Class 6’s day at Lincoln Castle

We had a wonderful day consolidating our learning at Lincoln Castle today. The children were wonderfully well-behaved and loved sharing their learning with the staff at the castle. Our day was jam-packed with activities, from handling armour in the Victorian prison, to designing coats of arms, re-enacting a banquet and finishing our day by walking part of the huge wall and visiting the inside of one of the towers!

A huge thanks to everyone involved with making our day fantastic and a special mention to the children who made me proud, as always, with their excellent manners.

Class 8 Catapults

In expedition today, class 8 have been working with a partner to test out their catapults, seeing how far the ball would go and then measuring and recording their results. They had so much fun!!

The Royal British Legion – Poppy Appeal!

Starting from tomorrow, Crew Council will be selling poppies and a range of other accessories including badges, wristbands and slapbands each morning.

Thea, one of our Year 6 Ambassadors, has also made some beautiful crochet poppies that she will be selling and contributing to the poppy appeal. She will be selling these alongside Crew council each morning. Thea’s poppies are priced at £1.50 for all of her efforts and hard work!

Year 1 Trip

We hope the children are excited for our class trip tomorrow!

Just a few things to note for our trip tomorrow:

Please could all children come to school wearing their normal school uniform and comfortable, sensible footwear. It is not currently due to rain tomorrow but a sensible coat and footwear is essential. We will be spending time both inside and outdoors during our visit. Please can children bring a backpack to keep all their belongings in such as their packed lunch and a spare change of clothes. This also helps us to ensure children’s belongings do not go missing throughout the day. Children will also need to be able to carry their own belongings to and from the coach/destination so a backpack really helps with this.

Children do not need any spending money for the trip.

Please ensure children arrive promptly at 8:30am for the register and to board the coaches!

We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow!

Thorne Christmas Light Switch On!

KS2 Choir will be taking part in Thorne’s Christmas Light Switch on and performing Christmas songs again this year.

If you would like to take part but don’t come to choir, don’t worry .. you can still come along and sing with us!

The light switch on will take place on Friday 29th November – stage times will be shared soon along with the list of songs that we will be singing!

As always, children are invited to wear Christmas hats/headbands etc!

Mrs Spetch

Sharing our Stories: 18/10/2024

Beautiful Work This Week

Visitors from Hong Kong!

XPD hosted eight visitors from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust – an organisation established in 1884 – that is one of the top ten charities in the world . The visitors are looking at models of education, visiting XPD to see how and why we do what we do. The feedback they left about our team and students was wholly positive. They were ‘touched, impressed and inspired’. We hope to be able to welcome them again soon. 

Bikeability at Plover!

Plover Primary had an exciting and active day, thanks to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, who awarded the school a cycling workshop with triple Olympic Gold Champion and Active Travel Commissioner, Ed Clancy. This recognition was given for Plover’s dedication to promoting active travel and the high participation of their students in the Mayor’s Walk and Wheel Challenge. The Bikeability Trust, led by CEO Emily Cherry, generously donated balance bikes to the children, further supporting the school’s commitment to encouraging cycling from an early age.

Cycle North also played a key role, delivering ‘learn to ride’ workshops that taught 26 KS2 pupils how to ride a bike for the very first time. Additionally, Judith Shaw from Doncaster Council Road Safety Education kindly donated bike lights to the school. The day concluded with an inspirational whole school assembly led by Ed Clancy, where children were celebrated with Bikeability badges and snap bands for their achievements.

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