Tuesday 5th February.
Our next Powerful Learner in February is also because of her excellent writing, and this little girl from Reception knocked my socks off with how independently she had worked to produce this piece.
Not only had she produced a wonderful drawing of a monster chasing a mouse, but she used her phonics skills to add the writing next to it; and she talked with great confidence to myself and Mr Young.
How good has this month been already, too great writers from too different age groups. Who will be next?
Friday 1st February.
Our first Powerful Learner of February has been selected because of some superb writing! In this text, which our Year Five star wrote at home, she demonstrated a sophisticated command of language, including some fantastic prepositional openers and conjunctions.
The whole piece of writing was extremely coherent and entertaining. I am delighted at how the children in Upper Key Stage Two continue to progress and recently I have read a number of excellent compositions.
I wonder who will wow me next?
Friday 25th January.
I was beginning to think that we didn’t have any Powerful Learners left at Miriam Lord, as it had been a while since we had added anybody to the blog.
But then I was greeted by this School Councillor from Year Three on Friday, who had produced a beautiful piece of writing based on the story Rumplestiltskin.
If you click on the link below you can listen to her reading the story. What do you think to the piece of writing? Are you impressed? Could you imitate any of her ideas?
Friday 11th January.
Have a look at our first Powerful Learner of the year! We are delighted at school that this Year Five girl has made an appearance on the blog, and it is a thoroughly deserved addition alongside our other powerful learners.
She decided that instead of relaxing over the Christmas holidays, she would continue working hard and stretching her learning muscles.
It was brilliant to see her so eager to share her learning with Mr Harrison. She had completed some rather challenging mathematics work, focused mainly on shape and space. Well done.
Wednesday 5th December.
It was quite an easy choice for our next Powerful Learners, and I do love it when it is a team of children who make it on to our blog. Yesterday, our Year Four children played in the local tennis-table tournament against schools within the Bradford SHINE Partnership. I am delighted to announce that they won the tournament, making everyone in the school feel very proud. See the main page for more details.
Friday 30th November.
Our next additions to the blog not only produced some terrific work, but showed great powers of collaboration in doing so, ensuring they were very deserved members of the Powerful Learners Blog.
These two Year One boys produced a Monster Book and couldn’t wait to share it with myself. What impressed me the most was they had used their artistic and literacy expertise, resulting in a lovely piece of independent work.
I can’t wait to see who makes it on to the blog next week.
Thursday 22nd November.
We have a group of Powerful Learners on our blog, as they were collaborating to make fruit kebabs. However, on closer inspection and through deeper discussion, it turns out that the kebabs were only the content of what was the true learning; as the children were learning to make repeating patterns.
What a great use of The Lab to develop children’s mathematical understanding in a practical context…fantastic stuff Year Two!
Friday 16th November.
I am pretty pleased to be adding this young man to our Powerful Learner Blog, and he must be relieved as he had been trying to show me his work for quite a few days but I was always stuck in meetings.
When we finally got chance to catch up, I could not have been more impressed as this young man from Year Five had been seamlessly linking his Literacy and Science skills to write a fantastic explanation.
This is a really good example of how using the making links muscle can help you succeed in a range of subjects and apply skills from one subject to another. Well done on this achievement.
Tuesday 6th November.
Mr Harrison was so impressed with one of the displays that he saw this morning, that he couldn’t resist adding some of the children who contributed to it to the Powerful Learner Blog.
And I have to say, that it is not only the quality of the art work that impressed me, but it was also the comments that the children added explaining what their rocket looks like and how it sounds in the sky.
Reception are Powerful Learners indeed – well done to everyone who has worked hard to create a rocket this week.
Wednesday 31st October.
I think it would be fair to say that yesterday, we have sixty Powerful Learners in Year Two! They were so unhappy with a decision made by the Headteacher to take away their provision in the Lab that they staged a protest. It was very well organised, very noisy and the children voiced their opinions with good justification. They were so good that Mr Harrison overturned the decision – well done Year Two!
Wednesday 26th September.
I would have to say that sometimes when you are a Headteacher, you have to be the bad guy. But today, one of the children from Reception was so upset with my dastardly antics that she decided to come and search for Captain Harrison. Because Captain Harrison had turned all the sea into grass, and had killed all of the fishes. What a rotter!
What I was so impressed with, was how determined she was to find me. She drew her very own map, and followed it all the way to my room. And I have to say, I am not used to getting told off, but she had no problem telling me exactly was she thought of my dastardly antics.
I promise our Reception children, and Miss Gibbins, that I won’t do it again and will try to be good in the future.
Tuesday 25th September.
Yesterday, I was greeted by a pretty pleased bunch of children from Reception, who were quite rightly feeling very proud of themselves. This was because they had been given the huge responsibility of being our Busy Bees and taking the register back to the office for the first time. From all accounts, they took their job very seriously, did not get lost and could be seen wandering the corridors with huge smiles on their faces. They should feel very proud indeed.
Friday 21st September.
I a delighted to announce that we have our first Powerful Learners on the blog for this year, and what a great choice. Our Year Five pupils have made an excellent start to the year, stretching their learning muscles and impressing staff with the quality of their writing. Mr Harrison was particularly impressed at how they used a range of purple adverbs and orange openers to make their recount engaging to the reader. Brilliant stuff and long may it continue.
I wonder who will be the powerful learner?If you want to be a powerful learner you need to work as hard as you can.
I agree.
that is wondaful mucan
I wonder who will be the first powerful learner in 5mb a boy or a girl.
Hmm…
Who would be the first powerfull learner in 5MB??
it might be no won you do never no do you
If you want to be a powerfull learner you have to work really hard and do your best at every subject and then you could be the powerfull learner.
The first Powerful learner in our class was………
Zaara! Alot of people in our class voted for her.
The way it works is we have to choose a few people and then they have wait outside,and we have to Vote for who we wont to be the Powerful Learner.
We voted for Zaara because she was using her questioning musle.Also she was answering a lot of Quesions.
Well Done Zaara you deserve to win!
Many congratulations to both of you. Hard work always pays off and I hope you are both very proud of your achievements.
We also use use colours for particular word choices, an idea I learned from Mr Harrison.
I look forward to seeing you as Powerful Learners again some time in the future.
Mrs Warner
Fieldhead Carr Primary, Leeds
Wow, what super writing. I am going to show my year 5 class your work so it will inspire them. I like the fairy dust too.
Ho will be thepowerful learn in 3hb.
I will be the powerful learn
I am so impressed with the geography skills of all the reception children. No Sat Nav’s for them. I’m sure the register will never be lost and I hope Captain Harrison has turned the sea back to water.
Some excellent learning muscles going on here a great tool to help in everyday learning and scaffolding for life. Just started to push this in my class using some new character friends to refer to. Look forward to seeing more powerful learners as the year progresses, keep up the good work Miriam Lord Primary looks fantastic!!!
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go to class 8 Mr MARSH to see my characters display!
Brilliant and exiting work, it sounds like good fun too !
Best wishes
Who will be ower powerful in 2fo
When i was on the blog the first time in year 5 and when i saw myself i was really shocked that i have never been on the blog before and how come i came on the blog. i thought i would never be able to come on and show my work.
First when i saw myself on the blog i could not blieve it it was my first time in 5mb………….!!!
Well that is very nice work and it is neat:]
You have done lots of work to come on the power learners blog:)
Who will be the power full lerner in 3hb .I hop in is me.
I am very happy that I am now on this powerful learner section I tried to show Mr Harrison my work but he was always in meetings finally I got to show Mr Harrison my work.
To be a powerful learner you have to work really hard and do the best you can.
To be a powerful learner you need to try your best and streach as meny of your learning muscles.
sumaya is so cute.
pepole try good to be a powerful leaner good luck
Reamber to only write your first letter in your name in capital letter.
I was the powerful leaner
Thay have been clabrat to do this soop work
I think having powerful learners is a good way to encourage children of all ages to persevere and work hard.It also allows parents to come and celebrate their childs achievments.I felt proud of myself when I was a powerful learner because I particulary worked hard that week and I deserved it!
Being a powerful learner requires stretching your learning muscles at home and doing extra work to please everybody at school. It only matters if the work is at the right quality level you should be working at. Only then you might be a powerful learner.
That is wright because you cant become a super learner just like that
A powerful learner is someone who has tried to participate more or really tried there best throughout all parts of the curriculum.And what we should do if we have noticed someone really trying their best is we should nominate them because they might have been trying really hard and tried to improve their work.
It is my lucky day today because i won a powerful learner certificate also the teacher chose five names from the pot and each of those five people got a certificate, sticker and a chocolate so i got two chocolates that’s why it’s my lucky day, wishing everyone a lovely half term
Who will be the next powerful learners in year 2
power full leaners are very good because they exstend there learning.
nice to sea some chefs.
I can sea medels i think theyv been workin very hard.
there are so much peaple workin hard what can i do for them
I wonder who will be the next powerfull learner?
I like to be the powfull learna
there are lots ov peple
There are lots of pepel
POWERFUL LEARNES HAVE BEEN EXTENDING THEIR LEARNING VERY MUCH.
I was elected to be a powerful learner