Wonderfully Wild Day for LKS2!

13th January 2022Mrs Graves

LKS2 have had a fantastic day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

This is the first ever event that has brought all the XP Primary Schools together, and we had to mark the moment with a photo – of course!

XP Schools LKS2

We started by visiting the first Polar Bears area and then walked round to the second Project Polar enclosure to see the young Polar Bears. They were very active eating their breakfast and playing in the water.

On our walk round, we were lucky enough to see tigers, giraffes, and rhinos.

After a quick lunch, we had a workshop all about polar bears and got to hold a real claw and see the size of a polar bear skull. Ara even demonstrated for us what it was like to be a polar bear.

Following that we set off to the new area of the park and saw sea lions, monkeys and red pandas.

We got back on the bus with achy legs but lots of great memories!

I was very proud of all our children today – they walked all day without moaning, participated brilliantly in the workshops and used their manners all the time – well done guys!

Mrs Graves

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Postcard Winners in 3G

By Mrs Graves11th January 2022

Well done Paul and Syler-Rose, our postcard winners so far this week.

Paul finished reading a really long book over the weekend and scored 10/10 on his Accelerated Reader quiz about it – that’s not an easy task!

Syler-Rose has been totally on the ball today contributing great answers in every lesson – well done!

Mrs Graves
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Doncaster Old and New

By Mrs Graves11th January 2022

Today, as part of our first Case Study we have been learning about Geography.
We have been practising the countries that form the United Kingdom and using an atlas an map to locate major British towns and cities.

We have also been comparing old and new Doncaster – I wonder which Doncaster you would prefer to live in and why?

Mrs Graves

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Uniform for Yorkshire Wildlife Park

By Lucy Wood10th January 2022

Good afternoon,

Children and staff are really looking forward to the trip on Thursday. During our trip, please can we stress that children are to be in school uniform. However, children will need to wear appropriate outdoor footwear as we will be outside most of the day. It is due to rain so even if children wear wellies, this is absolutely fine, along with an appropriate (or waterproof) coat. Court shoes for the girls will not be appropriate. Any questions, please ask.

Thank you,

Year 3/4 Teachers.

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Awesome Artwork!

10th January 2022Mrs Graves

Every great CD has great cover art, and that is what we have been working on during Hook Week.

We used a new medium – oil pastels –  and created an aurora borealis inspired skyscraper, in the style of the front cover of the Last Bear – our key text.

Using blending, we were able to create the beautiful shades. Critique helped us to improve and I was so proud at how the children were resilient and tried again and again to get better.

 

Mrs Graves

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3G Dress Up Day

By Mrs Graves10th January 2022

On Friday, we came dressed up as inspirational musicians to help up immerse in music through the decades.

To top it off, Year 3 and 4 children were taught by the Spice Girls all day!

Our 3rd Case Study has a music driver and our final product will be to write, perform and record a charity music single.

Mrs Graves

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What a Wonderful World!

By Mrs Graves7th January 2022

We have had a great hook week, finding out more about this term’s expedition “What a Wonderful World”.

I am delighted to be able to share with you our new expedition website that will give you more information about what is planned for this term, as well as links to the daily learning slides so you can look at what we have been doing or catch up on anything you may have missed.

https://sites.google.com/ploverschool.co.uk/what-a-wonderful-world-spring/english-links

We will also be sharing photographs of activities and beautiful work  on the site, so check in regularly to see if you can spot yourself!

Mrs Graves

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3G – Immersing our room

By Mrs Graves6th January 2022

we would like to make our classroom and corridor into an Arctic Wonderland to support our expedition so we have been busy learning how to make snowflakes ! It’s great for our fine motor skills too!


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Plover Praise

By Mrs Graves6th January 2022

Congratulations Eden,

You have been contributing so well in your crew sessions and you have been so kind looking after our resources  – you really deserve the Plover Praise

 

Mrs Graves

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