Autumn slice.

6th November 2025Elizabeth Frost

Crew Frost has had so much fun returning back this week! We have been learning all about autumn and the changes we see outside and the events we might celebrate. This week the children have enjoyed using pumpkins and colored golf pins to create their own patterns and arrangements, this really pushed our fine motor development by having to use hammers to secure our pins. We also enjoyed building our social and emotional skills by sharing with our friends and using our listening skills to recall how we use the tools safely.

The role of a nurse in Crew Ramsay

3rd October 2025Natasha Holdsworth

In today’s expedition lesson, the children spoke about the role of a nurse to which they were shocked a nurse can be either male or female as many of them thought all nurses were female. The children were given scenarios and used their acting skills alongside a few props to recreate the scenario with their partner. Lots of discussions were happening alongside lots of great acting!

Designing our own birthday invitations

21st September 2025Sarah Mcglone

This week we have been looking at the features of a birthday invitation. We talked about their purpose and how they communicate information to people. At the end of our expedition, we will need to send out information regarding our Celebration of Learning to our parents so we decided to create our own invitation designs that we will send out to our grown ups.

Painting our self-portraits

21st September 2025Sarah Mcglone

To continue our work for our final product, we have been looking at creating self-portraits with paint. We focused on how to make different shapes using a paintbrush, and we talked about how we can use different shades of paint to show skin colour. We also continued to use mirrors to recognise our features so that we could use the correct colours for our eyes and hair. We are really pleased with how they have turned out and cannot wait to see them feature in our final product!

Final Product week.

21st September 2025Elizabeth Frost

During our current expedition Marvelous me, we have been working very hard in crew Frost learning how to create a self portrait, as you can see the children have been learning how to use shapes to form the features of their face, such as a circle for the face, lines for eyelashes and hair. Whilst developing new language such as “dot or wavy” for the nose and lips. The children have particularly liked learning our little parrot rhyme to help our pen grip. We cannot wait to see all the images brought together in our celebration of learning!

Crew Ramsay as artists

12th September 2025Natasha Holdsworth

Today in expedition we have been artists. We have worked really hard to use charcoal effectively to create our own sketch of Carcroft School. We had a practice of using different skills and techniques before applying this knowledge to our learning. Miss Holdsworth was really impressed that we remembered some of our key words when praising each others work, such as blending and outline. We were so proud of the beautiful work we produced, we showcased this by completing a gallery walk.