At Carcroft School, we are always keen to share our stories with you – what the children have been learning, how the children are progressing and keeping you up to date with any events, changes to normal routines or exciting opportunities taking place. We have worked hard to improve our website over the past few months to be able to do this in the most efficient way possible. 

Our new website is now fully operational and you will hopefully have already seen lots of crew blogs, weekly phase updates and messages from the office. Your engagement and interaction with the website has been fantastic and we are now keen to develop this further. In order to do this, we will be closing down our school Class Dojo account on the last day of this half term, Friday 15th October. 

From Friday 15th October (start of half-term), all communications will be shared via the school website with our text messaging service used to share urgent messages only. We will continue to post regular updates on what the children are up to in school and share any important information and updates. 
In order to ensure you all receive the information shared by your child’s class teacher, we would advise you to subscribe to the website. This will mean you will receive an email each time we post on the website so you will never miss a message. You can subscribe to the website by visiting www.carcroftschool.co.uk, entering your email in the ‘Subscribe to Blog via Email’ section on the right hand side and clicking ‘Subscribe’. The picture below should help you find the right section:

If you would like to get in touch with school, whether that be your child’s crew leader, our Inclusion Team or the Office,  you can do so by completing the School Contact Form on the right hand side of our website,

by calling the school office on 01302 722352 or by visiting school to speak to us in person. Our office is now open again between 8:00am and 3:30pm and will be happy to deal with any queries over the phone or in person. 

Thank you in advance for your continued cooperation and support. 

Tickets for our Halloween Spooktacular event (see poster below) can be purchased via ParentPay.

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you are all aware, Neil Butler (Executive Prinicipal, XP Trust), has been our Acting Headteacher this half-term whilst Miss Laing is on Maternity Leave. Mr Butler has worked closely with leaders in school to help ensure we are continuing to develop our practice to deliver the best education possible for our children.

Mr Butler has thoroughly enjoyed working with the Carcroft Crew and has been impressed by both the staff and children’s drive to be the very best versions of themselves. However, his role as Executive Principal is incredibly demanding and, due to ongoing developments at Trust Level, he is unable to continue to provide the time needed to work closely with Carcroft until Miss Laing’s return later this year.

As a result of this, we are pleased to inform you that Mr Tucker will take on the role of Acting Headteacher from November 1st until Miss Laing’s return later this year.

With Mr Tucker taking on this role, his crew will be taught by Mr Gerrard for the remainder of the school year. Mr Gerrard has been a teacher at Carcroft for the past two years and has already spent time with Crew Tucker by providing leadership cover this half-term. He has strong, positive relationships with the children and will be able to hit the ground running after half-term.

Mr Tucker is really looking forward to building on our great start and will ensure that Carcroft continues to move from strength to strength until Miss Laing returns. 

Yours faithfully,

Carcroft Crew

The children have been busy cooking and baking this half term! They have learnt how to make some fantastic dishes! Thank you Miss Holdsworth and Ms White for teaching us to cook!