Crew Shields – Music 🎶

20th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

We continued our music unit ‘The Doot Doot Song’ by warming up doing ‘The stomp canon’. This gave us the chance to warm up our voices and our bodies.

To begin our lesson, we talked about chords and triads. Using glockenspiels, we worked as a group of 3 to play C major, F major and A minor. Once we had practised keeping in time with one another as a group, we then tried playing each chord as a whole class ensemble before moving from chord to chord to create a short 3 bar piece of music.

Finally, we recapped the notes B, A and G on the recorder, and applied this to a short tune where we had to move between the 3 notes seamlessly.

Crew Hamill and Crew Thompson – Music 🎶💃🏻🕺🏻

20th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

We have been continuing with our music unit ‘Latin Dance’. We warmed up by practising the salsa step we looked at during our last lesson, we then learnt a new step and practised dancing both of them together.

We looked at keeping the beat of our song using untuned percussion instruments. We talked about, and then applied, crotchets and quavers using the instruments. Once we were confident with keeping the beat, we then added vocals and began to sing the song whilst playing.

We were introduced to chords, when you play two or more notes at the same time. Working with a partner, we tried playing the chords for A minor and F major on the glockenspiels. We found it tricky at first to play the correct notes at the same time as our partner, but we showed resilience and continued to practise keeping in time with one another. We then split into two groups, one playing A minor, the other playing F major at the same time. We thought it sounded really good when we all fell into the same time. We finished off this part of the lesson by continuing to learn the song lyrics, thinking about the melody and where we needed to clap.

Finally, we recapped the notes B, A and G on the recorder, and applied this to a short tune where we had to move between the 3 notes seamlessly.

Challenge Crew 🎶

20th February 2024Kate Thompson

In challenge crew today, we circled up and had to work together as a team to pass around the object without making a sound. We started with a tambourine and then tried passing round Mrs Bidmead’s lanyard. We had our problem solving heads on and soon came up with solutions on how to pass them round quietly.

Mindful Monday 🧘🏻

20th February 2024Kate Thompson

During crew, we discussed what we can do to regulate our emotions. We looked at recognising how we can feel and then discussed ways in which we can help regulate ourselves. Some of the ideas we came up with were taking deep breaths, going for a walk or asking for help.

World Book Day 2024! 🌍📚📖

20th February 2024Sophie Elmer

Dear Parents/Carers, 

On Thursday 7th March 2024 we will be celebrating the annual reading event, World Book Day at Carcroft Primary School. As Storytelling Week was such a success back in the beginning of Spring Term we are excited to say that we will be taking part in this special day to continue to celebrate the love of books and reading! 

During the school day each crew will participate in a range of engaging activities, including sharing their favourite books, recreating book front covers, performing stories through drama and lots more exciting tasks! We hope that these will support our drive to maintain, promote and engage our children’s interest in reading. Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day so that you can all see the exciting things that your child/ren have been getting up to throughout the day! 

As part of this exciting day we are asking for the children (and staff!) to come to school dressed as their favourite book characters. As always each child will receive a World Book Day £1 token to be redeemed at a retailer of your choice. 

Either at the end of this day or in preparation for the day it would be lovely for you to discuss with your child/ren the different characters from their favourite books and find out what type of books they love to read, as well as participating in some shared reading either using their school book or another book that they have at home. 

We look forward to seeing your child/ren dressed up for this special celebration! 

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation. 

Mrs Elmer 

English Lead

Book talk continues in MI

20th February 2024Stacey McClare

Today we continued our book talk session 🙂 We started by recapping our key vocabulary, this was something we text marked when we started to read. We all took part in a read around the robin as we read, a partner read then we tried a speed read. This helped us to work on the speed of our reading and helped us to become a little more fluent. We tried to circle any other vocabulary that we didn’t understand and we then discussed this as a whole crew. We discussed different parts of the text as we read, discussing anything that surprised us! Lots did in todays session! Our reasons to read part of the lesson assessed what we had read and generated some great discussions about the text. So many of us were eager to voice our opinions about what we had read. Quite a few facts surprised us today and this added to a great book talk session with so much discussion around the text.