After absolutely storming up the HOWLs league tables this term, we have taken some time to reflect on our grades and discuss how we achieved them (‘what worked well’) and what we could’ve done to improve even more (‘even better ifs.’) As ever, there has been some real insightful, honest and mature reflections from Crew. For example, Noah stated that although he was very proud of Crew HOWLs and his attendance/homework hand-in rate, he realised that he could do more to raise his academic HOWLS by sharing his learning more in class.
We also discussed how we need to up our game even more this term! Crew have set their own targets for this term, both in terms of the HOWLS they want to achieve and improvements to their learning behaviours. We will check-in on these during our academic crew sessions, and hopefully – with the support of Crew – everyone will reach, or exceed, their personal targets.
In other news, Ali kindly offered to lead a Crew baking session last week, but with a bit of a twist: each team would be judged Bake-Off style by myself, Miss Haughey and Mr Smith!
We judged the cupcakes on appearance, taste and decoration. There was some questionable use of food colouring, but Team Mountain Climbers (Megan, Aden and Bryn) presented us with a chocolate delight and were crowned Star Bakers.
Massive appreciations to Ali for organising, for Crew for working so well together in the kitchen, especially during the cleaning-up process (trust me; it was messy!), and to my fellow judges (it’s a tough job, and all that…)
