We continued to develop our ball skills in PE. Today’s focus was agility, balance and coordination playing autumnal bean bag games! #LovePlover
Hansel and Gretel workshop
Wow, what an amazing morning we have had today! We were so lucky to have Kerry and Tash come in from CAST Theatre, to teach us the story of Hansel and Gretel, through drama. The children enjoyed getting into the roles of the different characters and exploring props. Once we had finished we went back to the create doughnuts, for the gingerbread house flooring, which we will see in CAST theatre when we go to visit. We are so excited to go and work with Kerry and Tash again at CAST theatre in a couple of weeks, and watch the performance of Hansel and Gretel.
Mrs Williams was so proud of how well everyone participated in this workshop, and the great respect and integrity all children showed towards our visitors. Well done nursery!
Mrs Williams
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Children In Need
On Friday we learnt about why we raise money for children in need. We had lots of Pudsey fun in the process!
Mrs Williams
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Christmas fayre donations
We are kindly asking for donations for our Christmas fayre. We do have a non-uniform day coming up in exchange for bottles for our infamous bottle stall and sweets/chocolate for our sweet and chocolate tombola .
In addition to our non-uniform day, if anyone has any prizes for our raffle or normal tombola, we would be so grateful. If anyone knows of any small businesses who may donate etc that would be amazing.
All funds raised will go towards our Christmas pantomime which we have every year and other school events.
Thank you so much for your support.
-Miss Blackham
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Y6 boosters
Y6 boosters will start the week commencing the 24th November and will consist of the following:
Monday 8:20- SPaG with Miss Blackham
Tuesday 8:20- Reading with Miss Blackham
Wednesday 8:20- arithmetic with Miss Blackham
Thursday 8:20- reasoning with Miss Blackham
Thursday 3:30-4:15 arithmetic with Miss Blackham
Thursday 3:30-4 Reading with Miss Lotysz
Some additional sessions will begin after Christmas and these groups will be by invite only. I will personally contact the parents of those children.
Singing in Sandall park- Sunday 7th December 9:45-10:30
I cannot believe 40 children have already signed up to represent Plover singing in Sandall park. If anyone else would like to join us, you have until Thursday 20th November to return your letter. We will start practising on Friday 21st November.
Children will need to be at Sandall Park at 9:45 to meet before our set at 10am. I cannot wait for us to spread some Christmas cheer and I hope lots of parents and carers can come to support us.
-Miss Blackham
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KS1 Pride of Plover
Apologies for the delay due to the school residential. Here are our Pride of Plover winners from last week. We heard about resilience, kindness, compassion and patience being demonstrated by our different winners this week. It is always a highlight of the week to see how our children are growing and developing skills that will help them both now and in later life. Well done to all of our winners!
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Sharing our Stories: 14/11/2025
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Our character trait winners ❤️
These four superstars are our character trait winners. Minnie and Conor are our compassion winners and Elijah and Karlie-Rose are our courage winners. Minnie and Conor have been so kind to everyone and Elijah and Karlie have shown tremendous courage and faced their fears. We are so proud of them all.
-I hope you like your Disney treats!
-Miss Blackham
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