This week has seen Crew Rowling settle into a routine with independently monitoring outstanding and completed work, Crew Hangouts and generally our new ‘normal’!
Crew Hangouts
It has been great to see more and more of Crew joining the Hangout to Check In and let us know how they are getting on and what they have been up to.
- Thomas was able to demonstrate the longest Lego building recorded yet (in Crew Rowling)
- Shawn had been trying his hand at clay modelling in order to create some of his favourite Pokemon- Magikarp!
- Ben continued to become the next superstar digital artist (I don’t know any famous ones!)
- Rhys built a scalextric with the help of his dad in order to keep him entertained over our extended weekend!
Check out some of their handy work:
We also found out that all of us had enjoyed baking goodies with our families and with this in mind referred back to one of our favourite programmes in order to create…
THE GREAT ROWLING BAKE OFF!
Entries were sent in with an accompanying taste rating from a family member. The image was then entered into the competition where we individually scored the bakes for two things:
- How does it look?
- Difficulty
Each aspect was given a score out of 5. 1 being easy and not very mouth watering!
Members of the Crew did not know which entry belonged to which person which meant their could be no biased voting. Just to get you drooling, here are the entries:
And after all of the votes were taken in, counted and verified. The winner was
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(not that she’s competitive AT ALL)
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MISS JOHNSON!
However, I was closely followed by Faith whose Easter brownies (which we decided looked like a picture taken from Pinterest) absolutely smashed ratings out of the park and we were all very upset they couldn’t be delivered electronically through the screen!
I was extremely proud of all of the Crew for taking part in the challenge, we even had a late entry from Logan who thought he would encourage his family to get into the baking spirit too!
We’e now decided that each Friday afternoon Check In will bring with it a new challenge which is to be decided at the end of each week. Next week we’re in for a real treat as we play the latest and upgraded version of a pub quiz; The Virtual Rowling Quiz!
Work does go on and on!
School might not be open but Home Schooling is in full flow! Crew Rowling have been working extremely hard and I have been incredibly impressed when checking in that all students are prioritising work according to deadlines and managing their time to ensure they are still experiencing the full curriculum (even if they do their favourite subjects first!)
Special shoutout this week goes to Harvey who is yet to miss a deadline! Harvey has even asked for more work! His organisation has been admirable- he has even been able to provide some helpful hints and tips for other members of the Crew! Wicked work Harvey, keep it up!
I have also been astounded by Lydia and Logan’s efforts. Both of them have worked hard to ensure all the work has been completed as quickly as they can, even when faced with illness. You two are Champs and we’re glad you’re feeling better, Logan!
Challenges we’re facing:
Having spoken to Crew on a number of different occasions, aside from missing school itself, our family and friends, the one challenge we are facing which we know we can find a resolution to was:
Understanding some of the work!
We’ve discussed ways to support this as we feel that our parents are spending long periods of time trying to support us (which we really appreciate) but we know this isn’t sustainable- as most of them have their own work to do too! What we’ve decided is that we are going to use each other more! We have experts in each of the subjects within our Crew and we know that they will always be there to support us in getting up the mountain together!
We have therefore decided:
- Crew Hangouts will be the place where students can express work they are struggling with and get instant support there and then (if it doesn’t require a long explanation).
- Miss Johnson can set up hangouts for students to meet to support each other.
- We can use the Hangout Chat function in order to ask for help whilst we are working on something and get an instant answer!
The students are going to trial this for the week and we’ll check in again next week to let you know how we are getting on!
Final message from us this week, we know its becoming a long hard slog, but… 