Starting in Nursery, pupils are given a huge range of opportunities for purposeful mark making in provision and begin to ascribe meaning to their marks ✏ Daily activities to develop gross and fine motor skills support pupils in gaining the early skills needed for handwriting 📑

In Early Years, our pupils learn to read and write effectively and quickly using the Read Write Inc.(RWI) Phonics programme. RWI is a method of learning centred round letter sounds and phonics, and we use it to aid children in their early reading and writing.

LKS2 Mining display

Why should we be proud to be part of the Carcroft community?

Here is LKS2’s first displays of the year. The children have worked incredibly hard this half term to learn about mining and the miners. We have created artwork for pit top, diary entries as a miner and thought about why we are proud of carcroft.

Well done everyone!

A great first week back. Lot’s of learning and hard work. Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Today’s HoWL average 3

This Week’s HoWL average: 3 (This meets the minimum expectation)

Our HoWL target is: 3.2

How can we develop  Learning our number bonds to 10 would really help when we work out maths calculations.

Howl Hero

Lacey P. For hard work in maths and cracking the column subtraction method today.

RWI Reading and Homework

This week we had 11 out of 17 children complete their homework and read their books. This is a good start.

Well done to those children who enjoyed a lucky dip treat!

A busy week for us has seen us try our hand at the online learning, experience a day of giving and try our hand at a range of dancing with a view to performing our own routine.  What has been impressive is how everyone has built on what they have done the day before to ensure that we’ve had a strong end to the week.  I hope you all manage to enjoy a restful weekend and keep safe.

Today’s HoWL average is: 3.2

Our Weekly HoWL average is: 3.0

Our Weekly HoWL target is: 3.0

I wonder if…

I wonder if we can build on our increasing confidence and have our best week yet next week.  I wonder if we can get a weekly HoWL average of 3.3?

Today’s HoWL Hero:

Our Work Hard hero today is Ellie!

It’s been a great day for Ellie today.  She often goes under the radar with her kindness, positivity and constant efforts in producing beautiful work but following our revelation yesterday, it was fantastic to see the crew recognising all that Ellie does so quietly.  You are constantly working hard, Ellie, keep it going and thank you for all the little things that you do for us!

Fantastic Friday ✅ There was so much to squeeze in our half day today 🙊 We finished the week with one last bonfire night mark making activity 🎨 We rolled marbles in paint to make different patterns and lines. This was also a great activity to practice our hand and eye coordination as we used spoons to roll the marbles. The children thoroughly enjoyed it 🙌🏼

We also finished our write dance for this week with Mrs Mason and she was so impressed with the marks they all made with their chalk. They are really progressing within write dance sessions, following instructions and are remembering what is expected of them so this is fantastic!

I am extremely proud of them all this week for working so hard and producing beautiful work 🥰 I look forward to seeing how much progress we can make before Christmas!

HOWL Hero

Working Hard – Oliver

Oliver has had a great attitude to his learning today 🌟 He has learnt to recognise his own name and already began to practice writing it too! Well done Oliver, keep up the great work and let’s really try and stay on gold standard!

I would just like to thank parents for their support with the new early finish time on Fridays. As explained, we are very fortunate we can offer full time free education to our nursery children, so we are confident they aren’t missing any learning due to this! 🙌🏼

Don’t forget Monday is a training day, therefore school is closed to children. Also our bedtime story campfire is on Tuesday. If you haven’t already returned your slip please bring it on Tuesday!
Have a great weekend! 💕

Hi everyone,

We’ve had a great end to our week in Crew Gerrard and I am really proud of the effort in writing, especially.  The children have had a great first week back, settling back into the routine of school. Keep it up! It was difficult to choose the HoWL heroes for today and they are:

Working hard: Sapphire 🦸‍♂️

Get smart: Kian 🦸‍♂️

Being kind: Tyler 🦸‍♂️

Our HoWL average was 3.1!

Have a great weekend guys! 😆

Week 1 ✔

Highlight of the day

We had a lovely science lesson today. The children looked at materials that they see in their everyday life. We grouped the objects and discussed their properties. The children were really engaged in their learning and worked really well as a crew 👏🏻

Highlight of the week

This we all the children have tried so hard and had a fabulous attitude ready for the new half term 😊 I can’t wait to see this continue, to watch the crew bond grow even stronger and see the children progress 🙌🏻 with such a strong start I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together by Christmas 🎄

HOWLs

Today our HOWL score went up to 3.2

Today our HOWL heroes were

🌟 Work hard – Preston

🌟 Get smart – Charleigh

🌟 Be kind – Rome

I want to give a big shout out to the 8 children in Crew Welburn who earnt their chocolate bars by reading 4 times this week! 👏👏👏 I am really proud of you all for trying so hard to practice your sounding out and blending at home and I can see such a big improvement in your reading and writing in class 📚 🍫

Our HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Mariama 🙌

Get Smart: Darcie 🙌

Be Kind: Lylah 🙌

This week’s highlights:

Today’s HoWL average is: 2.8…

This weeks HoWL average is: 3.0

Weekly HoWL target: 3

Well done Crew Welburn! To say we’ve had a few children who haven’t been in every day, I’m impressed that we still hit our target!