Thank you for supporting the Plover pantry

Thank you to all those of you who come to the Plover and pantry and to those who donate, this allows us to keep the pantry stocked up.

We hope to see more of you tomorrow at 2:30pm. You can buy a full bag of shopping for just ÂŁ3 and we have lots of new stock.

Please spread the word!

-Miss Blackham

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Sharing our Stories: 19/09/2025

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

Reception: Crew champion music makers @ Green Top

Demonstrating the character trait courage @ Plover

Bye-bye litter! @ Carcroft School

First week back – CREW CHIPS @ XP

Star of the week @ XP East

Rain or shine: Learning outside every time @ Norton Infants

G28 morning fitness, breakfast, revision! @ XP Gateshead

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!

Party Games – F2M Democracy

Our key text this week has been ‘It’s My Birthday’. Yesterday, the children were able to work collaboratively to sequence the animals and match the ingredients they used to make a birthday cake. Today, we discussed how people are different and like different things. We talked about different birthday presents and which party games we like. We voted and created a bar chart. It was lovely to see the children continue the party games in provision! #LovePlover

UKS2 family learning… sweet and chocolate bingo!

Thank you so much to all of our parents, carers and Mrs Lewis for the generous donations towards our Year 5&6 family learning event. We are still kindly accepting donations for our chocolate and sweet bingo afternoon on the 8th October at 2pm.

If you have any donations, please pop them to 6B!

Thank you 🙂

-Miss Blackham

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Showing craftsmanship and quality in SPaG

So proud of these two. Their work ethic today has been exemplary. They have drafted and re-drafted their SPaG work today after leading their own learning and using our SPaG revision site to support building their knowledge. Fantastic work you superstars! 10 crew coins for ‘getting smart’ Keep it up!

-Miss Blackham

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Demonstrating the character trait courage!

These superstars have all demonstrated courage this week. Some children have been courageous and stood at the front of the class to show their working out to some of our tricky maths questions, some children have shown courage and took on the lead role in our arithmetic coaching lesson and one child was very courageous and used his voice to remind his friends they were making the wrong choices.

“Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion no matter where it is exercised” — Walt Disney 

-Miss Blackham

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Year 5&6 super spellers! Fantastic home learning!

So proud of these superstars who have been working hard at home on their spellings. What a fantastic example of craftsmanship and quality- continuing to practise until knowledge is secured! Well done! 10 crew coins for ‘getting smart’.

-Miss Blackham

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We Care Wednesday

Today, we checked in by saying something we love doing with our families. Lots of people said playing is their favourite thing to do. Others said ” going on holiday” and “going to the park” and “watching Bluey”. It was so great to be in a crew circle and have every child speak and listen to eachother. We really are learning what Crew is!

We then had a game of Charades. It was funny, not being able to speak but helping people understand us. We guessed, ‘sleeping’, ‘baking’, ‘blowing out a candle’, ‘jumping’ and a number of animals. We were brilliant at it and best of all, we had fun together.

The children said they might play it home with their families.