Crew Shields have had a great week in expedition as we learned how to make and label muscles. To further embed learning the children investigated which muscles they would use when carrying out an activity. They can name some of the muscles and locate them on the body. In today’s lesson, they explored how the muscles support movement. This did result in popping balloons which made us jump.

There has been lots of opportunities for children to get smart and use their prior knowledge, this week. We are working hard on our arithmetic and basic number facts. Our next challenge is to start applying this knowledge to worded problems.

We hope you enjoy looking at some of the great things we have been learning about in LKS2

It’s been another busy week of working hard, getting smart and being kind!

Writing

This week we have been developing our fine motor skills. We had lots of exciting jobs that help our funky fingers become strong and ready for writing. We threaded, balanced, poked and even made marks in glitter!

Reading/expedition

This week we read Farmer Duck. We talked a lot about how the duck is treated and how this makes him feel. After thinking about what would make a duck happy we got busy creating lovely happy places for Farmer Duck to live! In the creative area Porsha designed a garden with water and a roof to keep Farmer Duck safe and in the playdough area children worked collaboratively to make a scene of things that would make him happy. They made, wiggly worms and seeds to eat, grass to live and hide in and lots of duck friends to keep him company.

Crew

We planted our sunflowers yesterday! 🌻 The children worked as a crew to plant sunflower seeds and think about how we are going to look after them. We are looking forward to seeing the shoots appear, fingers crossed we will see them next week 🤞🏻

Shout outs 🙌🏻

Lily-Ann for an amazing week of working hard. You have really impressed this week with your positive attitude.

Double shout out for Lucas! You thought really hard about what you were going to say in group discussions and are starting to use full sentences without adult help. You also were an amazing crew mate clapping and celebrating a crew member when they received praise!

This week’s HOWL average was 2.9! Let’s aim for 3 next week!

We have had an fab week in Crew Mcloughlin, we’ve been very busy! I think our brains deserve a well earned rest over the weekend as we have just improved as the week has gone on. Read on to see what we have been up to this week…

Crew Mc’s mission to decimal problem solving success

We thoroughly enjoyed our practical session, working collaboratively in mini Crews helping solve miss’s problems. The proof is in the pictures, they were definitely working hard, getting smart and being kind. ➕➖

Reading

Our book we are reading this term is See you in the Cosmos. Children gathered questions with their partner and hot seated Zed on his reaction in the story. We smashed it using our inference and prediction skills! We are continually working so hard to improve our confidence with expression in reading and being in the role of a character really helps with this.

Our HoWL average this week is 2.9… unfortunately, no spin on the HoWLopoly wheel this week. I wonder if we can improve our listening skills as a whole Crew to ensure no learning time is wasted 🤔

Congratulations to our Learning Legend Lexie! 😊

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.