Sharing our Stories 17/10/2025

17th October 2025Geoff Hewitt

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

We are Scientists @ Green Top

Plover is proud to receive the ‘Choose Kindness’ award! @ Plover

Pumpkin Carving @ Carcroft School

Authors in the making! @ XP

Two NJS Teams enjoy success! @ Norton Juniors

Expert Visitor – Ed Miliband @ Norton Infants

Crew Peake – Shining stars! @ XP East

Congratulations to Hannah in G28 Crew Frank! @ XP Gateshead

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!

Y6 booster info!

17th October 2025Miss Blackham

Year 6 boosters will start on Thursday 27th November and will run every Thursday 3:20-4pm.

Some children have been invited to morning boosters, these will start each morning from the 24th November.

We are also offering morning boosters for all pupils at 8:20 Mon-Thurs after Christmas.

We will be running a competition and all children who attend boosters, will be added into a prize draw.

Thank you for your continued support.

-Miss Blackham

LovePlover

Our spelling bee champions!

16th October 2025Miss Blackham

We are so proud of all of our Year 5 & 6 pupils who have all shown so much courage during this week’s spelling bee. So many of our lovely pupils have been practising their spellings and this was evident this week.

Pictured above are our fantastic finalists who truly deserved their prizes.

Keep practising those spellings everyone. We are already so excited for our Christmas spelling bee and we have lots more amazing prizes to be won!

-Miss Blackham

#LovePlover

KS1 Attendance Matters

16th October 2025Stuart Longley

As we approach the end of a fantastic first half term, we would like to recognise some amazing attendance achievements across KS1!

Tomorrow, children who have achieved good, great or awesome attendance will receive their attendance postcard.

Our target for GREAT attendance is 97%

Year 1 – 93% Attendance

17 Children have AWESOME attendance (100%)

11 Children have GREAT attendance (98% and 97%)

1 Child has GOOD attendance (95%)

Year 2 – 96% Attendance

27 Children have AWESOME attendance (100%)

11 Children have GREAT attendance (98% and 97%)

1 Child has GOOD attendance (95%)

Thank you for your invaluable support in ensuring your child’s excellent school attendance.