Carcroft School

Our handwriting stars from this week… 🎉🥳

I got to celebrate an improvement in handwriting from two wonderful pupils- Freya and Macey.

Both girls are taking pride in their work and are trying to ensure that their work is always beautiful.
They also read their work aloud- it was lovely to listen to them read their work and see them feeling so proud. Some great word and phrase choices selected to keep the reader interested. You certainly had me gripped.

I am hoping for a few more next week… 🙏🏻

This was Freya’s work in September….

This is Freya’s work now.. such fab progress 🙌

And Macey…

Today I celebrated with this fabulous bunch of Carcroft stars ⭐️ These children were chosen because they have made good progress with their handwriting and presentation which is something we are really working on as a school post lockdown. We also listened to Shay and Lacey read their writing aloud- wow! 🙌 They blew me away. Proud of them both. I’m also really pleased with how much work our Year 1 pupils Daisy and Lyla are now producing. Finally, Ray’s book is beautifully presented as always. ⭐️⭐️

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Thank you to those parents who have provided us with feedback regarding the XP Calendar. I have looked through parents comments and have made some slight changes to our final version of the 2021/22 Academic Calendar.

Carcroft staff will work the same number of days as outlined on the Local Authority Calendar. However, you will see that we will start our term, 1 day earlier in-line with the XP Schools. Then, in July, we will continue our term for a further 4 days once the XP Schools have broken up for Summer.

I would like to thank parents for their understanding in terms of the rationale behind us proposing that we would like our staff to attend the 5 additional INSET days alongside XP Staff, as we truly believe these days will be essential in terms of moving our school forward.

The calendar is never going to be straight forward, as everyone’s context is different. However, I do believe that this calendar is going to be a really good fit for us as a school next year. Staff will have 5 additional days to improve the education in which they provide to your children, whilst aligning the dates with the local authority calendar for 2021/22.

We will then fully align our calendar with the XP Trust from September 2022, but there will be more to come on this in the Autumn Term so that you can plan for the following academic year.

In the meantime, if there are any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me via email on [email protected].

Please can I ask parents to refrain from commenting on the post over the weekend period, in order to allow school staff a little bit of a respite after a busy first week back.

Thank you,

Miss Laing

Dear Parent/Carers,

After the Easter Break, on the first Wednesday back (the 14th April), we have our very first ‘Covid Safe’ version of the Wizard of Oz production coming to CPS!

M&M Productions usually visit our school for World Book Day each year and this year is no different.. it’s just a little later than usual. It will also look a little bit different, as they have reduced the cast size, whilst keeping it just as exciting and engaging!

In order to really enhance the children’s learning experience that week, we are going to use the text/video of the Wizard of Oz as a stimulus to drive our learning for that week.

In addition, we would like our families at home to get involved over the Easter Break too. So, what would we like you to do?

We would love for the children to come into school on Wednesday 14th April in Wizard of Oz dress up! This can be anything Wizard of Oz related…. So it’s time to get exploring over the holiday and thinking of a plan. As long as the children can explain their costume choices, anything goes!

We are then going to ask the children within each crew to vote for their favourite costume attempt and will be asking them to explain why …

There will be prizes for every pupil who comes along in costume on that day and in addition, there will be an overall crew prize for the crew winner!

We can’t wait to see what the children come up with!

Have a fabulous break everyone; It’s extremely well deserved. I can’t wait to see everyone back with us after the break- it’s been a very strange week.

Thank you again for all your support.

See you all on Monday 12th April.

Miss Laing

Headteacher