LKS2s first day back! 😃

30th August 2022Simon Gerrard

LKS2 started their new academic year by completing a Crew circle. During that, we all shared lots of lovely, happy stories of our summer holidays: this included time playing in the pool and wonderful sounding holidays!

After this, we then went onto complete some maths and started by chanting our multiplications without any hesitation or signs that we had had a summer break. What impressed me even more was our knowledge of place value, which we will continue to explore in the coming weeks.

Once we had some fresh air to keep our brains fresh, we then went onto to look at images and illustrations from our new book. We had so many brilliant incites into the images and shared lots of clever inferences. I think we’ll be just fine when we get further into the book after todays showing!

During the afternoon, we started to explore the Hook Week part of our new Expedition. We’re trying to guess what our Guiding Question could be and I am interested to see what else we come up with throughout the rest of the week. We do, however, know that we are looking into the Second World War, which definitely perked up our interest as we looked at images from the War and relating to it. We worked collaboratively to come up with wonders and notices about these images. Ideas given were ’where could the children be going on the train?’ and ’that is a gas mask used in dangerous situations’. It was great to see such enthusiasm straight away!

LKS2 Dear World, Final Product 🎸🎵

22nd July 2022Simon Gerrard

LKS2 are excited to share the video to our song, Dear World!

Remember, you can stream the song on all music services and buy your copy on the XP Website! https://childrenofxptrust.bandcamp.com/album/dear-world 

These donations will help the Yorkshire Wildlife Foundation massively and anything donated is much appreciated! 😃

Thanks,

Years 3 and 4

LKS2 Product(s) Launch 🎸🎵🍭🍬

15th July 2022Simon Gerrard

Today, LKS2 launched their final products for both the Spring and Summer Expeditions. Thanks to our trusty sales people, they expertly sold our CDs for the Expedition Why should we protect our beautiful planet? They also were able to sell our sweets that we made for the Expedition answering Why is sugar not sweet? The sweets were freshly packed this morning and we hope that you enjoyed them!

A huge thanks goes to the many parents that turned up and were able to raise money for different charities. It was so cool to see and there were so many lovely vibes, smiley faces and excited children. We will inform you of the money raised in due course! Thanks also to Mrs Fox for taking photos of the event!

There are still plenty of CDs and sweets left that can be bought for £3 and £2 respectively, so be sure to grab yours!

XP Climate Conference 🌍🌏🌎

14th July 2022Simon Gerrard

Tonight, we have been blown away by how amazing our pupils truly are. Our hearts are really bursting with so much pride. As part of the XP Climate Conference, Carcroft was invited, along with other Trust schools, for the very first event including primary schools.

We were lucky to witness some fantastic speeches, as Year 3 and 4 pupils spoke along with high school pupils in front of about 200-300 people! This did not daunt our very brave pupils, Chloe, Honey, Lilly and Tommy, as they spoke beautifully about the Expedition they completed in the Spring Term. We answered the Guiding Question Why should we protect our beautiful planet? Their confidence shone through as they spoke so clearly and incredibly well as they spoke about their learning and final product – a charity song. We could not have been prouder!

After premiering the song video and listening to a question and answer with some expert visitors, it was time to sell our CDs. Luckily, we had some fantastic sales people who walked around confidently, persuasively and persistently. They have raised a boat load of money for the charity, the Yorkshire Wildlife Park Foundation. Without their kindness and can-do attitude, I don’t think we would have raised nearly as much. Most importantly, the manners shown were impeccable whether or not items were sold. A lot of people are leaving XP with lighter pockets tonight thanks to your efforts!

Tomorrow, LKS2 will be selling the charity singles tomorrow for £3, in order to raise more money for the Foundation. It would be great if we could raise even more money. LKS2 will also be selling sweets as part of the current Expedition. See more information below about the CDs:

Finally, we would just like to say a massive well done to Tommy, Chloe, Honey and Lilly again. You guys absolutely smashed it and represented yourselves and Carcroft impeccably. We could not be prouder! A big thanks as well to the parents of these children as well for bringing them – without that, we could not have had as much success!

Day 2 of Crew Fox cooking

8th July 2022Olivia Fox

Today was time for the main course… traffic light chicken kebabs! Before our cooking and preparation began, we learned about cross contamination. This was important to understand so that we are staying safe whilst cooking.

First we made the marinade using paprika, tomato ketchup and chopped garlic. Then we chopped the chicken in to large chunks before we marinated it thoroughly. Whilst some of us were chopping chicken, others were chopping peppers into large chunks. Finally, we created the skewers and cooked them in the oven. Delicious!

Crew MI 7.7.22 Pancakes…

7th July 2022Emily Ibbotson

We’ve been cooking again today. Today, we really enjoyed making healthy pancakes. We worked in groups and took it in turns to measure and mix the ingredients. When the mixture was ready, we each made our own pancake and had it with fruit and yoghurt. Delicious!

Soup making!

7th July 2022Olivia Fox

Today during DT, we made our own tomato soup… from scratch! We followed the recipe and worked as mini crews to prepare the food before we began cooking. We were really patient with each other showing great HOWLs all morning.

Food labels – Can we identify the healthy options?

7th July 2022Ruth Shields

As part of our learning, we have explored the labels on food packaging. We have learned about the traffic light colouring which helps us make healthier options when buying food. We had a go at ranking the foods from most healthy to least healthy. Some children were shocked by some foods they though were okay but they are actually really high in sugar.

Massive shoutout to Millie, who has brought us in loads of food packaging (pretty much a weeks worth of packaging) and to the other children who contributed some food packets. I love how Crew Shields are always willing and eager to bring in resources from home to support the learning in class while also taking the pressure off myself to find everything. This is most definitely what crew is all about! 💖

Pancakes – the end of our cooking journey

7th July 2022Ruth Shields

Over this week we have cooked a starter, main and some healthy dessert options. Today, we have enjoyed some pancakes as we discussed that everything should be eaten in moderation so we’ve had pancakes with maple syrup and raspberries.

As with everything else we’ve baked this week, we’ve had a gluten free pancakes today. We actually preferred the gluten free option. It has really surprised us that in most cases we have enjoyed the gluten free version.