Sharing our Stories: 26/05/2023

26th May 2023web admin

Beautiful Work This Week

Green Top Staff Crew: Mental Health Awareness Week

Lest We Forget – how does war change lives?

The Second World War may feel like several lifetimes ago to some of us, but there are still thousands of people for whom it was a lived experience,  something they will never forget. 

Years 3 and 4 in all the Primary Schools across our Trust, have through their recent expedition Lest we Forget: How does war change Lives? examined the lives of local people and national figures – all of whom have stories that deserve to be shared.

Four beautiful books have been created, capturing times both traumatic and remarkable.

From Pat Grainger, who lives in the centre of Doncaster and remembers the Corn Exchange cellars being used as an air raid shelter, or Harry Hewitt who as a child helped the war effort by being a runner – delivering messages between the Home Guards. 

The research for these books has been thorough, the original poetry and illustrations adding so much to the work that has become a valuable and treasured resource of stories from a time past, but part of our history and community. 

A visitor shares their story!

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Sharing our expedition learning..

26th May 2023Lauren Marsh

The children loved sharing their expedition learning and sharing what they have learnt so far when answering the guiding question: where could your journey take you?

The children were most excited about sharing their hunt for the kings crown and where they had looked around London. 👑

It was lovely to have parents in to share our learning journey so far, and we cannot wait to share our next case study about space.

Teacher Swap! 🧑‍🏫🔄

25th May 2023Sophie Elmer

This afternoon, many of our teachers had the opportunity to swap classes so that they could share some of their favourite stories with another crew! The children absolutely loved having a different teacher, listening to stories and exploring their own imagination! It was lovely to pop into crews and see the real love for reading taking place as well as children’s thirst for reading. The fact that in some crews children were wanting to read more books by particular authors because they enjoyed it so much, and that other children wanted to read the book again or finish it, was fab! Hopefully next year we can do much more of this and maybe we can get some of our grown ups from home to come in too!

Sharing our expedition journey so far…

25th May 2023Ruth Shields

It was great to see so many grown ups coming in to support the children so thank you for taking the time to come and join us.

As a crew, we decided that we’d feel more confident sharing information with parents together before looking through books. This allowed everyone to get involved with the sharing of their learning as we were unsure of how many parents were able to attend.

Each person had a part of the learning to share and then they felt more confident sitting with their books and showing the different parts of learning.

The crew did an amazing job of sharing our learning for summer 1 and they should be extremely proud of themselves!

Swimming

25th May 2023Ruth Shields

Swimming will be as normal tomorrow so children need to ensure they wear their swimming stuff under their clothes and bring the rest of their swimming stuff. They need to also remember to have breakfast as we won’t be having bagels until we return to school.

Thanks

Sports for Champions!

25th May 2023Lauren Marsh

Due to loving our athlete visit last year….

I am excited to announce that we have an athlete visiting school Monday 3rd July 2023.

Children should have come home with a sponsor form tonight, sponsor forms are due in Monday 19th June 2023.

Sponsor forms should be handed in to class teachers or the office once all sponsor money has been collected.

This is a great opportunity for the children to meet a GB athlete and raise money for school at the same time, as soon as we know who the school athlete is I will share.