Remember to come and join us on Friday morning for our Macmillan Coffee Morning! Crew Council will also have some fun activities and quizzes to take part in!
We will massively appreciate any bun donations for the coffee morning and bun sale. Buns will be on sale to children for 50p!
We’d like all parent/carers opinions on school dinners, including those who’s children have packed lunches. XP Trust would like as many children as we can having delicious healthy meals so your and your child’s opinions are important to us. Children will be asked about their dinners at school but it would be good to have parent/carer opinions too.
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Well done to crew Shaw again for winning the attendance award last week. That is 2 weeks in a row…I am so impressed, please keep it up!
A huge well done to our crew champion winners too…you must have been extra special to be the first ones chosen this year!
Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff at Plover were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding they secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! Plover have been lucky enough to secure some OSF funding this year too, so watch this space for Community Clubs starting in October! #LovePlover
We don’t just ensure our work is made public – it needs to live inside our school communities, too! More beautiful work has been curated at Plover School, celebrating their ‘Pride of Plover’ award winners and recent Expedition products!
One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff induction process with a group of educators from across our Trust.
We headed out into the wilderness to answer the guiding question, ‘What does it mean to be Crew?’ through a number of shared experiences and activities our Crew formed very quickly. We explored the purpose of Crew deeply and considered how we could make Crew even stronger on our return to our respective schools so that we continue to create the culture in which our students grow their character and make our community and the world a better place for everyone.
Below is an immediate reflection from one of our XP educators:
‘This experience has helped me to understand the building of community. The support that other members of our Crew showed this week has been immense. There have been some activities that have been challenging but everybody has been supportive whilst giving positive challenge so that everybody has been able to push themselves in a safe environment where everybody trusts each other and it’s lifted me and made me feel that I can achieve anything I put my mind to with the support of other people.’ – Louise
It was an honour and privilege to support and challenge our adults to reflect on the imperative we all have at XP to become and create great learners and even better human beings!
We are Crew!
Andy Sprakes and Kate ap Harri
Find out more and apply here to #JoinOurCrew
Year 5 Teacher/Leader at Carcroft School
F2 Teacher/Leader at Carcroft School
Congratulations to Millie who received her prize for raising the most sponsorship money for our recent colour run! Thank you to everyone who managed to raise money for it, it is all very much appreciated!
Well done to Millie who, this week, has been completing some acts of kindness at home. She made her best friend Elea a get well soon card and coloured her a Stitch picture to cheer her up. She has also been making some thank you cards to hand out to those people who have been kind to her. Well done Millie for such a lovely gesture!
Huge shout out to this weeks winners – super proud of you all!
Next week is Green Libraries week. Have you ever visited your local library?
To celebrate, Crew Council is setting everyone a task to recommend their favourite books to their peers.
You could present this as a poster, a book review, a leaflet or a picture of the front cover of your favourite book.
Next week, your Crew Councillor will be presenting theirs – this might help you with some ideas!
Please hand in your finished piece to your Crew leaders. These will look amazing in your class reading area! You could even bring in your favourite book to share with your friends!
As an extra challenge – Could you research what Green Libraries week is about? What does it mean to be Green and Sustainable?
I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
Wow! What a super poppy you have created at arts and crafts club today! We can see how proud of it you are, as is Mrs Leggott and I! Keep up the great work 🙂
For homework this week, Arnie wrote facts about Churchill and designed a “Dig for Victory” poster. Arnie also watched a film about children in the war for a better understanding of what it was like. Well done Arnie – super home learning!
