Sharing our Stories: 13/09/2024

13th September 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Race for Bears at Plover!

This week at Plover, students in EYFS completed a sponsored Bear walk as part of their new Expedition! They raised £1148 to support their local community – and dressed up as bears to perform bear related exercises and have fun during the process! Beautiful work!

Beautiful Curation at XP Gateshead

Last week, Comms installed some new wonderful displays of student work at XP Gateshead. These wall displays are culminations of recent Expeditions and Activism from the last year.

Steplab Coaching @ XP Trust

Last Monday, our staff worked closely with Steplab to start implementing their ICT platform for coaching across XP Trust. Staff spent the day looking at effective coaching and learning and how Steplab can help create a positive culture around it.

Crew JPO/JNO’s Ullswater Story

Over the coming week’s we’ll be sharing more stories of Crew from our recent Outward Bound Expedition – here’s another from Crew JPO/JNO!

Student Showcase for Year 6 at XP Doncaster

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Find out more here to apply now and #JoinOurCrew

Top of the Blogs

Magic Maths @ Norton Infants

Crew Knowles – Expedition @ Green Top

Plover Praise Postcards @ Plover

Book Talk in Crew Elmer @ Carcroft School

Crew Brunel: first week back @ XP School

Manveer gets to the top of her mountain! @ XP East

A rainy day in space! @ Norton Juniors

Beautiful Work from Will @ XP Gateshead

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!

Key stage 1 crew assembly

13th September 2024Aime Shaw

This was our first key stage 1 crew assembly and it was amazing. The children had fantastic manners and listened beautifully throughout, as well as doing some great singing.

We handed out certificates for fabulous stewards and HOWL point winners. Well done to all of you guys, what a super start to the year!
We also celebrated some fantastic home learning that the children had been doing, including a taekwondo certificate!
Also, a massive well done to Crew Shaw for 100% attendance last week. I am so proud!
Have a lovely weekend x x

Year 1 Phonics Drop In

12th September 2024Carly Schon

We would like to invite parents/carers to take part in our phonics drop-in session on Tuesday 24th September. The drop-in will take place at 3pm in the school hall. Parents are invited to bring their children along with them to take part in some of our phonics games. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions you have about phonics, reading and writing in school and how you can support your child at home.

We hope you can join us!

Miss Schon and Mrs Rodgers

Doncaster Knights Tickets

12th September 2024Tom Ambler

Dear Schools,

We hope you have a had a good summer break.  

We are just about ready to start our 2024-25 season, and we would like to continue showing our support to the local community by offering free tickets to children (u16’s) and families.

We hope to make the process easier by following these steps for each family to claim their free and heavily discounted tickets.

We are offering 50% off all Adult tickets with every Child Ticket (U16) which are still FREE

To book tickets, all you need to do is go to https://www.drfc.co.uk/match-day-tickets/Tickets, select the game of your choice and then continue to select their tickets.

Once all tickets have been added to the basket, in the discount code box, use code: KNIGHTSSCHOOLS to get your 50% discount on all adult tickets.

This code will be available to use for the first 2 home fixtures of the season.

Saturday 21st September

Knights’ vs Ampthill

2:30pm KO

Saturday 28th September

Knights’ vs Nottingham

2:30pm KO

On the day, adults must be accompanied by a child (U16) for their discounted ticket to be valid.

We look forward to welcoming many of your pupils and families to Doncaster Knights again this season.

Crew Knowles – Expedition

11th September 2024Rebecca Knowles

In our physics lessons, we have looked at the movement of the Earth relative to the sun and also started to explore the movement of the moon. We acted out the movement to help us understand how the earth rotates whilst orbiting the sun, and at the same time the moon orbits the earth!

Class 12 – Reading lesson

11th September 2024Alishia Pearson

I was very impressed with our lovely reading lesson today and the children have told me they enjoyed it too! We kick started with a gallery walk where the children had to build a vocabulary bank around a series of pictures. Then, using the text, they had to find vocabulary clues to match up and order pictures from our book so far. And what a great job they did!