LKS2 crews are buzzinā€™

30th June 2021Mrs Graves

We have been really busy in crew over the last couple of weeks researching and designing beautiful bee-friendly gardens as part of the BBCā€™s Big Bee Challenge competition.

Children may have brought their designs home with an entry form, if they want to the enter the competition.

We will be posting the designs tomorrow but entry forms have to be completed by parents (not school), so please could parents fill in the short entry form and return to school ( or you can post the individually from home if you wish).

The prize is to have the garden created at a childrenā€™s hospital and the winners will be invited to the opening on 20th August when they will be on Radio 2 Breakfast show with Zoe Ball. This is why entries need to be completed by parents as you have to guarantee being available on that date.

The children have certainly enjoyed finding out more about the bees and have been really creative with their designs.

So fingers crossed one of our children has the winning design!

Find out more at www.bbc.co.uk/bigbeechallenge

Mrs Graves

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Year 4 – Voicing our opinions!

29th June 2021Mrs Graves

We were visited today by representatives from Sandall Beat Wood. They are wanting to replace the play equipment that was destroyed by fire and wanted to know what suggestions Year 4 had to replace it.

First of all, we shared our imaginative ideas and then we were given four stickers to select our favourites from a choice of equipment.

We would like to thank Nicky and Kate for coming and talking to us and also for letting us have a say about what will happen in our community over the next year.
We were so inspired by the visit, we then decided to design our own parks to go with our Expedition, how to make Doncaster more healthy.

Mrs Graves

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80-80-80 Daily Mile 1 – Complete

22nd June 2021Mrs Graves

The children in Year 3 and 4 completed the first of their Daily Miles today when they ran round the school field FIVE times!

It came as a bit of a shock for some, but I am very proud of how seriously the children took their running and how they stuck at it to complete the distance .

We had a timer running so the children can see how their times improve over the next couple of weeks.

They were certainly ready for their lunch when they finished! Sadly I haven’t got any pictures today, as I was running myself – but I will be certain to get some tomorrow!

Mrs Graves

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Competition Time!

20th June 2021Mr Pickering

The Junior Rangers from the Friends of Sandall Park are holding a competition to help to decorate and promote their notice board in Sandall Park. All you need to do is to create your own nature themed poster or nature themed poem and hand it in to your teachers before the deadline on 2nd July. There are prizes for the winning entries and your work will be displayed in the park! If you would like to find out any more information about the Junior Rangers, or would like to register your child with the group, please email [email protected].

Have fun!

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Inspiring Guest Speaker for LKS2

18th June 2021Mrs Graves

We were thrilled to welcome local hero, Ray Matthews into school today to talk to the children in LKS2. He even made time to present our Pride of Plover Awards.

Ray is an inspirational runner, who for his 75th birthday ran 75 marathons in 75 days. He has also run 252 miles in 3 days, completed an Iron Man challenge and run across the desert.

He has raised thousands of pounds for charity and his latest challenge is just in time for his 80th birthday: Ray wants 80 schools to run 80 miles and raise at least Ā£80 in aid of Age UK.

This seems like a challenge that we simply cannot ignore – especially as it supports our expedition, ā€œHow can we make Doncaster more healthy?ā€.

So every day, from Monday, we are going to do the daily mile, either walking or running around the school field – and the grown ups are doing it too! The children are quite excited and are making pledges, and raising money for charity is a great bonus.

LKS2 children can come to school in trainers and shorts to make it easier for us to complete the daily mile and we will be in touch with details of how you can support our challenge at home.

Mrs Graves

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Ice-pop sale!

18th June 2021Miss Blackham

Today we managed to raise Ā£60 on our ice pop sale so thank you so much to everyone who bought one. Some children were too excited to eat their ice pops that they didnā€™t want a photo. We know some children had forgotten their money so please donā€™t worry, we will be selling ice pops again next week.
-Miss Blackham

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80:80:80 – Plover are Getting Active with Ray Matthews

18th June 2021Joshua Meade

Last Friday in KS1, and this morning in KS2, we had the inspirational and extraordinary Ray Matthews – a true role model!

Ray is an avid sportsman and a national icon, due to the astonishing achievements he has accomplished and vast amount of fundraisers he has done during his 79 years.

In a few weeks Ray turns 80, and 80 schools, will be completing 80 miles to raise money for Rays chosen charity Age UK! https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/rays808080birthdaychallenge

As a school we see the importance of physical activity and exercise, and therefore from Monday we will be making a stand as a whole school crew, to complete the daily mile every single day – all children and all staff!

Check out the the truly astonishing video of Ray below!

Work hard – Challenge yourself – Get active – Feel great!

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Healthy eating week

14th June 2021Miss Lotysz

A massive thank you to Mrs Kibble for providing the fruit for today’s fruit tasting. The most popular fruit in 4L was definitely pineapple and the class were blown away by how tasty pomegranates are.

Healthy Eating Week

14th June 2021Mrs Graves

Today is Day 1 of Healthy Eating Week.

We started the day by thinking about how healthy we are and then had a special assembly from the British Nutrition Foundation that taught us about the key things to do:

  • Eat 5 a day fruit and vegetable
  • drink 6-8 glasses of water (or milk)
  • eat lots of fibre with whole grain
  • exercise or be active for an hour a day
  • chouse healthy options of food.

Children have their own tracker this week to record how healthy they are.

This morning/afternoon, thanks to Ethanā€™s mum, Mrs Kibble, we are tasting different fruits to find out what is our favourite.

Happy Healthy Eating Week!

Mrs Graves

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