Check out the amazing outfits for this year’s World Book Day! Our theme this year is Alice in Wonderland with the children being invited to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. We also spent the day solving the White Rabbit’s time problems as well as sketching our own interpretation of the Mad Hatter’s Hat!
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from this week. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.
This term Year 3 are learning to play the ukulele! So far they have learnt the parts of the ukulele, and how to play it gently. They have learnt the names of the strings and began to use the frets to change the sound.
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Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from this week. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.
Year 11 Historians Explore Industrial Heritage @ XP
Another ace week in PE @ XP East
Last week, we were lucky enough to have a special visit from Doncaster North’s MP, Ed Miliband who came to speak to the children regarding his role in government, particularly his work around reducing poverty in the local area. The children prepared questions and asked listened carefully to his responses.
We’ve been busy this week learning all about similes and using them to write ‘What am I’ style texts about the different parts of the body. This morning we did a little face-to-face activity, where the children went around reading their sentences out to each other trying to figure out whether the sentence was a simile or not! Big well done to all of 3SG for getting well and truly stuck into this writing cycle.
5CC kicked off the new half term with an exciting tennis lesson, focusing on agility, balance, and tactical play. The session began with fun warm-up games like knee tag and shoulder tag, helping pupils prepare for low and high shots.
Next, they practiced playing the ball into space, aiming to earn points with two bounces inside a designated area. If the second bounce landed outside, their opponent scored instead! This encouraged strategic thinking and careful shot placement.
The highlight was spike ball, where pupils demonstrated their skills by identifying space and aiming their shots. More confident players even struck the ball after the initial throw, showing great progress.
The lesson balanced attacking and defensive methods, teaching pupils how to score points while preventing their opponents from doing the same. Well done, 5CC – keep up the fantastic work!
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On Friday morning, Years Five and Six were visited by Doncaster North’s MP, Ed Miliband. Following their learning about the civil rights movement, gender inequality and wealth inequality, the children had the chance to ask their local MP questions about his career and learn about his role in government. The children prepared questions and asked about his success and challenges; his ideas for how to help Doncaster and the country; his priorities as per his role in the current government cabinet.
Mr Miliband also took the time to learn about the children’s current expedition with Y5/6 reeling off their favourite facts from ‘Fights for your Rights’. Thank you to Ed for taking the time out of his busy diary to visit us!
