It has been another fun week in after school club. Check out the video to see what we did in Music Club with Mr Hull!
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Look who has come for a visit today!
The Carcroft Crew loved seeing Miss Laing and beautiful baby Freya today ❤️!
Crew Fox blog w/c 13.9.21
This week, we’ve learned all about the train experts in our history case study. Throughout expedition, we’ve used ICT and secondary resources to research into the lives and work of James Watt, Sir Nigel Gresley, George Stephenson and Richard Trevithik. Crew Fox have created informative posters to share their findings about their chosen expert!
We are beginning to grasp all the rules of direct speech… there’s a lot to remember! We have worked hard and tried our best to create sentences using speech linking to the film clip Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, ready to start our first plot point next week. Watch out for Crew Fox sentence stackers!
Next week we will be immersed into our history with an experience day linking to the Industrial Revolution… watch this space for photos and videos!
Have a lovely weekend everyone,
Mrs Fox
Crew MI 10.9.21.
What a great and exciting week it has been this week.
There has been some great leaning happening in Crew MI with us starting to read our new book… Train to impossible places. The children are really enjoying this and are excited to find out what happens. We have also started to plan our Harry Potter writing in preparation for writing it next week… watch this space next week to see some great examples. In maths, we have been using the base ten to help us understand place value. We now understand numbers up to ten thousands.
The best bit of this this week was definitely the amazing trip to Harry Potter Studios where we were fully immersed in the films looking at the sets, costumes and even riding on the brooms. The children also got a lesson on how to create costumes and had a go themselves at distressing fabric. It really was a great day.
Crew Fox blog w/c 6.9.21
What a week!
We started the week off with watching Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone to hook us into our writing sessions. We are beginning our first writing unit by writing in third person to narrate parts of the film. We have used our experience days to gather some great vocabulary to use within our writing!
Wednesday was an early start for our phase, setting off to Harry Potter World Studios in London at 7:30 AM. After a 4 hour journey, we arrived at Warner Brothers Studios… we were flabberghasted at how big the studio was!
I am in the making of a video (we captured around 400 photos/videos) to show our amazing journey from the day but as you can imagine, this is taking a while. So watch out for the video in a few days time… here’s a few photos to have a look at whilst the video is being made…
This week, our HOWL average was 2.4. As a crew, we decided that our targets are all around focusing and concentrating on achieving ME across the day. We are going to work really hard to get closer to a secure 3 next week.
Happy Friday everyone, have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Fox
This week in Crew Tucker… 10/9/21
We’ve had another fantastic week in Crew Tucker with lots of great learning taking place both inside and outside the classroom.
Our highlight of the week has to be our visit to Murton Park, York where the children spent the day experiencing what life was like for a Viking. Dressed to impress, the children learnt how to be handle weapons to guard the village, made bread using Viking recipes and techniques and created pottery which we have brought back to school to display in our classroom.
If you haven’t seen it, click play on the video below to see photos and videos from our trip. If you’ve seen it already, watch it again as it really was an amazing day!
This week also saw our class celebrate our very first Learning Legend. This award went to none other than… Rome Wilson! Rome has made a brilliant start to his time in Year 3 and has demonstrated his determination to work hard to get smart in all lessons. He has created some beautiful work, particularly in Art where he has shown a real flare for the subject; his clay dragon eye is truly impressive!
Each and every member of our crew has worked incredibly hard this week. Starting Key Stage Two can be a challenge but they have risen to this and excelled our expectations. Keep up the hard work Crew Tucker.
Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you all bright and early on Monday morning.
Crew Ferguson Weekly Blog WE: 3.9.21
What a brilliant first week we have had in Crew Ferguson. The children have really settled in and have started to work on our crew beliefs of working hard to get smart whilst being kind. They have started to score their daily accomplishments and use the the daily tracker to work as a crew more effectively.
We have enjoyed playing and experiencing the new areas of the classroom and getting to play with our friends again after the long break. We have impressed Miss Ferguson and the other adults in the unit with our tidying skills and ensuring our classroom is somewhere to be proud of.
We have worked hard during crew sessions to speak in full sentences and express how we are feeling. The adults in the unit are looking forward to really delving into out expedition topic this term “How can we celebrate our similarities and differences together?” and finding out all the great things the children find important to them.
Have a lovely Sunday.
See you all tomorrow for another week of great learning!
This week in Crew Tucker… 3/9/21
This week has been our first week together as Crew Tucker and it has certainly been one to remember!
We have spent this week delving into our first expedition, ‘Coming to Doncaster; why then and why now?’ and our first case study which aims to answer the question, ‘Why did the Vikings come to Doncaster?’. Our Hook Week has involved lots of exciting activities: developing our artistic skills using clay to create dragon eyes and sketching dragons; becoming performers of dragon poetry; cooking using viking recipes and being detectives to investigate a mystery visitor who created havoc in the school hall and forest school!
Watch the video below to get a feel for yourselves for all the fun we have had this week.
Time and time again, the children have blown us all away with their positive attitudes, exemplary behaviour and excitement to learn new things; we can’t wait to watch them grow and develop further throughout the school year and will continue to share our learning with you on our blog.
Have a great weekend everyone!
School Access
From Monday 6th September the staff car park will no longer be accessible on foot via the gate. Access to school will be through the main gates only.
Welcome back!
Before I begin this post, can I just say what an impressive morning we have had at Carcroft School today. I have seen happy children dressed as heroes in KS1 and witnessed a very impressive Harry Potter ‘Sorting Hat’ session in Upper Key Stage 2. On top of that Crew Ferguson have shown me their Crew Sign and Nursery have been learning in the home corner, sharing their resources.
Welcome back, I hope you had a great summer. The staff are very excited to deliver their new expeditions with their crews and support the children to work hard, be kind and get smart.
Today we officially join the XP Trust, we thank Mrs Lythe and the Governors for their hard work on this process. As a member of the XP Trust the staff will attend weekly networks and staff from throughout the Trust will be working at Carcroft to make this school the best in the world. Your children will experience a curriculum that explores, excites and ensures that they learn amazing things and produce amazing products. Through the curriculum they will understand the purpose of reading and writing and understand how maths is important to many problem solving scenarios. Through crew and the importance of being kind, the children at Carcroft will continue to be supported to be the best version of themselves.
Comms @ Carcroft
This year we’re making some changes to the way we communicate to you.
Carcroft School Website will be our main form of communication. You can subscribe to the website which will send you an email alert when a message or blog is posted. Scroll down the website and look down the right hand side – add your email to ‘subscribe to block via email’.
Dojo will be used to alert you of an important message and a way for your class teacher to contact you.
Facebook won’t be used to communicate with daily messages. This will be used for emergency messages.
Facebook messenger is no longer monitored, if you have a query please complete our Carcroft Query Form.
Personal Contact, please do not contact any staff members through personal social media or email accounts. They will not be answered.
Ways for you to contact school and staff;
- General enquiries – Carcroft Query Form, Phone: 01302 722353
- School Business Manager – Email: [email protected]
- Dojo – you can dojo message your class teacher, however queries and questions will not be answered outside of office hours.
During the school holidays staff may not respond to your questions. Any question that needs to be raised must be done through the Carcroft Query Form. This is intermittently monitored during the holidays and if your question is deemed urgent we will respond accordingly.
We have made a great start to the term and we look forward to sharing more of our learning with you via the website and hopefully soon in school.
Thanks for your support
Neil Butler