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Being Artists
We have loved being artists just like Dennis Creffield, we have been using charcoal to start creating our artwork. We firstly practiced by drawing the school using lines and shapes.
We then applied this to our final artwork, creating mood from the tissue paper for the fire and drawing 19th century houses with charcoal.
Staff Day Crew Challenge
Just as we expect our children to work together, communicate effectively, and adapt with creativity, we placed ourselves in the same position. What is good enough for the children is good enough for us – showing that crew culture is for everyone, not just pupils.
Our Carcroft Crew Bake Off brought teamwork to life, with everyone taking on a role and responsibility to make it a success. Clear communication and smooth handovers proved essential, while creativity and adaptability helped turn simple recipes into something special. Most importantly, the challenge reminded us that fun, shared activities strengthen crew spirit, boost morale, and highlight the power of collaboration.
Making our pledges…
This term, we have been focusing on becoming more independent and reflective learners and one way we’re doing that is by making our own learning pledges!
Each child has made a personal pledge to help them remember to refer to their tables during lessons in reading, writing and maths. we make pledges to help us take ownership of our learning.
A pledge is a promise we make to ourselves. It’s a way of setting a goal and saying, “This is something I’m going to try my best to do.”
By making pledges, we learn to:
- Be responsible for our progress
- Think about how we learn, not just what we learn
- Build good habits like checking our work or using learning tools
- Stay motivated and focused
- Celebrate small steps and big improvements
The children voiced that pledges help you to be the best version of yourself and like LTs they are something for us to achieve towards. We discussed they remind us that learning doesn’t just happen – it takes effort, reflection and the confidence to keep improving. When we stick to our pledges, we feel proud because we’re doing something that helps us become better learners!
Why Should We Help Our Planet Survive?
To summarise our geography learning so far this year, we referred back to the purpose of our guiding question. We used our knowledge as geographers to answer why we think it is important to help our planet survive. Before we were tasked with writing a balanced argument, we experience our argument and role played a conscience alley. The children not only loved arguing but they enjoyed playing various roles and were able to justify reasons for specific viewpoints.
Designing our own birthday invitations
This week we have been looking at the features of a birthday invitation. We talked about their purpose and how they communicate information to people. At the end of our expedition, we will need to send out information regarding our Celebration of Learning to our parents so we decided to create our own invitation designs that we will send out to our grown ups.
Painting our self-portraits
To continue our work for our final product, we have been looking at creating self-portraits with paint. We focused on how to make different shapes using a paintbrush, and we talked about how we can use different shades of paint to show skin colour. We also continued to use mirrors to recognise our features so that we could use the correct colours for our eyes and hair. We are really pleased with how they have turned out and cannot wait to see them feature in our final product!
Phonics play
During the lead up to phonics the children will be mastering the foundational skills needed to learn their sounds. During this lesson the children are learning all about the sounds around them, tapping out the rhythmic patterns they can hear in nursery songs, and practicing how to Fred some simple cvc words with a touch of musical fun. They were also amazing at matching the sound level from quite to loud well done crew Frost!
Speed Number!
This week the children have begun maths! In our first session we are focusing on the number 1, here we have learnt how to say it, write it, and show it! Well done Crew Frost we cannot wait to subtilize next using our fast maths eyes!
Final Product week.
During our current expedition Marvelous me, we have been working very hard in crew Frost learning how to create a self portrait, as you can see the children have been learning how to use shapes to form the features of their face, such as a circle for the face, lines for eyelashes and hair. Whilst developing new language such as “dot or wavy” for the nose and lips. The children have particularly liked learning our little parrot rhyme to help our pen grip. We cannot wait to see all the images brought together in our celebration of learning!
