Visitors from Oaklands Care Home

We are not sure if we loved it more or if our visitors loved it more today? Residents from Oaklands Care Home came to share some stories. Some of them loved reading to the children and some of them loved hearing stories with the children. Ernest used to be a teacher and even taught Mrs Price when she went to school! We showed off our counting too to see if it helped him feel like he was back in the classroom at Hall Cross. We got lots of smiles from him, despite him missing all the skittles when he played bowling with us 🙂

Lizzy loved reading to the children and made lots of friends- Mrs Reeve said she was after her job! There was lots of giggles and joy shared.

We hope to see our new friends at our Celebration of Learning later in the term.

80th Anniversary picnic.

Year 2 really enjoyed having a picnic on the field with the rest of the school as part of our VE Day anniversary celebrations. We listened to music from the era while we ate and showed our respect during the national anthem. It was great to be together and learn why it is important to learn from the past.

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Human or Physical?

2P have been exploring the difference between human and physical geographical features. We then used what we had learnt about Amelia Earhart’s final flight around the world to match which of these features she might have seen in different parts of the world. We then went for a walk around the outside of the school to see which features were most common around the building. We discovered that there were mainly human features.

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KS1 Pride of Plover

Congratulations to all of our Pride of Plover winners over the last 2 weeks. It has been great to hear all about your growing independence, improved attitudes to learning and how hard you all been working to get better. Well done everyone!

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Sharing our Stories: 09/05/2025

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

VE Day Celebrations – Moorends Community Centre @ Green Top

F1 are musicians @ Plover

Celebrating beautiful work @ Carcroft School

G28 Fishing Success @ XP Gateshead

Class Five journey to space… @ Norton Infants

VE Day at Norton Campus @ Norton Juniors

Crew Peake tackle the litter @ XP

Netball superfans @ XP East

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