I love meeting with our weekly Reading Stars ⭐️
We spoke about our favourite books and what we were reading at the minute. I shared with the children that I was reading a book about schools and how to make our school even better. We talked about the reasons for reading and the children shared that you can read for enjoyment or to learn new facts. It was such a lovely time.
Wonderful to see our students @XPtrust @XPEastSchool @XPschool taking part in the @ukEdge #DeeperLearning conference today @DoncasterRaces – what a great view from the Royal Box! With @clairabelle5 @SprakesA & @gwynap pic.twitter.com/2sbu9lrCtz
— Melanie Hewitt FRSA (@MelanieHewitt61) June 22, 2023
Just back from attending an @ELeducation institute in Boston on cultivating high quality work. So many take aways from the institute and from around Boston. Very much looking forward to sharing all that we have learned with @XPtrust pic.twitter.com/4f6qusysSD
— Laura Parsons (@lauraparsons700) June 25, 2023
Finding doubles – outdoor maths @ Carcroft School
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
Catch up with Crew Caldwell @ XP
Before moving into Y2 we have been practising our counting to 100. We have been able to work as a crew to order the numbers 50 to 100.
In Friday funday crew we have played fishy fishy all together. We loved playing to the new rules!
We have been looking at what doubles are, and what happens to a number when you double it. We took our learning outside this week and had a ‘Doubles Hunt’! We each had to take a piece of numicon out of the mystery bag before searching the playground for the matching image. Once we had found it, we had to count what double the original number was. Even though we all had a piece, we worked well with our peers and showed fantastic team-work by helping each other find the correct image and then helping to count to find double that number. Excellent work Crew Welburn!
On Wednesday, we were treated to a production of Oliver Twist. This was a big deal for Crew McGlone because it was the first time we had been in the hall for a performance with the rest of the school! We absolutely LOVED IT! We loved the lights, the music, everything! We sat so beautifully as well throughout the whole performance, our teachers we so proud of how well we behaved! We can’t wait for the next production! 🎭
In expedition, we have been looking at different modes of transport and how they can help us to move around our local area, as well as how they can help us to move around the world. We have looked at the purpose of various vehicles and how some are suitable for shorter journeys, whereas others are suitable for longer journeys.
We looked at different locations (Asda Carcroft, Doncaster City Centre, Cleethorpes, Canada, and Kenya) and thought carefully about the transport that would be needed to get to each destination. We then drew the transport we would like to use to get to that location. Take a look at some of our beautiful drawings below!
I’ve been so impressed to see so many brilliant builds in our construction and small world areas this week. The designs have been wonderful and the team work has been outstanding! I have heard lots of critique, positive comments, polite and kind words – it has made me feel very proud!
This week in LKS2 we had lots of successes to celebrate in our LKS2 Community Meeting! We had three pupils who all achieved Learning Legend this week for being super mathematicians and blowing us all away with their recent arithmetic test scores!
We also celebrated all of those pupils who have been reading at home the most in each Crew, it was AMAZING to see so many pupils in Crew Thompson that had read 5 times in a week! I wonder if some others might be able to do this next week and if we can have more pupils to celebrate?! 📚
In addition to those pupils who read at home regularly we also chose a ‘Star Reader’ from each crew! This week the reasons were for, making great progress in reading fluency, participating lots during reading sessions and for excellent comprehension skills during assessment week. These pupils also got to have a special breakfast with Mrs Atherton today! I wonder who our ‘Star Readers’ will be next week?
Finally, we celebrated some extra special achievements. These boys have been working incredibly hard out of school! One for participating in a football tournament and the other for writing his own story linked to our Expeditionary learning! Fab work boys! Well done! 👏
