Sharing our Stories: 26/01/2024

26th January 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Festival of Learning 2024

The Staff Day in January saw the launch of our proposed teaching and learning model as part of our Festival of Learning. The event took place at XP Doncaster and was attended by staff from across all schools in the Trust. All staff had the opportunity to explore the model in more depth as well as attending other workshops on different parts of the model.

This is part of the Trust’s commitment to ensure that we expose more students to more impactful teaching more of the time.

Beautiful Curation: A Christmas Carol

There is now an awesome display at XP to celebrate the Christmas Carol Study Guide – the beautiful work of last year’s Year 11s. Be sure to go and admire their hard work on display!

Top of the Blogs

Thoughtful Thursday @ Norton Infants

Year 5 Photography Club @ Green Top

X28 Crew Lovelace Beautiful Work @ XP

Bobby’s awesome home learning @ Plover

C27 Community Meeting @ XP East

Exploring Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores @ Carcroft School

Our Learning Journey – Hook Week @ Norton Juniors

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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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The Three Billy Goats Fluff

25th January 2024Mrs Price

This week we have been learning an alternative version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This has helped us to answer our case study question “How can the goats and the troll be friends?” The children acted out the story and made the goat’s feet quieter using socks and boots.

Mrs Price

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We are becoming more confident!

25th January 2024Mrs Haycock

The growth in everyone’s confidence in Maths over the last couple of weeks has been so rewarding to witness. Well done to everyone who comes to me for their Maths lessons. Keep listening carefully, working hard and getting smart – the manipulatives really will help you if you use them correctly. I saw great work with them today: helping you to solve problems about multiples of 12.

Mrs Haycock

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We understand why we feel as we do…

25th January 2024Mrs Haycock

In Crew we this week, we have been showing different emotions with our faces, body language and/or actions. Then we considered what can actually cause us to feel these emotions. Thinking about this has helped us to think carefully about how our actions can have an impact on others and why some people might need to be shown extra compassion at times or may act out of character.

Mrs Haycock

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Our fraction experts took charge of the lesson in 6B today!

25th January 2024Miss Blackham

Today in maths our fractions unit has come to an end so I challenged 6B to each lead part of today’s lesson to the rest of their group. They consolidated their fractions learning by modelling to their peers how to answer a range of SATs style questions and they smashed it!Future teachers in the making for sure!

-Miss Blackham

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Testing Materials

24th January 2024Amy Wood-Samways

After reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff, we read the story The Three Billy Goats Fluff. In that story, the goats were knitted some boots to help them trip trap over the bridge more quietly, so that they did not disturb the troll. First we had a go at making loud and quiet sounds with our own bodies. We were then scientists and tested a range of materials to see if they helped the goats cross our bridge more quietly, then decided how we could use these to help the goats. We used the BSL signs for agree and disagree, when predicting if the materials would be loud of quiet.

Miss Wood

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