Year 6 Learning Club

15th March 2024Jillian Jackson

In Year 6 we don’t let a busy morning of 2 maths SATs papers and an afternoon of writing stop us – we power on and show exceptional HOWLs at learning club too. Mrs Rafferty and I were blown away with the hard work and dedication of the group of children that stayed after school yesterday to practice their maths reasoning skills ready for this morning’s final maths assessment. Well done guys – you are awesome!

London Meeting- Y6 residential

15th March 2024Chris Mumby

Can you believe it’s less than 8 school weeks until our London residential?

Mr Ambler, Mrs Jackson and I would like to invite parents of those children who are attending this year’s visit to join us on Monday 22nd April from 4:30. This meeting will be to inform you of our finalised itinerary, kit list and to ask any questions you might have. The meeting will be held in the school hall, please access via the Ash Tree Road entrance.

There is no requirement to bring your child to the meeting. If you are unable to attend, please contact [email protected] and the slides can be shared via email to you.

Thank again for supporting this residential,

Mr Mumby

Year 4 – MTC important information

14th March 2024Rebecca Knowles

Year 4 parents / carers, please read the information regarding the Multiplication Tables Check which the children will sit in June.

We are working really hard on times tables in school and will continue to do so throughout in the run up to the MTC.

You can help at home by encouraging your child to use their TTRockstars account regularly. The ‘Soundcheck’ mode is particularly useful to support them with their practice as this is similar to the official MTC layout.

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Easter Bingo tickets still available – check out the many prizes we have below

13th March 2024Jillian Jackson

On Thursday 21st March, Year 6 will be hosting an ‘Easter Themed Family Bingo Night’ in the school hall. The Christmas event was a huge success and lots of fun was had by all who attended.

This is a family event therefore all children must be accompanied by a grown-up so that they can play the game. Entrance tickets cost 50p per person – a ticket must be purchased for each person attending the event.  Admission is by ticket only.

Due to fire regulations ticket availability is strictly limited.  If you would like to purchase tickets, please send money in an envelope clearly labelled with your child’s name, class and the number of tickets required.  The Year 6 children will collect money from classrooms and allocate tickets accordingly.  

Doors will open at 5:30pm with ‘Eyes Down’ at 6:00pm.

The bingo cards for each game will be on sale on the night and there will be 6 different coloured games during the evening with lots of Easter chocolate themed prizes. Bingo cards will cost 20p each or cost £1 a coloured strip for 6 bingo cards for one game. You can even take advantage of our offer of 6 coloured strips for £5! Of course, you can play as many cards as you can manage in each game.

Refreshments will be on sale during the evening and all funds raised are to go towards the Year 6 leavers and end of year celebrations.

I do hope you will be able to support us at this event. The more people who come the better the atmosphere so please do try to fit this event into your diary and come and have some fun!

Year 1/2 and 3/4 presentation of learning reminder!

11th March 2024Rebecca Knowles

Don’t forget that our KS1 and Y3/4 presentation of learning takes place on Friday 22nd March 4pm – 5pm. This is a combined event so if you have children in both phases, you can celebrate them both at the same time!

We have been so impressed by the children’s art work and can’t wait to share their work with you in our special gallery!

We really hope you can join us in this exciting collaborative celebration!

If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Mrs Shaw and Miss Knowles

Sharing our Stories 11/03/2024

11th March 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Expedition Stories: UKS2 @ Plover

This week we’re proud to share the beautiful story of UKS2s Expedition from last term ‘Earth Emergency’. The carefully designed planters and greenhouse will surely be a catalyst for Plover growing its own produce for generations to come!

Beautiful Curation at XP Doncaster

XP on the TV!

For anyone who missed it – XP Doncaster has been featured in a BBC Two documentary which aired on the 7th March. All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer now.

We’d like to thank everyone who has got in touch or left a comment about the programme – we are so proud of our students and how eloquently they expressed how they feel about their school.

If you’d like to learn more about our schools and how you can do what we do too, you can get a copy of our book How We XP here.

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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!