We loved having our reading cafe again this week, it is every Thursday at 3pm.
Reading cafe 📖
Crew MW’s Stay and Engage
Thank you to all of the lovely grown ups who came to Crew MW’s stay and engage this morning! We had such a lovely time outside in the forest are making our sun catchers with you ☀️
Fire safety 🔥
Today we have learnt how to be safe around fire. The main thing we learnt and practised was being able to stop, drop and roll if any items of clothing caught fire.
Reading Volunteers Wanted!
Hello Everyone!
We are yet again looking for some volunteers (across all crews) to come into school and listen to some children read on a 1:1 basis.
Scarily, 1 in 4 children leave primary school unable to read well, resulting in life long consequences. It is our mission at Carcroft to ensure that all of our children leave our school able to read well.
If you have some time to spare, a day, a few hours or even an hour, and enjoy spending time with children then we would love it if you could come and help us to support our children with reading.
We hope that from this experience our children will become better readers and develop a stronger love for reading and for you to gain an enormous amount of pleasure from seeing the difference that a few hours can make to a child’s reading ability, confidence and enjoyment.
Ideally we would appreciate volunteers giving us their time for as long as possible, however if you are only able to commit to a few weeks or months then please do not hesitate to enquire.
If you feel like this is something that you can offer then please pop into the school office who will be able to provide you with more details.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Mrs Elmer (English Lead)
Art attack in MI!
Today we explored human and physical geography before thinking more about physical features found in South America. Once we had a good understanding of both human and physical features we created our own art attack! We used maps to help us show all the different physical features and we were all super proud of our creation. Great howls were shown throughout the activity with a great positive attitude, great collaborative working and the end result showed beautiful work. Fab work MI 🙂
French in KS2
This week we have started our French learning journey! We started off by learning how to greet one another and ask someone what their name is. We also discussed our classroom protocols and were introduced to French phrases that Madame McGlone will be using during our lessons.
We worked hard using lots of ‘my turn, your turn’, working on our pronunciation, and understanding the meaning of each phrase. We then had a visit from our French speaking friend Phillipe the Puppet, who we confidently introduced ourselves to. We finished off with a slight twist on the game ’21’. We used the French numbers from 1-10 to adapt the rules slightly to try and be the last crew member standing. Super effort from everyone – très bien!
What a day!! Murton Park – Roman Day
We really hope the children have enjoyed their day as much as we have.
Today was action packed from start to finish and definitely gave the children the opportunity to experience life as a Roman soldier.
On our way to the fort, we needed some ‘donkeys’ to pull the cart. It was surprising how many volunteered for the task.
Before starting the activities, it was essential that they looked the part so they were allocated their barracks and a uniform.
The rest of the day consisted of 5 activities.
Sword and shield fighting where children were taught how to hold their shield and spear/sword. They were expected to follow orders to ensure their survival in battle.
They had the opportunity to throw javelins and fight with a bag. Some children were able to command their recruits.
It was music to our ears that the children weren’t escaping writing today but with a difference. They were using the Roman alphabet abd the Roman style of writing which didn’t include finger spaces or punctuation!
Crafting Roman oil lamps was another of our tasks. Children used clay to create an oil lamp which they were able to design.
Once the children had learned the skills they were taken to battle. Unexpectedly, there was a celt who challenged them to a battle because she didn’t want them on her land, however, the Roman soldier defeated them and they ran away.
An absolutely amazing day had by all and we’ve no doubts the children are ready to commence our expedition next week and learn more about the Romans.
Kahoot quiz chaos!🔥🚒
This afternoon we completed our first Kahoot quiz to see who knew the most about a firefighter. Crew Marsh loved the interactive quiz using the iPads!
Teamwork with Scotties heroes
We loved our teamwork session with Scottie’s heroes!
Citizenship crew in MI
Today we discussed the attributes that make a good team. We thought about any teams we admire then thought about the attributes of these teams. ‘Together everyone achieves more’ We thought about what this means in a variety of situations. We discussed any good teams we already know and what actually makes a good team. From here we thought about our crew and how we are also a small team. We worked in mini crews to discuss which attributes make a good team and what we need to be part of crew MI. We then shared these with the whole crew. Some great discussions MI 🙂
