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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!

My notes from today’s visit to @XPschool , with thanks to all of our hosts for such a warm and considered xperience, incl @gwynap @JamiePortman @SprakesA -will take some time over the weekend to reflect upon these 👇🏽 & consider the implications #learning #unlearning #compassion pic.twitter.com/9eT4BBZRai

— tjgolding (@tjgolding) May 25, 2023

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Sharing our Expedition learning @ Carcroft School

Beautiful work from Olivia @ XP Gateshead

NJS walk to school week @ Norton Juniors

Is Migration worth the risk? @ XP

Y5 Football tournament @ Plover

Yorkshire Air Ambulance land art @ Norton Infants

Iron Man Champion @ Green Top

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C27: You Give Me Fever

In January 2023, students in Year 9 studied a joint HUMAN and STEAM expedition called ‘You give me fever’ where students had to answer the guiding question:

Is Science enough to save lives?

The final product was a charity drive in order to raise money for local health charities. We did lots of school events in order to raise money for the charity chosen by each school. We conducted a sponsored walk, bake sale, PJ day, sponsored silence and a bikeathon. 

For our presentation of learning, we created short flip book animations that were projected in XP East. There were zones set up outside around XPD made to look like the time periods of each case study (Black Death, Cholera Outbreak, Spanish Flu & Aids). We were dressed up in period costumes and spoke to the audience about the science and history or each case study. Students also displayed their artwork and sketchbooks to showcase the skills they had acquired this term. At the end of the PoL we presented the funds raised for equipment at NHS Doncaster.

Green Top Year 3/4 – Lest We Forget

Comms: Curation case notes from Norton

Curation case notes from Norton

Eco Pledges at Frenchgate!

It has been wonderful to partner with Frenchgate on this important project – we can’t thank them enough for giving our Schools the opportunity to make their own pledges and display them for all to see within the Centre.

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/shopping/frenchgate-launches-our-planet-pledge-to-help-raise-awareness-of-the-impact-of-climate-change-4138644

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Active maths lesson @ Carcroft School

Beautiful work from Ben @ XP Gateshead

Subtracting Fractions Treasure Hunt @ Norton Juniors

X28 Crew Re-wilding @ XP

We are activists! @ Plover

Reading for pleasure @ Norton Infants

Crew Malala Beautiful Artwork @ XP East

Maths Club @ Green Top

Please don’t misunderstand this post as being boastful rather that it’s a massive appreciation to all members of our Crew these last 7 days for their successes in Accelerated Reader tests. As the screen capture shows, of the 18 tests taken by our Crew members, 17 have been passed with an astonishing average of 91.8% of questions answered correctly. These guys are absolutely flying at the minute. Keep it up!

Well done everyone!

Hook week is a-go! Year 6 have enjoyed exploring the world of mining by creating their own high quality mining information posters as well as drawing some mining artefacts. The drawing and sketching we practised earlier in the year has been put to use, to great effect. Well done, guys! 👌🏼😁

This week Year 6 have began our latest expedition ‘At the Coalface’. We were lucky enough to have an expert visit us from Sandvek mining company. A great way to immerse ourselves in the expedition!

Find out more and apply here to #JoinOurCrew

Would you like to work at Norton Infant or Norton Junior Schools?We are recruiting for dinner time supervisors across both schools. If you are interested and would like to be considered, please follow the link below and register your interest by completing the Register your Interest form on the XP Trust vacancies website. Please specify which school you are interested in. 
https://xptrust.org/vacancies/

Thank you Miss Tunney