Pyjamarama Day!
We will be celebrating Pyjamarama Day on Friday 17th May to help raise money for BookTrust to help spread the magic of reading to the children and families who need it most. We can’t wait to spend the day in our pyjamas!
Share a Story Month
May is National Share a Story Month and we’d love for you to celebrate it at home with your children through reading together and sharing your favourite books! Also check out the reading bingo card for some of the fun activities you could do.
We’d love to create a video to celebrate all of your wonderful reading at home so please send any photos of your reading to [email protected] by the end of May.
Have fun reading this May!
Sharing our Stories: 03/05/2024
Beautiful Work This Week
We’re celebrating EL’s #BetterWorldDay at XP Trust!
Better World Day is EL Education’s annual event showcasing student learning that contributes to a better world. Students work in partnership with each other and their local communities on this day to engage in and celebrate meaningful student work that positively impacts the world around them.
As a partner and friend of the EL Schools Network, XP Trust contributes to this every year. Like students at EL, all of our students are active citizens who engage in acts of service to their community – so naturally we have lots of Activism to share with the EL Crew.
This year, we’re celebrating all of our schools and their collective work. They’ve planted trees, created artwork for hospitals and raised money for worthy causes. Here’s just a few examples from this year of XP Schools making the world a better place.
Visitors from Northern Ireland!
Last week we welcomed a delegation from Catalyst Schools, an organisation in Northern Ireland that supports school leaders and teachers by exposing them to innovative educational experiences. Over the visit, they learned all about Crew and Expeditions from our awesome students at XP and XP East – including going to see world from across the Trust in Doncaster City Centre. As always we are delighted to welcome visitors into our Crew and share the beautiful work our students do every single day with the world.
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KS1 Arts and Crafts club
Arts and crafts club managed to find some sun yesterday! The children sat out in the sun for the chance to draw something that they could see, before we headed back in to colour them in. They focused on all the little details around us and worked so hard to create beautiful pieces of art work! Hopefully the sun will return next week so we can get back outside.
Year 4: Mayans and chocolate!
Year 4 have been learning all about the importance of chocolate to the Mayan culture. They looked at how the warriors used chocolate, how the Mayans used it for trade, and how it linked to religion.
Did you know the Mayans thought chocolate was a gift from the gods and was more valuable than gold?
Crew Knowles: SPaG Lesson
We have practised using subordinate conjunctions this week to add further detail to our sentences. We used roll mats to generate subordinate conjunctions that either had to go at the start of our sentences or in the middle.
KS1 Community Crew Meeting
Another fantastic week this week to celebrate!! KS1 have had a smashing time on Numbots recently and have taught Miss Rodgers some new types of metal as they’ve flown through the steps. Lots of lovely shoutouts for our stewardship this week too, particularly for working hard to take care of our jumpers and cardigans as the weather has got a bit warmer (fingers crossed it stays that way).
Big well done to our HOWL point winners this week, lots of hard work and quality craftsmanship from our children, we love it when you know you can be proud of your work! Crew Stone won the most attendance this week, it’s great to see how proud the children were to win Paddington the attendance bear. Well done guys!!!
Finally, big well done to our Crew Champions this week in KS1 who have been following all of our HOWLs, improving in their learning, showing respect and quality craftsmanship!
Year 3 XP Outdoors!
WOW what a fun morning year 3 have had! Mr Kershaw taught the children how to make brownies in oranges and cook them on the fire. The children practised fire safety and cooking all in the same lesson.
MND awareness day 2024
A huge thank you to all of our school community for making our MND awareness day a massive success. Jake, Jake’s family and I would like to thank everyone for getting involved and supporting this fantastic cause. So far the total raised has exceeded £2,600! Every penny raised will make a difference to people with MND and their families. This money will contribute to vital research, to support the fight to find a cure and to support people living with MND now. Here is a small snippet of our day- I hope you find it heart-warming. As a school, we are proud of Jake’s positive activism, compassion and courage. We feel is it important to share our stories at XP; to date, the video has over 25,000 views attracting the attention of Leeds Rhinos, Rob Burrows’ parents and former players. This week we will celebrate ‘Better World Day’ in our crews and this act of kindness optimises what it means to make the world a better place.
Mr Mumby
Class 8 shared reading
We spoke a lot today about how to read with a partner and being engaged in the lesson and the children in my reading group were on fire! Great inferences of the text today and lovely, fluent reading. Keep it up Class 8!
Mrs Shaw x
Crew 5/6 Community Crew Meeting
A huge shout out and well done to our Crew Champion and HOWL point winners!
What a great way to start the week!
Y1 – how you can help at home…
Y1 have begun a new maths unit in multiplication and division. We would love it if you could listen and sing along to the songs below to help your child learn to count in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Many thanks
Miss Rodgers and Miss Schon