Last week, we had our first Academic Crew session, where all students were invited to present the work they’re most proud of to the rest of the Crew.  This was a lovely way for us to celebrate our Crew’s hard work, but to also offer some peer critique on the work shown.  This really helped Aden who was able to edit his HUMS work and make it even better!

Our Academic Crew Check-ins will happen every other week, with a different focus every session.  As a Crew Leader, it keeps me up to date with how my Crew are doing in lessons (which is really useful for SLCs), we can review their work together and set SMART targets for any improvements required.  These sessions are also a really good support network for those of us who may be struggling a bit in session.

We are having a Maths Masterclass next time – I don’t know about the rest of Crew, but I’ll certainly benefit from that 🙂

Eating jelly with chopsticks? Wrapping up students in toilet roll? It can only be Student Led Crew!

Big thanks to Megan and Nicole who organised today’s session, which was around the theme of Craftsmanship and Quality.  They set up different stations where we all had to think hard and carefully about the task, which included making a Mummy out of toilet roll, eating jelly with chopsticks, and drawing.  The best team from each station won a prize.

Well done everyone – Noah and Ali deservedly won the Mummy task!  Not one piece of toilet roll was ripped!  It was a lot a fun, but the serious message was to prove what you can achieve when you truly focus and spend quality time completing a task, rather than rushing.

Before we did our weekly pledge check-in, I shared some absolutely amazing work with the Crew, written by our very own Noah!

Just read the opening paragraph from Noah’s Humanities work, the task being to “use descriptive writing to capture a snapshot of Doncaster’s cultural heritage”:

Early, on a bright, warm, summer’s day, the sun shone down, radiating onto the St James’ Swimming Baths, waiting in anticipation for it’s doors to open, enticing families of all shapes and sizes, to an exciting place where joyful memories are made. The building stood proud and tall, with two, stone, brown beams at either side of the magnificent entrance, looking as good as new, yet being there for many years holding the towering rooftop up.

And it just gets better!

Next week the whole Crew will be sharing and discussing the piece of work they are most proud of to date (from Y8).  I can’t wait to celebrate our Crew’s achievements so far.

I’m also pleased to report, following on from our Crew Pledges from las week, punctuality has improved with just 2 lates this week – but that is obviously two too many!  Let’s get to zero lates next week 🙂