Happy Friday – here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust this week, visit http://xptrust.org/stories
Better World Day!
Today we came dressed in blue and yellow, and gave generous donations to support families struggling with the atrocities happening in the Ukraine. Closer to home we decided to go litter picking to clean up our local area, well done 5EG!
Better World Day
Today we came dressed in yellow and blue for Better World Day 2022. We chose yellow and blue as our theme in support of Ukraine.
Play on the Pitch Champions!
What a way to kick off the Summer Term in earnest by our amazing y5/6 pupils reigning victorious in last week’s Play on The Pitch football competition! The final, against Kirk Sandall Juniors, was an entertaining affair with the team eventually sealing victory through a penalty shootout – Jacob making two outstanding saves in the process. As well as performing on the pitch, the attitudes of our children were, as usual, exemplary. Congratulations to all and special praise is reserved for Mrs Batty and Mr Hayward who accompanied our children on the day.
Quiztastic Revision!
Our Friday in 6CC began with a bang as the class split themselves into teams to take on a Kahoot! quiz: revision edition. Each team battled it out to become the quiz master, utilising their knowledge and understanding of shape.
Magnificent mentoring!
As we prepare for SATs, the children have stepped up their efforts to mentor and listen to the feedback of their peers, particularly in Maths. As you can see below, our arithmetic pairs have been working exceptionally hard to revise previous learning and refine their maths skills. Might I add that their mentors have been doing a pretty fine job too!
Above: When learning about scale factors, the children worked hard to increase a picture of Mario or Luigi by a scale factor of two!
NOW HIRING: SATs SPAG QUESTION DESIGNERS!
SPAG revision took more of a creative focus last week as the children worked in pairs to design their own SPAG test: 8 questions with a focus of eight SPAG areas. When finished, the pairs then swapped tests with another pair and worked through their questions to see if they could achieve full marks!
Plague doctors!
This week 5EG became apothecary’s and doctors. They had to use their skills and knowledge to diagnose illnesses from urine samples (or water with food colouring!) They then created a cure for an illness from 1665, by mixing herbs and designing a bottle and label.
Math-Magicians!
4TE have been getting very active and busy with their maths this week! We have been doing some more work on fractions and I can say that with each passing fraction, we are getting better and better!
🎶🎵🎤 Young Voices 2022 🎶🎵🎤
What a fabulous time we all had at the long anticipated Young Voices concert in Sheffield Arena last week. Each and every child was an absolute credit to our school and all sang with such passion. The dances moves weren’t too bad either! 😎 Massive thanks to all the staff who accompanied us too!
Fielding fun!
To further supplement their development in becoming skilful rounders players, Year 6 practiced their fielding skills today focusing mainly on throwing, catching and tactical play. Starting with some fun games to stress the importance of rapid throwing and catching to beat running players, the children quickly moved onto improving their long range throwing and catching.
Practising these skills in isolation is important but nothing compares to putting these skills under pressure in small game situation. Safe to say, the practice beforehand made the small games even more competitive. Now, Year 6 will look to improve their skills with a bat! Well done all!
School ipad scheme – important up-date
A high number of student iPads are being returned to the Edutech workshop with damaged screens. Our insurers are now implementing a £50 excess to any claims for broken screens where a screen protector is not applied to the device.
Parents will be liable to pay this excess if screen protectors are not applied.
If you do not have a screen protector please ask crew leaders who can access these from school admins.
Screen protectors and devices form part of our crew equipment check process so this is the responsibility of staff, students and parents to ensure devices are appropriately protected.