Norton Junior School

Beautiful Work This Week

Expedition Stories: UKS2 @ Plover

This week we’re proud to share the beautiful story of UKS2s Expedition from last term ‘Earth Emergency’. The carefully designed planters and greenhouse will surely be a catalyst for Plover growing its own produce for generations to come!

Beautiful Curation at XP Doncaster

XP on the TV!

For anyone who missed it – XP Doncaster has been featured in a BBC Two documentary which aired on the 7th March. All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer now.

We’d like to thank everyone who has got in touch or left a comment about the programme – we are so proud of our students and how eloquently they expressed how they feel about their school.

If you’d like to learn more about our schools and how you can do what we do too, you can get a copy of our book How We XP here.

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Save our Seas! @ Plover

Crew Da Vinci SLCs @ XP East

Magnets @ Carcroft School

Lowry inspired artwork @ Norton Juniors

We’re looking for a Cleaning Lead at XP Doncaster

Find out more about the role and apply here to #JoinOurCrew

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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!

What an absolutely magnificent, magical and majestic day we have had across Norton Campus today. Special praise is reserved for our fabulous Friends of Norton Campus Association who have worked feverishly to ensure the day has been extra special – from the entrance into school to providing a ‘Wonka’ bar for each and every pupil. And of course, who can forget the appearance of a certain Mr Willy Wonka himself who brought the day to life with his enthusiasm and energy – all hail Mr Carr!

At NJS, we swapped over classes and participated in a variety of activities that promoted reading and celebrated some of the world’s most famous children’s authors . Welcomed into 4GC were Mrs Jenkins class who examined the artwork and illustrations of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Of course, in the style of Quentin Blake we created our own.

6EG have been letting their artistic talents shine through this week, using Lowry and Doncaster as inspiration. They have worked hard to perfect their perspectives and sketch detail on the various buildings.

Rather amazingly, as part of our upcoming celebration of learning, Y3/4 children will be planting a tree each within our school grounds thanks to a kind donation by Murphy’s Group and delivered by Lumby Garden Centre. There were over a 120 trees delivered in total and our children made light work of transporting them to our ‘holding zone’ before we will finally plant them at the end of March. Just look at the glee on their faces. Magnificent!

The children have been focusing on poetry in the Tranquil Tuesday crew sessions this term. They have read and performed a wide range of poetry and then chose a poem to perform to another crew this Tuesday. Here is Crew Oliver and Crew Bradbury performing their poems of choice to one another.