Crew MI

25th January 2022Stacey McClare

Another busy day in crew MI!

Children have created some fantastic writing today. They have thought about their gold standards and applying the features to their writing. Some children have even hit their green standard. They used their chotting ideas from the experience day yesterday to really think about the lenses they were writing through and linked these to their gold standards.

Children have also enjoyed our expedition lesson where we thought more about human and physical features of Geography. Children grouped different pictures explaining their views as to why it was human or physical. From here children used maps and atlases to think more about the continent of South America.

Our HOWL scores have really improved too! Let’s keep this up Crew MI!

LKS2 Yorkshire Wildlife Park Trip (13.1.22) 🦁🐾🐅

13th January 2022Simon Gerrard

LKS2 have had a great day on their trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. This has really hooked us into our new Expedition, where we’re looking into answering the Guiding Question Why should we protect our beautiful planet?

We loved seeing all of the different wild animals that are on our door step, especially the Polar Bears, which we will be looking into great detail in future Expedition lessons.

The children were fantastic with their behaviour and should be really proud of how they represented Carcroft today. We will be sharing a video soon of our day, so here is a sneak peak!

Crew MI

10th January 2022Stacey McClare

We have had a very busy day in Crew MI!

In reading the children used their inference skills to think about images and how they may relate to our new text. There were some fantastic ideas and children shared their thoughts really well.

In writing we watched part of the film The Lorax. We thought about how the film linked to our guiding question in expedition and we completed a role on the wall thinking about the characters appearance and personality. Again some great ideas!

In expedition we became geographers where we explored compass points and maps. We thought about what countries are on the equator along with exploring the tropics.

In maths we practised our timetables, divided numbers by ten and added decimals. We then moved onto looking at multiples. We worked on varied fluency questions first then challenged ourselves with some reasoning and problem solving questions.

Tomorrow I would like to see our howl score improve, we have pledged for this to be a 3. I really hope we can show this.

LKS2 Final Product – Coming to Doncaster; why then and why now? (16.12.21)

17th December 2021Simon Gerrard

LKS2 are proud to reveal their final product for their Autumn Expedition, in which the children show of their beautiful work and aim to answer the Guiding Question – Coming to Doncaster; why then and why now?

We are really proud of the work and learning that has taken place by all of the children across Year 3 and 4, especially their speaking on this video.

Please also look at the website to see the range of work in the other Case Studies.

Here’s the link to our Website: https://sites.google.com/carcroftschool.co.uk/lks2-autumn21-expedition/home

Coordinating a Refugee Journey (29.11.21)

By Simon Gerrard29th November 2021

Crew Gerrard and Crew Flaherty have been learning about the journey of a refugee. We watched some spectacular drone footage and jotted down several countries that refugees fleeing Afghanistan can pass through, including the different types of transport taken. We were shocked to say the least! We then practiced using coordinates to plot a journey of a refugee in our next lesson! Check out our images from today below: 🇦🇫

Crew Gerrard Expedition (17.11.21)

17th November 2021Simon Gerrard

What a great Expedition lesson we had this afternoon, as we continued to learn about human and physical features as part of Case Study 2: Geography. We looked at London to see how it differed from Kabul, Afghanistan (in our previous lesson). We used maps and images of London to see what features we could spot.

I was really pleased with the hard work I saw and how calmly we participated with popcorn and think pair share, during our active lesson. Keep up the good work Crew Gerrard! 😆