6B have been continuing to work as artists today and drawing using perspective.They were inspired by the work of Stephen Wiltshire and his cityscape sketches. They were so excited to have a go at their own city scales this afternoon!
Ask your children to share a fact about Stephen Wiltshire!
-Miss Blackham
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Mel Hewitt from XP visited us today to show 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.
We have a limited number of Doncaster Knights rugby tickets for this Saturday’s fixture.
Doncaster Knight V Ampthill
Saturday 13th January 2024
Kick off 2.30pm
Tickets will be handed out on Friday 12th January the latest, for tickets please email Mr Meade [email protected]
This morning, we have been joined by author and illustrator, Phil Sheppard, who has talked to us about his story writing and illustrating, as well as his research for his books all about Doncaster. We will be using Phil’s book as our model text for our first writing cycle, so we have enjoyed asking him lots of questions and learn from his expertise. We were even lucky enough to hear a little about Phil’s next project! Thank you, Phil #LovePlover
Happy New Year to all!
This week will see the children complete their student-led conferences (SLC’s). We are looking forward to sharing our learning and progress across the Autumn term on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday this week.
Use the link below as a reminder of appointment times and please sign yourself up if you haven’t done so already. Please speak to the team if you have any questions.
Congratulations to 1/2K and Miss Ketteringham, for being the most active class last term during their learning.
Congratulations to our Y3/4 dodgeball champions!
Well done to our Y5/6 dodgeballers and Y5/6 girls for being football superstars!
Congratulations to our Children’s University certificate winners too!
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In Autumn 2023, Year 5 and 6 across the trust embarked on an expedition with the guiding question: Why should we help our planet survive?
As part of the Expedition, students created their own soft toys based on a chosen animal from the Amazon rainforest – learning about why it is endangered and what we can do to protect the species. The students used ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ as a model text. The pupils wrote their own version of the story through rainforest animals’ eyes for younger children in the form of a book and shared them with Year 2 pupils (along with the soft toys) with the purpose of teaching them about deforestation and its impact.
In the Autumn term of 2023 students at XP Gateshead studied an expedition called ‘From the ground up’ with the guiding question “What do the communities of the North-East of England owe to the miners?”. They presented their learning from this Expedition on Monday at St Mary’s church – sharing their story and performing the songs they have written to tell the stories of the mining community.
These songs will be recorded in New Year and a CD will be produced!
As part of the presentation, students unveiled a board full of their beautiful work – including narrative accounts, diary entries and artwork relating to the Felling Pit disaster.
The chosen venue for the presentation was also historically significant. Not only is St Mary’s the site of a memorial to the disaster and those who lost their lives, but it is also the final resting place of Thomas Hepburn – the famous miner, Trade Union leader and advocate of better working conditions for miners. The building that XP Gateshead is now based in was once named after him.
We were deeply saddened across the XP Trust to hear about the death of Sir Tim Brighouse on 15th December.Â
Sir Tim was considered to be one of the most important voices and thinkers in education, and a great champion of state schools.
We were very fortunate to be able to welcome him to XP on a couple of occasions and to hear him speak about our school with warmth and encouragement.
He has left a legacy of equity and advocacy for education for all and we are very proud that he is part of our story.
Rail City Launch @ Doncaster Free Press
Enjoying Christmas Lunch in our festive clothes! @ Norton Infants
Crew Spetch Christmas Fun @ Green Top
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
There’s s’more from XP Outdoors @ XP
Primary School Christmas Musical @ Norton Juniors
E28 Crew Malala Roundup @ XP East
Visit xptrust.org/vacancies to find out more and apply to #JoinOurCrew
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!
On behalf of all the staff and children at Plover School, we would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas! We have had a busy week celebrating the festive period. A special well done to EYFS and KS1 for their fabulous nativity performances. Beautiful acting, singing and signing made it very special for all who watched.
We hope you enjoy a fun and hopefully relaxing Christmas break with family and friends. We look forward to welcoming you all back to school on Monday 8th January.
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