Plover Dance Crew Celebrations

4th December 2025Joshua Meade

WOW, just WOW! Such a feeling of pride, honour and appreciation for our Plover Dance Crew tonight – they were incredible!  

Every single child in our Plover Dance Crew in tonight’s Legacy Danceshow at Hall Cross, were a credit to themselves, their families and the Plover community!

Thank you parents for your cooperation and continued support. We hope you enjoyed the show!

A huge thank you to Legacy Sport Yorkshire for hosting such an inspirational and vibrant event – we can’t wait to see the professional footage captured of the whole night! #LovePlover

Letter to Santa

4th December 2025Mrs Graves

The Postbox to Santa is now in operation in the LKS2 area for all children in school. Write your name and class onto the letter if you would like a reply.

For more details and some example letters, check out the poster below.

Letter to Santa Letter PosterDownload

Santa is looking forward to reading your letters!

#LovePlover

Mrs Graves

Do you want to help our crew charity? The RSPCA

4th December 2025Miss Blackham

If you would like to support our crew charity (the RSPCA) this Christmas then please take a tag from our tree. On the reverse side? There will be a single item such as a dog toy, ball, blanket etc. If you could kindly purchase the item and return it to Plover before the 16th December, myself and a few pupils will go to the RSPCA to deliver the donations.

Thank you so much for your support.

-Miss Blackham

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Our 2026 spelling bee!

4th December 2025Miss Blackham

After the huge success of our last Spelling Bee, we’re excited to announce that the next competition for Year 5 and Year 6 is officially on the horizon! The enthusiasm, hard work, and confidence shown by our pupils last time were truly inspiring and we can’t wait to see what they achieve next.

This year’s Spelling Bee will take place in February, giving everyone plenty of time to prepare. To help students build their skills and confidence, new spelling lists will be added each week in the lead-up to the event. We encourage pupils to practise regularly, challenge themselves, and perhaps even involve family members at home for some fun spelling sessions.

Whether your child is a seasoned speller or new to competitions, this is a fantastic opportunity to grow, learn, and shine. We look forward to another exciting, buzzy event filled with determination, teamwork, and plenty of impressive spelling!

Stay tuned for weekly updates – and let the training begin! 

-Miss Blackham

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Sharing our Stories: 04/12/2025

4th December 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Crew 5/6 Community Crew Meeting @ Green Top

We are Scientists @ Plover

Testing out our final product @ Carcroft School

Epic week for PE @ XP

Year 5/6 Netball Tournament @ Norton Juniors

Weekly update @ XP Gateshead

A Christmassy Start to December! @ Norton Infants

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!

2L Balance Bikes

3rd December 2025Stuart Longley

Children in 2L have been having great fun learning to ride balance bikes with Bikeability. The sessions have helped them build confidence, coordination, and control as they worked on gliding, steering, and stopping safely. 

The children have loved the challenge, and it’s been wonderful to see their skills grow each week as they become more independent on two wheels.

The Bikeability instructor will be returning in February to work with the children in 2P.

We are scientists!

3rd December 2025Mrs Haycock

Exploring shadows has been so much fun this afternoon. We have used light ray torches and opaque objects to solve the following problem: I like to have a long shadow behind me when I am performing on stage. Where do I need to ask my technical lighting team to place my spot lights to make sure my shadow is just how it like it?

I’m not sure who was more excited about the arrival of our new equipment from the Ogden Trust team, the kids or me!

Special shout out to Joe, Zuzanna and Pheobe who realised that it was darker under the tables. They decided to carry out their investigation on the floor and under a table. This meant that they had blocked as much natural light from outside as they possibly could, meaning their torch light and shadows created were more easily seen.

Mrs Haycock

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