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Sharing our Stories: 15/11/2024

15th November 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Children in Need @ Plover

The lovely Year 5 & 6 children have been learning all about Children in Need this week and why the cause is so important. They wanted to raise more awareness, so even more children could be supported. We hope you like their version of ‘I’ll Stand by You’ as we stand with everyone who needs the support!

Beautiful Curation at Green Top

Check out these recent beautiful curations at Green Top School from our Comms Crew!

Crew @ Plover

We asked our students at Plover what Crew looks like and what it means to be Crew – this was their response.

XP Trust – Protecting our Planet

On Friday 15 November Koen Timmers, the world renowned climate educator, visited XP Doncaster to present our students with a plaque entitled, ‘Climate Action Heroes’ in recognition of the work done by students across our Trust in pursuit of our curriculum seam of ‘Protecting Our Planet.’

The recognition is also for being part of the Climate Action Project which allows us to connect with students and learners from across the globe to find practical and impactful solutions to the climate emergency.

Meeting Professional Athletes

Last term, students met a few of the Doncaster Rovers first team players and were able to have photos and get autographs from the players. Students asked questions about the life of a professional athlete and the journey that the players have been on playing for different clubs. It was great to hear the players speak about our character traits and how these character traits link to sport.

In the same week, students visited Hill House school to listen to Olympic gold medal GB hockey player Sam Quek. Her experience as an athlete and the ups and downs she has faced really helped our students to understand that if you want something in life you have to work hard for it! Students were able to have a photo and ask questions to Sam at the end – they even held her gold medal.

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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!

Using props to re tell stories

15th November 2024Amy Woods

This week we have been exploring a range of materials, to help us re tell the story of we’re going on a bear hunt. The children then carried this on independently in provision and were fantastic at using props to tell the story!

Mrs Williams

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F1 community crew!

15th November 2024Amy Woods

Well done to our f1 community crew winners this week. Ocean and Kaiya were awarded pride of Plover for both always being really kind members of our crew. Ocean has demonstrated fantastic expedition and maths learning this week, and Kaiya has shown us some fantastic signing during crew. Keep it up girls!
Astral, Kara, Otis, Mason and George also got postcards for their fantastic learning this week, we are so proud of you all.

Mrs Williams

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F1 – Children In Need

15th November 2024Amy Woods

F1 are having lots of fun learning about children in need today. Thank you so much to everybody that has donated via parent pay, and taken part by sending their child to school in pjs/pudsey clothing.

Mrs Williams

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Our zoom call with Jacqueline Wilson!

15th November 2024Miss Blackham

Year 5&6 children were so lucky this morning to have a zoom call with Jacqueline Wilson- a very famous author! She shared her journey into writing and discussed her new book! We can’t wait to purchase it and read it in our reading for pleasure time!

-Miss Blackham

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Year 5 & 6 children in need!

15th November 2024Miss Blackham

Our lovely Year 5&6 children have been learning all about children in need this week and why the cause is so important. We wanted to raise more awareness so even more children could be supported. We hope you like their version of ‘I’ll stand by you’ as we stand with everyone who needs the support!

-Miss Blackham

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Parent/ Carer Physical Activity Survey

14th November 2024Joshua Meade

Hi Plover Crew

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejN3PueeG9rOio9Pg8vIkGAgyS6LpFsj61kyCZifSuSZdiBQ/viewform?usp=pp_url

We Are Storytellers In F1!

14th November 2024Amy Woods

F1 have been storytellers today! We worked together to create a story map of We’re going on a bear hunt, we then used our story map to verbally re tell the story.

Mrs Williams

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Asking questions about the past.

14th November 2024Mr Pickering

2P have been using evidence to be detectives about the past. We looked at paintings of different roles that existed during times that castles were lived in. We looked for clues as to the clothes that were being worn and the objects being held. We used this to help us work out some of the key differences between rich and poor people at these times.

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1CR in the woods!

14th November 2024Mr Pickering

1CR had a brilliant time in the woods. We learnt about different rich and poor roles in a castle and then did activities linked to some of these jobs. We were builders to begin with when we built a wooden fort and then we tested our defences against flour bombs. Then we were Knights. We created our own armour design and then tested our accuracy at throwing missiles. After dinner we were cooks. We made a simple medieval vegetable soup and then made our own piece of flat bread to eat with it. Later, we used the campfire to cook some caramelised apple and then a marshmallow smore! To end the day, we had a flour bomb battle to burn off all of our extra energy! We had a great day!

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