In p.e they had did super crew building skills . They had to use hoops to get round the hall without anyone falling out . After that they had a hoop taken away from them which then made it harder. But they smashed it
P.E
Category : Curriculum
Crew in Action at Dodgeball Tournament
What an incredible afternoon of dodgeball at Armthorpe Academy! Our Carcroft Crew put in a brilliant performance, battling their way through tough competition to secure an impressive second-place finish.
Facing strong opposition from 10 schools, the team showed determination, teamwork, and resilience throughout the event. After a series of highly competitive matches, Carcroft reached the final, where they finished as proud runners-up to Kirk Smeaton C of E Primary School, who took home the gold medals.
Celebrating Our HoWL House Champions: Smithies Shine Bright!
What a fantastic moment for HoWL House as we celebrate our latest champions – Smithies! Their hard work, sense of camaraderie, and determination have truly paid off, and their victory is incredibly well deserved.
To mark the occasion, Smithies took part in an unforgettable glow-in-the-dark dodgeball session – and what a celebration it was! The lights went down, the neon came out, and the energy in the room lit up just as brightly as the players themselves. Laughter, friendly competition, and glowing dodgeballs flying across the court made for a celebration that perfectly matched their vibrant crew spirit.
A huge congratulations once again to Smithies, and of course, a big well done to all the other houses, with only three points this term between Smithies and Carrs!
Writing about The three little pigs.
Over the past three days, the children have begun writing simple sentences using colourful semantics. They started by describing pictures verbally, identifying key elements such as who, what, and where. This was followed by a shared writing activity, where the class worked together to construct sentences. The children then had the opportunity to write independently, using a help sheet for support.
Coding Our Way ‘To Infinity and Beyond’
As part of our expedition ‘To Infinity and Beyond’, Crew Godley have been exploring the incredible journey of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, and discovering how coding played a vital role in making space travel possible.
We began our learning by diving into the world of binary – the language computers use to communicate. The crew were fascinated to learn that everything a computer does is built from just two digits: 0 and 1! Using this knowledge, we had a go at writing our own names in binary code. It was a fun challenge, and we quickly realised just how complex things would be if we had to communicate like this all the time – thankfully, computers do the hard work for us!
Building on this, we moved into practical coding. The children applied their understanding by programming a traffic light sequence, carefully instructing it to change colours in the correct order and at the right time. This helped them to understand how precise and logical instructions need to be when coding – just like the instructions used in real-life space missions.
Mastering Number in F2
During maths this week, we have been looking at using our subitising skills in increasingly complex arrangements. We looked at arrangements of 6 and how we can use our knowledge of number bonds to 6, and our skills of subitising to 5, to help us to identify the number represented. We worked together to decide whether an arrangement was 6 or not 6, and then we used counters to replicate the pattern, before explaining how we knew the pattern showed 6, by identifying known patterns within.
Storm Dragon
This week, Crew McGlone have been focusing on the story of ‘Storm Dragon’ by Dianne Hofmeyr. We have really enjoyed taking part in a sensory story to help support us with the structure and sequencing of events in the story.
Our writing this week saw us create ‘I can see’ sentences using a stimulus of a depiction of the storm dragon. We talked about the different parts of the storm dragon we could see, some of us even challenged ourselves by adding in some detail to our sentences to give a clearer description. We even used our sentence building knowledge in provision when drawing our own pictures.
We have also absolutely LOVED using our imagination and leading our own learning when accessing provision – we have created shelters to protect us from the storm, large scale models of the storm dragon, small world scenes of the story, created our own role play sensory story, made a collaborative collage dragon, made models out of playdough, made our own spyglasses to search for storm dragons, and lots of things in between!
Stick house
In writing today the children made their own stick house from The Three little Pigs.
1:1 correspondence
In Crew McGlone, we have been using our magic counting wands to help us to count numbers beyond 10.
The Human Life Cycle
Today, Crew McLoughlin dove into the fascinating world of biology by creating our own visual life cycles. The students mapped out the distinct stages of growth and transformation, from prenatal to late adulthood.
