjoyed ‘Number Week’ and ‘NSPCC Number Day’! We have completed lots of different number challenges this week and have really enjoyed exploring maths more!

Star moment of the week: ⭐

This week’s star moment has to be our ‘Number work’. Children have completed lots of ‘hands on maths’ challenges this week, as well as arithmetic questions and open ended problems. The children also really enjoyed their maths challenge today where they had to hunt around the playground and field for different answers and scan a QR code to reveal a hidden letter and then work as mini crews to ‘crack the code’! The children were really engaged and loved this interactive maths moment! I don’t think they realised how much fun they could have with maths! See some snaps below! 📸🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️✏

This week’s HoWL average is: 2.9

Oooh…. we are slowly getting closer to that 3.0! I am very confident that next week if we all pull together and focus on our HoWLs that we can achieved the ME HoWL target of a 3.0! 🤞

Next week’s weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this next week? 

All crew members need to continue to pull together to help each other to get those 3’s and 4’s for their HoWLs. Some crew members also need to work hard on being kind to each other as we have had a few fall out this week.

This week’s HoWL Heros: 

This week’s HoWL Heroes were Harry, Esme, Kacey-Leigh and Frankie! Well done to all of you! 👏🙌👍😁

Today’s Learning Legend:

Today’s Learning Legend was: Harry! Harry has really impressed me recently with his positive attitude towards trying to achieve his Reading ME Target. Reading isn’t Harry’s favourite subject but this week I have been blown away with how Harry’s words per minute have increased, he is also reading with greater fluency and is able to use direct quotes from the text as evidence to support his answers during our comprehension sessions. I am very confident that if Harry keeps this up he will totally smash his ME target! Amazing work Harry! Well done! 👍😁🙌👏☀

Have a great weekend Crew Elmer and I will see you all on Monday! 🖐

Crew Marsh: 7/5/21

We have had a very busy week this week in Crew Marsh, especially to say it has been a 4 day week! We have enjoyed math day today, outside we took part in an treasure hunt activity. This meant in smaller crews we had to work out answers to written problem sums and then find the corresponding answer somewhere on the playground. On the answer sheet there was QR code which we scanned to get a letter… at the end all of the letters created a word.

Crew Welburn’s Weekly Overview 7.5.2021

Friday 

Maths week ➕➖✖➗

We’ve had lots of fun carrying out different maths challenges this week in Crew Welburn. We’ve made our maths learning really fun by using practical activities to learn our number bonds. We played parachute games, pretended to be Farmer Pete’s sheet, and played bingo! We’ve had so much fun and topped it our with our number dress up day.

Highlight of the week:

Our highlight of the week has to be our HOWLs. We have worked so hard this week so that we could get smart and we have all made sure that we have been kind. This has meant that we have met minimum expectation every day as a crew which is amazing! I am so proud of Crew Welburn’s attitude towards their learning this week, keep it up!

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Charlie is my work hard HOWL Hero today as he has been working really hard to get smart in his arithmetic. Charlie has been using his number line to help him work out his addition and subtraction questions which is fantastic!

My learning legend for this week is Charlie Strutt. Charlie has worked so hard this week to set himself targets during crew to make sure he is achieving at least minimum expectation with his work hard HOWL. Charlie consistently reflects on his target throughout the day to remind himself of what he needs to do, and does it without being asked. This makes you a fantastic role model in Crew Welburn Charlie, keep up the hard work.

HOWL Score: 3.1 Well done Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.3 Well done Crew Welburn, this is a much better score!

Crew Wilson Weekly Review: 7.5.2021

We have had a much better week in Crew Wilson! We are making sure that we are listening carefully to instructions so that we can be successful with our learning, and it has made a massive difference to the atmosphere in our classroom, let’s keep it up!

Highlights of the week:

Writing: We really enjoyed our experience day which helped inspire our Elmer narrative writing. We stomped like big heavy elephants and chotted our ideas down as a crew. We also practiced writing our tricky red words in sand, working collaboratively to do look, say, cover, write check!

Maths: We have been practicing our number bonds to 10 and 20 in lots of different ways! We have been working really hard at making sure our recall is super speedy so we can work out the answers to our questions quickly!

Expedition: We have been exploring the differences between villages, towns and cities! We also had a look at the different countries that make up the UK, and learned some really interesting facts! Did you know a welsh man invented the addition and equals symbol in maths?

NSPCC Number Day: Today we got dressed up in our best number-themed outfits and have really enjoyed practicing our maths skills throughout the week! Today we brought together everything we have learned so far in our arithmetic lesson and so many of us got to green standard by working hard and getting smart, well done everyone!

Check out our blog for ‘This Week in the Phase:KS1‘ to see all the fun we’ve had this week!

Learning Legend:

This weeks Learning Legend is Tommy F! Tommy has demonstrated a positive attitude towards his learning over the last couple of weeks and is trying so hard in all his lessons! His phonics and writing has come along fantastically and he is working on making sure his handwriting is beautiful – he really wants a golden ticket and is trying his best to achieve his goal! Keep up the great work Tommy, we are all so proud! 

Howl Average: We have ended the week on a 3.7 – lot’s of 4,4,4’s today which is a massive improvement for us! Let’s see if we can keep it up for next week!

Maths Puzzle

  • How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?

Can you answer the riddle?

Crew Elmer Weekly Blog 30.04.21

Well today has been a slightly emotional day in Crew Elmer 😥 which is totally understandable but I do hope that the children have had the opportunity to digest the information received and that they enjoy a lovely long break this weekend! 😊 Fingers crossed for some sunshine! ☀

Star moment of the week: ⭐

This week’s star moment has to be our crew building session on Tuesday! The children really enjoyed working in mini crews to build towers using only marshmallows and spaghetti. I was blown away with how well crew members worked together not only to support each other but also in sharing ideas to allow them to ALL be successful. It was lovely to observe this 💕 Great Crew work Crew Elmer! Well done! 👍🙌👏

This week’s HoWL average is: 2.8

Not a bad weekly score but a little off our ME which is 3.0! Hopefully next week we can achieve this! 🤞

Next week’s weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this next week? 

All crew members need to work together to ensure that all crew members are working hard, getting smart and being kind ALL day to get those 3’s and 4’s.

This week’s HoWL Heros: 

This week’s HoWL Heroes were Harry, Esme, Frankie, Ray and Laila! Well done to all of you! 👏🙌👍😁