A spooktacular week in nursery!

12th October 2021Gemma Whitehead

This week in crew nursery, we are learning about Halloween – an event that some families choose to celebrate together! To start our spooktacular week, we have been dressing up as witches and wizards and making spooky meals in the home corner! We have drawn pumpkins using chalk and have made pumpkins using the play dough. To strengthen our motor skills, we have carefully hammered golf tees into a pumpkin – we needed to be really careful and concentrate when doing this! 

Acting Headteacher Announcement

11th October 2021Helen Lythe

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you are all aware, Neil Butler (Executive Prinicipal, XP Trust), has been our Acting Headteacher this half-term whilst Miss Laing is on Maternity Leave. Mr Butler has worked closely with leaders in school to help ensure we are continuing to develop our practice to deliver the best education possible for our children.

Mr Butler has thoroughly enjoyed working with the Carcroft Crew and has been impressed by both the staff and children’s drive to be the very best versions of themselves. However, his role as Executive Principal is incredibly demanding and, due to ongoing developments at Trust Level, he is unable to continue to provide the time needed to work closely with Carcroft until Miss Laing’s return later this year.

As a result of this, we are pleased to inform you that Mr Tucker will take on the role of Acting Headteacher from November 1st until Miss Laing’s return later this year.

With Mr Tucker taking on this role, his crew will be taught by Mr Gerrard for the remainder of the school year. Mr Gerrard has been a teacher at Carcroft for the past two years and has already spent time with Crew Tucker by providing leadership cover this half-term. He has strong, positive relationships with the children and will be able to hit the ground running after half-term.

Mr Tucker is really looking forward to building on our great start and will ensure that Carcroft continues to move from strength to strength until Miss Laing returns. 

Yours faithfully,

Carcroft Crew

Crew Fox blog week 6

8th October 2021Olivia Fox

Our HOWL average has shot up this week – our average was 2.8 🤩 … we’re getting closer and closer to a secure 3!

During The Write Stuff sessions 🖊, we’ve worked hard on using models of excellence around our room to help us get smarter 📕📝.

We’ve been using our text ‘Train to Impossible Places’ to magpie sentence structures in our writing… This is going above and beyond to get smart🌟!

We’re loving Scotty’s Heroes… pushing us to achieve our limits 🥵💪🏼!

This is helping us build stronger crew relationships❤️!

During expedition, we’ve been researching the history of the Doncaster Plant, using our historian researching skills…

Next week, we are aiming for a SECURE 3 HOWL average to end Autumn Term 1 on… 🤩. We are really trying harder with our concentration and are aiming to reach gold standard all day.

Happy Friday everyone, enjoy the ☀️ while it lasts!

Cooking Club

8th October 2021Jane Thiede

The children have been busy cooking and baking this half term! They have learnt how to make some fantastic dishes! Thank you Miss Holdsworth and Ms White for teaching us to cook!

Don’t forget tomorrow is #HelloYellow Day

7th October 2021Helen Lythe

#HelloYellow #MentalWellbeing

#HelloYellow is a big campaign, taking place every year on World Mental Health Day.

We’re encouraging our children and staff to all wear something yellow to help show all young people they’re not alone with their mental health. To support the mental wellbeing of our young pupils in the school we’re asking for a voluntary contribution of £1. 

Dig out your yellow socks, neon tutu, bright scarf and join us in saying #HelloYellow Friday 8th October. This is non uniform day – so be as yellow as you dare!