Sharing our Stories: 12/12/2025

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Reception Christmas Performance @ Green Top

KS1 Pride of Plover @ Plover

Year 4 Carols at ASDA @ Carcroft School

Crew Pasteur catch up @ XP

3SG Christmas art @ Norton Juniors

Enrichment Superstars @ XP East

Weekly update @ XP Gateshead

A Twinkly Nativity to Remember @ Norton Infants

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!

KS1 Pride of Plover

Congratulations to our latest winners of the Pride of Plover. We heard lovely stories about growing confidence, more independence, great learning behaviours and brilliant progress. It was fabulous to hear how hard our children are working to get smart. Well done, everyone!

#LovePlover

We have more animal tags on our trees!

We have been blown away with the generosity of our Plover crew with all of the donations for our crew charity- the RSPCA. Our tree had been emptied on day one of adding the tags so we have added some more. Please feel free to take one if you would like to help.

Thank you so so much to all those of you who have donated so far. We are so grateful!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

KS1 Multiskills Competition Tomorrow

Good evening all parents/carers

Just a reminder that these 16 children are at the KS1 christmas multi skills festival tomorrow at Laurel Academy, Mexborough:

Arya A, Charlotte B, Jack D, Rebecca G, Sylas T, Katie-Rose W, Jacoby C, Farhan B, Liarna K, Hana M, Frederick O, Ada T, Kira WB, Jason D, Kayra A, Phoebe W 

Can all children please come in comfortable sports/christmas clothes and bring a water bottle. 

The children will have lunch as normal in school then get picked up by the bus at 12.30pm, the children will return back at Plover for 4.30pm – to be picked up by parents/carers.

Thank you 

CAST Trip

Our visit to the CAST this morning to take part in the Hansel and Gretel workshop, and watch the performance. All children were so very well behaved, I am very proud of them. We had a lovely morning and I think everybody enjoyed it! Thank you to all those parents who helped and to CAST, and National Literacy Trust for this amazing opportunity you gave our nursery children.

Mrs Williams

#LovePlover