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Today we critiqued a crew members habitat section of their non chronological report. We thought about sentences where target grids had been used then we unpicked and redrafted sentences that needed to be better. We all worked well in mini crews to do this before giving feedback to the whole crew. We then applied what we had learnt to our own work, editing and redrafting our own sentences. We are getting much more confident in this part of the writing sequence.
In our maths lesson today we also explored repeating pattern with 2d shapes. Everyone worked really hard but huge shoutout to Eveah, Charlotte and Teddy who smashed the challenge I set them too. Great work!
Today in maths we had some very quick fire questions! Finding numbers, writing numbers and completing our place value activities. Everyone did a great job especially Evie and Lily-Ann, showing great resilience.
Today in citizenship Crew we talked about how dull the world would be if we were all the same! We celebrated our differences and things that made each of us unique. We had some fantastic discussions around the differences we observed in the pictures and concluded no matter where you are from or what you may look like we should treat each other with kindness and respect. Evie made a great point that in doing this we would all keep each other safe.
A fabulous maths session to start the week. We had a quick recap of 3D shapes and then did a cutting and sticking activity to consolidate our learning!
Today in citizenship Crew we talked about how boring the world would be if we were all the same and how no matter where you are from or what you look like we should treat each other with kindness and respect. The sorting cards generated some brilliant discussion. Great work crew!
This week we’re proud to share the beautiful story of UKS2s Expedition from last term ‘Earth Emergency’. The carefully designed planters and greenhouse will surely be a catalyst for Plover growing its own produce for generations to come!
For anyone who missed it – XP Doncaster has been featured in a BBC Two documentary which aired on the 7th March. All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer now.
We’d like to thank everyone who has got in touch or left a comment about the programme – we are so proud of our students and how eloquently they expressed how they feel about their school.
If you’d like to learn more about our schools and how you can do what we do too, you can get a copy of our book How We XP here.
Beautiful Work from Reuben @ XP Gateshead
World Book Day @ Norton Infants
Class 8 Story Writing @ Green Top
Lowry inspired artwork @ Norton Juniors
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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!
This week we have looked at the artist, Hannah Hoch, who is known for her collage work, we began by exploring collage materials and how we could create different effects with colour, size and shape. We practised creating by african animals linking to our key text Handa’s Surprise. We then critiqued these and created a collage of a polar bear to begin our learning around polar regions. Check out our polar collage artwork!
In science we were looking at magnets and finding out which items were magnetic and which ones wont . We also looked at what happens when you put 2 magnets together. If you put N and N together they would repel , same for S and S but if you put S and N together they would attract. Here are our findings
On Wednesday we went to a dodgeball tournament, we came 5/9!
