Carcroft School

Persuasive letter writing in MI

8th July 2024Stacey McClare

Today we finished plot point 3 of our persuasive letter! We only have our conclusion left to write then we can send our letters to Mrs Atherton 🙂

Book talk in MI

8th July 2024Stacey McClare

Our entry ticket allowed us to think back to our expeditionary learning and what Egyptians did for fun. We then used a partner read, echo read and an independent read to read the next part of the text. We unpicked the vocabulary as we read. Our reasons to read consolidated our understanding of the text and allowed some of our own opinions to be voiced. Our exit ticket allowed us to experiment with a range of the games and evaluate which ones we liked the best and why. We then worked on the speed of our reading, Mrs McClare timed us and we voiced how many words we had read in a minute.

Caring curriculum in MI

8th July 2024Stacey McClare

Today we discussed the importance of good hygiene which linked to the talk we had last week with the school nurse. We watched a video clip then took part in a class quiz.

EYFS/KS1 Sports Day 2024

7th July 2024Sarah Mcglone

Pink team had an amazing sports day on Thursday, despite the incredibly windy conditions! A fantastic team with lots of teamwork and support on display – well done Team Pink!

Carcroft Colour Run

7th July 2024Nicola Robson

We all had an absolute blast at our first ever colour fun. Thank you so much to everyone who joined it and made it such an amazing event. We will definitely be doing it again next year!!

Colour fun run

6th July 2024Tracy Haddock

what a fantastic day we had at the colour fun run

KS1 Sports Day 2024 – Yellow Group

5th July 2024Natasha Holdsworth

Although the sun wasn’t shining, yellow team oozed with warmth! Myself and Miss Burge were so proud of our team! From the youngest members who had not completed a sports day of this length to the oldest members who supported and encouraged them! We really did showcase the meaning of Crew!

Raffle winners

5th July 2024Natasha Holdsworth

Thankyou to Emma and Wade for picking out the winners of our Sports Day raffle!

Adult Hamper Winner – Mason Year 4

Family Hamper – Lily Rose Year 1

We raised over £100 which is amazing and these funds are going towards future fun activities for the children at Carcroft School! Thankyou to all those contributed and Congratulations to the winners!

Sharing our Stories: 05/07/2024

5th July 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Festival of Arts and Culture – Next Friday 12th July!

We first opened in September of 2014 in Doncaster and began to offer a creative and purposeful curriculum based on learning expeditions that connect subjects together so that learning is deepened and made relevant. Ten years on we have established a successful Trust that has shared this model with two more secondary schools, XP East in Doncaster and XP Gateshead, as well as five primary schools in the Doncaster area including: Carcroft Primary, Green Top Primary, Norton Infants, Norton Juniors and Plover Primary.

Our students create beautiful work that connects to the community and the world through the creation of high quality products that actively serve to make the world a better place.

To kick off our celebrations we are hosting our first community wide ‘Music and Arts Festival’ at XP East on the 12 July. This will become an annual event to bring together creatives from across the XP community, the wider community and the world to show why the Arts are so important to making our world more just, more beautiful and more humane and why they are at the heart of our curriculum.

We look forward to seeing you at the start of our festivities and hope you will join us as we continue to celebrate and share our stories throughout the rest of 2024 and 2025!!!

Andy Sprakes

Chief Academic Officer – XP Trust