Carcroft School

Lockdown incident this afternoon.

9th September 2026Stuart Longley

All children and staff are safe, and no ill intent was meant by anyone involved.

This afternoon, a small incident occurred at school on the exterior fields. Staff swiftly implemented the lockdown procedure, and all children were safely and calmly brought inside the building. The police attended as per school procedures to assist with the incident.

We would like to reassure parents and carers that all children and staff are safe and happy in lessons.

If anyone has any questions, please speak to me or email [email protected].

Thank you for your support,

Mr Longley

XP Outdoors – Den Building

9th September 2026Laura Godley

Crew Godley took their learning outdoors for an exciting den-building challenge! Working together, we used natural and recycled materials to design and construct our own shelter.

We had to communicate, share ideas, solve problems and support one another as we worked as a crew. We thought carefully about how to make our den strong, stable and weatherproof, testing our ideas and making improvements along the way.

This challenge encouraged us to demonstrate our HoWLs and Character Traits, particularly compassion, courage and craftsmanship. We discovered that successful crew work isn’t about one person doing all the work – it is about listening to each other, sharing responsibility and helping everyone to contribute.

Most importantly, we had fun learning outside, getting creative and challenging ourselves together!

Totally Value-able Maths

9th September 2026Hannah McLoughlin

In Crew McLoughlin, we have been working hard to develop a secure understanding of place value. We have been exploring the value of each digit in a number and using our knowledge to read, write, partition and compare numbers. We have enjoyed using practical resources and mathematical representations to help strengthen our understanding and explain our thinking.

Year 4 Football skills.

9th September 2026Gillian Gilliland

Year 4 put in fantastic effort during PE today, practicing their football control and dribbling skills.

What is play?

8th September 2026Nicola Robson

We have enjoyed our first few lessons of our new expedition.

Today we unpicked what play is. We talked about how play can take lots of different forms such as imaginative and individual. Most of all we agreed that play should be fun!.

This is the definition of play that some of our crew came up with together.

“Play is when we have fun with our friends. We are kind and respectful to others. We can be a crew when we play together.”

We then went on to produce some beautiful work all about what play is.

Great work CrewRobson

Fine motor skills

8th September 2026Tracy Haddock

As part of their morning task, they developed their fine motor skills by carefully threading pasta onto string. This activity helped to strengthen their hand-eye coordination, concentration, and control of small hand movements.

Place Value in Crew MI

7th September 2026Emily Ibbotson

What a week we have had in maths! Crew MI have been amazing mathematicians this week and showed great resilience when tackling some tricky problems. We have used the concrete resources to support us with our learning and have played some great maths games along the way. Keep this great up as work up to millions next week!

Booktalk in Crew FI

7th September 2026Emily Ibbotson

We have started our new book ‘Orion Lost’ and we are really enjoying it so far. We have unpicked new vocabulary, made predictions about what we thought the book would be about and what would happen next, we discussed how to answer a range of questions and played a game or true or false. We are really looking forward to reading chapter 2 next week.