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!

NSPCC Maths Week ➕✖️➖➗

We’ve had lots of fun carrying out different maths challenges this week in Crew Godley. We’ve made our maths learning really fun by using practical activities to futher develop our number skills. We played parachute games, dominoes in Crew which developed our subitising skills and numicon bingo. Reggie was so excited when he won! We’ve had so much fun and topped it our with our number dress up day – Zach looked great with his numbered t-shirt!

Highlight of the week:

Our highlight of the week has to be our progress in phonics. Today the children who work with myself and Miss Tabone have really showed they have been working hard to get smart, by recalling all of their set one sounds and moving onto the next group. The Crew were so proud of them.

HOWL:

This week’s HOWL average: 2.9 We’ve had a very rocky week this week, after our notices and wonders in crew next week I am hoping we can all work on our pledges to get back into the threes next week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone 🙂

In Crew Mc this week we have been trying our absolute best to Work Hard in order to Get Smart… lets see how…

Maths week

We have loved building our confidence with decimals and being so proud to have completed so many reasoning and problem solving in our books, our explanations are improving day by day. We also have been completing extra arithmetic to consolidate learning to make it stick such as division, timetables and place value ✖➗

Expedition- CS3 Art

In our Expedition we have moved onto our next case study Art, which the children are very happy about! As you can see we have been practising our sketching techniques.

Crew

In Crew we also focused on ways we can control our emotions. Using controllers, we gathered strategies on how we can prevent and control ourselves when feeling red. Hopefully children can refer to these and use these controls in school and at home.

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Our proud moment🤩

We also had Mrs Fox pop into our lesson today and she was blown away at how hard we were working- she rated us as a 4 for Work Hard. We were all super proud of ourselves 😁😁😁 Keep it up Crew Mc you are amazing!

As promised, here are more photographs of another exciting week in Crew UKS2. Enjoy the weekend! 😆

Check out what we’ve been up to this week in Year One and Two!

It’s been a busy maths week in Crew Shields as we have continued to explore fractions and develop our arithmetic skills. We are continually trying to get smart by ensuring we are using the correct methods to solve problems. ✅

In crew, the children have had some brain teasers that has required them to really pull on their prior knowledge of number. 😀 It was lovely seeing them work together to solve the number puzzles and how they encouraged each other. 👍

In computing, the children were given the opportunity to practice their timetable skills by playing a range of timetable games. I love how the children supported each other to solve the calculations and how their confidence is building each week. We have some budding mathematicians on our hands. 😊

This week, we have been working really hard on maths. We have loved learning about decimals and the different ways we can represent and read decimals. It hasn’t always been easy, but we are now able to read decimals with thousandths. Our vocabulary is becoming really strong and we are confident explaining.

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In Writing, we have been completing a scientific report about the experiment we participated in, during Expedition. This has been something that has really challenged our thinking, which was to be like scientists.

During Expedition, we completed our experiment for the European Space Agency (ESA). They have loved designing their rockets and seeing if their prediction was correct. We thought that the bigger the surface area on a parachute, the slower it would fall. This did not come true and we need to figure out why our prediction was not accurate.

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During expedition, we started our 3rd Case Study, which is art. We loved being able to critique the art work in the fantastic book Where Once we Stood. We then even had a go at trying our own version of the images. We have also reflected on the mural that we are creating and have thought about how we can make this better. We have discussed it and then put our ideas into action.

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This week has been an odd week, as it has had one day less. We are keen to have an improved one next week. Our HoWL average for the week was 2.8! We really need to ensure that we are working hard all of the time.

Our Learning Legend was Keegan 😁

Our Golden Ticket winner for Handwriting was Emily! ✍

Have a great weekend, Crew Gerrard and remember, next week is a fresh start! 😆