Crew Mcloughlin weekly blog

25th September 2021Hannah McLoughlin

Week 4 already… the weeks are flying by! In Crew Mcloughlin we started the week with revisiting what norms we would like us all to follow in the classroom and individually made pledges to ensure we meet all our expectations. Hopefully this will ensure we are getting a higher weekly hoWL average.

Our writing is coming on lovely and we impressed when visitors came into Crew Mcloughlin at just how hard the children were working. Next week we are going to up-level our writing by ensuring we are using correct punctuation.

It was also our first session of Scotty Hero’s, the children were put through their paces to show endurance and stamina. They blew me, Mrs Rhodes and the coach away and earned lots of HoWL points!

Our experience day in expedition gave us an insight into what life was like for children working during the industrial revolution. We each were given a profile as to their new age, name and medical condition. The children then tried to communicate who they were, baring in mind many had lost their hearing due to the loud working conditions. We then got into character and acted out cleaning the mill, we had to scavenge to retrieve cotton from under the loom which was very dangerous 😰but in reality we scavenged for screwed up paper dodging hurdles along the way with factory background noises playing in the background. We then had to do some tricky maths based on a typical rota to find how many hours worked etc.

We are still focusing on Be Kind next week as unfortunately this week we have not met our target and have not always thought before we have acted, but this is all part of growing up and I am sure we will smash it next week! However, I have caught some kindness as a little message appeared on the back of my board yesterday…

So to reiterate Olivias message, have a lovely weekend everyone! Miss M 😊

  • Thank you for a great start to the weekend Olivia!

LKS2 Weekly Review (24.9.21)

24th September 2021Simon Gerrard

It may have been a shorter week at Carcroft, but what a great week it has been, especially in Crew LKS2. We’ve had a fun filled week and wanted to show off a different side to our learning. We’ve been working especially hard on our reading, computing and French skills. See snippets of some beautiful work – Year 4s dragon eyes 🐲🐉.

We have also looked into our Expedition further (Coming to Doncaster; why then and why now?) as we link our writing to the Vikings. We’re creating a comic strip to discuss the raid of Lindisfarne, using a variety of art skills that include silhouettes.

Enjoy your weekend, Crew LKS2! 😆

Crew MG weekly blog

24th September 2021Lauren Marsh

What another busy week we have had this week! This week has been all about settling back into our school routine, we have created amazing stories, planned artwork, learnt about place value and practiced our football skills.

I have been massively impressed with Crew MG’s start to their writing, their stories have really blown us both away. I am so impressed with how many features they have been able to include in their work. Keep it going Crew MG, we cannot wait to read the final full story.

We have massively practiced our football skills this week in PE, we have practiced dribbling the ball and passing with the inside of our foot. Our next challenge is to work on getting better at our communication when wanting the ball.

Finally, we have finished our dragon eyes! And wow they look amazing!!

Have a great weekend and see you all Monday! 🙂

Crew MI 24.9.21

24th September 2021Emily Ibbotson

This week the children have really enjoyed their Mill day experience where they actually dressed up as children who worked in the mill. The children were given a profile of a child so they could really get into character. They got to experience what life was like for those poor children and became scavengers themselves retrieving cotton and wool from under a loom.

The children have worked hard with their Harry Potter writing this week and are really getting better at using adventurous vocabulary and including speech. Check out our sentence stackers…

As a crew we have really focussed this week on being kind. However, this is still an ongoing target in our crew so I am wondering next week if we continue to develop this and be kinder to one another.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Crew SB – 24/9/21

24th September 2021Ruth Shields

This week, the children have enjoyed an experience day where they got to experience life as a factory worker. The children were given a profile as to their new age, name and medical conditions as a factory worker. One activity included having to lip read a message and pass it round the circle, as you can image the message was very different by the end of the circle. This was to allow children the chance to experience the difficulties children of this time would have had due to the noise of the machinery.

The next activity involved collecting cotton from under the loom, however, they needed to be quick to ensure they didn’t suffer any injuries. Unfortunately, a couple of children sustained mild ‘injuries’ which were bandaged up.

I wonder if next week, we can ensure that we are always being kind towards our peers.

Have a lovely weekend.

Crew Welburn’s Exciting Experience Day

23rd September 2021A Welburn

Today in Crew Welburn, we’ve spent some time in the forest area experiencing what Little Red Riding Hood would have felt like, heard, and seen as she was walking through the forest to her Grandma’s house. We chotted our ideas in pairs and then shared these together ready to continue writing our story next week. We can’t wait to get writing!

Crew 4 weekly review (17.9.21)

18th September 2021Simon Gerrard

We’ve had a pretty good week up in Crew 4. It was strange at first as we were all fully together, when we would normally be in groups to help with our learning. It was pleasing that this didn’t stop us from working hard, getting smart and being kind. We worked well as a Crew, to ensure that we produced beautiful work.

In maths, we have continued to build our knowledge of place value. We showed tremendous resilience to become super stars at rounding to ten and then transferred that knowledge impressively to round to the nearest 100. Well done for sticking at it! 😃

For reading, we have continued to work on our expression, reading pace (many of us beat our pace each day) and retrieving facts. We were little experts at this. Writing has been fun as we have finally finished creating our wonderful poems about the Dragon who ate our school. We have loved being poets as we have made them really engaging.

Practicing our reading! 😊

During Expedition, we have continued to explore the Guiding Question Comimg to Doncaster; why then and why now? As a Crew, we researched whether the Vikings came to Doncaster just to raid and terrify. The children were set the challenge of having to teach each other the varying reasons for settling in Doncaster. The children did this really well, with excellent enthusiasm and great collaboration. 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫

Mini teachers 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫

Highlight of the week 🌠 Experience day in writing where we raided Lindisfarne Monastery, just like we had learned in Expedition. This was probably the best we have been involved in with the enthusiasm, behaviour and enjoyment shown by all. Check out the video below to see for yourselves 👇

Experience day 🐲🐉

Enjoy a well deserved weekend, Crew 4! I know that our HoWLs will continue to improve with a more settled week and that average will increase once more 😆

This week in Crew Mcloughlin (W/C 13/09)

18th September 2021Hannah McLoughlin

Another busy week in Crew Mcloughlin…


After the fun and excitement of Harry Potter World last week, we were so eager to start narrating the first scenes of the Philosophers Stone in our writing lessons. The children have worked so hard thinking of ambitious vocabulary and producing quality writing, I’ve never known a Crew enjoy writing so much, it is lovely to see! Watch this space for Crew Mc sentence stackers and beautiful work. In Reading, we are really engaged with the text ‘The train to impossible places’ and working hard to improve how we verbally give Y6 answers during our discussions. In our expeditionary learning, the children have been creating their own videos, slides and fact cards on the experts they have been researching. They have found looking at how people have developed trains over the years rather interesting and motivating.

Our HoWL focus next week is to ‘Be Kind’ as we need to consider how we would like to be spoken to and respect each other, as this is not great in Crew at the moment. We all want to see our weekly average going up and be the best version Crew Mcloughlin can be!

Here’s some pictures to show what learning we’ve been getting up to…