Today has been another great day in Crew Elmer!

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our ‘Write Stuff’ lesson. I was blown away with the character descriptions that children had written about Dorothy in connection with our short unit on ‘The Wizard of Oz’. The children were able to use a range of expanded noun phrases, similes and WOW adjectives! Great work Crew Elmer! Well done! 👏📝✏

Todays HoWL average is: 2.8

Another good HoWL score but a slight dip from yesterday due to 2 crew members being absent today. Hopefully we can continue to work super hard tomorrow and get this HoWL score up to at least at 3.0! 🤞

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

We need to make sure that all crew members are at school tomorrow and that we remember to try our best at working hard, getting smart and being kind.

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Esme! Esme was praised by several of her crew members as well as Miss Hart and I for her exceptional hard work in all lessons today especially ‘The Write Stuff’. Esme was also praised for being kind and helpful at crew break times. An amazing day Esme! Well done! 🙌🤩👏👍

Highlight of the day:

Another fantastic expedition session where we have continued to construct our final product – a replica of Lincoln Castle! Following our critiques yesterday, we have made great strides in redesigning and remaking our castle, and we are very nearly ready to join it together and start painting! We had some fantastic collaboration and some brilliant demonstration of our DT skills that we learned before half term, great work Crew Wilson!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Aleks today for working hard across all of our lessons today. Aleks has had an input to lots of discussions and it is great seeing his confidence in speaking in front of the crew grow every day, well done!

Get Smart: This goes to Eva today for using her howl score from yesterday to improve her attitude towards learning today. Fantastic to see her being reflective and making strides to improve herself, great work Eva!

Be Kind: This goes to April and Luke for being brilliant collaborators in expedition, working hard together and supporting each other when they found things tricky!

Howl Average:

3.3 – Staying steady, lots of reflection today to work on getting those fab fours tomorrow!

Another superb day in Crew Gerrard! We were really on fire with our reading this morning. That was swiftly followed by reading and before we knew it, we were out for break. Then we continued our experience day and I was really pleased with the discussion and involvement during this, as well as in our maths lessons. It was great to be a part of such a hard working Crew. We then continued our persuasive letter this afternoon and have made a solid start. Our HoWL Heroes today are:

Work Hard: Alicia for really motoring away on with her work. What a great day you’ve had! 😁

Get Smart: Emily for sharing superb knowledge during the hot seating in writing, which definitely helped your peers – fantastic stuff! 😃

Be Kind: Lucas, who could have won any today, for being such a positive influence on your Crew! 😄

Our HoWL average was 3.1 today, which is above our target!

I wonder if we can ensure that we are working as hard in the afternoon, as we do in the morning? 😆

Star moment

Star moment today was seeing how confident the crew was in arithmetic, it was great to see all of them answering the range of questions at ease and not need much adult support. This is a massive change from the start of the year… you should all feel so proud of yourselves!! 👏👏

Average is: 3.0!

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh’s target for tomorrow 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.

Howl Hero:

Our Get Smart Hero today is Jake!

Jake has amazed me in writing today, he has really blown me away! He has worked so hard and come up with some amazing, imaginative ideas. Well done Jake, I am so impressed. Keep it up! 😊

Tuesday ✅

We have had lots of fun in Crew Welburn today. We’ve used saws and scissors to practice our cutting skills and create our castle in expedition, and had lots of fun outside at playing. We had lots of different games to play! 🌟

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Kairen 👏

Get smart: Heartley 👏

Be kind: Scarlett👏

HOWL Score: 3.2 We’ll try to work hard tomorrow.

It was so lovely to have our crew back together today!

We started off our new term with team building in PE. Miss Tabone shared that the children worked as a great team! They helped each other to complete the tasks and cheered each other on to show their support!

We listened to the story of the Wizard of Oz. In our creative area we were busy using shapes to make a house for Dorothy to live in after hers blew away!

Today’s HOWL hero is Sophia! She has had such a kind day, helping her friends and looking after her environment.

Our day in a nutshell…

We’ve had a busy first day back today and thrown ourselves into our work on the Wizard of Oz.  The experience day for the Write Stuff was a highlight with some great work on the characters and thinking about how to describe them and some of their motivations.

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.6

Our Weekly HoWL target is 2.9

I wonder if…

I wonder if we can all achieve a 4 for one of our HoWLs at the end of the day tomorrow and to support each other in our crew.

Today’s HoWL Hero…

Our Work Hard HoWL Hero today is Ethan!

Ethan has had a great day today and this has been noticed by everyone in the crew.  It would be hard to single out one aspect of the day that Ethan has modelled brilliantly for us so I’ll go with what I’ve loved the most about Ethan’s day.  He hasn’t stopped smiling!  This clear positive attitude really showed us all how easy it can be to work hard.  Great work, Ethan!

Welcome back Crew Gerrard, it has certainly been great to see you all again!

We’ve had a really productive first day back and tried our best to ensure that we’re back into a routine nice and quickly. We’ve been looking into reading The Wizard of Oz and have started our exciting writing about the film Gravity. I know that we had some great discussions, which was a highlight today. I’m really pleased with how well we picked up multiplying whole numbers by unit fractions, as well – you were super stars! Our HoWL Heroes for today are:

Work Hard: Evie for showing such a fantastic attitude to her maths and listening well all day – well done, Evie! 😁

Get Smart: Chloe for being a whizz at the maths and for really challenging her learning – keep it up, Chloe! 😃

Be Kind: Kian for listening and being in such a great mood all day, you’ve had a fantastic day – good job, Kian! 😄

Our HoWL average was 3.2 today, so it was a good start. I wonder if we can ensure that we are all quicker to listen and with our readiness, tomorrow?

It has been amazing seeing the smiling faces of Crew Shields back in school. I know that the children will be glad of the routine and structure that school provides as much as I do. We have eased ourselves back in gently today in Maths and Writing. The children demonstrated worked collaboratively to complete some learning tasks. I was very impressed with how much they have retained from fractions and understanding equal parts. Some children started making links between fractions and division. Amazing!

Crew Shields Average : 2.9

Targets for this week : 3.2

How can we improve?

To further improve, Crew Shields need to ensure that they always demonstrating active listening so they know what they need to do.

Crew Shields Work Hard Howl Hero – Lacey
Lacey blew me away today with how much she has retained in RWI and also with her reading of common exception words. This was very impressive. Well done Lacey.