Sharing our Stories: 15/12/2023

Beautiful Work This Week

Book launch on track!

Our latest Trust publication ‘Rail City’ was launched at the amazing Doncaster Gallery, Library and museum – DGLaM.

The book, an updated and lavishly illustrated compendium of all the work created by students across the Trust, over the last five years, captures our city’s rail heritage – and future.  

It is also timely as 2023 is the Flying Scotsman’s Centenary year, the iconic steam engine built here in Doncaster.

Our thanks go to the team at DGLaM and the city council who have facilitated the launch and supported our work across the Trust. 

‘Rail City’  will be on sale in DGLaM, the TIC and Waterstones in the Frenchgate Centre. The perfect present for anyone who loves rail, trains and local history. (You can also purchase the book from our online shop!)

Welcome Back!

We continue to welcome delegates from all over the world. Last week our friends and partners from the Wood Foundation in Scotland joined us once again with 25 teachers from schools in the Aberdeen area.

Over two days they looked at Crew, expeditions and the bigger picture of what we do and how we do it.

They even enjoyed a tour of our students’ work in the heart of Doncaster.

Last but not least as you can see from the photograph with their Crew they also joined in with our charity Christmas Jumper day! 

A day of music for XP Doncaster Year 7!

Dave Evans ran a series of awesome workshops for our Year 7 students with professional musicians! Our students improvised, created digital beats, sang and played the drums!

Merry Xmas from Crew Da Vinci!

UKS2 Presentation of Learning – Earth Emergency

XP Trust Primary Dodgeball Tournament

Top of the Blogs

Making Someone Smile at Christmas @ Norton Infants

A Spanish Extravaganza! @ XP Trust

Year 3/4 Presentation of Learning @ Green Top

Jujitsu Success @ XP Gateshead

Crew Pasteur Working Hard @ XP

Our Christmas Fayre @ Plover

Bazaar Bonanza at NJS @ Norton Juniors

Our Christmas themed day was a big success @ XP East

Book Talk @ Carcroft School

We’ve got Vacancies at XP Trust!

Visit xptrust.org/vacancies to find out more and apply to #JoinOurCrew

Share your stories with us!

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!

The raffle winners…

The raffle has been drawn and the winners have been given their prizes! Parents will need to collect the ones with alcohol in. Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket!

The only raffle prize which has not been claimed is Dolly in 1K, her prize is waiting in my room!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

3pm Toy Sale

We still have some toys left from our Christmas Fayre that we are kindly just asking for a small donation for. The money raised will go towards reading for pleasure books for your children and some books for Doncaster children’s hospital. The toys will be available on EYFS playground at home time, from 3pm.
Thank you for all the money raised so far!

Miss Wood

#LovePlover

Our Christmas fayre!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Christmas fayre. It was so lovely to see so many of you. We hoped you enjoyed it! We raised an amazing £1054.65 for school funds!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

Reading Stars in Community Crew

Well done to Crew Carter, who won the award for both most accurate quizzing and most minutes read this week. However, I would like to shout out all Year 5 crews, as their average minutes were all over 100 this week. This is SUPERB!! Well done to Melinda, who continues to add her reading to our Padlet! #LovePlover

XP trust launches their Rail City book! 🚆💙

Jasper and Sienna represented Plover today at the XP rail city book launch at Danum gallery. They were the first to look through the exciting book which includes a selection of work from the XP trust schools over the past ten years all linked to rail heritage in Doncaster.The book is available to purchase at Waterstones!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover