KS1 Fieldwork to the Yorkshire Air Museum.

19th May 2025Stuart Longley

As part of our Summer Term expedition, North, East, South and West: Where will my journey take me?’, we would like to take the opportunity to take our KS1 children to complete fieldwork at the Yorkshire Air Museum.

Year 2 will visit on the 13th June 2025.

Year 1 will visit on the 3rd July 2025.

Payment and consent details are available on Parentpay. The cost of the trip is £22.00.

Please could we ask that payment and consent are completed as soon as possible to allow us to decide if the trip is viable to go ahead. Deadline for payment is 1st June 2025.

Unfortunately, if we don’t receive enough money the trip will be unable to go ahead.

If you have any questions, please speak to a member of the team.

Year 5 Family Learning

16th May 2025Mr Schofield

Good afternoon parents and carers, please be advised that Year 5 children will return home with a letter today (16.5) advising of details on our upcoming family learning event.

Please could all replies be made by Thursday 22nd May so we are able to plan the logistics of this exciting event.

Mr Schofield and Miss Myers

End of SATs treat! We are so proud!

16th May 2025Miss Blackham

We had such a lovely afternoon celebrating the end of SATs yesterday, we are so proud of all our lovely Year 6’s and their hard work this year!

You are all superstars!

-Miss Blackham

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Our 2025 winner of the ‘Ben Parkinson courage’ award!

16th May 2025Miss Blackham

A huge shout out to Kiara who won the ‘Ben Parkinson courage’ award today for her commitment and resilience this year! We are so proud of her! As a reward for her hard work, Ben has kindly offered to pay for her place on the London trip. Ben would like to offer this every year as recognition to the individual who wins this annual award! 

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Thank you so much Ben and we are so pleased you liked the beautiful work the children have been working so hard on! We are so proud of this final product and can’t wait to see it up at the British Red Cross in Frenchgate very soon!

-Miss Blackham

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Sharing our Stories: 16/05/2025

16th May 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

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.

Top of the Blogs

Block Volcano Art @ Green Top

Innovating the Gingerbread Man @ Plover

Identifying features of a map @ Carcroft School

Activism in action – the second annual public health conference @ XP Gateshead

Seascapes @ Norton Infants

Fully immersed in Wordsworth @ XP

Arts Festival 2025

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!

We’re Hiring: Join the Green Top Crew!

15th May 2025Geoff Hewitt

We’re looking for two incredible Learning Coaches to join the team at Green Top School!

This is an opportunity to be part of a school where relationships come first, learning is purposeful, and every child is known, supported, and challenged.

You’ll work side by side with teachers to help deliver beautiful, meaningful learning experiences as part of our expeditionary learning curriculum. From Early Years to Key Stage 2, you’ll support children to grow academically, socially and emotionally – helping them become thoughtful, capable, and kind individuals.

Find out more about the roles here: xptrust.org/vacancies

Innovating the Gingerbread Man

15th May 2025Joshua Meade

Yesterday and today the children have come up with different ‘happily ever after’ endings to innovate our Gingerbread man story. Well done to the children who have worked hard to write their ending independently using finger spaces, Fred fingers and correct letters.

Beautiful writing from Laura “The dolphin makes a magical bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross the river!” #LovePlover