Working in a coal mine

28th April 2025Mr Schofield

Today, 5S were shocked to learn that Victorian children as young as four had no choice but to work up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in mines to earn money and support their families.

In order to consider the hard work and suffering they experienced, we discussed the different jobs available to people in the mines and the gruelling work they had to undertake. We role played these jobs in groups then got back together to write about how we felt.

We all came away feeling really sorry for our ancestors who had to work this hard at such a young age. I want to praise the class for their sympathy and engagement with this lesson as it was tough to hear about.

Miners Dress Up in 5S

16th April 2025Mr Schofield

As part of our hook week into ‘At the Coalface’, Year 5 today came to school dressed as coal miners. We participated in some immersive P.E. which encouraged us to imagine the life of children – many of whom were our age – expressing their feelings, emotions and actions through the medium of dance.

Votes for Women?

13th February 2025Mr Schofield

Today, we debated Women’s suffrage. 5S got into character to imagine the perspectives of those who may have been for and against the rights of women to vote in the early 20th Century, holding a heated debated in our class parliament to present their views.

It was brilliant to see such passionate acting from both sides, all using their boards and placards to articulate the point of view of their chosen side.

Well done!

Expert Engineers

27th November 2024Mrs Lewis

Today as part of our expedition, ā€˜Rags to Riches: What lies Within the Castle Walls?ā€™, the children in KS1 enjoyed meeting our expert Mr Mitchell who taught the children about levers. We have been learning about how castles were defended and attacked and our expert showed the children how to make catapults. The children had great fun launching their payload of pom-poms!

Thank you for coming in to help us Mr Mitchell!

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We are amazing artists!

20th November 2024Mrs Haycock

We have been working really hard in Years 3 and 4 to produce portraits of our key artist: Henry Moore. Just look at this beautiful work to be proud ofā€¦

Every child needs to be proud of their achievements this week. I hope they take on their next artistic challenge of working with the media that Moore had available to him during World War Two with as much enthusiasm and support for each other as they have over the last few daysā€¦true crew!

Mrs Haycock

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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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Our visit to Sandall Beat Woods

12th November 2024Mrs Lewis

Year 2 had a brilliant day learning more about castles in Sandall Beat Woods. We started our day with campfire cooking where we made vegetable soup and flatbreads. The children absolutely loved the soup and some even went back for thirds! We enjoyed toasting apple slices in cinnamon sugar and then we made sā€™mores. We were already quite full by the lunchtime.

In the afternoon we made our own armour out of milk bottles, built a fort and had a flour bomb battle before we set off back to school.

We had a great day in the woods learning about defending castles and cooking in a castle but weā€™re all very tired tonight!

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Mrs Lewis

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Proud to be Plover

10th November 2024Mrs Graves

It was with great pride that we had the opportunity to represent Plover School today at the Doncaster Remembrance Sunday Parade at the Cenotaph on Bennetthorpe.

Paisley and Anwyn carried the wreath, with the centre piece incorporating LKS2 children’s images, and placed it on the cenotaph, to complete the ceremony.

It meant so much to see many of the Armed Forces, both past and present, there and really made us think about our LKS2 expedition, ‘Lest We Forget; How does war change lives?”

Hopefully, this will become an annual event for Plover.

Mrs Graves

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