Roald Dahl Day 2023! 

6th September 2023Sophie Elmer

Dear Parents/Carers, 

Next week, on Wednesday 13th September 2023 we will be celebrating Roald Dahl Day here at Carcroft Primary School! We highly value reading and as a school feel that as Roald Dahl was one of the best-known and best-selling authors of the 20th century, that we should take part in this special day to celebrate him and his books. As well as take the opportunity to continue to promote the love of books and reading. 

During the school day each crew will participate in a range of engaging activities, including sharing their favourite Roald Dahl books, listening to staff read an extract from their favourite Roald Dahl novel, watching movie adaptations, learning interesting facts about Roald Dahl including the history of Roald Dahl and lots lots more! We hope that by providing our pupils with these carefully planned activities that these will support our drive to maintain, promote and engage our pupils in reading. Each Crew Leader will create a blog at the end of the day/week so that you can see all of 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 Roald Dahl book character. We are aware that the event is next week so do not expect new outfits to be purchased for the event. Just simply have a look in your child’s wardrobe and see what they can wear. Such as, a blue dress for Matilda or a pair of jeans and red top for George. If you feel your child does not have anything suitable then they can simply just their own clothes for the day that they feel comfortable in (non-school uniform), of course if they wish to dress up they can! We know the first few weeks of school life are manic and do not wish to add to this! We also won’t be asking for any monetary donations on this occasion. 

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 that appear in some of the famous Roald Dahl story books and maybe even share a favourite Roald Dahl story (there are lots online!). 

We look forward to celebrating this special day! 

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation. 

Mrs Elmer 

English Lead

Marvellous mosaics

6th September 2023Kate Thompson

Yesterday as part of hook week, we made mosaics. Mosaics are made of glass, stone and rock and during the Roman times they showed a sign of wealth and importance. Crew Thompson really enjoyed making shield and sword designs and tried really hard to replicate a mosaic. ☺️

An exciting discovery in Crew MW!

5th September 2023Sarah Mcglone

We found something very exciting in our classroom after we had been enjoying the sunshine outside! Giant footprints were found leading to a new book… the story of The Gruffalo! Not only did we find footprints, but we also found lots of purple prickles that had been dropped by our mystery visitor. We used our Think-Pair-Share protocol to talk to our talk partners about who we thought had made the footprints and why there might have been purple prickles left on the floor. After a short discussion, we thought it might be the Gruffalo himself who left the book! Once we read the story, we came to the conclusion that it WAS the Gruffalo because he has purple prickles all down his back and large feet! We are excited to do lots of fun activities linked to the Gruffalo during hook week!

UKS2 family stay and engage

5th September 2023Stacey McClare

Thank you to all the parents and carers that joined us this afternoon for our Colombian kahoot quiz, coffee and biscuit. It was wonderful to have so many of you in school and to see the children’s smiling faces as they took part in the quiz. Hopefully everyone learnt a few new facts on Colombia!! Children are now really excited for our next few geography lessons where we will focus on Colombia in more detail.

Blind mice challenge crew in MI

5th September 2023Stacey McClare

Today we tested our listening, team work and problem solving skills! MI took part in an obstacle course where they worked in pairs. One team member completed the obstacle course whilst their partner gave them verbal instructions. There was however one catch, the person completing the course was wearing a blind fold! MI what a great job you did 🙂

The Great Fire of London 🔥🏠

5th September 2023Lauren Marsh

After building our houses yesterday, today we recreated the Great Fire of London. We all sat and watched how quickly the fire moved from one house to the next so quickly – it only took 30 minutes to burn down all of the buildings, like the 3 days it took for the Great Fire of London. We spoke about what language we could use in our writing such as fire, smoke, spreading, roaring, burning.

Mosaic

5th September 2023Ruth Shields

Following on with the Roman theme, the children were given time to create their own mosaic patterns. Some children went for repeating patterns and others tried to create pictures with the mosaic. We worked well and even enjoyed some Roman music in the background.