Our compassion champions!

2nd September 2025Miss Blackham

We are so proud of our first ever character trait badge winners. These two superstars both won the compassion award for raising money for charities outside of school. Harris has raised over £700 for children with cancer and Olivia was so brave when she had all of her hair cut off to donate to the little princess trust. We are so very proud of you both and the compassion you have shown to others. Above, they are pictured with our Cheif Academic Officier- Andy Sprakes who is our compassion champoion.

-Miss Blackham

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LKS2’s Roman Quest Day

1st September 2025Mrs Graves

We have had a great day hooking into our new expedition ‘Coming to Doncaster: why then, why now?’

It was lovely to see all the imaginative Roman costumes and I was so proud to watch the crews working together to crack the puzzles and complete the quest. Well done Crew Graves for breaking the code and opening the treasure chest.

Through our Quest Day, we have learnt facts about the Romans in Britain, used our problem solving skills and shown great teamwork and cooperation.

We are excited to continue our learning this term.

Mrs Graves

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We are quest survivors!

1st September 2025Mrs Haycock

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 compassion!

1st September 2025Mrs Haycock

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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3V were courageous!

1st September 2025Cody Vines

Last week we focussed on character traits! On Tuesday our focus was courage so Nick the bug man from Project Wild came in. We especially loved Charlie the tarantula but we also met Humphrey the snake and a pair of millepedes. Well done 3V you were awesome!

Miss Vines.

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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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