Another mad Monday, with lots of learning and even a visit to the farm! Today we have focused on the basics of reading, number bonds and multiplication. All things we really need to help us Get Smart.

Our HoWL avergage today is 2.6

Our Weekly Target is 2.9

We need 7 more ‘3’s’ to earn our Nelli day 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

Today’s HoWL Hero was Lydia S. We chose Lydia for Working Hard because she has had her head down all day, completing the tasks and showing great partner work.

Well done Lydia!

Monday ✅

What super stars we have been in Crew Welburn today! They have made me smile and laugh all day and I am so proud of how hard they have worked. We have begun to write our super stories in The Write Stuff, tried really hard with our phonics, and had fun visiting the animals outside in the sunshine. Our favourite animals were the dog and the tortoise called Meg! 🐶🐢

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Kairen 👏

Get smart: Tiarna and Jamie 👏

Be kind: Scarlett👏

HOWL Score: 3.1 Well done Crew Welburn, this is a super score!

Amazing first week back! It has been such a great first week with Crew Shields and we’ve loved being back together and building up crew again. The children have settled back into our routine and continued to support each other. I have been extremely impressed with the positive attitude to learning that they’ve all demonstrated this week.

Crew Shields Average : 3.4

Targets for this week : 3.2

How can we improve?

To further improve, Crew Shields need to ensure they start responding to feedback without prompts.

Crew Shields Work Hard Howl Hero – Tommy

Tommy has been working extremely hard on his presentation by working on his handwriting. He is even working on his fine motor skills/handwriting at home to ensure he is getting lots of practice. Keep it up.

A great end to the week. Today we celebrated Lydia’s Learning Legend award and completed our Wizard of Oz slice. We have seen determination, perseverance, pride, kindness and lots of children working hard to get smart!

Our Howl Average today was 2.9

Our Weekly Howl Target is 3.0

This weeks HoWL average was 2.9

We need 8 more ‘3’s’ to earn our Nelli day! 🐶🐶

Today’s Howl hero was Alkim. He has worked really hard today (and this half term) to improve his writing and to blow the reader away.

Our Learning Legend this week was Lydia B. Lydia was chosen because of her teaching skills. She has been heard and seen teaching a crew mate and helping them to get smarter. She has such a sweet manner and helped them to achieve. Well done !

What a busy week we have had! That didn’t stop us working hard today though!

After a busy week we enjoyed a day out in the fresh air! We especially enjoyed seeing the children playing so kindly with each other in the kitchen! They really used their social skills to share, listen and support each other.

Make sure to watch This Week in the Phase to see the highlights of our Wizard of Oz week!

Today’s HOWL hero is Presley! She has been a joy to have in Crew this week, showing all aspects of HOWLs. We are very proud 👏🏻

Also a special mention to Layla! When Layla joined our crew in March she found it a little bit scary but you would never know that now! The progress she has made is amazing and we can’t wait to see what she does next!

We hope you have a lovely weekend! Make sure to keep your eyes peeled as we have something very exciting happening on Monday! 👨🏻‍🌾

Fabulous FriYAY! 🙌

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our art lesson this morning! Some of the children really blew me away with their Dorothy designs. Children carefully chose appropriate colours and patterns to build up an image of the main character. We have some very talented and creative members of our crew! Well done! 👏

Todays HoWL average is: 2.8

A slight dip in the score to end the week but this is mainly down to some absences and some children not quite working as hard as they could of.

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this next week? 

All crew members need to support each other in ensuring that everyone is working hard to allow all crew members to be the smartest that they can be!

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Laila! Laila was praised by several crew members today for ‘being kind’ which I have to agree with! I also wanted to praise Laila for producing ‘beautiful work’ in art this morning. Her portrait of Dorothy was amazing! She had taken her time to ensure that her design was neat and she also thought about her colour and pattern choices. A piece of work that Laila should be very proud of! Well done! 🙌🤩👏👍🖍

We have had a brilliant first week back in Crew Wilson!

Highlight of the Week:

It was hard to pick what just one favourite part of the week, but we spoke as a crew and decided that we have really enjoyed our expedition lessons where we have continued building our castle, and we also loved the Wizard of Oz day! We have worked so collaboratively this week, and have listened carefully to instructions to ensure we were completing tasks to the best of our ability, well done Crew Wilson, you definitely deserve a rest this weekend!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Tia today for coming back with a big smile on her face and getting stuck in to all of our learning, welcome back Tia!

Get Smart: This goes to Perrie today for going above and beyond in expedition and really thinking carefully about what she needed to do to paint bricks effectively, well done Perrie!

Be Kind: This goes to Stevie today for looking after her crew and being a good friend to children who may have been feeling sad, keep it up Stevie!

Howl Average:

3.4 – we have ended our week with a very respectable score of 3.4, hopefully we will be able to get it even higher next week – fab fours across the board is the target!

Friday✅

It’s Friday! What a busy first week back we have had in Crew Welburn! We’ve almost finished our castle now, all we need to do is print our stone pattern onto it and create our video. We can’t wait to share it with you.🌟

Highlight of the week:

The highlight of this week has been having everyone back together in our classroom. We have had so many smiling faces and everyone has been so kind to each other. They have really made us all smile this week. We also loved seeing everyone’s costumes on Wednesday. It was a crazy day, but the children had so much fun and can’t wait to write about what they saw.

It was a little bit sunny when we took our photo!🌞🌞

Our winning costume! 🦁🦁

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Evie👏

Get smart: Mariama 👏

Be kind: Darcie 👏

This week’s learning legend is Scarlett. Scarlett has worked hard on her listening in lessons to make sure she can get smart when she completes her work independently. She has even asked to stay in at break times to practice her word reading for her green and red words to make sure she can confidently read her stories in Read, Write, Inc. This is amazing work Scarlett and we are really proud of you!

HOWL Score: 3.2 Well done Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 2.9 We’ve had a few children missing this week so this is a good score Crew Welburn 🙂