Welcome Back! 🖐 What a lovely first day back it has been in Crew Elmer!

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s ‘star moment’ has to be our art work this afternoon. I was blown away with how hard the children tried with their designs. They used some really great patterns and thought about the different colours that complimented each other. Great work Crew Elmer!

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Todays HoWL average is: 2.9

A great HoWL score for our first day back especially as we had a couple of absences! Fingers crossed we can get this to a 3.0 tomorrow! 🤞

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 Lacey-Niia! Lacey-Niia was chosen by myself and the rest of her crew for ‘working hard’ ALL day! From the moment Lacey-Niia entered the classroom this morning she was focused and on task. She has had an amazing day and achieved ‘Gold Standard’ in every lesson. I have honestly been blown away! Great work today Lacey-Niia! We are all very proud of you! 🙌🤩👏👍

The sun has been shining down on us for our first day back after Easter, and what a brilliant day we have had!

Highlight of the day:

We critiqued the castle we made before half term and decided that we could make it even better, so today we started to paper mache a strong base for the castle to stand on – very messy but very fun!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Toby for reading a whopping 9 times over the holidays, well done for working so hard Toby!

Get Smart: This goes to Daisy for always demonstrating green standard in everything she does, fantastic work Daisy!

Be Kind: This goes to Debbie-Mae for being a kind crew member and taking care of others at dinner time, well done!

Howl Average:

3.3 – a great start to the week!

Star moment

Star moment today was our PE session, as a crew everyone was improving their speed and working as a team to give each other feedback and support each other. Well done Crew Marsh this is great to see! 😊

Average is: 3.1!

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh’s target for tomorrow 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 Mia!

Mia has been superstar in PE today, she has really impressed us all with her new found confidence and how she now enjoys her PE sessions.. Well done Mia!!😁😁

Today has been a very manic Monday! We have welcomed all children back after not only half term but isolation as well. The children have worked extremely hard and have been a real credit to the school today.

They have reset their crew expectations and have spoken about how we can all work together to improve our daily HOWL score. We discussed working hard and getting smart during this last term within year 2!

Well done everyone. Bring on the half term and the great learning we are going to be experiencing.

Monday✅

It has been brilliant being back in the classroom with all of the children today. SO many smiling, happy faces! We’ve really enjoyed making our base for our castle today. We had to use paper mache to make it nice and strong. It made our hands really sticky though! 🌟

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Tiarna 👏

Get smart: Harrylee 👏

Be kind: Frankie 👏

HOWL Score: 2.9 We’ll try to work hard tomorrow.

Dear Parents/Carers,

I hope you are all having a lovely break with the children. I am just starting to plan for our return from Monday next week.

When we return after Easter we are going to trial the following times for start and finish:

Monday to Thursday:

Start: Children to arrive in a ‘trickle fashion’ between 8.25 and 8.35. Doors will close just after 8.35. Please ensure that your child is on time. We had a number of pupils arriving late and it adds pressure to the admin team.

Finish: Doors will open from 3.00 and again, children to be collected in a ‘trickle fashion’ between 3.00 and 3.10. Children should be collected by 3.10.

Friday:

Start: As above

Finish: Doors will be open at 12.45 and children to be collected between 12.45 and 1.00pm.
Childcare for working parents will continue to run until 2pm for those parents who have signed up for this.

Unfortunately, the only way for us to cover Teaching Staff planning time is by finishing slightly earlier on a Friday. In terms of cover, our staff team will be used to cover in another class if it really is needed. Due to having 15 staff out at the same time, we just don’t have enough staff to cover without moving staff about. We hope you understand the decision to continue with this for the next half term.

Please may we remind parents that in order to reduce the volume of traffic on site at any time, parents should arrive during the times outlined above and should not use the playground to wait for long periods of time. This was done really well before Easter- thank you for this.

Finally, may we remind parents that when dropping off/picking up, parents should come unaccompanied (you can bring younger siblings though). But we want to continue to avoid having large groups of adults on our site and finally, please remember to wear your face covering unless your are exempt.

See you all on Monday,

Miss Laing

See what the XP Trust have been up to this week. Some stunning art work showcased in this weeks feast of beautiful work! ♥️

As always, it’s a pleasure to see our fab CPS pupils featured in the montage. ⭐️

https://youtu.be/J1LSr-bPQQs

Check us out strutting our stuff on our non uniform day! There are definitely some supermodels in the making in our Crew!👇🏻

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you are aware, we are joining the XP Trust very soon- we are hoping this will be no later than the 1st June 2021.

When we consulted with parents back in the Autumn, we had shared that we would follow the Doncaster Holiday pattern for 2021/2022. However, since then, the XP Trust have adapted their calendar and the two are now very much aligned.

Now that this is the case, I’m writing to parents to propose that we align our calendar in the new academic year rather than waiting for another year.

However, you will notice that one of the differences with the calendar is that the XP Trust have 10 staff days (INSET days) opposed to the Local Authorities 5 days. These staff days would be an opportunity for our staff to work with staff from the other XP Schools. One of the ways in which the days would be utilised would be to allow staff to work collaboratively in order to plan even better expeditions. Expeditions take a considerable amount of time to plan so the additional 5 days have been welcomed from our staff team who are working hard to provide a high quality curriculum within the time given. In addition, all trust CPD will also take place on these days, and again, CPS would love to be a part of this from the start if possible. I hope that parents can see why having the additional 5 days to work with the trust would be a fabulous opportunity for us as a school in 2021/2022.

I’ve attached the XP calendar, along with the Doncaster one. Hopefully, you’ll see that the two are very similar so hopefully this won’t cause too much of an inconvenience for parents. However, if this calendar change would effect you, please let me know by completing the Google Form as this will help me to make a decision as to when to switch calendars- 2021/2022 or 2022/2023.

Please could any feedback be provided by Monday 12th April so that we can then finalise our calendar for 2021/2022 and share this with parents and carers. Please find link attached below along with the calendars.

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https://forms.gle/A38v11NWw3wfY6547

Thank you in advance for your co-operation and support.

Miss Laing