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Today we re told the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We discussed key vocabulary then practised the key phrases that are repeated throughout the text. It was lovely to see children continuing this in their own provision, after we had done it as a whole class.
Miss Wood
#LovePlover
This week we had a walk through our local area to visit the library. We loved looking at all the different type of story and information books with our grown ups. We shared a lovely story about a bear who lives in a book at the library and comes to life! When we returned to school we made a map of our journey ensuring we included the key things we saw along the way.
Today, we learned how we can use a library for our ‘fieldwork’. We loved seeing rows and rows of beautiful books and listened beautifully to a story about a story book bear who came to life! In maths, we drew a map of our route,ensuring we included specific items. Some of us are definitely Geographers!
A big thank you to all the parents who supported the children on their visit to the library today. The children enjoyed visiting the library and looking at the large selection of books they have. We shared a story together in the library and it was lovely to see some families even signed up to go back!
Miss Wood
#LovePlover
Today we have been working as a team to practise our fine motor skills. We had to squeeze our peg open to get the plate, then squeeze to realise our peg from the plate once we had passed it on. This was tricky at first as we could not touch the plate with our other hand but we soon got quicker at getting the plate around the circle, just using our pegs.
Miss Wood
#LovePlover
In Autumn 2023, students in Year 9 studied a joint HUMAN and STEAM expedition called ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ where students had to answer the guiding question: ‘How are structures important in helping us to explain our world?’
For the final product, students used plaster to create sculptures in the brutalist aesthetic. The Presentation of Learning (PoL) was an unveiling of an installation to the community and dedicated to the people of Gateshead, who have suffered due to the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis; both examples of failings of societal structures. Experts, including architects from SOS-UK and Ryder Architecture, whom the students had worked alongside throughout the learning expedition, came along to speak at the PoL at the Farrell Centre, Newcastle University.
The work will be on display there for the foreseeable future!
Mel from the XP Trust Comms Crew visited Plover as an Expert Artist – showing Year 5 how to draw trains and teach them about perspective and the vanishing point. The children enjoyed seeing her amazing drawings and made a great start on having a go at their own drawings.
Whilst making an impromptu visit to Carcroft Primary in December, we noticed this! We simply had to get the phone out and take some photos of the wonderful displays on show in the Carcroft foyer area. The array of work exhibited was interesting, engaging and of high quality; and was curated impeccably by the staff – beautiful work!
Who’s hiding in the pages of this book? @ Norton Infants
Crew Jackson – Science Investigations @ Green Top
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
C30 – HSBC Money Management @ XP East
Amazing Fieldwork at YWP! @ Carcroft School
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!
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