Sharing our Stories: 17/01/2025

17th January 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from this week. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Family Learning @ Norton Infants

Class 8 Fabulous PE @ Green Top

Awesome home learning in Year 5/6 @ Plover

Maths is better with chocolate @ Carcroft School

Learning Outside the Classroom @ XP

Light and Shadows @ Norton Juniors

G29 9.2 Expedition Reveal @ XP Gateshead

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Basketball Stars!

16th January 2025Mr Schofield

Some amazing team players from years 5 and 6 attended a basketball tournament for eight Doncaster primary schools.

We made it to the semi-finals through some careful passing and defence, building on the feedback from coach and team-mates on the bench. It was amazing to see how your game improved as you took onboard the suggestions from our team talks. Furthermore, you represented the school and our HoWLs marvellously and it was a pleasure to take you to the event. We are so proud of you!

Mr Schofield.

Awesome home learning in 5/6

15th January 2025Miss Blackham

I am so proud of these superstars who took their maths learning this week an extra step and working on their at home challenges! An excellent example of a ‘4’ for getting smart in your HoWls!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

EXPERT VISITOR: Footballer

15th January 2025Rebecca Bubb

Today, we had an expert footballer come to visit. He told us about his job and taught us some skills. We wonder if anyone in our class will be a professional footballer when they are grown-ups? A few of us managed to score a goal so watch this space!

Fraction experts!

15th January 2025Miss Blackham

6B are smashing fractions this week! They have demonstrated resilience and courage in our maths lesson. So proud of them!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

Gymnastics in F2

14th January 2025Joshua Meade

We used our head, hand and heart in PE today to help us – think about balancing sequences, balance with control and have the confidence to make shapes using their bodies. We linked it to our expedition and the children came up with movements linked to a baby, toddl

Hand Washing

14th January 2025Amy Woods

This week as part of our expedition, we are looking at what we can do to keep our bodies healthy. Today we focussed on learning to wash our hands properly, to stop germs getting into our tummies. We used glitter to represent the germs and noticed that it we just put our hands in the water, the glitter did not come off. We then used soap to wash our hands and the glitter all came off. We spoke about how you need to wash between your fingers and your wrists too.

Mrs Willams

#LovePlover