Have you worked hard on your handwriting this year?
Are you proud of how beautiful your work looks?
Do you want to win a prize?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you need to enter our handwriting competition.
Look through the selection of poems in this blog and choose one appropriate for your phase, copy it out and decorate it using your best handwriting and presentation and return your entry to Mrs Graves.
Closing date: By the end of registration on Friday 1st December
See your Crew Lead or Mrs Graves for paper or line guides
From Market Town to Railway City – The Railway Journey that Helped to Shape Doncaster.
This is an updated collection of all the beautiful work created over the last few years by students across the XP Trust schools, inspired by the centenary of the Flying Scotsman and the railway heritage of Doncaster.
This book has given us an opportunity to update the original content of the many rail expeditions, with quotes from experts and our community about the importance of railways, the steam engines built here and the ongoing rail-related business here that will help shape the future of rail.
Published to coincide with a centenary celebration visit from the Flying Scotsman, we humbly hope that this book, created by our students and a new generation of rail enthusiasts, will become part of our railway story.
We wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you from Key Stage 1 to everyone who helped raise money towards the buddy benches. We were blown away by the kind donations, which will help us buy two handcrafted buddy benches for the playgrounds as part of our current expedition.
Well done to everyone who donated money and completed their sponsored walk today. It really was a big crew effort!
We look forward to sharing our designs and the finished product shortly.
We are holding a non uniform day on Thursday 23rd November to collect donations for our Christmas fayre. We would be so grateful for donations for either our bottle stall: water, wine, pop, shampoo, shower gel etc or donations four out sweet/chocolate hoopla! Our Christmas fayre will be on the 13th December with more details to follow.
We would have course also be grateful for donations towards our raffle!
A huge proud shout out to our local under 8’s football club Sandall Beat! Who completed a sponsored walk at the weekend which raised over £600 for their club and have very kindly donated some of the money to charity.
They walked to the Cenotaph at Elmfield Park, to lay a wreath for Remembrance Day on Sunday.
Most of the team are Plover Y3 superstars: Samuel, Bobby, George, Theo and Jenson.
We wanted to thank the spa for their very generous donations of hotdog buns for our Halloween disco we ran a few weeks ago. We are so grateful! We hope you like your card!
We started our day with a beautiful assembly led by our gorgeous year 5’s. They recalled knowledge from their WWII Expedition last year. They then were joined by some year 2’s who read their kenning poems and then Mr Chandler played a beautiful song ‘the last post on the trumpet whilst we all gave a minutes silence. I have then been sent some gorgeous work throughout school of remembrance work that children have been engaging with in crew this week.
Students from XP Doncaster were very lucky to be able to welcome Flying Scotsman home today as guests of Doncaster Council. They had the opportunity to see this iconic engine up close and meet so many people who have made this special visit happen.
They were also able to hand copies of the newly published book ‘Rail CIty’ to those who had so kindly contributed to it … but more on that next week!
Final Product Preview: Beautiful Sewing at Norton Juniors!
XP Gateshead: Unheard voices of WWI
Last year, Y8 at XPG recorded a radio broadcast of unheard voices from WWI. They did this to honour the sacrifices of those who are sometimes forgotten when we remember the victims of WWI.
We are proud to share that this broadcast will be played on Memory Lane Radio on Saturday 11th November at 11am (their Armistice day slot!) Reuben visited the studio with Mrs Downes and was interviewed about the project. We will share a link to this interview in the coming days.
Be sure to tune in tomorrow to hear this beautiful work on the radio!
