Today we have been working as a team to practise our fine motor skills. We had to squeeze our peg open to get the plate, then squeeze to realise our peg from the plate once we had passed it on. This was tricky at first as we could not touch the plate with our other hand but we soon got quicker at getting the plate around the circle, just using our pegs.
Miss Wood
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In Autumn 2023, students in Year 9 studied a joint HUMAN and STEAM expedition called ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ where students had to answer the guiding question: ‘How are structures important in helping us to explain our world?’
For the final product, students used plaster to create sculptures in the brutalist aesthetic. The Presentation of Learning (PoL) was an unveiling of an installation to the community and dedicated to the people of Gateshead, who have suffered due to the Covid pandemic and the cost of living crisis; both examples of failings of societal structures. Experts, including architects from SOS-UK and Ryder Architecture, whom the students had worked alongside throughout the learning expedition, came along to speak at the PoL at the Farrell Centre, Newcastle University.
The work will be on display there for the foreseeable future!
Mel from the XP Trust Comms Crew visited Plover as an Expert Artist – showing Year 5 how to draw trains and teach them about perspective and the vanishing point. The children enjoyed seeing her amazing drawings and made a great start on having a go at their own drawings.
Whilst making an impromptu visit to Carcroft Primary in December, we noticed this! We simply had to get the phone out and take some photos of the wonderful displays on show in the Carcroft foyer area. The array of work exhibited was interesting, engaging and of high quality; and was curated impeccably by the staff – beautiful work!
Who’s hiding in the pages of this book? @ Norton Infants
Crew Jackson – Science Investigations @ Green Top
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
C30 – HSBC Money Management @ XP East
Amazing Fieldwork at YWP! @ Carcroft School
We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.
It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.
Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!
Please join us for our chippy dinner & the chance to win some chocolatey treats!
Well done to Sophia and Sylas who got our yellow T-shirt this week. Sophia has shown a huge improvement in her attitude to learning and always has beautiful manners. Sylas has shown great perseverance with his maths work this week and achieved his goal of being able to do repeating patterns.
Miss Wood
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On the first day back after Christmas, our challenge was to solve cryptic clues to reveal our expedition title and guiding question.
We did really well, working together in teams . It wasn’t easy, but we stuck at it and in the end, we worked out that our new expedition is:
There is no Planet B – Why should we protect our wonderful world?
Can’t wait to start learning!
Mrs Graves
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I have been blown away with how everyone has approached the artwork this week.
Inspired by our key text “The Last Bear” by Hannah Gold, we recreated the front cover using acrylic paints and unusual equipment – not brushes!
Continue readingOur home learning challenge is well underway in Year 6! I am so impressed with the amount of home learning that has been produced this week. It has filled my wall! Our focus for home learning this week has been adding fractions and they have all absolutely smashed it!
So proud of you all!
-Miss Blackham
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