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What a great way to end our week, we added our first vegetable to our keyrings. After a week of learning all about spinach, critiquing and redrafting our outwork we were finally ready to transfer our final drafts onto the shrinky dink paper. It was so exciting watching them shrink in the oven and adding them to our keyrings.
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We had a visit from the school nurse this morning who came to help us answer our guiding question ‘How will I be the healthiest version of me?’ We enjoyed listening to the story ‘Peace at Last’ and talked about the importance of sleep to make sure we have lots of energy and give our brains and bodies time to grow. We got some great top tips for good bedtime routines and shared some of our own, it was lovely to hear how many children enjoy a bedtime story. Before we said goodbye to our visitor we made a pledge that we would all try and make sure that we turn our screens off at least half an hour before we go to sleep and remember that we all get a better night’s sleep in our own beds!
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.
Family Learning @ Norton Infants
Class 8 Fabulous PE @ Green Top
Awesome home learning in Year 5/6 @ Plover
Maths is better with chocolate @ Carcroft School
Learning Outside the Classroom @ XP
Light and Shadows @ Norton Juniors
G29 9.2 Expedition Reveal @ XP Gateshead
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We had fun during our family learning session this afternoon when our grown ups joined us in class to find out the title of our new expedition ‘Ready, Steady, Grow! How will I be the healthiest version on me?’ We planted cress heads and peas and can’t wait to watch them grow.
We were joined by lots of grown ups this afternoon. We were really busy planting cress heads to observe in our classroom. – I wonder who will have the craziest cress hair! We also made a pop bottle green house to take home and watch grow. We filled in the first part of our seed diaries too. We can’t wait to see the photographs of what you have grown on ClassDojo!
Thank you to everyone who came and joined us.
Mrs Parsons and Miss Tinker xx
We have tasted it, looked at it and researched it. This afternoon we have been drawing it, critiquing our art and redrafting ready to transfer our final draft onto shrinky dink!
The concentration and resilience shown in class five has been incredible!
Mrs Parsons xx
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In Crew this morning Y2 have all been preparing for our SLCs next week. We got our Autumn Term expedition books out and picked our favourite piece of work as well as one we really grappled with. We can’t wait to share our “Rags to Riches” learning with you all next week.
After reading our new core text ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ we have been finding out all about spinach. In our tasting session everyone was willing to have a try and some of us were even surprised that we liked it! We identified the features of fact files in preparation for writing some of our own. Finally, we ended the afternoon with a lovely art lesson and gallery walk to look at everyone’s first drafts. We can’t wait to have a go at a second draft.
