It’s been a busy first day back for us today.  From creating storyboards to break down the myth of Romulus and Remus to practising our written methods for division, we even managed to squeeze in a little work on logos and had a brief introduction to the heroic (or evil) Boudicca!  The definite highlight for everyone has to be their perseverance with the division problems.  They’re certainly tricky!

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.9

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

I wonder if…

I wonder if we can continue to take pride in all of our work tomorrow to make sure that we’re all producing beautiful work.

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Work Hard today is Freya!

Freya has had a great first day back today.  She has focused on her learning throughout the day and hasn’t been afraid to ask for help (after having a good go by herself first) when she has struggled with certain bits.  Keep going, Freya!

What a fantastic start to the first day of a new half term. There has been a really lovely atmosphere throughout Crew Gerrard today and I’m really pleased to hear about the learning that has taken place today. It has been such a great day. It’s been a tough choice, in the best possible way to pick our HoWL heroes and they were:

Work Hard: Evie for excellent maths work 😁

Get Smart: Ellie-May for persevering with the maths work and trying her very best 😃

Be Kind: Lucas for helping Coach Shelley during PE 😄

Our HoWL average was 3.0 and I really hope we continue to build on this fantastic start to the week! 😆

Monday ✅

We have had such a lot of fun today! We got to be pirates in a swamp this morning with Coach Dylan in PE and we had to use our teamwork skills to steal the treasure from his pirate ship. Then, we got to be knights and have a fierce battle this afternoon to see who was the best army to attack and defend the castle! 🏹🛡⚔

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Heartley👏

Get smart: Frankie👏

Be kind: Lylah 👏

HOWL Score: 3.3 Well done Crew Welburn! I’m so proud of your score today! 🌟🌟

We have had a brilliant first day back in Crew Wilson, it was great to see everyone back after half term!

Highlight of the day:

We have finally used our swords and shields to have our very own battle in the playground! We had to either attack or defend our castle with our weapons and deployed battle tactics to make sure we beat Crew Welburn and won!

Howl Heroes:

🟥Work Hard: This goes to Mia for her positive attitude to learning today, she has come in and got straight on with all her work, well done!

🟦Get Smart: This goes to Daisy for her fantastic answers in expedition, she has a wealth of knowledge because she is always actively listening, great work!

🟩Be Kind: This goes to Eva for being so kind to her friends on the playground and her teachers in the classroom, keep it up!

Howl Average:

A fab start to our week with a 3.5 – let’s see if we can maintain this all the way to Friday!

Happy Monday! 😁

Today has been a great first day back for Crew Elmer despite us all being very tired first thing this morning and wanting to be back in bed! 💤

Star moment of the day: ⭐

Today’s star moment has got to be our Expedition lesson this afternoon. I was blown away with the children’s enthusiasm to learn about Boudicca and Julius Caesar as part of our Expedition learning on ‘Why remember the Romans’. The children loved reading the interesting facts and watching the different video clips including the Horrible History songs. I was also impressed with how well the children took notes. 😁👏⭐👍🙌 The children are going to use these notes and the knowledge that they gained from today’s lesson to help them to create a fact file on either Boudicca or Julius Caesar. Keep an eye on our blog because I don’t think that you will want to miss these!

Todays HoWL average is: 3.1

A great score to start this half term! Well done Crew Elmer! 🙌⭐🤩

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

Crew Elmer need to make sure that they keep up the good work and remember their HoWLs at all times of the school day.

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Laila. Laila was praised by a few crew members for working hard and for being kind at lunchtime outside on the playground. I chose Laila for HoWL hero for working hard in maths this morning. Sometimes Laila struggles with maths, however this morning she just grasped the concept being taught really well and demonstrated an excellent understanding of division. After being shown the ‘bus stop method’ once she picked it up and was able to apply this technique to answer a range of division calculations independently. She also got on to the reasoning and problem solving questions and completed them all! She was incredibly proud of herself and so she should be! Well done Laila! 👏⭐

Today, we could’ve given anyone HOWL hero… but the lucky 3 were:

Work hard: Kelby – for fantastic effort in her Math’s

Get smart: Keegan – for great work on equivalent fractions.

Be kind: Sophia – for helping out her team in P.E.

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 3.1! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means.

✨Star moment✨

Star moment today was having the children back in class, it was great to see them all after a well deserved rest and it was even better to see how much learning the children had remembered from before half term. Keep up the hard work Crew Marsh!!  👍👍😊

Average is: 2.8

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh need to continue to make sure they are fully concentrating on their learning and listening to instructions and making sure they are not chatting whilst completing work.

Howl hero: 

Work hard hero today is Jessica!

Jessica has really impressed me today, she has really knuckled down and concentrated on her learning, making sure she is working hard and listening to all instructions carefully! You have made me feel so happy today! 😁💕💕

Manic Monday! Today in crew the children have been straight back into learning and steaming ahead writing a non-chronological report. No rest for us as we start the new half term. We have come back rested and ready and the children have been little superstars all day. We haven’t stopped. 🙂  We have been pulling all our knowledge about castles and medieval times to create a report for the year 3 children to read. They are going to be amazed at our interesting facts!

We have then continued our expedition topic and looking at materials in science. We have sorted objects into groups and looked closely at how we can group certain objects using their properties. We have found rocks and stones would definitely be no good for building a boat!

The children have had a combined HOWL score of 2.7 today. Keep up the great work year 2!