After starting the year in Year Two I was so excited (and a little bit terrified) when I was asked to become part of the EYFS crew. School was still so new for our little learners and EYFS was a new adventure for me too! Since March we have all come so far together. The children have grown so tall (sadly Miss Thiede still isn’t any taller) and have grown even more in personality and character.

It is unbelievable to think that when the pandemic started some of our youngest children were still only babies and that school was their first time meeting new people and being without their grown ups. We have all overcome so many challenges this year and I am sure that all the EYFS staff and parents/carers would agree that it has been made so much easier with the constant smiles, giggles and optimism that our little people gave bucket loads of.

The children have made so much progress this year! Little do they know but while they have been busy exploring all their favourite activities in the classroom they have been doing so much amazing learning! Listening to them talk so clearly to each other, solving problems and thinking back to what they have done before makes me grin from ear to ear! I am so proud of our EYFS crew and everything that has been achieved this year.

Thank you to all the parents/carers in EYFS! Your support (and willingness to send the children in SO many fancy dress costumes) has been invaluable! You should be so proud of your little people, I know I am! Also, a big thank you for all the appreciation you have shown for our Staff Crew and for all of the kind gifts today (they will all be throughly enjoyed in week 4 of the holidays when I don’t have to worry about squeezing into my bridesmaids dress)!

Good luck to all of Crew Thiede, I know that you will be amazing in all of your adventures next year!

You have been an total joy and it has been my absolute pleasure to be a part of your first year at school!

Here is a letter to Crew Gerrard!

Dear Crew Gerrard,

Today was our last day with each other and I think it’s crazy how fast, but slow this year has gone. We have almost had a full year, but have been interrupted again by COVID-19. We started the year off as just 16 and have ended the year with 9 extra additions to make 25. 

Since September, we have introduced HoWLs (work hard, get smart and be kind) and I think we have all improved in this area. We started our Expeditionary learning journey by making a brochure about your community and answered the guiding question ‘What does the Carcroft Community have to offer? ‘ I remember the fun we had delivering these brochures around the village in miserable weather, but that didn’t dampen our spirits. 

Then came the time after Christmas, when we were closed several times, half were at home and half were at school. How crazy was that? Before Easter, we were all put together and I wouldn’t change that at all. Yes, you have been chatty and a little bit mad, but that’s all added to the fun!

Our second Expedition was the coolest one and I think the one we all enjoyed the most. We started this off with the hacker, which helped set the tone and excitement for the rest of this Expedition. How many school’s get to graffiti and then put it up in a shopping centre? You guys are really lucky and should be proud of the mural that you produced, with all of your own little touches! You have all become much more confident writers and mathematicians, along with getting better at reading. 

We are really proud to have been your teachers and have had a lot of fun along the way. Yes, there have been some daft choices, but we all make mistakes and hopefully we will learn from them. You have also helped us through some really tough times, like when we had COVID, the car crash and when I lost my Nanna. You helped cheer us up during these times and I cannot thank you enough for that – you really were Crew.

We want to end the year with a bit of fun, which was a water fight. I know the adults definitely won…

A final thank you to the parents for all of the support during a strange year. You have helped us all out and that is what Crew is all about. Enjoy your summer Crew Gerrard and make sure you have the tonnes of fun – stay safe and make the most of it before Year 6!

From,

Mr G and Mrs Gilliland 😆

P.S. – Here is a video of our time together!

I just wanted to say Goodbye to all the children in EYFS. I am going to miss you all so much and it has been a pleasure to have been part of the EYFS team. I am so lucky to have been able to share your nursery and reception journey’s with you. Thank you to all the parents and carers for your support and thank you for all my wonderful cards and gifts ❤️❤️❤️ Miss Nicholson ❤️

Where do I even begin with our final crew blog? Crew Welburn have absolutely blown me away this year. They have worked so hard on their HOWLs and embraced every challenge I have thrown at them throughout the year! I am so proud of everything each of them has achieved. From our very first day trying to line up ready to take a photo, to my last day with them on Wednesday where we had forest school and toasted marshmallows, we’ve managed to squeeze so much into this year…So I thought that we could use our final blog post to look back on some of my favourite photos from Crew Welburn’s school year…

Have an amazing summer making lots of memories!🌞🌞 I’ll see you all in September 💕

Crew Longley have enjoyed their end of year treat with a cinema night.

We have enjoyed a sleep over movie premier, hot chocolate, hotdogs, popcorn and special biscuits. What a great afternoon with a fantastic crew!

Wednesday – we are going out to forest school. Please send the children in old clothes as we are going to be toasting marshmallows, so they may get a little smoky, and appropriate footwear such as wellies or trainers that you don’t mind getting a bit muddy.

Friday – as well as non uniform day, we are going to have one final treat for the children… A water fight! Please send the children in clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting wet, with a towel and a change of clothes for after the water fight.

It’s been a bit of a strange week in Crew Wilson as we have had to isolate! But we haven’t let that stop us, we’ve worked really hard from home on all of our learning! We’ve been meeting online every day to check in with each other and it’s been great to see everyone’s smiling faces every morning. We’ve had a few technical difficulties along the way but Crew Wilson have been very resilient, even if it did take us a few days to learn how to mute our microphones! You’ve all worked so hard this week and should be massively proud of the independent work you’ve created! We’ve done lots of Praise/Notice/Wonders with our work this week, it’s been lovely to hear how much praise our crew have for each other, they’ve bonded so well this year and have so many kind things to say!

Expedition:

We explored the story ‘Mr Wuffles’, it was a bit weird because it only had pictures and no words! We had to work out the story just using the images and really enjoyed discussing the aliens we could see. We designed our own alien and their home planet and wrote some descriptive sentences to ‘sell’ our planet as a holiday destination. I was blown away with the work created at home, everyone worked so hard! Some of us even created our own alien language!

Writing:

We have also been writing personal reflections this week, thinking carefully about our achievements from the year and deciding what we need to work on for Year Two. It was great to hear how honest the crew were, and even though some were feeling nervous about moving into a new class, by the end of the lesson we were feeling much more confident and ready to overcome their new challenges in Year Two!

I can’t wait to be back in the classroom ready for our final week of the term! It wasn’t too bad working online and we quickly got used to it, but it’s not the same as being in the classroom together! We’ve missed out on some fun things in school while we’ve been isolating so to make up for it we’ve got lots of exciting things planned and a few tricks up our sleeve!

See you all on Monday!

It’s been a lovely end of the week in Crew Fox… one week left until our Year 6’s leave for their next chapter at secondary school.

Most of the children have visited their new schools during transition day – and they’ve come back buzzing and so excited to start (which makes me a little sad). Miss Theide has supported Y6 whilst I had my crew for September, they have began designing and creating their own board games that they can take home and play with you all.

Children have began to make their final edits for Final Word, ready for next week. I’m so excited for you all to hear their reflections, I’m so proud of how far they have come.

To finish the week off, we had extra time Fun day! Crew Fox loved this and it was great to see them all loving life!

⚽⚽🤞IT’S COMING HOME 👌⚽⚽

Have a great weekend! Don’t forget children can arrive at 10am on Monday if they’ve had a late night watching the game.