If it’s good enough for our children…..

23rd January 2024Laura Godley

Staff do crew too! At XP, we always say, if it’s good enough for the children, it’s good enough for us.  

Therefore, just like our pupils, staff also take part in staff crew events. Yesterday staff had to work with small crews they don’t often work with to complete the ‘Great British Bake Off’. The challenge was to produce Mary Berry standards cakes whilst also decorating and presenting their beautiful work. It was a challenge in just 60 minutes!

I’m sure you’ll agree that there were some wonderful creations which the children enjoyed exploring too!


In 1st place was ‘The Gruffalo’ followed by ‘Wonka’ in second place and in third, ‘Mary Beary’.

Timetables

21st January 2024Ruth Shields

Last week, we got our focus solely on our timetables and ensure we are secure with all of them. This year we’ll have the MTC so it’s important that we’re ready for it.

The children volunteered to lead chanting the timetables. We talked about the importance of saying the full number sentence rather than just the answers.

Crew Challenge

21st January 2024Ruth Shields

Our crew Challenge was to use a range of gestures to help people decide which card they had. Each person was given a card and you had to treat people based on the value of their card. After having time to greet each other, they then had to decide if they had a low, middle or high value card. Once they’d decided they could finally look at their card. Most children were able to guess the value of their card as some children bowed to them, waved or give them a thumbs up/down.

We discussed how there will be occasions when we don’t have to say anything because our body language will do all the talking.

Sorting Sentence Types

18th January 2024Laura Hamill

This afternoon, Crew Hamill’s grammar focused on sorting sentences into their different sentence types – commands, statements, questions and exclamations. We found questions much easier because we knew they ended with a question mark ❓ but we managed to sort them all correctly!

We are Geographers 🗺️ 🌍 🧭

18th January 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill began their expedition with their first geography lesson this afternoon. We were able to use atlas to identify where Doncaster was on a map and investigate the human and physical features. We then labelled a map of the United Kingdom , focusing on the main cities and towns around Doncaster.

Measurement Madness 📏

18th January 2024Laura Hamill

Today, Crew Hamill completed a practical maths lesson that involved measuring in centimetres and millimetres. We had to be VERY accurate with our measuring skills to make sure we got the exact measurements of things (e.g. a glue stick is 11cm 4mm long!) we then had to go around the room, measuring as many object as we could, sorting them into a table based on their measurements!

Recycling Champions ♻️ 🚮

18th January 2024Laura Hamill

Yesterday, Crew Hamill were extremely lucky to be able to take part in a recycling workshop that was delivered by Doncaster Council! We became recycling champions for our families by learning about all the different materials that can be recycled as well as the four bins we have in Doncaster and their uses! Even our adults got a bit confused when we played a game to guess which bin each of the rubbish materials should go in! We did learn 2 fantastic tips to help with this:

  1. The ONLY plastic we recycle in Doncaster is PLASTIC BOTTLES. Did you know all other plastic should go in your black bin?
  2. When thinking about cardboard, it only goes in your blue bin if it is NOT GREASY!