History | Plover School

The Easter Story

25th March 2024Amy Wood-Samways

Today we have learnt about the Easter story, and why we celebrate Easter with chocolate eggs. We learnt some key words such as; Jesus, tomb, cross, god and last supper.

Miss Wood

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5L were great historians today. They acted as children working 12 hour shifts in factories and then debated over whether they thought this was an acceptable thing for children to do at such a young age.

We are historians

26th January 2024Miss Lotysz

5L have been consolidating their learning of understanding primary and secondary sources.

Bobby’s awesome home learning 💙

26th January 2024Miss Blackham

I could not be prouder of Bobby-Jack who went home last night and wanted to continue his expeditionary learning at home. He has produced the most beautiful home learning! A total star! 10 crew coins Bobs!

-Miss Blackham

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We are historians

25th January 2024Miss Lotysz

Year 5 have been researching the history of trains and producing a timeline.

Building background knowledge on engineers!

24th January 2024Miss Blackham

6B have been researching a range of engineers who were influential in relation to Doncaster’s rail heritage. Ask your children to tell you a fact about Sir Nigel Gresely and George Stephenson!

-Miss Blackham

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LKS2 Digital Map Final Product

19th December 2023Mrs Graves

Here is a link to the digital map we have produced to reflect our community. It contains links to biographies and fact splats written by the children and about where some people in our community come from and what the Romans did for Doncaster.

We are hoping to have a physical sign positioned at the entrance to school soon.

Mrs Graves

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XP trust launches their Rail City book! 🚆💙

11th December 2023Miss Blackham

Jasper and Sienna represented Plover today at the XP rail city book launch at Danum gallery. They were the first to look through the exciting book which includes a selection of work from the XP trust schools over the past ten years all linked to rail heritage in Doncaster.The book is available to purchase at Waterstones!

-Miss Blackham

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In Flanders Field Poem

8th December 2023Stuart Longley

Today, we revisited Case Study 2 and the Flanders Field poem.

I am extending my learning!

16th November 2023Mrs Haycock

Shout out to this superstar who has gone above and beyond to extend his already extensive knowledge about our expedition over the last couple of weeks! Well done Ellis: you really do take great pride in your work, young man! You should be ridiculously proud of yourself.