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Crew Haycock worked hard to find the best way to balance a ruler between the fingers of two crew mates. Then from their standing position, the pair had to lower themselves into a sitting position and get back up again without dropping the ruler. They quickly discovered, as with some of our other crew challengers, communication is key!
Mrs Haycock
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Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff at Plover were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding they secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! Plover have been lucky enough to secure some OSF funding this year too, so watch this space for Community Clubs starting in October! #LovePlover
We don’t just ensure our work is made public – it needs to live inside our school communities, too! More beautiful work has been curated at Plover School, celebrating their ‘Pride of Plover’ award winners and recent Expedition products!
One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff induction process with a group of educators from across our Trust.
We headed out into the wilderness to answer the guiding question, ‘What does it mean to be Crew?’ through a number of shared experiences and activities our Crew formed very quickly. We explored the purpose of Crew deeply and considered how we could make Crew even stronger on our return to our respective schools so that we continue to create the culture in which our students grow their character and make our community and the world a better place for everyone.
Below is an immediate reflection from one of our XP educators:
‘This experience has helped me to understand the building of community. The support that other members of our Crew showed this week has been immense. There have been some activities that have been challenging but everybody has been supportive whilst giving positive challenge so that everybody has been able to push themselves in a safe environment where everybody trusts each other and it’s lifted me and made me feel that I can achieve anything I put my mind to with the support of other people.’ – Louise
It was an honour and privilege to support and challenge our adults to reflect on the imperative we all have at XP to become and create great learners and even better human beings!
We are Crew!
Andy Sprakes and Kate ap Harri
Find out more and apply here to #JoinOurCrew
Year 5 Teacher/Leader at Carcroft School
F2 Teacher/Leader at Carcroft School
We had a ‘beary’ lot of fun yesterday for our family learning. A huge thank you to all the parents/guardians that came along to support us.
Mrs Williams
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Welcome our crew bear… Rainbow!
In expedition we learnt about the history of how teddy bears are made. We then discussed the instructions on how to make a bear. As a crew we worked together to build a bear. We described how our new bear felt and shared kindness messages for our crew bear. In crew, we showed democracy to vote for the name of our crew bear from the children’s suggestions. Check the results below… we will look after you Rainbow! #LovePlover
(Plover is Video 3)
Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding we secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! We have been lucky enough to secure some OSF funding this year too, so watch this space for Community Clubs starting in October! #LovePlover
What an awesome morning we had when our grown-ups came to learn with us. We made bear biscuits, bear collages, bear colouring, bear painting. At the end, we snuggled up on the carpet and enjoyed the story of ‘The Everywhere Bear’. I hope the adults enjoyed it as much as the children did. Thanks to all for attending. Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it, we will be doing more family learning sessions throughout the year. Mrs Bubb #loveplover
TUESDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER is ‘come to school in your pyjamas and bring a teddy to School day’ for F1 and F2.
The children should arrive at school in their pyjamas and also bring their teddy bear (or favourite soft toy if they do not have one).
We will still be playing outside so they will need outdoor shoes and their coat as normal.
We are looking forward to a special, snuggly day making happy memories together!
Please come and ask your child’s teacher if you need any further information.
Best wishes,
Mrs Bubb, Mrs Price, Mr Meade, Mrs Williams and all the EYFS staff 🙂
On Monday we explored the number 2. We noticed one and one more makes two. Children were able to subitise 2 quickly and make groups of 2. Yesterday and today we explored the number 3. Children noticed 1 and 1 and 1 makes 3, but also 2 and 1 makes 3. Children were speedy at subitising 3 and then they enjoyed going outside to make a collection of 3. #LovePlover
