We have had a lovely sunny start to the final half term in F1. ☀️ The children have come back with such a positive attitude and are going to make this the best term yet!

We started our week off with some crew building. We used blocks to see how big we could build a tower. 👷🏻 The children worked in mini crews before coming together to share their ideas. We talked about the best way the place the blocks and how we can make the tower stronger. Most importantly we learnt a lot about sharing, working together and how this makes a strong crew. 👫🏻

To finish our week we acted out our story: What the Ladybird Heard! 🐞 We used the masks we made in creative with Mrs Rafter so that we looked like the animals in the story! We did a great job and together we confused Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len so much that they fell in the pond and couldn’t take the fine prize cow! 🐄 A big thank you to Ebony, Keya, Freya, Isaac, Keya and Freya from Crew Fox for your help. You were amazing actors 👏🏻

Shout outs

🌟 Eveah- You have had an amazing week ❤ You have been an amazing example of Crew and have shown all your HOWLs all day, everyday!

🌟 Charlie – such a settled start to this half term. The adults have been blown away with your attitude to school this week, keep it up!

This week’s HOWL score was 3! An amazing start, let keep going!

Crew HoWLopoly wheel

We span the wheel for our improved weekly HoWL average from last term and the children got what they wanted…number 1… a lesson fun pass. So they have chosen to swap writing on Monday and do a fun PE session instead. I suppose I should be thankful it didn’t land on wet sponge your teacher 😬

Crew Mc Authors📝

In our writing lessons for this term we are focusing on the short clip ‘Roads End’. We have gathered some outstanding vocabulary to describe the mysterious man and the dessert setting. Here are some snaps of us showing off our hard work…

Crew Mc Mathematicians ➕🟦📏

We have been calculating the perimeter of compound and rectilinear shapes. This has put our shape and addition knowledge to the test, but we have loved the challenge!

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Crew Mc Artists 🎨

Practising our sketching techniques in the sunshine… any opportunity to have a photo but in true Crew Mc style half of them ran out of the shot.

The children have come back to school this week ready and raring to go in the final half term of the year. With only a short time left as crew Ferguson they have really tried had to complete all their learning to a high standard ensuring they really are producing beautiful work. They have blown me away bringing their final expedition pieces together. They have really worked as a crew to create facts, food chains and art work to showcase at Flamingo land during the summer. All their work and ideas are being sent to the designers on Tuesday! We can’t wait to see them made into display boards. 😍

Flamingo land: children across Key stage one have worked extremely hard during the last few weeks to create information which will be showcased at Flamingo land zoo during the summer holidays. Their work will be displayed on 2 professionally made weather proof boards to ensure the general public can gain a real insight into the incredible children we have here at Carcroft school.

As a treat for all their efforts the children finished the week off with an icecream 🍦

Well done everyone. Bring on the next 5 weeks!

A great first week back for Crew Fox 🦊.

We’ve absolutely smashed ratio in maths sessions! Lots of reasoning and problem solving to really deepen our understanding of calculating ratio.

Our English sessions have been filled with adventurous writing to create a character description of the mysterious character from a short flip clip ‘Roads End’. The crew have generated some great ideas independently and this has proven how far they’ve come since September!

We are so close to finalising our expedition, ‘How has space shaped our past and how will it shape our future?’ So watch this space for our final product…

Crew Shields started the week with some team building which involved a lot of concentration and communication. The children worked as mini crews to lower the hula hoop to the floor using just their fingertips. They found this tricky to start but preserved until they were successful.

In writing, we started our new unit of a non chronological report about the digestive system. This is a new form of writing for the children but they have made a great start.

This has been a much improved week for Crew Shields with our Howls. It has been lovely seeing the children consistently work hard, get smart and be kind. 😁

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine. 🌞

We have had a much improved week in Crew Gerrard, which is great for our first week back after half term. It’s been a busy one and I’m pleased to see a desire to learn. Crew Gerrard know that there is not much time left until they are Year 6s and they are keen to be ready to hit the ground running in the new academic year.

In writing, we have been collaborating with each other. It’s been great fun to watch Crew Gerrard work together and think of interesting vocabulary, which will add to their writing. They have loved learning about our new and creepy video Road’s End and I am sure all of the hard work will pay off. I can’t wait to read them Crew Gerrard!

In Maths, we have been learning about perimeter. This has been a fun challenge for Crew Gerrard, as they started off the week by measuring and are now confident in finding the perimeter for rectilinear shapes. It’s been fantastic to see the children working hard to challenge their learning, in order to get smart!

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Our art sessions have been fun and required patience, as Crew Gerrard worked on their independent pieces of art. I have been impressed by how resilient the children have been, as we have had to complete a couple of drafts. The effort has certainly been worth it and I am pleased with how our sketches are looking!

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As I have said, this week has been much improved by our Crew. We have had a really solid week. We all need to ensure that we are working as part of our Crew, so that we are helping push each other on. Our HoWL average for the week was 2.6 and I want to see that rise next week. Enjoy your weekend! 😆

Highlight of the week:

We have had a lovely first week back in Crew Welburn, and the sunshine has made it even better as we’ve been able to move some of our expedition lessons outside! We have worked really well on all of our HOWLs this week, and our scores have been amazing! We’ve really impressed our teachers in expedition as well as we’ve started to pull together our pieces of work for our final products. Take a sneak peak at the pictures to see what we have been up to! 🖌🎨🖼

This week, we’ve also been trying extra hard to be kind, and the crew pointed this out on Tuesday as they praised each other at the end of the day for playing so nicely together in the afternoon. This was really lovely to hear from the children and I am sure it will continue throughout the rest of this half term. We used crew time on Tuesday to build different relationships in our crew by working with someone we do not usually work with. We had to use our communication skills and trust to guide each other around the obstacle course wearing blindfolds!

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Harry

Get Smart: Mariama

Be Kind: Lylah

HOWL Score: 3.1 Well done Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.4 You have worked so hard on this this week Crew Welburn, keep it up! 🌟✨🌟

We have been kindly given a limited number of Panini sticker books for the Euros.

If anyone would like one of these, they will be available from the front of school tomorrow afternoon on a first come, first served basis until they have all gone.

Hi all,

Crew Boswell and Crew Marsh both won a spin on the wheel for getting great HOWLS the last week before half term, so tomorrow will be a non-school uniform day for both crews.

Thank you!

A little bit delayed but here is some beautiful work from the XP Trust, the week before the half term break. As always, the children have worked incredibly hard.

It also features our logo rebrand video too, for anyone who may not yet have seen this.

Happy watching.