Curriculum | Carcroft School

Coding Our Way ‘To Infinity and Beyond’

28th April 2026Laura Godley

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

24th April 2026Sarah Mcglone

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

24th April 2026Sarah Mcglone

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

24th April 2026Tracy Haddock

In writing today the children made their own stick house from The Three little Pigs.

1:1 correspondence

24th April 2026Sarah Mcglone

In Crew McGlone, we have been using our magic counting wands to help us to count numbers beyond 10.

The Human Life Cycle

23rd April 2026Charlotte Newman

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.

Straw houses

23rd April 2026Tracy Haddock

In writing today they made their own straw houses from The Three Little Pigs. They used clay, straw, and cardboard as the base. They had to use lots of different skills.

P.e

23rd April 2026Tracy Haddock

Today in p.e they worked on their balancing skills and going round cones on their scooters

Writing

23rd April 2026Tracy Haddock

This term we are looking at The Three Little Pigs. They worked together to retell the story.

Exploring atlases and globes

23rd April 2026A Welburn

This morning in year 4, we have explored how to use globes and atlases in our expedition lesson. We learnt how to look for different continents using the contents page of an atlas, how to use the index to find more specific information such as countries, towns and cities, and how to find continents and countries on a globe. We then compared the differences between globes and atlases, and found that atlases are easier to use as they give you more support in finding specific information.