COVID CLOSURE: YEAR 5

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you are already aware, we are currently experiencing rapidly rising cases of Covid19 within our Year 5 cohort. You have already been asked to ensure that all children in Year 5 complete a PCR test and that you provide proof of your results to us to share with Public Health Doncaster.

Based on the number of results returning as positive for Covid19, Public Health Doncaster have advised that we close Year 5 one week early. The aim of this is to limit the spread of Covid19 across our school and wider community so that peoples’ Christmas plans are not impacted by the need to isolate on Christmas Day.

To confirm, Year 5 will not return to school next week and will complete learning from home next week.

Staff in school will be spending this afternoon and Monday morning preparing learning activities which will be shared on Google Classroom for those who have devices and delivered to home addresses for those who do not have a device or access to the internet. These activities will be based on what they would have been completing in school and consolidation tasks based on their learning this term.

For those families who are eligible for free school meals, school will be in touch to organise a lunch each day for those not in school. This will likely be in the form of the online vouchers that parents received during the half-term and summer holidays.

Thank you in advance for your continued support and understanding.

Stay safe everyone.

Yours faithfully,

James Tucker

Acting Headteacher

#WeAreCarcroft

Inference Detectives! (8.12.21)👮‍♀️👮‍♂️

Year 3 practiced their inference skills today, in mini-Crews. But first, we had to practice our fluency of reading with echo reading – job well done, guys! We then moved onto being inference detectives as we became confident with reading between the lines of a book and explaining our reasons. What a great lesson Year 3! 😆

Experience Day! (7.12.21) 🚓

LKS2 played a game of Hide and Seek, in order to experience the dangers of being found in public, during Curfew time. The adults played the role of the Wujing, the secret police in the book we are reading – Running on the Roof of the World. The children experienced different feelings, including exciting and worried about being caught. Check out the images below:

Creative Crew!

Today in Crew Nursery we have been working hard using different materials to make bear pictures!

We used different shapes to make bear faces.
We used chalks to draw bears and make marks.

Today Stripes the Elf noticed Jenson playing kindly alongside friends in the sand and Lincoln building a train track for his friend when they were upset.

It’s Time for Tea!

Today in Crew Nursery the children brewed peppermint tea in the water tray. They enjoyed exploring how the tea bags changed the colour of the water and thought it smelled lovely!
The children used peppermint teabags to brew tea in the teapot, then poured their tea into mugs and gave it a stir. Some children extended the activity by using funnels and jugs to pour their tea.

Today Stripes the Elf noticed Georgie sharing out the fruit with her friends and Ruby Mae and Alexus working hard to draw their beautiful bear pictures.

LKS2 Road Safety Talk (6.12.21) 🚘

Today, Year 3 and 4 enjoyed discussing and listening to tips about being safe, when near roads. They discussed better visibility and even tested out the most effective lighting when it is dark out. Thanks for all of the advice!