Showing compassion and integrity in the community

29th August 2025Mr Schofield

Building on our crew week introduction to character traits, a group of Year 5 and 6 pupils today supported Doncaster Council to improve our local area by picking litter in the streets and community spaces around our school.

The children were very disappointed to see such high levels of litter where bins are made available, expressing their frustration that some people (and their dogs!) choose to make a mess around the streets where they live. They pledged to always have the integrity to dispose of waste properly, and to report anyone not doing so.

Great work, guys – you are true stewards of our Plover and Intake community!

Colour run fun!

29th August 2025Miss Blackham

We have been working on the character trait compassion. Yesterday, we held our colour run and raised money for the RSPCA (our whole school charity) and for school funds. We are determined to support our school and wider community this year.

Thank you all for your support with the colour run, we hope your children enjoyed it!

-Miss Blackham

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3G’s ‘Eggcellent’ compassion day

29th August 2025Mrs Graves

Today’s character trait has been ‘compassion’.

As part of the day, we have shown compassion to our ‘Baby Eggs’, who needed clothing, shelter and care – we had great fun using our imagination to create them.

Then it was the colour run in aid of our school and chosen charity the RSPCA (that we learnt about yesterday). Despite a few early drops of rain, we had great fun turning ourselves into colourful rainbows!!

Mrs Graves

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Team building in Crew Lewis

27th August 2025Mrs Lewis

Today our new crew took part in a fun and challenging team-building activity designed to get everyone working together. The task sounded simple: build the tallest tower you can… using only your shoes!

At first, there were puzzled faces and lots of laughter. How could we possibly turn our shoes into a tower? But with some creative thinking, clever balancing, and plenty of cooperation, we began stacking, leaning, and problem-solving their way to success.

It wasn’t just about the tallest tower—it was about communication, and teamwork. The children quickly learned that listening to each other’s ideas was the key to keeping the tower standing. Others discovered that patience and persistence were just as important as speed.

Well done to everyone for showing such fantastic collaboration and creativity—our crew is off to a brilliant start!

Mrs Lewis

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Showing compassion in Year 5 & 6

27th August 2025Miss Blackham

Yesterday, we kick started our first week back and looked at the character trait ‘compassion’. We looked at what it means to be compassionate and show compassion and then we left school to engage in acts of service with our local care home. Some of our children played board games with the residents and they all had so much fun. The children learnt a lot from the residents such as how to play a range of card games and how to play dominoes. We are so proud of the relationships we are building with this care home and we hope to build on this throughout the year.

In a world where you can be anything, always be kind.

-Miss Blackham

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First day back in 4B!

26th August 2025Laura Brown

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!

3G – How courageous are you?

26th August 2025Mrs Graves

It was great to welcome everyone back for the start of the new school year.

This week is based around developing our positive character traits and today, the focus was on ‘Courage’ – and really did have to face our fears (me included!).

We were lucky enough to be visited by Nick from Project Wild, who brought some of his little friends along with him – Humphrey the snake, Cinnamon and Liquorice the millipedes and Charlie the Tarantula!! Many of us had to show a lot of courage, as we held, stroked or high-fived our mini-beast visitors! It was amazing to see how everyone embraced the situation and really used their courage – even though they had been so scared to begin with!

We then completed some ‘Commando Joe’ challenges, working together to problem-solve and support each other to be courageous.

Finally we discussed different types of courage and how courage is often represented in films and stories, and thought about if we were to create a courageous character, what would they be like!

We have had a great day and I feel so proud of everyone and how they took part in the challenges we have thrown at them today – what a great start to the school year.

I wonder what tomorrow’s character trait will be?

Mrs Graves

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The Plover colour run is back! Thursday 28th August!

15th July 2025Miss Blackham

We will be kick-starting the new academic year focusing on character traits. As part of our first week back, we will be looking at the character trait compassion and raising funds for our crew charity of the year – the RSPCA as well raising much needed school funds. Letters will be sent out in the first week back and we require them to be signed in order for your child to participate.

We are kindly asking for donations which will be split between the RSPCA and school funds. These donations can be made every day in the first week back and we ask they are passed on to your child’s class teacher.

Please can your child attend school on the day in either a white or light coloured t-shirt. Whilst we would hope the paint will come out once the clothes have been washed, we ask you only send your child in clothes you do not mind being stained just incase the paint will not wash out.

Thank you for your continued support. Any questions, please see Mr Meade or Miss Blackham.

-Miss Blackham

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Staying safe around water

20th June 2025Mr Schofield

At this week’s swimming lesson, as part of drowning prevention week, Year 5 worked with the teachers to understand the key aspects of water safety, and learning to swim when they are fully clothed. Every child fully understood the importance and was able to articulate well how they could remain safe.

To supplement this, we created water safety posters in our we care Wednesday crew session which are now on display at the leisure centre, well done!