It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. What a lovely way to start December today has been… children greeted by Santa’s little helpers (teachers), a pantomime and the Plover Elves have decorated school. #LovePlover
Tummy time drawing
We did tummy time drawing today to match sounds from the story to musical instruments and to shapes we could make. This is what we did.
Mrs Price
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Tummy Time
Today we have been working on our motor skills. We listened to different styles of music and discussed the base/pitch/speed and discussed how this made us feel. We used our gross motor skills to create large and small movements whilst listening to the music and discussed how everyoneās patterns were different even though we had all done the same thing, just like our feelings can be.
Miss Wood
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Weāre Going On A Leaf Hunt
This week we have been looking at the story āWeāre Going On A Leaf Huntā. The children helped to choose actions to help retell the story and have been super storytellers. Here is a little snippet of our fabulous storytelling.
Miss Wood
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Happy December!
Last night some elves snuck into our classroom and transformed it into a winter wonderland! The children have really enjoyed exploring the Christmas areas in their role play and completing the first Christmas challenges set by Eddie the Elf.
Miss Wood
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We have been on a leaf hunt!
This week, we have read the book, drawn a story map, added captions, built the settings, retold the story and even used instruments to tell the story! We hope you enjoy our class retelling! Most of us loved it!
Sharing our Stories: 01/12/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Pride of Thorne Awards
This very special event has brought together nominees from across Green Top’s local community who have been recognised for their invaluable work both with and for the people of Thorne. From food banks to emergency services to care homes – all were presented awards by KS1 children at Green Top, as part of their Expedition ‘Not all superheroes wear capes’. The list and variety of work celebrated this evening was incredible and each and every award was so well deserved. Congratulations to all of you from Green Top!
Norton Infants march for Askern CRY Foodbank
Carcroft celebrate and share their awesome ‘Chronica Carcroft’ Roman Newspaper!
Top of the Blogs
Year 6 final touchdown writing @ Green Top
G28 Class 1 Court Case @ XP Gateshead
X27 Ethics revising hard! @ XP
Case Study 3 – Reflection in 1M @ Plover
A freezing day out at the Kids EFL Cup! @ Norton Juniors
Christmas is coming! @ XP East
What does it mean to be British? @ Carcroft School
Presentation of Learning @ Norton Infants
We’ve got Vacancies at XP Trust!

Visit xptrust.org/vacancies to find out more and apply to #JoinOurCrew
Share your stories with us!
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!
Happy December F2!
The classrooms were visited by Christmas elves last night. The children have had a great morning learning and exploring some Christmassy provision.
UKS2ās celebration of learning- 2:30pm Monday 4th December!

A polite reminder about our celebration of learning event on Monday at 2:30pm. We hope to see you all there!
-Miss Blackham
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British Values
In Crew today, we have learnt about British values and how to live them daily. We practised signing some of the keywords we think of when talking about British Values and then made posters to remind us of them.
