Reading makes you smarter. It has unbelievable benefits for academic achievement.
-It expands your vocabulary.
-It improves your communication skills.
-It develops your analytical skills.
-It is an effective memory booster.
Our crew have had a major focus on our accelerated reading sessions and books. We have focused on note catching and focusing on increasing our reading scores when re-testing. Students who have achieved a higher colour this week include Frida, Raven and Lewis.
The crew have taken over the planning this year. Our first crew led session was led Charlie and Corey in a great physical activity lesson, with a focus on capture the flag. They both used protocols extremely well during the whole session and showed great leadership!
Our second crew led session was planned and run by Frida and Holly. This was focused on integrity and craftsmanship and quality. The girls created an ingenious pledge board, made from McDonalds chip boxes. Each study then cut out card to represent chips and to document their own pledge.
Our final crew led session of the year was run by Chloe and Callie. Again, they put a tremendous amount of planning into the session and created a ‘make a stand’ board. Each student had an envelope pre-made with their favourite colour to hold and document future stands.
The quality of the planning, delivery and fantastic HOWLS of those students who participated is testament to the character growth happening in crew JSM.
I was lucky enough to join Mr Smith’s and Mrs Parker’s crew on clean up.
It was fantastic to see our students taking pride in the environment around school (even in the freezing cold), something I know will carry forward when the students are in the new building and XP East grounds.
This week was a busy week for crew JSM.
We are unfortunately the lowest attending crew in the whole of the XP Trust. This was very disappointing to both me as a crew leader and the crew as a whole. After discussion with out crew we have established a number of strategies to support those students with less than 95% attendance as a crew. We have a long way to go to get to the top of the attendance league table, but we are confident as a crew we will get there.
We have only one crew blog entry this week due to community meetings and staff days.
Wednesday 22nd (Written by Corey A.)
Today we talked about our new conduct sheet. This is the sheet that students who do not meet expectations are recorded on and reviewed inside crew. After that everyone went outside to do clean up service but then Mr Pearson’s crew had already taken the equipment. A few minutes later crew JSM went back up to crew to talk about what we wanted to be when we are older and leave school, for example; Lewis Hutton stated that ‘I want to be an F1 driver.’ After we discussed in a whip around what we needed to get to achieve these goals everyone turned to accelerated reading or taking a test for accelerated reading.
Crew JSM this week have been preparing for their student led conference (SLC). After our final session this week, all students are prepared, ready and confident. Crew JSM have all parents booked in and ready to attended. An outstanding comment of the week from Frida C in our last checkin is was ‘I am really confident and just excited to show my parents how hard I have worked’. All the folders are full and ready to be shown, bring on next week!
Crew JSM have kicked off the second half term with a series of sessions focused on preparation for their student led conference (SLC). The crew have taken control of blogging their own sessions to let you know a little more about what is going on in crew.
Written by Holly N.
On Monday in crew we did a check-in, with the question ‘what did we enjoy most about our two week holidays and what we did on halloween and bonfire night’. After that, we each got a post-it-note and wrote one of our character traits or howls that we need to focus on this term and identify for our SLC. Then we talked in partners and shared what we had written and discussed strategies of how to improve as a crew.
Written by Callie S.
On Tuesday in Crew we have been practising and preparing for our SLC’s (student lead conference). Before the half term break we practised greetings and now we’ve moved onto watching an example of past SLCs. In the video there are people doing the conference and talking to their parents about their work and how to improve and what they’ve done especially well in their portfolio.
Written by Chloe T.
On Wednesday in crew we had a check in question of ‘how do we feel about our student led conference’. Some of the crew said they felt excited about the chance to show work, some feel nervous about the challenge. We then worked on our portfolios and jumped on learning targets for improve our work. We focused on bringing all our pieces of work up to the highest standards our craftsmanship and quality.
