What a great week we have had in Crew Gerrard as we were put to the test, quite literally – it was assessment week! I am really proud of how hard we have worked to achieve our best. I know that most of us have given it our all and I could not ask for more.

Assessment week is challenging, as it tests our resilience and makes us quite tired. We were trying to improve on our Spring assessments, as we wanted to show how ‘smart’ we have become during our final few weeks of Year 5.

This week, we also said goodbye to Miss Scott who has been a massive help to Crew Gerrard. We are sad to see you go Miss Scott, but will try our best to keep in touch. We wish you nothing but success in your new school and know that you will smash it there, just like you have here!

Our HoWL average doesn’t fully reflect the positive week we have had, as a number of our Crew have been absent. We need to show an improvement in our attendance to help make sure we can beat our weekly HoWL average, week in week out! It was 2.7.

Have a well deserved rest, Crew Gerrard and see you all on Monday! 😆

Highlight of the week:

I am so impressed with our crew this week. They have absolutely smashed assessment week and every single one of them has shown me just how smart they have got over the past year! Well done Crew Welburn 🌟⭐🌟

In between all of our assessments, we have had lots of opportunity to build our communication and trust as a crew. We’ve really enjoyed our jigsaw sessions this week as part of this, as we’ve thought about what makes a good friend and how we can be better friends in our crew to show how kind we are.

We have also been writing up some of our pieces of work ready for our new display to go up in the next couple of weeks. I’ve been blown away by some of the handwriting progression that I’ve seen this week, particularly with Harry’s work. Have a look at one of his first pieces of writing from autumn term, and the piece which he has just produced for display…

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard and Get Smart: All of Crew Welburn deserved to be my work hard and get smart HOWL Heroes this week!

Be Kind: Evie

HOWL Score: 3.4 A fantastic score today Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.3 Well done Crew Welburn!

Learning legend: This week’s learning legend is Frankie Foster-Cutts. Frankie has been a superstar this week in Crew Welburn, especially in her writing! She has worked hard to write using chunks of sense, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces, and she has been brilliant at critiquing her handwriting to try and make it beautiful in her expedition book. Frankie has also shown what a kind member of Crew Welburn she is, by looking out for people to praise throughout the day, to help us all to reflect and celebrate the positives in our crew. Well done Frankie, you are a fantastic member of Crew Welburn!

The children this week have tried hard to discuss the different emotions they feel during different circumstances. We have looked closely at how we are feeling ready for transition and thought about ideas to support each other.

We also got a chance to spin the wheel during assembly this week for an improved HOWL score. My lovely children’s were given a great prize! A chance to sponge the teacher!

Have a look at the video! They definitely enjoyed themselves.

A very busy week in EYFS crews, check out what we have been up to!

Check out all of our learning from this week in Key Stage One. We’ve been team building in Crew, investigating shapes and arrays in Maths and continuing with our expedition question “How do animals adapt to their habitats?”.

Crew Shields are winners! Read on to find out more…

This has been an exciting week as it has seen us complete our second case study in expedition.

During the case study, the children had to design a healthy lunchbox based on the Eatwell guide. Crew Shields worked as mini crews to design and present their ideas. They then voted for their favourite which was the lunch they made.

Their lunchbox was a chicken,cheese and lettuce wrap with mayo. Cucumber and carrot sticks with a yoghurt, pure orange and a small cake bar for a balanced meal.

On Thursday afternoon, we made our lunch while also learning about the importance of life skills and hygiene when cooking. The children had the opportunity to cut, peel, grate and ensure they presented it well. I am extremely Proud of how the children conducted themselves.

We were lucky enough to have Mr Tucker, Miss Whitehead and Aimee from the kitchen join us judge our products.

Chloe and Georgie presented our design along with the other crews. They did a great job of this and shared their books that showed their instructions and itinerary.

Crew Shields were the winners. The judges loved how the children not only wrote clear instructions to make their lunch but also considered the hygiene aspects such as washing hands, tying up hair and washing the fruit/vegetables.

I would like to say a massive well done to the Crew Shields, it was a well deserved win!

A fun week in UKS2! 😆

What a busy week. This week we have had smiles and tears across the week, as we learnt. experienced. innovated and waved good bye to new friends.

In Maths this week, we have continued learning about fractions. We tried our hand at comparing and ordering. Even though it is such a tricky concept, we have been blown away by the children’s perseverance.

Writing, has seen us continue creating non-fiction reports on the different parts of the digestive system . This will eventually be displayed our expedition finished product.

Expedition saw us designing, making and tasting our healthy packed lunches, as part our expedition – Why is the body a miraculous machine? The children thought about the healthy eating wheel, created their own, discussed and refined as a crew and then refined further to create one whole crew packed lunch. Thursday saw us create and taste this, before presenting to the judging panel. We were absolutely delighted with the way all the children shared the process and the bravery for each of our crew mates to talk in front of the phase.

Sadly, this week also saw us wave goodbye to our three fabulous trainee teachers. We have loved having them join our crew and we are sure they will go on to become fabulous teachers in the year to come.

Highlight of the week:

Crew Welburn have really impressed me with their writing this week in expedition lessons. We have carried out two pieces of independent writing and the quality has absolutely blown me away! I can’t believe that five and six year olds can write such amazing fact files!

We have also been working really hard in maths this week, looking at arrays. We picked this up really quickly and everyone felt really confident at making arrays for different numbers in multiple ways.

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Kairen

HOWL Score: 2.8 This is a good score considering we have had a lot of children off today ⭐

This week’s HOWL average: 3.2 Well done Crew Welburn!

Learning legend: My learning legend this week is Darcie Fraser. Darcie has been a superstar in maths over the last half term. She has been working really hard with her addition and subtraction number sentences, and in her mental maths for her number recognition,place value and number formation. I am really impressed with how smart she has got! Keep it up Darcie!