Well done to the children in maths, who were exploring number bonds within 10 using cubes. You worked incredibly hard! 🔢💡
Mathematicians
Category : Curriculum
Mummifying a Tomato! 🏺🍅
In the first day of hook week we became real-life ancient Egyptians… by mummifying a tomato!
To kick off our new history topic about the Ancient Egyptians, we wanted to understand how and why the civilization spent 70 days preparing a dead body. Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, and preserving the body was very important so the person’s soul could live on. By doing this experiment, we were able to see the science behind this fascinating tradition. Instead of using a real body (of course!), we used tomatoes to represent a human body because they are soft and full of water – just like our organs.
First, we carefully observed our tomatoes and made predictions about what might happen to them over time. Then came the exciting (and slightly messy!) part. We covered the tomatoes in salt, which represented natron – a natural substance the Ancient Egyptians used to dry out bodies.
Over the next week, we will observe our tomatoes and recorded any changes. This will help us understand how mummification preserved bodies for the afterlife.
Easter Week.
Before the Easter Holidays, we finished our paper mâché nests and decorated them, ready for the Easter Bunny. The children have also made Easter cards, creating bunnies out of handprints.
Using concrete resources, we incorporated Easter into our maths lessons with number matching and colour-by-number activities. We then used Easter in our phonics lessons to support blending CVC words. These activities were completed with minimal adult support—fantastic work!
Hope you all had a lovely Easter break!
Beautiful work in Crew McGlone
A selection of beautiful work and provision from Crew McGlone this week, including name writing, sentence writing, expedition and independent learning in provision.
Times table relays
Crew Gray have been Getting Smart by working in small teams to complete our times table relays. This was fun and active way for us to continue consolidating our times table knowledge.
Ordering and comparing our height
Crew Gray have been working hard in Maths, we have been ordering and comparing decimals. To consolidate and tie all of our learning together, we were challenged to measure our heights and ordered these in ascending order.
Crew McLoughlin’s Non Chronological reports
🌟 Amazing Young Authors: Celebrating Your Non-Chronological Reports! 🌟
Wow—what a fantastic job you’ve all done! 🎉 We are so proud of the brilliant non-chronological reports that have been published. You have truly shown what it means to be young researchers, writers, and creators.
🧠 What Made Your Reports So Great?
Your work included so many impressive features:
- Clear headings and subheadings to organise information
- Fascinating facts that taught your readers something new
- Topic-specific vocabulary
- Pictures, diagrams, or captions to help explain ideas
- A neat structure that made your reports easy and fun to read
📚 Becoming Real Authors
By publishing your reports, you’ve taken an exciting step—you are now published authors! That means other people can read, learn from, and enjoy your work. How amazing is that?
Writing like this helps build important skills:
- Researching information
- Organising ideas
- Writing clearly for a reader
- Taking pride in your work
These are the same skills that real journalists, scientists, and authors use every day!
You should feel incredibly proud of what you’ve achieved. Writing a non-chronological report isn’t easy, but you’ve shown creativity, effort, and determination. Keep up the amazing work! ✨
Crew White – Guest blog posts by Tiarna, Greatness, Heartley and Frankie
This week I have been working on my non- chronological report. I have produced 2 pages full of writing including the Carcroft School logo and 4 paragraphs in different lengths. Firstly, I researched my subject. Secondly, I wrote. Thirdly, I edited my work improving and ensuring a perfect piece. Lastly, I published my work on to 2 different pieces of paper. Written by Tiarna.
I am proud of the work I have created; it’s a non chronological report I’ve been working on for the past week. I hope you like it. It’s about the Solar System. Written by Greatness.
This week in Crew White we’ve been working on non-chronological reports based on our favourite things:
- Dogs
- Carcroft School
- Anime
My non-chronological report is all about dogs and how they help people in different ways, sometimes without us even realising! Written by Frankie.
In Writing, we have been creating a non-chronological poster about things we like. I wrote about Football (my title was Football The Beautiful Game). This was the process of writing the non-chronological report:
- First, we had to practise writing sentences; some skills we learnt were compound sentences, complex sentences, colon to introduce a list, semi colons and cohesive devices;
- Then, we had to write an introduction about the topic we were writing about;
- Also, we had to write 2 main paragraphs so I did a history paragraph about football and then a modern paragraph about football;
- After we edited it all, we had to write the paragraphs onto the poster and mine had footballs as the border.
Here is an example of the finished product.
PE
The children in pe blind folded each other and tried to get them round the maze and through the gates .
Maths
In maths today the children were looking at half and quarters in fractions. The children used concrete evidence to work out half and quarter of a number.
