Years 3 and 4 have had a wonderful time in their crews today as we launched our new expedition: Coming to Doncaster: Why then and why now?
They were faced with a range of Roman challenges, from an archeological dig to solving maths questions using Roman numerals. Completion of these challenges proved them worthy of unlocking the chest and joining a side of their choice – the Roman army or a Celtic tribe…
Mrs Haycock
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4H have been carrying out simple acts of kindness and asking others to pay this kindness forward. Over the last few days, ‘Pay it Forward’ tickets have been passed around school between both pupils and teachers within the Year 3/4 phase. When a chain of four kind acts had been carried out, the tickets were returned to our basket of kindness.
The baby egg challenge proved to be a great hit! Designing our baby eggs; dressing them and naming them was much more important to the children than I anticipated. They cared for their eggs so well – taking them everywhere with them and putting them down for a nap over lunchtime. Thankfully there was only one casualty – and that was only a very small crack.
The most compassionate moment of the day (in my eyes) was towards the end of the day whilst watching a video about kindness on the screen. Joe looked at his egg and a horrified expression crossed his face! His baby egg couldn’t see the screen so he turned his egg to ‘face’ it!
Keep paying it forward folks – compassion is a wonderful trait to have!
Mrs Haycock
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We have had an amazing first day back in 4B. We have learnt all about our character trait courage and how we can demonstrate that in school.
The children have shown great courage in a serious of activities including interacting with some creep crawlies: Charlie the spider, Humphrey the snake and cinnamon and liquorice the millipedes. Although many were nervous at first, all have shown great courage to face their fears and push themselves out of their comfort zone and should be very proud of themselves.
They also worked as a team to successfully complete some outdoor challenges to collect the gems of courage.
Overall, a fantastic, active start to the week!
Where have those tiny little year three pupils, who I taught last year, gone? Everyone has grown so much over the five week summer break and everyone looked so much older today than just those few weeks ago!
What a great first day back we have had! We launched the first of our new ‘Character Traits’ today: Courage. All of our work has been based around courage and what this can look like to different people. We all learnt about a young boy called Joseph Wang who taught us that being brave doesn’t mean there has to be something risky involved like sky diving or swimming with sharks. Sometimes being brave can simply involve walking into a room full of people who are already listening to someone speaking at the front of the room.
This afternoon, we were joined by Nick from Project Wild. He introduced us to some of his friends: Humphrey – a beautiful corn snake; Cinnamon and Liquorice – two baby millipedes; and Charlie – a very beautiful Chilean rose tarantula. Everyone used their own levels of courage to decide what they could do. Some of us just looked at the animals, some of us stroked or gently touched them and many of us held them.
Well done everyone! I’m really proud of you all. Special shout out to Mrs Ogle who joined us for the session and was incredibly courageous along with us! Mason – you were awesome too, supporting Alec and calming him when he pushed himself to hold Charlie.
Remember the feeling you felt when you were courageous today folks and next time you feel anxious, scared or worried be brave, share your fear – whatever you’re afraid of probably isn’t as bad as you think!
Mrs Haycock
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You’re sure of a big surprise for Year 3 and 4!
Yesterday was the third and final event as part of this year’s National Literacy Trust Young Readers programme and we held the event at Sandall Beat Woods.
The children all chose their third free book and we went to the wood to enjoy reading and sharing our stories in the open air with nature all around us.
It was great to welcome parents and carers to the event and so lovely to see the children sharing the books with their family.
After a biscuit or two, we circled up, shared a story and completed the last community crew of the year.
We have felt so lucky to be selected to take part in the programme this year, and really hope we get the opportunity to do it again in the future.
Mrs Graves
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On Friday, we celebrated the wonderful talent we have at Plover School and more widely across the whole trust.
The Plover LKS2 Cheerleaders and UKS2 singers entertained the audiences and the Year 4 dancers performed the routine they have been working on for weeks.
It was a very hot day but the children kept their energy high for their performances in the afternoon and evening and they were a very gracious audience for the other performers.
What a great day!
Mrs Graves
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LKS2 celebration of learning event is tomorrow at 2pm. The children have worked incredibly hard to perform some of their poetry, songs and showcase their beautiful art work.
After the performance, children’s individual pouring canvases will be sold in the spare classroom at a minimum donation of £2. Children’s artwork will also be displayed in their classrooms as a gallery where an order can be placed for a minimum donation of 50p.
Proceeds from the sales will go towards the Disasters Emergence Committee charity as well as school funds to support your child’s further expeditions.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Good Morning all
We are please to announce that Legacy Sport Yorkshire will be hosting a FREE Summer Sports & Activities Camp at Plover in the upcoming Summer holidays.
Please see how to book below – the flyer is attached as the booking form and availability etc. is all live and functional via the website.
https://legacysportyorkshire.as.me/?calendarID=12306099 – Direct Link (can be accessed via the QR code on the flyer too).
