Sharing our Stories: 18/10/2024

Beautiful Work This Week

Visitors from Hong Kong!

XPD hosted eight visitors from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust – an organisation established in 1884 – that is one of the top ten charities in the world . The visitors are looking at models of education, visiting XPD to see how and why we do what we do. The feedback they left about our team and students was wholly positive. They were ‘touched, impressed and inspired’. We hope to be able to welcome them again soon. 

Bikeability at Plover!

Plover Primary had an exciting and active day, thanks to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, who awarded the school a cycling workshop with triple Olympic Gold Champion and Active Travel Commissioner, Ed Clancy. This recognition was given for Plover’s dedication to promoting active travel and the high participation of their students in the Mayor’s Walk and Wheel Challenge. The Bikeability Trust, led by CEO Emily Cherry, generously donated balance bikes to the children, further supporting the school’s commitment to encouraging cycling from an early age.

Cycle North also played a key role, delivering ‘learn to ride’ workshops that taught 26 KS2 pupils how to ride a bike for the very first time. Additionally, Judith Shaw from Doncaster Council Road Safety Education kindly donated bike lights to the school. The day concluded with an inspirational whole school assembly led by Ed Clancy, where children were celebrated with Bikeability badges and snap bands for their achievements.

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Kindness in our community @ Norton Infants

Family Learning @ Green Top

We are historians! @ Plover

May the forces be with you @ Carcroft School

LOOL Fieldwork to Danum Gallery @ XP School

Happy Halloween @ Norton Juniors

Pumpkin Decorating Competition @ XP Gateshead

Crew Spencer’s sit up challenge @ XP East

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Kindness in our community

This week we have been thinking about all of the different ‘caring’ jobs that people in our community do. We were very lucky to have a visit from Askern Fire Service. We loved looking around the fire engine and learning about the amazing jobs that the firefighters do. Our favourite part of the visit was when we heard the sirens – they were very loud but they made us smile!

We also went for a walk this week to Campsall Church to deliver a beautiful a beautiful bouquet of flowers that we made. We met the church wardens who were really grateful for our gift which will be displayed for the local community to enjoy.

Spooky Community Meeting

We had a very spooky start to our day today!! It was lovely to celebrate the end of our Reception children’s first half term in full time school…..what an amazing job they have all done, working hard, being kind and getting smart.

EYFS showing we care…

This week the reception children enjoyed a walk to Campsall Church. We took with us the corn dollies that the nursery children made, along with a harvest flower bouquet that was handmade by our reception children. The church wardens were delighted with our gifts. This act of kindness made the children feel happy and we enjoyed showing that we care in our local community.

The children behaved impeccably on our walk and we were very proud of them.

Meet Ralph…

This week the children considered the question… ‘is it only humans that show they care?’ We quickly discovered that we share our world with amazing animals who show kindness, love and care in lots of different ways. We were lucky enough to meet Ralph, a therapy dog from the charity Pets are Therapy. The children loved hearing all about Ralph and the important job that he has bringing people joy and happiness.

After the visit we thought about all the words we could think of to describe Ralph. Here are just a few…

EYFS Community Meeting

We started our meeting by singing our ‘Wake Up Shake Up’ song. It was a great way to start the day. We then celebrated all of the amazing learning behaviours that we have seen in our Reception classes this week. Well done to all of our children who received postcards…

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Beautiful Work This Week

Beautiful Curation at Green Top!

Have you seen these beautiful newly curated areas at Green Top – awesome spaces for students to learn and play in!

A great sporting week at XP Doncaster!

On Monday, students met a few of the Doncaster Rovers first team players and were able to have photos and get autographs from the players. Students asked questions about the life of a professional athlete and the journey that the players have been on playing for different clubs. It was great to hear the players speak about our character traits and how these character traits link to sport. 

Then on Tuesday students visited Hill House school to listen to Olympic gold medal GB hockey player Sam Queck. Her experience as an athlete and the ups and downs she has faced really helped our students to understand that if you want something in life you have to work hard for it! Students were able to have a photo and ask questions to Sam at the end – they even held her gold medal. 

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Top of the Blogs

Creating Beautiful Work @ Norton Infants

American Themed Day @ Green Top

We Care Wednesday – Crew Chain @ Plover

XP Outdoors @ Carcroft School

Crew KBA – what makes up our identity? @ XP School

Working on a different planet! @ Norton Juniors

Beautiful work from Brooke @ XP Gateshead

Crew Rashford getting smart-er @ XP East

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!