Take a look at what Layla has been creating at home. She has been making her very own Roman army out of conkers!
Class 12 – Home Learning
Crew Knowles: Rounding Anchor Charts
Class 11 did a great job creating anchor charts to remind us how to round! I have been so impressed with everyone’s enthusiasm and skill when it has come to rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000!
Sharing our Stories: 29/09/2023
Beautiful Work This Week (…and last week!)
XP Outdoors: Campfire Training!
A Visit from Ron Berger!
We’ve been very lucky since XP first opened and as the Trust has grown over the last ten years, to be able to welcome Ron Berger to our schools. Ron, the CAO of Expeditionary Learning (EL) in the US, has visited us several times, sharing with us his knowledge, energy and wisdom.
Always supportive and inspiring, Ron has now, after a two week stay, just returned home. His time here has included visits to all of our schools, a well received and inspirational talk with our staff and chatting with our students and hearing their stories.
He also travelled to Scotland to visit our brilliant partners at The Wood Foundation and the educators they support in the Aberdeen area. Their school teams have been regular visitors to XP Doncaster on our delegate days for the last four years.
Last but not least, Ron joined colleagues on their induction in Derbyshire, sharing moment by moment with them the experience of developing Crew and fellowship.
Renowned as an educator and catalyst for innovation and compassion in education all over the world, we hope it won’t be long before we can welcome Ron back again.
Beautiful Curation at Plover
Top of the Blogs
Let’s get critical… critical! @ Comms
Year 2 Music – playing tunes on the Glockenspiel @ Carcroft School
More beautiful work in the community from Elyse and Brody @ XP Gateshead
Our Ambassadors run their first Macmillan Event @ Plover
Rainforest Research @ Norton Juniors
Drama Hut Visit in Class 6 @ Green Top
Let the children march @ Norton Infants
Food Bank Fundraising @ XP East
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!
Headteachers Weekly Newsletter – Issue 5
MacMillan Coffee Morning!
We are here until 9.30! Come and join us! Thanks so much to everyone for their donations!
MacMillan Coffee Morning
Come and join us this morning for our MacMillan Coffee Morning! We’ve got tea, coffee and some of Michael’s delicious cakes!
Drama Hut Visit in Class 6
We had a fantastic time today in our Great Fire of London workshops. Some of us even dressed the part! We met Thomas Farriner – the baker who owned the shop where the fire was thought to have started, and also Samuel Peyps, who buried his famous diaries containing a recount of the event in his garden to protect them from the flames. We sang London’s Burning with actions, used tableaux to illustrate certain points of the story and even acted out the events to a poem. Many thanks to Jenna for bringing our history learning to life!
New playground equipment appreciation
The children have been enjoying playing with our brand new playground equipment which has been donated to school. Thank you so much to Cheeky Smiles Fund and our fantastic Friends of Green Top who have made this happen. The children absolutely loved the new equipment and are already planning how it will be split between the different phases of the school. Our Friends of Green Top work so hard to raise money for our school and support us with giving them the best opportunities and it is appreciated by all of the staff but especially the children.
Thanks so much…Green Top School x x
Class 8 Great Fire of London drama workshop
Class 8 have had such a fantastic morning in our drama workshop today. We had a fantastic lady who was in role throughout the session, talking about the great fire of London and recapping the children’s learning whilst adding to it with the great knowledge that she had on the subject. She pretended to be a baker at first and then became Samuel Pepys. The Children were answering and asking lots of questions and she was very impressed with what they knew. They did their own freeze frame pictures and acted out a story in groups, as well as singing rounds of London’s burning! We all thoroughly enjoyed the experience and got so much out of it! Well done class 8, I am so proud of your learning on this subject!
Mrs Shaw x
Reading Week
From Monday 2nd October – Friday 6th October we will be holding a reading week to celebrate all things reading! We are also trying to raise money to purchase a reading vending machine!
There are lots of different things going off all week but here are some of the important ones:
Book Sale
There will be a book sale happening every day in school and all books will be 50p!
Crack the code
Every day during the week, we will have a safe full of goodies and you can have a go at cracking the code for just 50p! You can have as many goes as you like!
Reading drop in session
On Thursday 5th October, the Learning Council will be hosting a reading drop in session in the hall suitable for all children and parents. Please pop along to join in the different activities! This will take place between 3 and 4pm.
