It’s @ELeducation‘s #BetterWorldDay! Here’s a beautiful example of how the community at Plover School are stepping up and doing their bit to make the world a better place with their Plover Pantry food bank.
Year 7 students at XP Gateshead carried out a day of fundraising! Working together in Crews, our students carried 5 litre bottles of water around as many laps of the 400m track as they could…
Be sure to follow #BetterWorldDay on Twitter to see schools around the world sharing their stories!
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across our Trust this week!
For more stories, make sure you visit http://xptrust.org/stories #WeAreCrew
Crew Robson started to identify the different clouds during our crew session. We were so interested in the changes that we even carried on cloud spotting during our morning and dinner time break! Do you know the different types of clouds? If not, ask a member of our Crew!
I have felt so proud this week of how far Crew Marsh has come with their independent writing. It has been great to see all of their amazing ideas and their new found confidence when putting pencil to paper. Special well done to my super writers of the session! 💕
As promised here is an outline of swimming for the next 3 weeks.
Friday 5th May – Swimming as normal
Friday 12th May – Swimming as normal but this will be a 2 hour lesson. (Extra hour in place of the one we’ll miss on the 19/5)
Friday 19th May – No swimming due to fieldwork at the Coal mining museum
Friday 26th May – Swimming as normal until the end of Summer 2.
Please try and ensure children are arriving at school for 8.35 so it gives us time to do the register and dinners. We leave at 8.45 sharp to arrive in time for our lesson.
Thank you.
During the lesson (earlier this week), the children read through evidence that had been presented in the Huskar Report. Children worked in small groups to play either the role of the surviving children, family members, others miners or the jury. They used the evidence to help them prepare answers to the questions the jury may ask them. After everyone presented their evidence, they concluded that although there had been some fault, it was just a very bad accident.
To immerse children in their learning (writing) and allow them the opportunity to experience one, we created one in the hall. Children had to move through the mine and experience what it was like trying to do some of the jobs such as a hewer, hurrier or trapper. They quickly realised it wasn’t easy and hard work.
The experience wouldn’t have been complete without coal dust on their faces and coming out looking like they’ve actually been in the mine. Mrs Rhodes had a great time playing the role of the Banksman and informing the children they’d have their wages docked or they would have to complete another half shift due to them not working hard enough.
We then spent some time listening to sound effects from the mine with an emergency alarm followed by an explosion for good measure. This helped the children to start building vocabulary to support them in their writing.
Today we looked for the King’s crown at London Zoo, we saw tall giraffes, roaring lions, cheeky monkeys and stripey zebras. We still did not find the King’s crown.
