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Supportive learning in Y6

22nd February 2024Emma Gould

Today 6EG have consolidated their learning of area of shapes by supporting each other with tricky maths problems.

Wonderful Watercolours in Year 6! 🖌️🎨🖼️

20th February 2024Charlie Cicero

Back after a deserved half term break, Year 6 have begun their second case study this week by diving into the world of Laurence Stephen Lowry. After studying a range of the artist’s works (consisting mainly of watercolour art showcasing city landscapes of the Industrial Revolution), the class unpicked the features of Lowry’s masterpieces. Today, they began learning about watercolour skills through tutorials – as a class, we discussed each skill and appraised how each would be utilised in our own piece of Lowry-like artwork.

After practising these skills, the children then began apply them to their own city landscape template. Whilst the Industrial Revolution will have cast a dark, ominous smog across the UK’s cities, many of our budding artists opted to show their blending and graded wash skills in more natural sky blue. Awesome work so far, guys!

Is that Pastry Tasty?

9th February 2024Gavin Chadwick

Our flexible Friday crew session pivoted down a rather odd path today as our children sampled a variety or pastry based foods including pies, pasties, sausage roll and quiche. The backstory? One of our crew members was reading a book: Horse Pie – the conversation quickly descended into favourite pie fillings, pastry based dishes…you get the picture. Anyhow, the culmination of all these conversations resulted in the children wishing to try out some savoury treats. After some meaty conversations (sorry) where our heads we’re truly scrambled (loose quiche reference), our vote determined that the humble steak slice was the king of our pastry products today.

Enjoy your half term everyone.

Practical Perimeter!

9th February 2024Emma Gould

6EG have spent this week learning all about perimeter! It began with measuring the perimeter of various shapes and objects around school, and led to solving complicated perimeter SATs style questions to challenge and consolidate their learning.

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9th February 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

XPG Studios

Have you seen this awesome Instagram page, created to showcase the beautiful work from the 150 (and counting!) artists at XP Gateshead? You can see everything they’ve done and follow them here.

Here are some examples recent work they’ve produced…

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Beautiful Curation: Plover School

This week, beautiful work from LKS2’s last Expedition ‘Coming to Doncaster – Why then, why now?’ has been curated outside the school! Be sure to stop and take a look at their work on migration, Roman history and sharing stories!

Beautiful Work in the Community: Earth Emergency

In Autumn 2023, Green Top School’s UKS2 children undertook a learning expedition called Earth Emergency. The guiding question was: How can we help our planet survive? Their beautiful artwork is on display on a shopfront on Fieldside in Thorne.

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Beautiful work from Arlo and Daniel @ XP Gateshead

Exploring and Embedding Goldilocks and the three bears @ Norton Infants

Safer Internet Day @ Green Top

Crew RPU/ABT getting SLC ready @ XP

We Can Collaborate! @ Plover

Crew Rashford sharing the love @ XP East

Fun in the snow @ Carcroft School

Ponder, Persevere, Practice but never Procrastinate @ Norton Juniors

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Perimeter practical!

7th February 2024Charlie Cicero

6CC enjoyed a first session recapping perimeter – a bit of hands on learning to begin the topic area using a variety of measuring equipment. Top effort from all and they were even brave enough to face the cold outside for some measuring and calculations! 👍🏼😁

Ponder, Persevere, Practice but never Procrastinate!

2nd February 2024Gavin Chadwick

4GC have been tackling some tricky maths problems this week; thinking deeply about their structure and unlocking the key information within each question. The culmination of this was a series of tasks to grapple with during an online learning session today. What resilience this lot show by the way!