Thank you so much to all those who have already sent sponsor money in for the tough runner/mudder event for this Friday.
CHILDREN ARE TO COME IN THE CLOTHES YOU ARE HAPPY TO GET MUDDY AS THEY WILL GET MUDDY.
PLEASE ALSO SEND IN A CHANGE OF CLOTHES, TOWEL AND A SPARE PAIR OF TRAINERS PLUS A CARRIER BAG TO PUT THE MUDDY CLOTHES IN 💙
Sponsorship forms have been shared with all pupils. Alternatively, you can send sponsor money into school in a an envelope with your child’s name on.
Please note the event is with an external company so we have paid for this event, so we really do need to raise as much as possible for this amazing memory for the children.
What a fantastic start we have had to our first week back in Crew McLoughlin! And we’re only part way through the week! 😄
We have been busy getting back into the swing of school, reconnecting with our friends and beginning to explore our crew guiding question:
How can we work together to achieve an end goal?
Miss McLoughlin was super impressed this morning when some of the children could already remember our guiding question! We have been discovering that reaching an end goal takes teamwork, perseverance, listening, concentration and sometimes a few attempts before we get there.
🍬 The Jelly Baby Challenge
We completed our Jelly Baby Challenge and the children were SO excited! Their challenge was to work together to keep their jelly babies safe while resisting the temptation to eat them. Amazingly, our jelly babies survived… although there were definitely a few very suspicious sniffs and licks! 😂
🎶 Copycat Orchestra
We put our listening and attention skills to the test with Copycat Orchestra. The children had to listen carefully, concentrate and copy the sounds and actions. It was lots of fun and a great way to practise the skills we need when working effectively as a crew.
➕ Maths Board Game
We have also been developing our arithmetic skills through a maths board game. The children tackled challenges, shared their thinking and enjoyed a little bit of friendly competition along the way!
Fun at Break
There has been plenty of time for fun too! The toy cars and playing on the tyres have been a big favourite, alongside lots of imaginative games of mums and dads. It has been lovely to see the children settling back into routines, enjoying their play and reconnecting with one another.
📖 Who Are We?
We read My Name Is Not Refugee and used it as a starting point to think about identity and what makes each of us unique. The children then created their own identity portraits, using adjectives to describe themselves. It was wonderful to see the range of thoughtful and positive words they chose!
🎢 Marble Run Rollercoasters
Our marble run rollercoasters have really tested our teamwork skills! Working successfully as mini crews was trickier than we thought and we definitely discovered that achieving an end goal doesn’t always happen straight away. But we’re not giving up! After our debrief, we’ll be having another go tomorrow. We’ll think about what worked, what didn’t and what we can change to make our teamwork even stronger.
And this is only so far… there is still plenty more to come this week! We can’t wait to see what else Crew McLoughlin can achieve together. 💪🌟
What a fantastic start to the new school year for Crew Godley! We are truly embracing our first week back, working together to build a strong Crew and lay the foundations for a successful year ahead.
We have begun exploring our Character Traits of Compassion and Respect, thinking about how we can put these values into action and create beautiful work in service of others and our school community.
Our first act of service was giving some much-needed love and attention to our Quad, which had been feeling the effects of the recent dry weather. We worked together to care for our shared space and make it a welcoming environment for everyone.
Getting to know one another has been another important part of our first week. We worked together with a parachute challenge, learning each other’s likes and dislikes, whilst trying to keep a ball moving on the parachute. It certainly tested our teamwork, communication and perseverance!
Today, we created Kindness Stones, linking beautifully to our Character Trait of Compassion. These stones will be hidden around our school grounds for some lucky Carcroft Crew members to discover. We hope that finding a little message of kindness will brighten someone’s day!
It has been a brilliant first couple of days for Crew Godley. We are already showing compassion, respect, teamwork and courage, and we can’t wait to see what we can achieve together this year.
Crew White put their teamwork skills to the test with the Spaghetti and Marshmallow Challenge. Working in small groups, the children were given a simple collection of materials – spaghetti, 1m of masking tape and a marshmallow. Their challenge? To build the tallest freestanding structure could that could hold one marshmallow.
It wasn’t as easy as it looked! There were collapsing towers, changing plans and plenty of problems to solve along the way. The challenge gave us a great opportunity to think about what it really means to be Crew: listening to everyone’s ideas, communicating clearly, persevering when things go wrong and making sure nobody becomes a passenger.
We learned that the first idea isn’t always the best one and that sometimes, when the learning gets tough, taking a breather can really help. We had to adapt, learn from our mistakes and try again – an important lesson as we begin Year 6.
We have had lots of fun over the last couple of days settling in to our new classroom with our new grown ups. We have welcomed some new members of our crew to Carcroft Primary School and we are so excited about our year ahead!
We have spent time familiarising ourselves with the classroom environment and the resources within it, making sure that we are being our kindest selves by sharing with our friends, and we have been working really hard on showing our beautiful sitting on the carpet, making sure that we are ‘Being Kind’ at all times to the grown ups and our peers.
What better way to begin a new year than by facing a challenge together?
Today, Crew White took on the climbing apparatus, challenging themselves to travel across, over and under obstacles, balance at different heights and find their own routes through the course. For some, the biggest challenge was physical. For others, it was finding the courage to try something that initially felt uncomfortable or frightening. We saw children overcome fears, take sensible risks and discover that they were capable of more than they first thought.
Most importantly, nobody climbed alone. Crew mates encouraged one another, offered advice, celebrated successes and supported those who needed a little more confidence.
It was a fitting way to begin our Year 6 journey and explore our question:
How can we help everyone reach the top of the mountain?
There will be plenty of different ‘mountains’ to climb this year. Today reminded us that reaching the top isn’t just about our own success; being Crew means helping others get there too.
