Clothes Recycling

  Fundraise and Recycle Limited is a north-east based family run company, that specialise in the recycling of unwanted and unloved clothing and goods for collection and redistribution. We have received a recycling bin, which is in our car park, to encourage our school community to recycle clothes, shoes, bags and belts whilst at the…

Exploring the UK in Hazel

This week Hazel class are having a Geography week, focusing on the United Kingdom. Today we explored the different landmarks of the UK,  and using Clicker wrote sentences about what we had learnt.     The rest of the week we are going to be looking at the four countries that make up the UK…

Thank you ASDA

Hi Everyone Massive thank you to Stanley ASDA who have dontated £1000 to Croft towards to cost of horticulural equipment.  This is going to buy gardening equipment and other horticultural supplies to help support the delivery of land-based studies in school. Soon pupils will be starting to plant seeds and begin rennovation of the garden…

Exploring the United Kingdom

Hazel class has been set up to represent different parts of the United Kingdom ready for pupils returning to school on Monday.                 We have a fun packed week talking about the different countries that make up the UK. Making and trying different foods and researching the different…

Baking with Maple

We had a birthday in Maple class this week, so we decided to bake a cake.   We mixed up all the ingredients together which made a very slimy mixture, some of the smells were very yummy. Once all the ingredients were mixed together we poured our chocolate mixture into cake tins. This was very…

Materials in Science

Hazel class enjoyed exploring different types of materials in Science today. We spoke about their different properties, how they felt and what we thought they could be used for.   In the afternoon we then used different types of materials to print in art. Well done Hazel class.

Colour Mixing and Communication

In Art today Hazel class explored colour changing.   They discussed what primary are and how we can make secondary colours. Some pupils used PECS to request the colours and then comment on what colour they had made. Being able to use PECS in a more cross curricular way enables pupils to generalise the skill.…

9R Colour Illustrations

Pupils in 9R have learnt about colour mixing, and used the secondary colours that they created to recreate an iconic illustration from the book ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. Using shape recognition and cutting skills and also thinking about placement on the page in order to recreate the image. They all captured the bright colourful shapes and…