Before half term, Carcroft Primary School participated in football week, this was a great opportunity for crews to show their sportsmanship, football skills and take part in a competitive sport.

Watch the video below to see what we got up to…

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!

We may have had a week off of school, but our enthusiasm was still just as high as before for swimming. The children were excited to say the least. We recapped our safety, just to make sure that we hadn’t forgotten and then went straight into the deep end. It was amazing to see so many go in there for the first time and how bravely they took on this new challenge. Jumping in is probably the favourite part for most of us. Those who weren’t in the deep end have made some fantastic progress, too. They have been able to complete some more floating techniques, managed to perfect their push & glides, plus they have been able to swim without floats. This is fantastic! Another difficult decision for the swimming super stars, but they were:

Brayden for showing fantastic listening and brilliant technique. His glide was perfect and I think it could have gone on for even longer! (Crew G) 😀

Evie for being able to make great progression with her swimming. She is coming on really well! (Crew G) 😁

Roxanne for showing great bravery and getting back into the swing of things easily! (Crew Mc) 😃

Olly for being a superb swimmer. Your confidence keeps on growing! (Crew Mc) 😄

During the next two weeks, we will be going into the pool clothed, to further develop our skills. Can you make sure that the clothing is either pyjamas or shirt and shorts. The children don’t need to wear shoes, jeans or anything baggy. Any questions, then just ask! 😆

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.

Some of the fantastic experiences from before half term.

Check out all of our learning from the last week of term! We have been team-building in Crew, exploring Africa and the Arctic in Expedition and exploring fact families in Maths!

Happy half term! It seems the weeks are absolutely flying by as we near the end of this academic year.

Crew Shields have been extremely busy this week as we have continued with our expedition. There has been lots of collaborative learning as they worked towards creating a healthy lunchbox option. It was lovely hearing them discuss and reason their decisions.

Fractions have really got out brains working this week as we started looking at equivalent fraction, comparing and ordering fractions. The children were extremely resilient even when they found some aspects tricky. A fabulous skill to be developing as the children get Year 4 ready.

We ended the week with soak the teacher, thankfully this was Mr Longley. This was a reward for the children from winning a spin on the shell for their howls.

Thank you for your continued support this half term, it is really appreciated. Have a great half term and keep safe.

Have a very happy half term, Crew UKS2! 😆

The day has finally come to write Crew Elmer’s final blog after our final day together…😥 However, we have had a lovely last day altogether 💕

Today’s star moment ☀ : 

Today’s star moment has got to be the whole day! However, some moments that stood out were making pizzas 🍕, designing biscuits 🍪 and pass the parcel 🎁.

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It has been an absolute pleasure teaching Crew Elmer and I really will miss all of them! Fingers crossed I will be back after half term and will get to spend some time with them all before my maternity leave starts! Have an amazing and well deserved half term and I will see you all after half term! 😊

Highlight of the week:

Wow! What a week we have had in Crew Welburn. I am amazed by the children’s writing this week as we’ve begun writing our fact files for our final product to display at Flamingo Land. We’ve used all of our knowledge from expedition lessons to build sentences around giraffes and zebras, ready to send off for the final product. We also shared our fact files from farm animals with Foundation Stage today, using our big, clear voices. We hope they learnt a lot from them!

This week, we’ve also been doing lots of team building, communication activities in crew time. We have played listening games where we have to listen and clap rhythms, and we’ve used our communication skills to get ourselves into height order.

HOWL Heroes:

Work Hard: Harriet

Get Smart: Harry

Be Kind: Frankie

My learning legend for this week is Darcie Fraser. Darcie has been a superstar in maths over the last half term. She has been working really hard with her addition and subtraction number sentences, and in her mental maths for her number recognition, place value and number formation. I am really impressed with how smart she has got! Keep it up Darcie!

HOWL Score: 3.1 Well done Crew Welburn!

This week’s HOWL average: 3.1 Keep it up Crew Welburn!