During our last 2 lessons in reading, we have been familiarising ourselves with text marking. This is a skill we are teaching and guiding the children with as it is important children can text mark in a way that will support their understanding.
This is a skill we will continue to develop during the Autumn term with the aim that children will be more independent in the Spring term.
Today, we are learning about the inverse, the relationship between addition and subtraction. we made numbers with playing cards and made fact families sentences.➖➕🟰
In science this week we were very interested to learn about the difference types of plants and explored their characteristics. On our tables, we explored ferns, conifers and flowering plants. We then dissected a flowering plant and narrated the parts of a flower. Some of us even challenged ourselves to green standard to become successful at the end of the lesson and made our own classification key to classify the plants. Great work Crew Mcloughlin, we have budding scientists in the making!
Crew Shields got to celebrate their food attendance last week by having extra playtime. Some of the children chose to play football while others played tiggy tyres maths. If they fell off the tyres then they were asked a maths questions. Great fun had by all.
This afternoon, Crew Shields practiced some football Skills in preparation for the tournament coming up in a couple of weeks.
Today we have learnt about the different types of plants and explored their characteristics.
We then dissected a flowering plant and labelled the parts of a flower 🌸
Today in RE we talked about the Bible and all the different stories. We then watched the story of Jonah and The Whale and made a comic strip to retell the story.
Look at our amazing final pieces of Dennis Creffield/Great Fire of London artwork.
We have spent a lot of time practising using charcoal and this afternoon we applied that to our artwork!
We’ve been very lucky since XP first opened and as the Trust has grown over the last ten years, to be able to welcome Ron Berger to our schools. Ron, the CAO of Expeditionary Learning (EL) in the US, has visited us several times, sharing with us his knowledge, energy and wisdom.
Always supportive and inspiring, Ron has now, after a two week stay, just returned home. His time here has included visits to all of our schools, a well received and inspirational talk with our staff and chatting with our students and hearing their stories.
He also travelled to Scotland to visit our brilliant partners at The Wood Foundation and the educators they support in the Aberdeen area. Their school teams have been regular visitors to XP Doncaster on our delegate days for the last four years.
Last but not least, Ron joined colleagues on their induction in Derbyshire, sharing moment by moment with them the experience of developing Crew and fellowship.
Renowned as an educator and catalyst for innovation and compassion in education all over the world, we hope it won’t be long before we can welcome Ron back again.
Let’s get critical… critical! @ Comms
Year 2 Music – playing tunes on the Glockenspiel @ Carcroft School
More beautiful work in the community from Elyse and Brody @ XP Gateshead
Our Ambassadors run their first Macmillan Event @ Plover
Rainforest Research @ Norton Juniors
Drama Hut Visit in Class 6 @ Green Top
Let the children march @ Norton Infants
Food Bank Fundraising @ XP East
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