We have had an fab week in Crew Mcloughlin, we’ve been very busy! I think our brains deserve a well earned rest over the weekend as we have just improved as the week has gone on. Read on to see what we have been up to this week…

Crew Mc’s mission to decimal problem solving success

We thoroughly enjoyed our practical session, working collaboratively in mini Crews helping solve miss’s problems. The proof is in the pictures, they were definitely working hard, getting smart and being kind. ➕➖

Reading

Our book we are reading this term is See you in the Cosmos. Children gathered questions with their partner and hot seated Zed on his reaction in the story. We smashed it using our inference and prediction skills! We are continually working so hard to improve our confidence with expression in reading and being in the role of a character really helps with this.

Our HoWL average this week is 2.9… unfortunately, no spin on the HoWLopoly wheel this week. I wonder if we can improve our listening skills as a whole Crew to ensure no learning time is wasted 🤔

Congratulations to our Learning Legend Lexie! 😊

Check out what we’ve been up to this week in Key Stage One!

Working hard, getting smart and most importantly being kind a Crew UKS2! We’ve had a really fun week and here it is! 😆

This week has been an interesting week, in Crew Gerrard.

We have been working hard on our maths, continuing to work on our decimals. We especially loved our lesson on Thursday, after we had been practicing how to add and subtract decimals. During this lesson, we worked collaboratively as mini-Crews as part of challenge to solve the decimal problems. I am really proud of how hard Crew Gerrard worked and rose to the challenge!

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In writing, we have continued to write up our scientific report. This is a nice challenge and one that we’re eager to meet. We have been able to complete our first draft and have began to write up our second.

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In expedition, we have continued to work on our art skills. This week, we have been continuing to practice our drawing techniques, such as scumbling, sketching and using spirals. We have used these skills to also draw a space boot, from the book Where we once stood. The children have really challenged themselves. Here they are in action!

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It has been a really strange week in Crew Gerrard and I know that we are keen to improve next week. I know that we will and we are looking forward to a fresh start after the weekend. I wonder if Crew Gerrard can think carefully about how they will work hard all week?

Our HoWL average was 2.8 and our Learning Legend was Brayden! 😆

What a fantastic week Crew Elmer has had! We have done some great learning especially in writing with such creative minds. The children have worked hard to go above and beyond by smashing targets and improving in many ways this week.

Star moment of the week ☀ : 

This week’s star moment has got to be the way the children actively took part in learning about the muscles in our expedition lessons ‘Why is the body a miraculous machine?’. The children really enjoyed taking part in a series of activities including: a mindfulness activity; a cut and stick skeleton activity where they had to add muscles and label them; and also an active lesson using different exercises to see the effect on their muscles. The children had heaps of fun while learning key vocabulary about the muscles.

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This week’s HOWL average is: 3

We have reached last weeks target! We have smashed it this week but lets make sure we keep pushing for those 4’s to keep our crew average up there! Try to keep working on our ‘Get smart’ ‘Work hard’ and ‘Be kind’ to ensure we are progressing in our HOWL scores! Overall Crew Elmer has had a great week and has stood out by making sure that they are all working hard.

This week’s HOWL target is: 3.1

We can develop this week by focusing on being kind as we move into our new crews next week. Make sure we are including everyone and pushing to work hard together so we can strengthen our crews.

Today Learning Legend is: Jazmin. Jazmin does not always find learning easy and sometimes lacks the confidence in her ability. However, she should not have any doubts as she has been working incredibly hard this half term already and this is enabling her to make massive progress especially in her writing and arithmetic. She has a great positive attitude towards her learning and her confidence is blossoming! She is participating more in class and this is allowing her to gain the maximum amount of learning and knowledge from each lesson. Keep this up Jazmin and continue to believe in yourself because you can do it and you sure are brighter than you believe! Well done Jazmin! 

This week’s HOWL Heros were: Kacey-leigh, Frankie, Laila, Jazmin and Ray.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend! I will see you all on Tuesday (when I am back in class), refreshed and ready to learn.

Highlight of the week:

This week has been fantastic in Crew Welburn. We have worked really hard on our HOWLs, and as a treat, we had a special visitor – Teddy! We had so much fun playing with Teddy in the playground and on the field, and we worked on our throwing skills. We even made sure that we were still working hard in all of our lessons, even though Teddy was in the room. Miss Welburn was really impressed!🐾🐾

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Lylah

Get Smart: Charlie

Be Kind: Jamie

My learning legend for this week is Evie England. Evie has worked really hard with her writing this week. She has practiced saying her sentence to adults, to her partner and to herself to make sure she remembers what she is writing, and then has written it using beautiful writing in her writing book. Not only has she done this and met gold standard, she has then challenged herself to deepen the moment and meet green standard. Well done Evie, it is fantastic to see you focusing so well on your writing.

HOWL Score: 3.5 Well done Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.5 Well done Crew Welburn, this is amazing!

We had what was probably our best session yet and I am incredibly proud of the progress we are making. Crew G and Crew Mc continue to blow us away! This week, we learned how to dive into the water and we had lots of children move up a group. This shows how far we have come since our first session! This was a really tricky day for choosing our Swimming Super Stars, but in the best possible way:

Kai was amazing, because he showed fantastic resilience to be able to swim on his back. He never gave up (Crew G)! 😀

Amelia for building her confidence up – you continue to go from strength to strength (Crew G)! 😁

Lila for being able to overcome her ‘fear’ of having water in her face. She even managed to jump into the deep end (Crew Mc)! 😃

Abigail M for being such an enthusiastic swimming pupil (Crew Mc)! 😄

My favourite moment of today was all of the children who managed to jump in from the deepest part of the pool. This was quite nerve wracking for some of our pupils, but the absolutely smashed it! Keep it up guys, we love seeing how happy it makes you all! 😆

From September we’re going to be bringing back music lessons! Will your child(ren) be in year 4, 5 or 6 from September? Are they interested in music?

Then check out our music letter for more details.

We have had such a lovely start to May! The children have worked so hard.

Maths week for NSPCC

We have had lots of fun this week exploring number! We started the week by counting how many pieces of fruit we need in a smoothie!

They were so yummy. We like how they tasted sweet and fruity. We also got to talk about colours, the children suggested which fruits made our smoothie green and were surprised to hear that it was a vegetable!

We have also been working as a crew to represent numbers using ourselves! The children used their counting skills to get into groups of different amounts.

Our maths has been so exciting, even Farmed Duck wanted to get involved! He sent us a letter and a list asking for some maths equipment! The children counted out the items ready to send to him!

Crew Challenge

How many numbers can you spot over the weekend? See how many numbers are in your environment and bring a picture to school on Monday to show your crew!

Shoutouts!

Oliver – after a tricky week Oliver got to green today! He blew the adults away with his recall of Farmer Duck, ‘How goes the work?’

George and Charlotte – when asked why we sit in a circle George shared that it is what makes us special and Charlotte said this is what makes us a crew.

Rose and Thomas – the adults in Crew have seen a big change in these two this week. There confidence is really starting to shine through!