We just wanted to say a huge thank you to all the families who joined us for our phonics drop-in tonight. It was so lovely to speak to you all about the children’s learning and the progress we are seeing in school. We hope it was both beneficial and fun for you all!
As always if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us – we are here to help!
We are also excited to be hearing about all the progress you are seeing in your own children’s learning at home. Please do share these proud moments with us via email as we love to hear when the children are making your proud at home!
We are looking forward to our next phonics session which will take place next half term. We will share more details soon!
A huge well done and thank you to Lara and her family for bringing in lots of donations for our recycling collection. You’ve made a great start to filling up the bin. Our Crew Councillor Letti also helped to organise the donations. Well done girls!
Tonight is our Y1 Phonics drop in. Please come to the school hall after collecting your child if you would like to take part. We will have lots of phonics games, reading books etc for you to share with your child. Miss Schon and Miss Rodgers will be attending to help you with any questions or concerns you have regarding your child’s phonics learning.
Do you have any unwanted clothes, toys, bric-a-brac or any other house hold items?
If you do we need your help! We are using Collection4Clothes to recycle unwanted items and raise money for a wide range of charities.
All donations that are collected by Collection4Clothes are sorted in warehouses in the UK and then taken to the least economically developed countries in Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East and sold at local affordable prices that benefit their communities.The royalties made from the donations are then split each month between the following charities:
World Cancer Care
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Great Osmond Street
Age UK
Alzheimers Research
Friends of Water Search and Rescue
Black Country Women’s Aid
When you wish upon a star
Hampshire hospitals charity
Heart Research UK
WAND
Internet Watch Foundation
If you have anything you would like to donate, please send your items in a suitable bag and hand in to your child’s classroom. They will then be able to work with our Crew Councillors to take them to our recycling bin.
To ensure that this is manageable, please refrain from taking bags straight to the school office.
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.
Yorkshire Sport Foundation – Opening School Facilities at Plover
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
Beautiful Curation!
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!
‘If we get staff Crew right, we get everything right…’
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!
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!
