Today we have continued our SATs prep from last week, practising our grammar skills and practising more maths! We have also began to explore content for our SLCs next week, looking through our books to find beautiful work we are proud of! This week we will begin our scripts ready to present to our parents/carers.
Category : Crew Blogs
Hook Week – We Found a Time Capsule!
Last week, Crew Nursery were given a letter and a treasure map from a child, Tom, who attended Carcroft School a long time ago! They followed the map to the forest school and found a time capsule! In the time capsule, Tom had put things inside to remind him of his family holiday to Cleethorpes. Crew Nursery loved exploring the objects and looking at Tom’s photographs! They are excited to learn about Tom and what seasides were like in the past!
No study sessions this week (wc 25/4/22)
We have our Expedition celebration on Wednesday 3:30 – 4:30 so there will be no study sessions this week.
Hook week in Year 1!
This week in Year 1, we’ve been hooked into our new expedition: Diverse Doncaster, Where do we belong?
We’ve had a visit from our expert, Geoff, who showed us our school and the surrounding area using his drone…
Then we discovered a time capsule full of objects and photos from the past!
And finally, we experienced what our school would have been like in Victorian times! We learnt all about the rules and what happened if children didn’t follow them. It’s safe to say that we prefer our school now, not in the past!
We can’t wait to show you what else we get up to in this expedition!
Crew Godley’s week of excitement!
What an exciting and extremely busy first week back! We have kicked our expedition off in style by working with an XP expert, Geoff. Geoff came into crew to show us how a drone worked to enable us to take aerial photographs of our school and local community 📷 🏫 We learnt so much and had an amazing time watching the drone, including a few of its party tricks!
This was followed by a discovery, a time capsule, dated back to the 1900’s (just as Mrs Godley was born supposedly 👀😊) Inside there were many artefacts which enabled us to put our historian skills to use. We discovered many things about the past and how the objects have evolved in present time.
Today, well, that was a different story completely! When we came into crew this morning we discovered that the boys and girls were not allowed to sit next to each, talk, ask a question or even put their hand up! Can you imagine! The children sported school uniform across the eras and looked fantastic. The era we travelled back today was the Victorian era and the children embraced it wonderfully even accepting the challenge of writing their names 20 times for their morning task. Mr Longley terrified us, dining he black cape and cane. His acting skills had us in the edge of seat not knowing what would come next. We’ve had a wonderful day which I’m sure the children will love telling you all about 😊 Have a fantastic weekend everyone and see you all on Monday for some more fantastic expeditionary work 🧭🗺
Hook Day 3 (21.4.22) 🍬🍭
LKS2 had a morning of designing labels for their final product. Before completing this activity, we wondered what made a good logo/design. We had some great ideas such as bright colours, it being simple and eye catching.
We then watched Austin’s butterfly, to use the language of critique to help see how we could make ours and others’ work better. The children really took to this, as they provided clear critique for their peers to improve their labels. Their instructions were clear and you can really see the improvements.
Each class will have their own design and it will be very tricky to choose a class design for the labels, which will be used as part of our final product!
EYFS Summer Expedition
This week, the children in EYFS started their new expedition! Their expedition title is ‘Early Years Explorers’ and their guiding question is ‘What happens where the sea meets the shore?’
As part of their expedition this term, the children will be completing three case studies and answering some questions as part of these case studies:
- Case Study 1: Why is the seaside a special place? (Understanding the World: Past and Present)
- Case Study 2: What’s all the commotion at the ocean? (Understanding the World: The Natural World)
- Case Study 3 : Where does your seaside adventure take you? (Expressive Arts and Design: Being Imaginative)
Throughout the expedition, a range of texts will be used to inspire, shape and lead the children’s learning:
- Case Study 1: Lucy and Tom at the Seaside
- Case Study 2: Commotion in the Ocean
- Case Study 3 : Billy’s Bucket
Over the course of the term, we will blog about what the children have learnt and experienced as part of their expedition on our individual crew pages. We will also upload photographs of the children’s learning and share their completed work on our expedition website.
If you go down to the woods today…
The children in Crew FE had a very mysterious note delivered to school yesterday. They were asked to follow the map to find an interesting object that the sender had left there many years before.
The children quickly worked out that they had to head to the forest school area, as George said “X marks the spot!”. When we got there, we found a suitcase filled with lots of different items such shells, sand, rock and a swimming costume. We pieced the clues together to figure out that our note sender must have been to the seaside!
DT Hook – Crew Shields 20/4/22
We started the day by logging the types of food we eat day to day and then deciding whether these were healthy or unhealthy. Some of the children had BIG surprised when they found out some of the foods they thought were healthy were actually unhealthy.
Blind food tasting – the best part of the day for me. The look on their faces as they tried foods such as peppers, pickled oniond and dark chocolate. Great to hear some children say there were foods they’d like to try again like pineapple or kiwi.
Ready, Steady, Bake
Children were given a recipe, ingredients and then had to work together to make 3 ingredient sugar cookies. There were a few mishaps but they managed to make the cookies. There have been some people up this afternoon to vote for their favourite – the winning group will be revealed tomorrow…
Hook Week – Day 2 (20.4.22) 🍭🍬
Today, LKS2 have been fresearching the origins of sugar and how sugar usage has changed over recent years. It was interesting to see already that sugar hasn’t always had such a sweet past. We put this into a timeline.
We saw how honey was the main source of sweetness to enjoy from 10,000BC, until about 8,000 BC when tribes in New Guinea chewed on sugar cane as sweet delight. We then saw how sugar turned to people treating others unkindly, as people became enslaved in sugar plantations.
Finally, we got an idea of how sugar is had an impact on our local area of Doncaster. This ranged from Brodsworth Hall, which was built and funded by the sugar trade right to Samual Parkinson’s creation of butterscotch. We found it interesting that sugar helped cheer up soldiers during the First World War.
