Sharing our Stories: 09/02/2024

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…

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! 

Sharing our Stories: 02/02/2024

2nd February 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Doncaster: XP Outdoors Reflections

At the end of last year, we asked students in C29 to reflect on the learning that took place outside the classroom and how this has helped them to build Crew.

Beautiful Curation: Carcroft School

Look at this collection of recent work which is now on display in the corridors of Carcroft School. Be sure to stop and admire students beautiful work from across phases and Expeditions!

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Beautiful Work from Harris @ XP Gateshead

Animal Habitat Research @ Norton Infants

Y6 Athletics Champs! @ Green Top

E28 Crew Ardern DofE Charity Work @ XP

Little Twitchers! @ Plover

Crew Malala Achievements @ XP East

Recycle Walk @ Carcroft School

Setting Description Artwork @ Norton Juniors

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Improper fractions dominoes 😊

1st February 2024Helen Jenkins

This week 5HJ have been working hard conquering the world of fractions. Here were are playing dominoes by matching improper fractions with their mixed number partner. What started out as a tricky task soon turned into a competitive game which deepened understanding!

William Morris Artwork

31st January 2024Emma Gould

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.

Setting Description Artwork!

30th January 2024Thomas Edwards

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!

Sharing our Stories: 26/01/2024

26th January 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Festival of Learning 2024

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.

Beautiful Curation: A Christmas Carol

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!

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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

Share your stories with us!

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

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Our Learning Journey- Hook Week

26th January 2024Joshua Carr

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!