Crew Godley shared some our favourite stories with Crew McGone today. It was so lovely to see our younger children showing kindess and respect to each other. We all demonstrated lovely listening skills 📚🥰 and we can’t wait to return next week 🥰
This morning in reading, we’ve enjoyed playing imposter.
During the game, the children had to find either the antonym or synonym that matched their word. This really got the children’s brains working as some of the words are words they may not use day to day. I was very impressed with how they completed the activity because they moved around sensibly, used great communication until they found their matching word and we found the imposter (word without a match).
Crew Marsh would like to give a massive thank you to one of our tutormate volunteers who has bought everyone in Crew Marsh a reading book and bookmark to take home with them.
What a lovely way to end world storytelling week!
Because it is story telling week, Crew MI spent some time with Crew Marsh and what a lovely afternoon this was. So many smiling faces and looks of pure enjoyment. The children in Crew Marsh shared their new story books with the children in MI. Crew MI absolutely loved reading to the Y1 children, they tried really hard to use their expressive voices to make sure they engaged the Y1 children. They looked at the front cover and blurb and tried to question the children as they read. Everyone really enjoyed the session 🙂 We are now going to arrange another meet where the Y1 children get to read their own book to the Y6 children. We are all really excited for this 🙂 Well done everyone.
This week we have been sharing our favourite stories, we really enjoyed Handa’s Surprise yesterday so today we explored the fruits in the story. Can you guess what we tasted…… 🥑it had very mixed opinions! Michael had the happiest face however Dominic showed us his disappointment!
Today MI visited the library and spent some time getting lost in our own books 🙂 We also enjoyed reading to others and sharing our stories.
Today each mini crew was given a story sentence opener! Children had to continue the story in their mini crew then share with the whole crew at the end! Some great expressive voices were used and some great language choices. Well done MI 🙂
We have kicked off Storytelling week by spending time reading our library book to a partner.
We used this as an opportunity to listen to different genres as some children find it difficult to decide on the genre they like to read.
The crew enjoyed this and this is something we’ll try to do more often.
We are very excited in Crew Shields as we’ve started reading a new text linked to our expedition. After reading chapter 1, the crew were asked to start collating information about the characters. This helped the crew build on their fact and retrieval skills as well as inference and summary. Fantastic to see some great crew collaboration.
Hello Everyone!
We are looking for some volunteers in Lower Key Stage Two 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 until the end of the Summer Term, 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 school and ask to speak to myself, Mrs Elmer (KS2 Reading Lead) and I will provide you with more details.
I look forward to hearing from you.
