With Reading Week in full swing, our XP Outdoors sessions took inspiration from the story The Dot. The story celebrates creativity and the idea of “just make a mark and seeing where it takes you.” Inspired by this message, we decided to make our own mark — quite literally — by creating something special in one of our outdoor areas.
This week, KS2 have taken part in our exciting Den Building Week. Armed with logs, branches, sticks, and plenty of imagination, every crew rose to the challenge of working together to create their very own shelters in the great outdoors.
What really shone through wasn’t just the impressive dens, but the way crews collaborated. Each year group showed amazing Craftsmanship and Quality – carefully thinking about design, testing ideas, and adjusting their builds to make them stronger, safer, and more creative. From problem-solving to making sure everyone had a role, our crews truly embodied teamwork at its best.
The results were fantastic: unique dens that reflected each crew’s creativity and resilience. More importantly, the crews had fun. Well done to all of KS2 – you should be incredibly proud of what you achieved this week!
Nursery were very lucky this afternoon to have Mr Kershaw join us for an XP outdoors session. Today we learnt about den building. Working as a team the children were able to work together to find the right materials they needed.
Good team work everyone!
Today in Year 6, we explored how we do Crew in XP Outdoors and thought carefully about what it means to work together as a Crew. We then designed and decorated our own wooden cookies, using colours, symbols and patterns to represent Crew and what it means to each of us. It was a fun and creative way to show how important collaboration, respect and kindness are in our learning community.
We are so excited that Year 4 will be participating in XP Outdoors this half term on a WEDNESDAY. We are also lucky enough to have Activ8 for our PE sessions on a FRIDAY.
Please ensure your child has the correct change of clothing for each session.
Many thanks, Miss Walton and Mr Mumby
What a great afternoon with our F2 children having Smores on the field while enjoying some stories and some tombola raffle fun!
A huge thank you to all of the grown ups that came and supported us. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Thanks
Mrs Wallace x
Wow what a week we have had in Class 5. It has been so lovely getting to know the children even better they are awesome! I have already seen how brilliant the children are at displaying courage and overcoming any worries or concerns they have. They are very resilient and we have had so much fun completing our first week back activities. Two of our highlights were visiting the XP Outdoors camp where we toasted marshmallows to make smores and sang funny camp songs with Mr Kershaw. It was so lovely seeing the children smiling and laughing along. We also loved our Water Extravaganza especially the water guns, wet sponge obstacle course and Mrs Raynors soggy disco!
For our learning this week we have been answering the guiding question ‘How does what I do impact others?’. We have learned about reducing, reusing and recycling materials to help conquer climate change. We have been drawing pictures to decorate recycling boxes for all the classes in school. We had a lovely lady called Lynne come in to visit us to teach us all about what happens with our waste in Doncaster. The children have been really engaged and compassionate.
I am very excited for our Hook Week next week where we will learn what our Autumn Term Expedition will be and do lots of crafts to decorate our classroom!
Here are some photos of our week! (Water Extravaganza will be shared in a whole school post!)
Guiding Question:
Exploring our new classroom:
XP Outdoors Camp:
This morning, year 2 went into Thorne and sang some of our beautiful crew songs. They were amazing and we got some awesome feedback from the public. We then walked down finkle street handing out keyrings that we had made, just to make people smile!
This afternoons water fight was also amazing! We had so much fun and got very wet!!! I hope the children have enjoyed today as much as I have…have a wonderful weekend!!! X x x
Wow … what an amazing start to our first week back in Year 3! On Tuesday afternoon, we all attended Camp Green Top where Mr Kershaw put us through our paces with team games, fire safety, smores and a good old sing-song (of course)!
