Y2 Yorkshire Air Museum

13th June 2025Mrs Lewis

Year 2 have had a brilliant day learning about the history of flight. We enjoyed looking at planes, learning about jet engines and making our own helicopters. We came face to face with models of the Wright Flier, Halifax bombers, Hurricanes and Spitfires. We saw parts from Concorde and found out about a pioneering pilot called Amy Johnson.

We had a wonderful time in the sunshine and we’re sure Year 1 are going to have a great time too.

We’d like to thank the staff at the Air Museum for a great day and thank the children for their brilliant behaviour.

Year 2 Crew

Sharing our Stories: 13/06/2025

13th June 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from this week. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Year 5 – National Mining Museum @ Green Top

Getting smart @ Plover

Life skills @ Carcroft School

Crew Attenborough Charity Event @ XP Gateshead

EYFS Community Meeting @ Norton Infants

Where is Doncaster on the map? @ Norton Juniors

XP Festival of Arts and Culture – Tickets available now!

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

Getting Smart

11th June 2025Joshua Meade

Kayra and Boston have been working hard on their reading in phonics. Kira made a fantastic colour pattern on the peg board. Farhan and Eymen made equal numbers with the numicon! #LovePlover

Dynamo Cricket Fun

10th June 2025Joshua Meade

Quality session this morning for our Y6 cricketers as part of the Dynamo Cricket programme, thanks to Legacy Sport and the ECB.

If your child is interested in playing cricket locally, please look on:

https://www.ecb.co.uk/play/dynamos-cricket

XP Festival of Arts and Culture 2025 – Tickets available now!

10th June 2025Geoff Hewitt

On Friday 11th July, the XP Festival of Arts and Culture returns to XP Doncaster, bringing together students, families, staff and artists for a joyful celebration of creativity and community.

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Throughout the day, you’ll experience live music, powerful performances, vibrant art installations, and the beautiful work that defines XP. Students from every XP Trust school will be contributing, sharing their talents and passions through exhibitions, dance, storytelling, and more – all designed to connect, inspire and make a difference.

The festival is a key moment in our XP Live programme – a growing Trust-wide initiative that gives young people authentic opportunities to produce, perform and create. It builds on our commitment to purposeful learning and supports our belief that every child can do meaningful, creative work that impacts the wider world.

More details on the line-up will be shared soon – we can’t wait to welcome you.

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3B are Geologists

10th June 2025Laura Brown

3B have been learning all about different types of rocks to identify and compare different rocks and learnt all about the rock cycle. We have also been very lucky to have a special expert in the field to share their knowledge of rocks with the class which they all loved too.

Miss Brown

#LovePlover

Thank you, Andrew!

9th June 2025Mrs Haycock

We have been visited by a real-life geologist! Andrew came to visit to speak to us about the rock cycle and how different types of rock are formed. He was fascinating and even taught us about the rock beneath our school!

He brought lots of samples of different rocks with him. Some had traces of silver in them! Looking at and exploring rocks with him has really helped us to build our background knowledge for this case study.

Thank you Andrew!

Mrs Haycock

#LovePlover

Amazing artwork!

9th June 2025Mrs Haycock

Year three have been studying the work of Katsushika Hokusai and replicating his piece ‘The Great Wave’. Take a look for yourselves…their work is better than my words!

Well done everyone – great work!

I can’t wait to see the final pieces!

Mrs Haycock

#LovePlover