Crew Mandela have been working on their Student Led Conference work for the last two weeks. It has been amazing to see some of the work that students have been bringing out of expedition and into crew to reflect on how they have improved as learners.

This current SLC has a much higher demand from the students as they will be focusing on academic growth and devising strategies to improve as learners in the future. Crew Mandela are rising to the challenge of this and have made great steps to produce honest reflections on their habits of work and learning.

Written and posted by Charlie R.

This week in crew Mandela

• We researched the biography of Nelson Mandela after naming our after him. We researched key facts about Nelson Mandela,  we found out he was arrested for standing up for segregation and discrimination and he was put in jail for 27 years. A quote from Nelson Mandela that resonated with us all was:

‘I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free’

• We introduced our new WH GS BK feedback for inside our lessons this is for behaviour and conduct and so teachers can praise students.

Crew JSM have had a football focus on the world cup. With a focus on geography and sharing of knowledge of other countries cultures. Raven picked England for the sweepstakes, however Alfie picked the giant slayers and the favourite underdog Iceland! The crew favourite went to Corey who took Portugal. Tuesday crew will be missed for the Police coming in to give a talk about Internet safety for our students.

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Crew JSM have been working extremely hard this week to ensure all portfolio work is in order for the 2nd student led conference of XPEAST. Three students have already completed their conference in the first part of the week.

The craftsmanship and quality and professionalism of those who have already performed has been outstanding. In particular the reflections made by Frida on her ‘most proud’ work and ‘area to improve’ was particularly impressive, and a credit to her character growth since starting at XP in August 2017.

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.

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.