Reading Volunteers Wanted!

7th September 2023Sophie Elmer

Hello Everyone! 

We are yet again looking for some volunteers (across all crews) to come into school and listen to some children read on a 1:1 basis. 

Scarily, 1 in 4 children leave primary school unable to read well, resulting in life long consequences. It is our mission at Carcroft to ensure that all of our children leave our school able to read well. 

If you have some time to spare, a day, a few hours or even an hour, and enjoy spending time with children then we would love it if you could come and help us to support our children with reading. 

We hope that from this experience our children will become better readers and develop a stronger love for reading and for you to gain an enormous amount of pleasure from seeing the difference that a few hours can make to a child’s reading ability, confidence and enjoyment. 

Ideally we would appreciate volunteers giving us their time for as long as possible, however if you are only able to commit to a few weeks or months then please do not hesitate to enquire. 

If you feel like this is something that you can offer then please pop into the school office who will be able to provide you with more details. 

We look forward to hearing from you. 

Mrs Elmer (English Lead)

Roald Dahl Day 2023! 

6th September 2023Sophie Elmer

Dear Parents/Carers, 

Next week, on Wednesday 13th September 2023 we will be celebrating Roald Dahl Day here at Carcroft Primary School! We highly value reading and as a school feel that as Roald Dahl was one of the best-known and best-selling authors of the 20th century, that we should take part in this special day to celebrate him and his books. As well as take the opportunity to continue to promote the love of books and reading. 

During the school day each crew will participate in a range of engaging activities, including sharing their favourite Roald Dahl books, listening to staff read an extract from their favourite Roald Dahl novel, watching movie adaptations, learning interesting facts about Roald Dahl including the history of Roald Dahl and lots lots more! We hope that by providing our pupils with these carefully planned activities that these will support our drive to maintain, promote and engage our pupils in reading. Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day/week so that you can see all of the exciting things that your child/ren have been getting up to throughout the day! 

As part of this exciting day we are asking for the children (and staff!) to come to school dressed as their favourite Roald Dahl book character. We are aware that the event is next week so do not expect new outfits to be purchased for the event. Just simply have a look in your child’s wardrobe and see what they can wear. Such as, a blue dress for Matilda or a pair of jeans and red top for George. If you feel your child does not have anything suitable then they can simply just their own clothes for the day that they feel comfortable in (non-school uniform), of course if they wish to dress up they can! We know the first few weeks of school life are manic and do not wish to add to this! We also won’t be asking for any monetary donations on this occasion. 

Either at the end of this day or in preparation for the day it would be lovely for you to discuss with your child/ren the different characters that appear in some of the famous Roald Dahl story books and maybe even share a favourite Roald Dahl story (there are lots online!). 

We look forward to celebrating this special day! 

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation. 

Mrs Elmer 

English Lead

Story time in MI

4th September 2023Stacey McClare

Mrs Ibbotson joined us for our story this afternoon! She read ‘The Vanishing Rainforest’ which we all enjoyed. This linked to our expeditionary learning and created some great discussions throughout the story.

We finished the day with some handwriting practice. We are really trying to work on our letter formation and will consolidate the letters we practised in our morning task tomorrow.

Roman soldiers handbook 📖

4th September 2023Kate Thompson

This morning in our reading lesson, we started looking at a new book. First, we completed a jigsaw of the front cover and picked out the title and author. We then discussed the audience, purpose and text type of the book. I was blown away with the children’s knowledge about how we know if a book is non-fiction! We can’t wait to start reading this book and learn lots of facts about what it takes to become a Roman soldier!

Library Visit

31st August 2023Ruth Shields

Despite it being the first day back, Crew Shields made a visit to the library so that children could get cracking with reading at home. We know the importance of reading regularly to support children with their fluency and understanding. We discuss that I will be checking books on a Friday and recording their reading sessions. Raffles up for grabs for those avid readers.

Library Books 📚

18th July 2023Sophie Elmer

Just a reminder that all library books must be returned to school by tomorrow (Wednesday 19th July) if possible, so that all books can be organised and renewed where needed ready for the Autumn Term.

Unfortunately, there will be a charge for any library books that are not returned.

New book bags and reading records will be given to pupils when they return to school in the Autumn Term.

Many thanks for your continued support around reading this year.

Crew Boswell – Reading Games

18th July 2023Matthew Boswell

We have loved reading Holes in lessons this term. We enjoy developing our reading skills, the story but most of all, we love the games – especially when Mrs. Gilliland and Mr. Boswell join in! Today we played our version of Heads Up where we were given a character from the book and had to guess who they were from just three questions. Do you think you could do it with the next book you read or film you watch?