Do you want to learn how to play the saxophone? A fantastic FREE opportunity for four of our year 5 & 6 pupils

27th September 2025Miss Blackham

Year 5 & 6 were so fortunate to have a demonstration by one of the members of the Dyja band who came to play the saxophone for them. They are so lucky that this lovely gentlemen is offering FOUR free places to learn this instrument during their time at Plover with the possibility of extending this opportunity beyond their primary school years.

To play such a beautiful instrument would require a lot of dedication so we are asking that children really think about this amazing opportunity and if they are interested, hand their signed letters back to their class teacher on Monday.

How amazing would it be to learn such an amazing new skill!

-Miss Blackham

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Sharing our Stories: 26/09/2025

26th September 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.

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Class 6’s visit to 1666 @ Green Top

Amazing craftsmanship and quality in home learning @ Plover

]Crazy Crew Challenge @ Carcroft School

Outstanding Craftsmanship and Quality in X29! @ XP

Crew Hoy – Not Passengers @ XP East

Continuing Our Marvellous ME Expedition @ Norton Infants

Weekly Update for Families @ 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!

Thursday 2nd October Menu

26th September 2025Sarah Shaw

Please see our American Theme Day Menu!
We would love for as many children as possible to join us eating this tasty themed day menu provided by Relish!

EYFS colour run – F1

26th September 2025Amy Woods

This week we have been learning about compassion. We have learnt that we are all different and we can all do different things. To celebrate we had a ‘this is me’ paint party which started with us dancing to the song This Is Me, from The Greatest Showman, before doing our colour run. Keep your eyes peeled for a video over the coming weeks.

Mrs Williams

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Thank you to all those who donated cakes and bought cakes this afternoon for our Macmillan bake sale!

25th September 2025Miss Blackham

Thank you to everyone who supported our Macmillan bake sale. We are so grateful for all of the donations and to all those who bought cakes at the end of the day.

The remaining buns will be on sale again tomorrow outside of 5L and we will then share the grand total we have raised.

Thank you again for all of your continued support!

-Miss Blackham

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Thank you to Isla’s mum- we now only have 30 pairs of Disney ears to buy!

25th September 2025Miss Blackham

Thank you so much to Isla’s mum who kindly donated some money which allowed us to purchase some Disney ears. We are so grateful!

We are still selling raffle tickets to raise further funds to buy the remaining amount that we need. Tickets are £1 a strip and available to purchase from 6B. The raffle will be drawn at our family learning event on the 8th October.

Thank you as always for your continued support. We are so very grateful!

-Miss Blackham

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We are Historians.

25th September 2025Mr Pickering

2P have been History detectives as we explored the events of the Great Fire of London. We pieced together evidence to see if we could work out who or what was to blame for the fire starting and spreading. We discussed the evidence from different sources and concluded that it was the result of several factors, including the weather, Thomas Farriner, the Lord Mayor of London, and the way houses were built. We followed that up by looking at evidence from different artefacts that archaeologists have discovered, along with diary evidence from Samuel Pepys, to work out what we could learn about London in 1666. We are getting really good at identifying the cause and effects of events at the time!

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What is the value?

25th September 2025Mr Pickering

2P have been busy exploring numbers and the number system and recognising the tens and ones digits in 2-digit numbers. We have made numbers with different resources and identified the parts and wholes of different numbers. We are now exploring how we can use this knowledge to identify numbers on number lines. Great work!

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