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 🙂

Friday complete! We have had another day of working hard and we were surprised at how fast today went. We had a busy reading lesson and missed our break as we were that engaged with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. After break, we then moved onto some grammar to practice direct and indirect speech for our Gravity writing. Our HoWL Heroes for today are:

Work Hard: Sophia for thinking carefully about some interesting vocabulary to help with her writing! 😁

Get Smart: Sapphire for producing some fantastic contributions to help her peers! 😃

Be Kind: Ruby for putting a smile on everyone’s faces and cheering everyone up! 😄

Our costume winner for The Wizard of Oz dress up day was: Lucas! 👏

Our HoWL average was 3.0! I wonder if we can keep working as hard as we have been this week? We really are striving to make use of every minute.

Have a great weekend, Crew Gerrard and see you all on Monday! 😆

Star moment

Star moment today was the children feeling more confident with their fractions learning, today they have learnt to add two fractions together – this is something we have practiced since September so it was great to see it applied to reasoning and problem solving question.

Average is: 3.2!

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh’s target for next work again is to make sure that they are listening to every instruction and following it. We are really trying to make sure that everyone in Crew Marsh can follow an instruction to a T. This has got so much better as the week has gone on, next week we need to make sure this is perfect!

Howl Hero:

Our Work Hard Hero today is Preston!

Preston really impressed me with his attitude towards his math learning today, he came in from break and started his questions straight away, he made sure his work was neat and that he answered plenty of questions. Well done Preston! 😁😁

Thrilling Thursday! 😁

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our maths lesson this morning. I was blown away with how quickly the children grasped proper and improper fractions as well as counting fractions on a number line. Children were able to orally say the next fraction, calculate the missing fractions and convert improper fractions to proper fractions; all in one lesson! BIG WOW today for maths!

Todays HoWL average is: 3.0

Yay! We got 3.0! 😁 Well done Crew Elmer! 👏

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

All crew members need to continue to follow their HoWLs to ensure that we get another HoWL average of 3.0 tomorrow!

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Ray! Ray was praised by Lily-Beth and I for ‘getting smart’. Ray always ensures that he achieves the ‘expected standard’ if not more! During all lessons today, especially Maths and Art, Ray ensured that he was listening carefully and this enabled him to produce some beautiful pieces of work that he and his crew were very proud of! His art work particularly blew us all away! Well done Ray! 🙌🤩👏👍

Another busy couple of days. We have been reading, working on fractions and working on the Wizard of Oz writing.

Our HoWL score today was: 3.0

Our weekly HoWL target is : 3.0

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

Today KAYDEN was our HoWL hero. He really impressed Miss Holdsworth with his maturity in crew this afternoon. Well done!

Another lovely day! We’re definitely back in the swing of things now!

We have continued with our Wizard of Oz theme with our mark making! The children thought about what a Wizard looks like, we used shapes to help us with our drawing. They had some fantastic conversations, I was blown away with how much everyone remembered!

One of our favourite activities today was our whip around. Each crew member added their own action to a sequence until we had 20 actions! This really tested our motor skills, memory and concentration but most of all we grew as a crew and had lots of fun.

We also made puppets to help us retell our story. We used our cut and stick skills to make our puppets before taking them all over our environment to retell the story!

We also had a birthday in Crew today! We celebrated with cake and singing. We really liked seeing Hunter blow out his candles! 🎂

Today’s HOWL hero is Messiah! He has worked so hard today! He’s been telling stories using the Wizard of oz puppets, joining in with all the activities and encouraging his friends.

Highlight of the day:

In our Write Stuff lesson today we were word collectors, using our knowledge of the characters in the Wizard of Oz to find lots of adjectives to use in our writing next week. I was blown away with some of the words that were given by the crew and we all worked really hard to make sure we had plenty ideas to help us with our writing!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Jake, Daisy and Aleks for their brilliant contributions in Write Stuff – they all provided so many good describing words for each of the characters in the story, well done!

Get Smart: This goes to Luke and Perrie for their effort across all of our lessons today, they have both listened carefully and gone above and beyond in our tasks today, great work!

Be Kind: This goes to April for keeping her group on task in expedition and organising a cleaning squad to keep the classroom tidy, well done!

Howl Average: 3.4 – a slight dip from yesterday but targets have been decided for the crew to achieve those fab fours tomorrow!