It has been lovely to have photographs shared with me of the learning that has been completed at home.
Well done Eifa for turning your tea into a work of Viking art.
Well done for Paul for writing a book review about the book he has just read. It certainly seems like you enjoyed reading ‘The Future Friend’ by David Baddiel, especially as you gave it 5 stars. Thank you Paul for sharing your presentation with me.
Well done both of you.
I look forward to seeing more home learning from everyone.
Congratulations to all of Crew Plover who participated in last Thursdays sports day – children you were awesome, staff you were superb organisers and parents/carers you were fantastic support!
We hope you all enjoyed it, as it was a brilliant way to welcome everyone back and start the school year!
The overall Crew colour winners was 🥁🥁🥁🥁 YELLOW CREW 🟡🟡🟡🟡🏆 who will be awarded the trophy at this weeks Pride Of Plover assembly.
We had great fun on our Viking dress up day. We worked really well in our crews to solve the riddles and complete the challenges.
The dress up day has given us a real flavour of our visit to Murton Park on 15th September, when we will be living like a Viking for a day – we can’t wait!!
Parents and Carers, please could you make sure you have returned the consent form and risk assessment, as well as paying for the trip on Parent Pay, so we can finalise numbers.
Year 3 and 4 proved they were ready for the challenge of being a Viking Warrior this morning, demonstrating that they have both brains and brawn in our Viking Quest.
We were given the challenge to strengthen a Viking Hoard, but only if we could complete the challenges first.
We had four quests to complete that would give us a number combination to open the lock on the Viking Treasure Chest.
The Riddle of the Runes – could we decipher the words written in Viking Runes,
Timeline Trouble – could we find the missing event on the timeline
Warrior Wordfinders, had us searching for the missing Viking word.
And finally we were Amazing Archaeologists looking for Viking artefacts in our own archaeological dig.
After we successfully showed how we could use our brains, we then show how physical we were and how we could follow instructions by playing Capture the Flag, Viking Ships and Raising the Sail.
We had a fun afternoon watching ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ for a different peek into Viking life.
I just wanted to say a big well done to all the children in Year 3 and 4, for their great effort and determination today.
Children were challenged to try things they hadn’t done before and what impressed me the most was how they kept trying and didn’t give up, even after defeats!
Behaviour was great and and judging by the children’s comments, a good time was had by all.
I am in the process of going through photos, and so there will be another blog with images of the day.
Finally, thank you to the parents, carers, grandparents, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters and everyone else that came to support the children today, your cheers were so encouraging for them, I hope you enjoyed your morning.
What a great first day back! So many smiling faces – on both children and staff!
It was great to get the whole phase together for an assembly this afternoon – the first time I have been with my full phase for a very, very long time – and I was very impressed by the way children listened and shared their ideas.
We are having a ‘Getting to know you’ week this week, and tomorrow, children will spend the day in their crews, starting to create their new crew identity and getting to know their crew leader a little bit better.
Each year group has three crews and three crew leaders and we are lucky to have Mrs Danielska join the Year 3 crew and Mrs Carter join the Year4 crew as crew leaders. Children will start and end their day in their crews and crew leaders will be available at the end of the day to dismiss children from the Year 3 or Year 4 door, where the usually leave from.
On Thursday, we are holding our Sports day. Parents are welcome, please see Mr Meade’s blog post for more information.
On Friday it is our dress as a Viking day. We are launching our expedition “Coming to Doncaster – why then, why now?” with some physical and mental challenges and we will enjoy watching How to Train Your Dragon in the afternoon. Please don’t spend lots of money on dressing up outfits – there are lots of great ways to create a costume without lots of expense.
Just a reminder that we have our visit to Murton Park, York, on 13th and 15th September. please return you permission slips as soon as possible. The trip can be paid for through parent pay.
Finally, thank you for your patience at the end of the day when you are collecting your children. I know it is a little slow while we get to learn names and faces, but we need to make sure that the children are safe. I promise will get quicker.
If you have any questions, please speak to your class teacher or myself. Or if you prefer you can email me on [email protected].
What a wonderful day! it was so great to finally gather all of my new class together and to get to know each other a little bit.
Some children arrived excited, whilst others were a bit nervous and some of admitted to having a whole mixture of feelings!
We shared a lovely story “The World Needs Who You Were Made To Be” and discussed all the ideas shared though it. We decided that everybody is different but the important thing is to be kind.
Using the book as a theme, we began creating ‘All About Me’ Hot Air Balloons, that we will be using to decorate the classroom.
I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting my new class together and I am really looking forward to the learning adventures we will have together this year.