James Dasaolu Visit (4.7.22) 🏃🇬🇧

5th July 2022Simon Gerrard

Carcroft was lucky to have a visit from the second fastest man in Britain – James Dasaolu. We were lucky to hear about the journey James took to reach the top of his sport and even compete at two Olympic Games.

James was very inspiring as he spoke about his lows and how it motivated him to reach the highs, which led to him setting the second fastest time in British history for the 100m. He ran a staggering 9.91 seconds, which was the equivalent of 25mph.

The children listened amazingly well and were hanging on James’ every word. They loved asking a variety of questions and some were unique, which James had never been asked before. After the the questions, each year group was lucky to have a circuit training session with James. He definitely put Years 1 to 6 through their paces.

We will be handing out the gold, silver and bronze awards when we receive them in due course. This should be soon.

Check out our video below of our awesome visitor:

Carcroft’s visit from gold medalist: James Dasalou

4th July 2022Olivia Fox

The whole school had an assembly with James this afternoon, and now each crew will participate in a physical activity with James! Such an inspiration to our young athletes in the making.

Next week at Carcroft – It’s a busy one!

1st July 2022Lauren Marsh

(Week commencing – Monday 4th July)

Monday – Children to come in PE kit for the Sports For Champions visit.

Tuesday – Children to come in non-school uniform and bring a chocolate donation for the Summer Fayre, Nursery to come in sensible footwear as it is their sports day in the afternoon at 1:30pm.

Wednesday – Children to come in PE kit in for Sports Day (KS2 9am-11:30am/ KS1 1pm-2:30pm)

Thursday – Summer Fayre (2:30pm – 4:30pm)

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28th June 2022A Welburn

Today in Crew Welburn, we have been exploring place value to 100. We have looked at representing numbers to 100 using base ten, and partitioning numbers using our arrow cards to create addition facts! We are getting really confident now and can’t wait to apply our learning to our fluency and problem solving tasks!

KS1 Rounders Tournament

22nd June 2022A Welburn

Today, some of our Year 1 and Year 2 children have took part in a rounders tournament at Campsmount School. The children showed how well Carcroft School work as a team, and were cheering each other on throughout the afternoon. Their crew building and communication skills really shone through today and made myself and Mrs Scott feel really proud of them! 😁 We can’t wait to try again next year after a little bit more practice as we think the team will be amazing! 🌟

Crew Welburn’s Tremendous Trip 🚌

15th June 2022A Welburn

Wow! What a fantastic day out we’ve had at Beamish! ☀️ After a rather long bus journey, we finally arrived in Durham and got to go back in time and experience what life would have been like during the Victorian times. We explored the town with all of its wonderful shops and the bank, and we went into the different houses. We visited a music teacher’s house, a solicitor’s house and a dentist’s house! Luckily the dentist left our wobbly teeth alone! 😬 We also got to experience a mining pit village and the cottages that would have been found in a village like this. We liked the cottages – they were warm and cosy – but we all agreed that we preferred the houses in the town because they were bigger and some of them even had toilets and baths inside! Finally, we experienced a Victorian school day. These lessons were very different to ours at school and the teacher was very strict, but we still enjoyed them. We’ve had so much fun and have had lots of smiles on our faces all day. We can’t wait to share what we found out with each other at school tomorrow 😃