Fantastic Friday! Crew Gerrard, both in class and online, have been working hard on their learning. I have been really proud to hear how well the children in class are settling into these unusual circumstances. You are adapting well and doing a great job. For those online, I cannot praise your perseverance enough, you are working really hard to overcome technical issues in order to complete your learning. You have made it really tricky to decide on our HoWL heroes, but they are:

Work hard: Kian for producing some detailed answers in reading 😁

Get smart: Zane for trying his best to understand the class text 😄

Be kind: Belle who always has a fantastic attitude. You make us all laugh 😀

Our HoWL average was 3.1!

Well done on getting through a tricky week. Have a great weekend!

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My star moment today was seeing how far the children have come in their reading lessons, they have made sure they answer every question by reading the question carefully. Our next target is to make sure we always read the text and find our answers from there. 😁📖📚

Average is: 3.2!👌🙌

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.1

How can we develop this tomorrow?

Crew Marsh need to continue to be more mindful of putting their hand up rather than getting out of their seat, and making sure that we are listening and following instructions the first time, we are improving on this every week and is getting better!

Today’s howl hero is:

Get Smart hero today is Aaliyah! 🙌

Aaliyah, has worked really hard all week! She has made sure all her work is looking neat and that she is giving 100% in her learning in all lessons! Well done Aaliyah! 😁✔

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

Work hard: Reece – for great work in developing his reading answers.

Get smart: Crystal – for brilliant engagement with lessons online.

Be kind: Maxi – for supporting and looking after children at break time.

🤩 We are super proud to say that our HOWL average today is 3.4! We’ve worked super hard to achieve this and we’re really now thinking about what each HOWL really means.

Another whirlwind of a week, how is it Friday already?!?

Highlight of the week:

I think I speak for the whole Crew when I say our highlight has been our expedition lessons this week! We have loved exploring our guiding question ‘What mysteries do castles keep’, and have looked at the different roles of people in the castle. We have been to Knight School, completed Princess Training and had a Royal Banquet complete with food, singing and battles! Check out our Week in Phase video to get a taste of what we’ve been up to!

Howl Heroes:

Work Hard: This goes to Tommy T for his brilliant morning sentence this morning, Tommy got stuck in with his work and created some beautiful work, well done!

Get Smart: This goes to Jake for his amazing answers about fact families in maths, great work!

Be Kind: This goes to Daisy for keeping the Crew in line today and organising playground games, well done!

Howl Average:

A much more respectable score of 3.2 today – well done to our online learners who earned all fours for their hard work today!

A great start to online learning for Crew Fox!

You had such a positive attitude to your learning, keep it up next week!

Todays HOWL score was 2.7

Todays HOWL heroes were…

Work hard – Alicia for a positive attitude to all the learning and being happy to share answers and ideas

Get smart – Jay for persevering through technical issues to achieve minimum standard

Be kind – Imogen for being a kind and respectful online learner

Friday ✅

Today we had some tricky maths to do in Crew Welburn. We tried really hard and got really smart finding 8 fact families for addition and subtraction. It was a little bit tricky, but we listened really well and we all succeeded!

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Charlie 👏

Get smart: Harriet 👏

Be kind: Charlie – as nominated by Lylah👏

HOWL Score: 3 You have made me really proud today Crew Welburn, keep it up! 🌟

Talkative Thursday! 😁

Today the children have been very chatty! Maybe the wind is to blame! ☁🌪

Star moment of the day: ⭐

This has got to be our Expedition lesson this afternoon. I absolutely loved seeing the different Roman mosaic designs that the children created. The children used a variety of colours to create some very creative designs. Watch this space for some photos of the crews fabulous work! 📸

Todays HoWL average is: 2.9

Another good score this week Crew Elmer! 🙌🤩⭐👍👏 However, I think that with less chatting tomorrow that we can improve this! 🤞

This week’s HoWL target is: 3.0

How can we develop this tomorrow? 

All crew members need to ensure that they are focused on their learning at all times tomorrow!

Today’s HoWL Hero: 

Today’s HoWL Hero was Ray! Ray was praised by lots of his crew members today for a number of reasons including being there for his online crew members when they wanted to chat, praising other crew members work, submitting every piece of work that he had completed at home and producing some great work throughout the day! Excellent work Ray! Well done!  💻👏⭐🤩🙌😁🕺

What a brilliant Thursday we have had in crew today!

The children celebrated their expedition learning by having a medieval banquet complete with our very own Lord and Lady! 🤴👸

They turned our class story “George and the Dragon” into an action sequence, sang songs and learnt how to bow and courtesy properly before the banquet began. They then enjoyed fresh fruit (thankyou kitchen staff) and crusty bread served to them by the servants (the teachers 😂)

We have had a brilliant day! Well done crew! X

Thursday ✅

What a lot of fun we’ve had this afternoon. We got to have our very own banquet with a king and a queen! We had a feast, were entertained by jousting and sword fighting, and we danced around our castle!

HOWL Heroes:

Work hard: Darcie 👏

Get smart: Lylah 👏

Be kind: Nathan 👏

HOWL Score: 2.7 We need to work on this tomorrow Crew Welburn.

We’ve had such an exciting day today! The alien wrote us a letter ❤ he is so scared and worried and has asked for our help. The children were so excited to receive the letter and set off to work straight away.

“Mrs Godley’s Crew

Please help me! Something terrible has happened! I went to visit my family on planet Venus for Christmas, but when I was travelling back to my own home on planet Mars, my Spaceship was hit by a giant rock flying through space!  My spaceship was badly damaged! It lost power and it fell quickly to planet Earth. I was so scared! My spaceship hit the ground and broke into lots of small pieces. Luckily my spacesuit protected my tiny body and I am still alive but my spaceship is broken and I don’t think that it can be fixed! I am lost and I feel very scared and worried. I have never been to your planet before. Everyone that I have seen looks strange – they don’t look like me at all!  I need your help. How can you help me? I need to get back to my family on plant Mars but I don’t know how to get there. I need you to help me to hide and to stay safe while I am resting on planet Earth. My arm is broken and it needs time to heal before I can travel back to Mars safely.

Thank you ,

Zig Zog,

Your new friend  from planet Mars”

This led us to explore the planet Venus – what did the planet look like where the alien was traveling from? We used pastels to create our own planets to share with the alien to make him feel welcome and show him that we want to help him get home to Mars. This sparked discussion about the alien and it’s appearance and what he might need to survive on such a hot planet! We wrote a letter back to the alien to gather more information. We then used our fine motor skills to sculpt what we thought the alien may look like, we know he is tiny!

Our crew today really has shown we are crew by their kind and thoughtful discussions around supporting the alien. Shania even offered to take the alien to the doctors to ensure his arm could be fixed ❤

Today’s HoWL heroes are:

Working Hard – Dylan. Dylna worked hard today with his art skills and carefully selected colours to represent the planet Venus.

Getting Smart – Lilly and Reggie. Both Lilly and Reggie worked hard today in quick maths to recognise and form numbers correctly. Reggie absolutely blew me away with how much he has been practising at home, keep up the great work!