We experienced what it felt like to entertain other people just like Bob did on the moon. We then practised our teaching skills to explain to our partner how to draw the moon.
Entertaining on the moon 🌕
Newsletter 10.07.23
New Class Structure
Final RE lesson in MI
Today we started to think about and understand why people stand up against injustice because of their religion. We started the lesson with a role play activity where we set up a bus style scenario. Children had to unpick where people were placed on the bus and possible reasons why. We then changed the places on the bus making some people stand. Again we thought about the reasons why and took ourselves back to our spring expedition. We then watched a re-enactment of the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott. Once we had unpicked the clip and re-enacted the story in mini crews, we looked at some bible quotes and thought about how they related to the story and the meanings behind them.
We then worked with our partner to generate questions that we would ask the main characters from the clip. We thought about the characters feelings and motivations at the time, particularly why as a Christian, Rosa Parks felt it was important to stand up for her rights. We then took it in turns to be the characters in a hot seating activity.
Finally we worked in mini crews to create an interview with one of the characters but set in modern times, allowing the interviewees to reflect on the results of the Civil Rights Movement. A great final RE lesson in MI today 🙂
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Sharing our Stories: 07/07/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Terrarium Expert at XP Doncaster
DofE Bronze Award Highlights
Beautiful Curation: A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words
A Christmas Carol Study Guide – now available online!
This week, the awesome guide created by our Year 11 Students has been published on the Charles Dickens Museum website as a free educational resource! You can find it amongst a plethora of different resources on Dickens’ work.
We’re looking forward to visiting the museum next week to celebrate the work the students have created.
Beautiful Curation at Plover
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Finding doubles – outdoor maths @ Carcroft School
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KS3 Girls Football Team do XP proud! @ XP
EYFS Vehicles Celebration Event @ Plover
Hawaiian disco 🌸🌺🌼
Fun was had by all (staff included!) at tonight’s Hawaiian themed disco. Everyone put on their grass skirts, flower garlands and beach wear to come and dance the evening away! The Conga was certainly in full swing 💃🕺🪩 The children had a great time and really put a lot of effort into their outfits. What a lovely evening 😊
Music Madness! 🎶🥁🎵🎹👂
As part of our Case Study 3, linked to sound, we spent this afternoon in LKS2 exploring pitch and volume, creating different instrumental sounds, learning about how sounds are made and understanding the different parts of the ear that help us to hear. It was a very noisy afternoon (sorry Year 5!) but we learnt lots and also had a great amount of fun!
Library Visit 📚📖
Today, some of LKS2 had the opportunity to visit the school library and select a book of their choice to read for pleasure. The children enjoyed being in a quiet space with their peers and getting stuck into a book! I wish I could have joined them!!
Kingswood 2023 day 2…
We’ve had a fantastic day today… climbing, buggy building and rafting. We worked as a team to create the buggy and the raft and it was so much fun jumping in the water.
