Dear Parents and Carers, 

Firstly, I would like to thank you for your kind words and support regarding the current situation. Like you, school leaders and staff were only informed of school closures by Boris Johnson at 8pm last night.

In order to organise school places for all our children of critical workers and vulnerable pupils, and to have live online learning up and running from Wednesday 6th January, staff will be spending today calling families to ensure each and every child eligible for a place in school is offered the opportunity to attend and delivering laptops to those children who will be learning from home who do not have access to an appropriate device. 

Today, work will be uploaded to Google Classroom which all children can complete at home without direct support from their class teacher. All children have logged in to Google Classroom in school and should be familiar with how to access the learning set. For those who are unsure or who are having difficulties, we have created a ‘How To Guide’ which you can follow by clicking the link at the bottom of this message. 

Your child’s username and password for Google Classroom will be sent to you via Class Dojo this morning. If you do not have access to Dojo, your child’s Crew Leader will contact you by telephone to provide their log-in details. 

Last night, an online form for critical workers to complete to request a place for their child/children was sent to parents via ParentPay, Facebook and the school website. This survey must be completed by 11am today so that we can organise in-school bubbles and confirm places allocated to children this afternoon. 

A letter will be sent later today via ParentPay, Facebook and the school website confirming plans for in-school and online learning moving forward and families of children who will be attending school will be contacted. We will ensure this is done as soon as practically possible. 

Finally, I would like to thank you again for your ongoing support. During the last national lockdown in March, our community came together and proved just how special a place Carcroft is. We are confident that we can do the same over the coming weeks. 

Click here to access the Google Classroom How To Guide. 

Kind regards,

Kirsty Laing

Headteacher 

Please could we ask parents and carers to check the critical key worker list attached below. If you are classed as being a critical key worker, please complete the survey below.

Critical Key Worker

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

The survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7GLTksjhnnOiB5VJ4s00KIXa8U8khZyQlDCbJIKfR43GhXw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement we have been notified by Doncaster Council that we now have to move to remote learning immediately.

We will be in contact tomorrow morning with details of the remote learning provision for Tuesday 5th January (this may be mid morning as Teachers may need to adapt plans before uploading learning).

We will soon outline the booking system for critical key worker children as required by the Department for Education.

School will make contact with parents of pupils deemed to be vulnerable who are also eligible for a place within school during the lockdown period. These will take place during the day tomorrow.

We will send further details out in order to confirm final lists for critical/vulnerable school places later on Tuesday 5th, ready to commence on Wednesday 6th January.

We will also then send out a revised longer term plan for remote learning which will take place for those pupils not in school from Wednesday 6th January.

Thank you for your ongoing support and understanding during these difficult times.

Dear all,

Please find a letter attached from our Director of Education for Doncaster and Public Health England.

As a result, Carcroft will be closed to pupils on Monday 4th January and will reopen to all year groups on Tuesday 5th January at the agreed times adhered to prior to the Christmas break.

We are keen to ensure that our staff feel as safe as they can returning to work following the break and will ensure that tomorrow we review our risk assessment in order to ensure that we do everything in which we can in order to ensure that school is as safe as we can possibly make it for our families returning on Tuesday. We can’t wait to have the children back with us.

There will be no online learning set tomorrow, however, if you would like to set your chid some homework, please could we ask that they practise some quick Maths skills including their timestables recall and basic skills such as mental addition and subtraction (doing this in their head nice and quickly).

We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday morning,

Miss Laing

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Yesterday was such a fun day! The children had their party clothes on and all had a fantastic day playing games dancing and having lots of treats!!

The staff also enjoyed an afternoon of a chippy lunch provided by Mr Petru, from Skellow Road Chip Shop, it was a delicious treat for all of our hard working Crew! Very much appreciated Mr Petru 😁

Some of the Crew enjoyed making wreaths in hall to put up at home. Check out Shindig Event Styling on Instagram or on the link below. A huge thank you to Cristel for showing us what to do and being patient with us for being so slow! www.christmasshindig.co.uk

Don’t forget to keep in touch about any Covid related news. Email [email protected] if you need to report or inform us of a positive case.

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year

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Above All Compassion – What is the most valuable gift you can give?

Across the Autumn term, children in Years 3 and 4 from Carcroft Primary School began working on their XP style learning expedition entitled ‘What is the most valuable gift you can give?’.

Crews started off with a Christmas dinner in school with presents to start the children thinking about why we give presents and why. A range of presents were used to present each child with the opportunity to think about how they feel when they receive something that’s different to their peers. From here crews moved to look at how often, the act of giving doesn’t need to cost us anything. Using pumpkins, we showed that we often carve pumpkins for one night but do we really think about what we do with the insides.

From here, we started to look at who William Booth was and how he followed his religious beliefs to start to provide assistance to his community. His gift was soup, soap and salvation and so we have explored what this meant to people at the time as well as how it is still a valuable gift in today’s society. This naturally led us to the origins and work of the Salvation Army which provided us with the opportunity to link back to our pumpkins and how ‘waste’ can actually be valuable to others less fortunate than ourselves. This is especially true when we consider the current circumstances surrounding Covid restrictions and how lives have changed for a great number in our society.

The crews across school truly embraced the tradition of the Salvation army in order to collect food to aid the local food banks helping families less fortunate than others.

This linked well into looking at the Sikh beliefs and what they teach us about wealth and poverty. We focused on how selfless Sikhs are and ways that they support those people who need it. Sikhs give to charities, provide food for communities, raise money, volunteer and much more. All gifts that we can consider. We looked in particular at the ‘Langar’ and how Sikhs have created this to support those that need it (hungry, safe place, warmth, community feel, someone to talk to when lonely etc.).

After looking at the Sikh religion, we then compared this to the Christian story of the Three Wise Men and how they each gave a gift to the baby Jesus with what they felt was the most valuable gift they could offer….

After considering how we can help those less fortunate, we encouraged the children to think how they view the world and this was the foundation to creating stained glass to use as artwork for cards and as a design for a Christmas decoration to donate to the residents of China Cottage Care Home.

Each child across the Key Stage designed and made a stained glass effect Christmas decoration as a gift for others. The children were so proud to be able to provide a gift for others and truly embraced the Christmas spirit.

Visit the Lockdown Expedition page to see more of the amazing work.

Hi Everyone,

Our little ones had an amazing time last night at Story night!

They all enjoyed a hot dog and a hot chocolate! It was fantastic seeing all of the happy faces.

We hope they all had a brilliant night and weren’t too tired when they got home

We’ve been working closely with the team at Flaxby who are part of the Morrisons family to get some amazing treats for our children.

The site at Flaxby site, packs over 65.5 million packs of carrots and onions every week! Wow! So if you get your carrots and onions from Morrisons supermarket they will be from this factory! Its amazing that they are supporting our school as we’re not local to them. We can’t thank them enough for there amazing donation and I know the children have really appreciated the goodies.

Thank the team over at Flaxby we’re looking forward to continuing our partnership in the new year.

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Hi All,

Due to staff shortages in the kitchen we will only be providing 2 options for tomorrows lunch. These will be

Option 1: Meat Sausages with Roast potatoes and Vegetables

Option 2: Jacket potato with Cheese or beans

Thanks

Mrs Lythe