Some great collaborative working in our reading lesson this morning 🙂 We also looked at a variety of comprehension questions and worked together to find answers.
MI supporting their partners in reading
The start of road safety week…
This morning we had a great crew discussion about road safety. We talked about how to keep ourselves safe when we are out and about especially about focussing on what can distract us and drivers. We also talked about what we needed to wear, where best to cross the road and explored the green code code. Finally, we played a game at the end to put into practise what we had learnt. Lots of us got 7/7!
Magic Measures ⚖️
Crew Godley have been working really hard this week to measure weight, comparing objects using the vocabulary heavier and lighter. We had great fun estimating and challenging ourselves and others to weigh accurately ⚖️
We are writers ✍️
Today, we edited one of our plot points from our story of Hansel and Gretel to include conjunctions and adjectives. We produced some beautiful work which we were very proud of!
“Spotacular” – Children in Need in FS1
Today we ‘Dressed to Express!’ in Crew Dorman for Children in Need! We all looked fantastic!
We had a ‘Pudsey’ dance off! Played the game ‘Stop’ and ‘Go’ in the outdoor area and even made ‘Spotty Dotty Pudsey’ artwork to take home!
What an amazing day in Crew Dorman!
Maths Week – A visit from Percy the Park Keeper!
This week ‘Percy the Park Keeper’ visited nursery and we have been helping him with all his busy jobs. We have helped him sort the compare bears by matching colours. We have hung his socks to dry in matching pairs looking carefully at the patterns! Answering the question – Are the socks the same or different? We sorted Percy’s toys and animals by checking if they were big or small and putting them into two groups. We even explored shape and space making tracks for Percy’s trains and shelters for the animals!
Phew….What a busy week!
This week we also started exploring colour in maths and looked closely at the colour red!
Next weeks colour will be blue! I wonder what we will find out?
Sharing our Stories: 17/11/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Rail City
From Market Town to Railway City – The Railway Journey that Helped to Shape Doncaster.
This is an updated collection of all the beautiful work created over the last few years by students across the XP Trust schools, inspired by the centenary of the Flying Scotsman and the railway heritage of Doncaster.
This book has given us an opportunity to update the original content of the many rail expeditions, with quotes from experts and our community about the importance of railways, the steam engines built here and the ongoing rail-related business here that will help shape the future of rail.
Published to coincide with a centenary celebration visit from the Flying Scotsman, we humbly hope that this book, created by our students and a new generation of rail enthusiasts, will become part of our railway story.
Norton Infants march for Askern CRY Foodbank
XP Gateshead: ‘Unheard voices of WWI’ broadcast on Memory Lane Radio
XP Doncaster: ‘Do Your Bit’ Radio Broadcast
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Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead
C30: Hearing the stories of mining @ XP
A big thank you from KS1 @ Plover
World Diabetes Day 2023 @ XP East
Jaffa cake fractions @ Carcroft School
Fantastic family learning @ Green Top
Tranquil Tuesday Reading Crew @ Norton Infants
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TTRS battle in KS2
Our timestable rockstar day ended with quite the battle! Crews battled against each other to gather points in the hope their crew would make it to the final! There was great encouragement by all and it was lovely to see the improvements in our timestable knowledge! A big well done to everyone that took part 🙂 A big shout out to Crew Boswell who made it to the final! And to the 2 children who beat Mrs Ibbotson!
Jaffa cake fractions
We have started our new unit on fractions this week so what better way to start than cutting Jaffa cakes into fractions and then getting to eat them?!? After we cut the Jaffa cakes we then used these to help find equivalent fractions. Yum!
Communication is key 🔑
In Scotty’s, the children continued to work on their communication. One partner was blind folded and directed to pick up cones. At the end the points were added together to see the winning team.
