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During our expedition ‘The Power of Change’, 6EG studied the work of William Morris, an artist who was a great revolutionary force during the Victorian era. The children learned how he influenced other artists and believed the Industrial Revolution was making people less creative. We looked at many examples of his work and recreated some of his famous tapestries.
Recently, 4TE have discovered that our English writing focus for this half-term is to create a setting description! To get us started and show the importance of being incredibly detailed and specific, the children had a go at describing different settings to their partner (without their partner seeing) with their partner then having to draw the setting being described to them! There were some very creative pieces of work created from some very detailed and specific narrators!
The Staff Day in January saw the launch of our proposed teaching and learning model as part of our Festival of Learning. The event took place at XP Doncaster and was attended by staff from across all schools in the Trust. All staff had the opportunity to explore the model in more depth as well as attending other workshops on different parts of the model.
This is part of the Trust’s commitment to ensure that we expose more students to more impactful teaching more of the time.
There is now an awesome display at XP to celebrate the Christmas Carol Study Guide – the beautiful work of last year’s Year 11s. Be sure to go and admire their hard work on display!
Thoughtful Thursday @ Norton Infants
Year 5 Photography Club @ Green Top
X28 Crew Lovelace Beautiful Work @ XP
Bobby’s awesome home learning @ Plover
C27 Community Meeting @ XP East
Exploring Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores @ Carcroft School
Our Learning Journey – Hook Week @ Norton Juniors
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Year 5 have been busy working through their new expedition ‘The Power of Change’. They have started exploring the guiding question ‘How has the 18th Century influenced lives today?’.
We began our expedition with our usual ‘Hook Week’, the above photo shows our learning journey so far. We experienced what a Victorian School and Victorian Workhouse would have been like, built background knowledge about Victorian Schools, visited Danum Museum and the surrounding areas, explored a Victorian artist (William Morris), watched Oliver Twist and began to look at The Industrial Revolution in more detail.
We are already working through our first case study and can’t wait to find out even more!
Last week, 5HJ completed fieldwork in Doncaster City Centre exploring how the Industrial Revolution has influenced Doncaster today. After a tour of the city centre looking at buildings of that time, we visited Danum Museum where we discovered how Doncaster was pivotal in the construction of trains. The children were also immersed in a workhouse experience which involved tedious tasks such as picking up grains of rice. 😫
A great big thank you to the staff from DMBC Waste and Recycling Education Team who visited Y4 on Wednesday and held a workshop around the importance of recycling waste products and the journey it takes when leaving our bins. The session was highly engaging and interactive, incredibly informative and both the children and staff learnt a thing or two about how we should be recycling our household waste!
This week, 6CC have enjoyed learning about the Doncaster Plant Works and its use throughout and after Industrial Revolution. After exploring the five stages of its development, the children created their own informational flap books as well as drawing their own unique covers for each of the phases. This was a piece of work where many members of the class enthusiastically took it upon themselves to write about the Plant and present their work as beautifully as they could. Awesome work, class!
On Friday, staff across our Trust gathered to launch the first phase of our exciting new Teaching and Learning model, with a focus on our culture of Crew, underpinning principles, deliberate & intentional teaching/learning behaviours at its heart…
Staff from our secondaries and primaries grappled with this exciting new model and took part in a wide range of workshops to develop teaching and learning at XP.
More on this next week…
In Autumn 2023, Years 5 and 6 completed an expedition looking at the impact we are having on the planet and what we could do to make a difference now and for future generations. They held their presentation of learning last week!
Their final product for this expedition was a picture frame made from sustainably-sourced materials. Students then chose their favourite piece of writing from across the expedition to publish in the frame alongside (or behind) a simple piece of artwork reflecting elements of our learning. Beautiful work!
Delicious Recycling @ Norton Infants
Crew Oldridge’s Experiments @ Green Top
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
XP Outdoors – Mindfulness Walk @ XP
Crew Challenge @ Carcroft School
Problem Solving – Square Numbers @ Norton Juniors
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!
We finished this week in Mathematics with some problem-solving activities. The students were showing resilience and perseverance by using a trial and error method to try and order the numbers so the adjacent numbers were added together to make a square number.
What an amazing first week we had back at school! Here, the children undertook a variety of tasks and activities that built towards revealing our Expedition Title and Guiding Question: There is no Planet B and Why Should we Protect our Wonderful World. The week began with a gallery walk critiquing the work of Hull based artist Mandy Barker and was followed by some graphite drawings of woodland animals. We then revealed our Core Text: The Last Bear and imitated the cover picture in our own style. Our children were also physically as well as mentally active and took part in a local litter pick where we counted, categorised and recycled our rubbish. The innumerate number of tin cans collected from this litter pick were used to create some amazing artwork that will form part of our final product. Both Y3 and 4 engaged in a breathtaking and immersive VR experience and if that wasn’t enough, our pupils managed to write their scripts for their Student Led Conferences this week. Indeed, what a week!
