It has been an extremely busy week in Crew Shields and the children should be very proud of everything they’ve achieved this week.

In Maths, we have been learning about fractions and ensuring that we understand a fraction is part of the whole shape/amount. It has blown me away how well they seem to be grasping this unit of maths as it can be a tricky concept to understand. We have seen most children move on to problem solving and reasoning each day. Our arithmetic lessons have focused on embedding the method for column addition and children are really getting the hang of it.

Expedition has seen us exploring the difference between carnivores, herbivores and omnivores while also thinking about our own diets. This lead on to learning about the food chain and how some animals are predators and prey. They asked some fantastic questions that allowed some good discussions. Yesterday afternoon involved lots of giggles especially as we were learning about why we burp and fart. We spent some time on the playground to demonstrate what happens when there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the stomach or intestines.

Howl Weekly Average: 3.00

This weeks been a busy one!

During maths, we’ve started learning about algebra and how to answer questions using substitution.

Check out this weeks sentence stackers from The Write Stuff sessions:

Sandra felt like she had been sitting in the pod for days. But the truth was, it was minutes.

She had been an astronaut for days however, she was not prepared for this moment. Hoping for a miracle, Sandra tried to keep herself calm as she began to press buttons. She was sweating a cold sweat. Sandra laid back on her chair hoping that God was on her side. 

With the odds against her, her prayer to God was disrupted by the vibration of the plummeting space ship. Unfortunately, the shuttle was getting too unstable and Sandra couldn’t control it. In that moment, she reached for the mic and recorded a message, ready to send back to Earth. She spotted her golden Buddah, and glared at it like it was her protective guardian angel. Sandra could feel the shuttle edging closer and closer to Earth. As vigorous as an earthquake, the pod shook from side to side and dislocated from the rest of the shuttle, causing her to feel dizzy. 

What a better way to end our week that with some science! In case study 3 of our expedition, we’ve used our scientific skills to investigate whether surface area effects air resistance. Crew Fox created parachutes with a range of surface areas to compare the time taken for the parachute to fall to the ground. We will collate our findings next week to check against our hypothesis.

Have a lovely extended weekend! Non-uniform on Wednesday for beating our HOWL average from last week!

Well we have had another busy week in Crew Mcloughlin, read on to see what we have been getting up to👀…

📝Out of this world writing (No pun intended)

In our Write Stuff lessons, we are narrating the ending scene of ‘gravity’. As you can see from the pics the children are on the edge of their seats writing these gripping scenes. They have blown me away with their writing so far and some of the children’s writing has been celebrated on our sentence stackers! Keep going Crew you’re all making me so proud!!!

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Expedition ESA mission – Air resistance🪂

We are working on our ESA mission to investigate air resistance. We have had to work collaboratively and use our team working skills in order for this investigation to be successful. They had just 5 tokens to buy and select the resources to use… they surprised me with their great budgeting skills as I know from their stories about shopping trips at the weekend, this is not always the case😆. The children have shown great perseverance skills as many were too eager to show their design and technology skills off rather than thinking logically about our hypothesis of how surface area will affect air resistance. We have got their in the end though and loved this investigation!

and last but not least… clearly where their the most happiest by the looks of this photo… our weekly swimming lesson🏊🏼‍♀️

They make me beam with pride when they return from swimming. It is lovely to see how proud they are and eager to fill me in on their achievements. Keep it up!🤩

This week, in Crew Gerrard, we have been working hard on a number of things. This includes our learning, listening skills and ensuring that we follow the HoWLS.

In maths, we have been learning about decimals. We have been working hard on being able to make a whole, understand decimals to be able to compare (the tenths and hundredths) and ordering decimals. We are becoming more and more confident as we practice these, which is helping to improve our vocabulary. 😄

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In writing, we have continued to work on pace. This isn’t always easy for Crew Gerrard, but we’re determined to achieve this in order to get smart! We’ve been writing about Gravity and we’re working on being able to create tension. Not only do we want interesting stories, but we also want to improve our handwriting! 😃

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During expedition, we have been completing experiments on gravity, air resistance and the surface area of parachutes. We’ve had to create rockets, after a letter came through from the European Space Agency (ESA). As we have been working in mini-Crews, we have had to make sure that we’re kind to on another. I’m pleased to say that I have seen this. 😀

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We’re still loving our favourite time of the week and that’s swimming. You guys make me really proud when you achieve something new at the leisure centre! 😁

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Today, Crew Longley were given the challenge of saving the eggs. Each crew were provided with an egg that they had to ensure crashed landed to Earth with a bump, but not a splat! The twist was that they could only use things from our junk pile, so innovation was key!

Each mini-crew worked hard to plan, co-operate, listen and help each other to create a mini parachute. Throughout the frenzied countdown, it was lovely to see all the children, working hard, getting smart and being kind. Even when things went wrong, perseverance and determination was clear to see.

We were pleased to say that only one egg was harmed in the completion of this crew challenge. 😁

#crew #wearecrew #comingbackstronger

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In Crew Marsh today we had a lovely extended crew in the morning, this was a great chance to get to know each other better by playing two truths and a lie. It was great to spend time with the children and building our crew.

Activity 1: Ball challenge

The first challenge in our smaller crews was to get our plastic ball from one side of the classroom to the other in the quickest time with out touching it – this meant we all resorted into using our lungs!

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Fantastic Friday! We have had a day that has been mostly working on maths. We were so in the flow that it would have been a shame to stop. It was trickier than yesterday, but we persevered and continued to make really good progress on decimals – this time on hundredths. We finished off the day by making purple pen improvements in our writing and ensuring we had met our standards. Our HoWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Sapphire for always being on task and challenging her learning! 😁

Get Smart: Evie for continually listening carefully and making sure that she does her best! 😁

Be Kind: Keegan (again!!) for helping those who might struggle make the right choice. I know that you wanted this two days in a row! 😃

Learning Legend: Lucas – Lucas the super star! What a phenomenal attitude you display to your work. You are really taking care of your handwriting, to make sure it is presentable and are trying to hit gold each time. By doing this Lucas, you are not only meeting the Work Hard HoWL, but Get Smart too. I know how much you want this and you have fully deserved this for a number of weeks now – keep it up! 🤩

Our HoWL average for today was 2.9 and our weekly average was 3.0! I wonder if we can ensure our classroom is tidy to show off our high expectations?

Have a great weekend guys! 😆

We have had a brilliant end to our week in Crew Wilson. The whole crew have really thought about our reflections from the week and have strived to improve their listening and attention skills today, and we have all worked very hard in our lessons. Let’s keep this attitude up for next week and we will see our howl scores shoot up high again!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Declan for his massively improved attitude towards his learning this week. Declan has tried so hard in all his lessons and has created some fantastic work, keep it up!

Get Smart: This goes to Aleks for his amazing listening skills. Aleks never needs a reminder for making the right choices and has worked so hard in his maths lessons this week, well done!

Be Kind: This goes to Debbie Mae and Luke for their wonderful collaboration in arithmetic today. They communicated well about what the question was asking them and made sure they both had an equal amount of turns with the number line and pens, great work!

Howl Average: 3.6

After a pretty poor week for Howl Scores, I am very proud to say that we have finally got back up to a respectable score of 3.6! Hopefully we will start getting a lot more 4’s across the board next week as we have pledged to work even harder, get even smarter and be even kinder! We can do it Crew Wilson, we just need to stop the chatting and crack on with our learning!

Have a lovely weekend everyone 🙂

Thrilling Thursday!🌟

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our ‘Write Stuff’ lesson this morning. After not doing much writing this week in Crew Elmer with a heavy focus being on Experience Days and grammar I was nervous about the children writing today…. However, I didn’t need to worry as the writing that they produced was amazing! They included expanded noun phrases, a range of pronouns and some very imaginative similes! It just showed me how much they had absorbed from the experience days! Amazing work Crew Elmer! Well done! 👍👏📝✏🙌😁

Todays HoWL average is: 2.7

Another slightly lower score than I would have hoped but today we had three absences and also some children unfortunately let themselves down. I am hoping for a better day tomorrow! 🤞

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

All crew members need to work together to ensure that all crew members are working hard, getting smart and being kind ALL day.

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Hannah May! Hannah May blew me away with her knowledge during our Road Safety session this afternoon. She could list several different crossings including how to use them safely, recite the Green Cross Code and list the dangers and distractions related to road crossing! She was also voted our Road Safety Expert! If you need to know how to cross the road safely then Hannah May is your lady! Amazing Hannah May! Well done! 🙌🤩👏👍👣🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚗