On Monday this week, I spent some time in classrooms focussing on our HoWLS. I wanted to see if pupils were working hard to get smart. In particular, I was focussing on whether pupils had a positive attitude towards their learning and whether they were contributing when their Teachers were checking for understanding.
Pupils were focussed and engaged in every classroom. School was extremely calm and allowed for high quality Maths and English teaching to take place. Every pupil demonstrated at least ‘secure’ HoWLs with many demonstrating ‘Great’ HoWLs.
Foundation stage had circled up to reflect upon their HoWLs for the day before heading out into their beautiful new playground to burn off some of that Monday energy.
I spotted Y1 pupils getting smart in Maths by working together to understand how they can use their Maths knowledge to solve problems and our Y2’s were learning how to tell the time, in order to get smart.
In Crew Boswell, there was a fabulous buzz for learning when estimating angles. Children were showing such amazing attitudes towards learning.
Crew MI were working hard on their writing when I dropped in. The pupils were extremely focussed on getting smart using their writing plans during the time I was in.
Whilst in Crew Fox the pupils were drafting a stunning piece of writing using the Y6 framework to ensure it was of a high quality.
Both Crew Marsh and Crew Shields were checking out for the day. I loved listening in to the children’s reasoning behind their HoWLs, they articulated this so well referring back to their school day. Simply beautiful everyone!
What a lovely afternoon Mr Sharp and I had visiting our classrooms.
