Daily Archives: February 12, 2021
Check out the video below to see what we have been up to in Key Stage One this week:👇🏻
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We have had a thrilling Thursday in Crew Wilson!
Highlight of the day:
Finishing our shields in the afternoon expedition lesson, as the crew collaborated so well on their designs, ensuring they were beautifully decorated but also reflected their personalities, and they also got the classroom back into ship shape without being asked! We have really enjoyed making our weapons and we cannot wait to test them out in our battle after half term!
Howl Heroes:
🟥Work Hard: Dalton and Luke for their perseverance and concentration in phonics today, we managed to get through our whole session super quickly and had time to practice reading 25 tricky green words, well done boys!
🟦Get Smart: Mia for her consistent improvement towards her listening and attitude to learning, you have had a fantastic week, keep it up Mia!
🟩Be Kind: Jake for working well alongside others and offering his help when he could see people were struggling, well done Jake!
Howl Average:
3.4 – a great end to our week, still not the fabulous 4 we had hoped for but watch this space after half term!
Exciting news!
We are not yet an XP trust school but it won’t be long now. Therefore, the trust have invited us to be a part of their ‘This Week in the Trust (TWITT)’ video collection. A very exciting way for Carcroft to end a very busy half term…
We are proud to be working with the XP Trust and it’s lovely to be a part of this fabulous weekly showcase. Can you spot anyone from CPS?
This will become a weekly event and will be posted on our website every Friday afternoon. Not only does this go out to our school, this goes out to all XP schools so your child’s beautiful work really is on show across the whole of Doncaster. Amazing! 🙌 Proud of you all 🤩
Finally, may I take this opportunity to thank you for your support and patience this half term. Unlike the media suggests, CPS is very much open this term and has been since our return in January. Our staff are juggling around 220 pupils onsite daily and a further 90 at home. I am extremely proud of each and everyone of them. They’ve done a fabulous job! However, we are also extremely grateful to our parents who are supporting our remote learners, ensuring that they are online and submitting work daily. We know it’s not been an easy task for you. Your resilience and patience has been amazing- thank you so much for this. Ensure you get plenty of rest next week too as you deserve it.
I’m now signing off from what has been a tiring half term but I’m signing off feeling incredibly proud of our community once again.
Stay safe everyone.
See you all back on Monday 22nd February either on-site or online.
Miss Laing
Pancake Thursday
Highlight of the Day:
Today we explored pancake today and why we celebrate it.
We were lucky enough to have Miss Thiede who is an exert pancake maker help us to make our very own! We thought carefully about the ingredients we would need, where these ingredients came from and what happens to them when they are mixed.
We had great fun and they tasted delicious!
HoWL Heroes
Today I couldn’t choose one HoWL hero. Our crew all worked so hard today so we decided that we would all have a HoWL hero point for being kind and working hard together, as a crew! Well done everyone, have a lovely half term holiday.
Parents of children eligible for Free School Meals can apply for help towards their energy costs (gas & electric) through the Covid Winter Grant.
Many parents have already applied and received an award but many others have not.
Duplicate applications are not permitted but if anyone has not yet applied they can find more information and apply using this link;
https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/doitonline/apply-for-a-covid-winter-grant
Wonderful Wednesday ✔
Highlight of the day: Children worked hard today in our Write Stuff lesson, using the ‘noticing’ lense. We have really enjoyed the story ‘Bringing down the Moon’ and we thought about how mole looked and felt. Many of us had not seen a mole before so this led to some interesting discussions and internet research. We also spotted the moon when we were on our daily moonwalk, we concluded that we wouldn’t be able to bring it to earth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mop5HjxFOu0&t=7s
We explored the word ‘reflection’ and SJ demonstrated he was ‘getting smart’ by using what he already knew to explain how mole could see himself in the water.
We had some beautiful work produced ❤
HoWL heroes:
SJ and Shelby for their beautiful writing, they worked independently and thought carefully about the steps they needed to take to ensure they were successful.
We had such a busy day in nursery yesterday! We had a lovely baking day to finish the week 👩🏻🍳🧑🏼🍳 We made heart biscuits for our valentine and we made pancakes for pancake day next week 🥞 We learn so much through baking activities and the best part is we get to eat them 😋 We covered maths skills when we measured the ingredients, trying to be careful to add the correct amount. We used a rolling pin to roll the mixture and a cutter for the heart shape which is good for our physical development 💪🏼 We discussed where the ingredients come from and observe what happens when we cook them. Sooo much learning 🤩
We continued our name writing practice, ensuring we are using the correct pencil grip and forming our letters in the right way. We have some children well on their way to being able to write their name without their name cards! Superb! 🤩
A group of children did some mark making with Mr Jones where we learnt to draw a dragon 🐉 We talked about the different shapes we would need and the features on a dragon such as his ‘prickles’ and fire out his mouth! Fantastic work!
Finally, it was a lovely surprise to walk into the classroom and be greeted with a huge ‘happy birthday’ from the children for my birthday next week. Thank you Mrs Godley and all the foundation staff for making it special 💕
