In provision, these children chose to work hard and develop their fine motor skills to make some African inspired pasta necklaces. I praised that they showed the character trait of real craftsmanship and quality to create their necklaces. #LovePlover
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Designing our Playground Markings
The children showed craftsmanship and quality to design their own bespoke playground markings. We thought hard about how they would be fun, colourful and get us all moving! #LovePlover

Sharing our Stories: 30/01/2026
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Our bake sale tomorrow
We are in need of donations for our bake sale tomorrow. We would be so grateful if anyone would be willing to bake or purchase items from the shop to donate. All money will go towards leavers goodies and making our Year 6 prom the best one yet!
Thank you for your continued support!
-Miss Blackham
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Handa’s Journey
This week we are learning about Handa’s Surprise. Handa went on a journey in Africa to deliver some fruit to her friend… but what did the sneaky animals do? #LovePlover
Fruit Tasting and Painting
We tasted lots of exotic fruit from Handa’s Surprise. Then we described what the fruits were like. After the children did some observational paintings of the fruit. #LovePlover


Thank you to the Wellness centre for the generous donations of wellies!

We are so grateful for to the generous donations of wellies which our Shine, Shimmer and nursery children are truly grateful for.
Thank you so much!
-Miss Blackham
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Our art competition entries so far!




Wow! How beautiful are the entires for the art competition! You still have tomorrow to enter. There will be a prize for everybody who enters and the overall winner will have their design on all of the seed packets- hoe exciting!
-Miss Blackham
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We are performers
This week we have been using different percussion instruments to perform our improvised version of the wheels on the bus.
Mrs Williams
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