Year 5/6 Pride of Plover

8th September 2025Miss Lotysz

Well done to our fabulous Pride of Plover winners this week. Such fantastic hard workers with great manners- keep up the amazing work Sofia, Harvey, Jacob and Darcy.

Y6 get ahead in your learning! Super spelling!

7th September 2025Miss Blackham

This week our focus of spelling will be ‘adding suffixes that start  with a vowel letter to words  with more than one syllable‘. Use the video below to get ahead in your learning!

Please bring in spelling work you do at home to your class teacher.

Miss Blackham

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Super Settling in Week F2M

6th September 2025Joshua Meade

We are so proud of all the children in F2 this week. They have settled so well – exploring their outdoor and indoor provisions, playing calmly and compassionately with their new friends and having lots of fun! #LovePlover

TGB Crew

6th September 2025Joshua Meade

Crew Meade’s agreed class norms! In crew we did some active learning to discuss acceptable good behaviours we want to see everyday in school and unacceptable behaviours that are not to happen. Then we created our class norms how we can achieve being the best version of ourselves! #LovePlover

Working Hard in Phonics

6th September 2025Joshua Meade

F2M have all worked so hard in phonics this week. Learning their first 5 set 1 sounds, playing Fred games, developing fine motor skills and letter formation! #LovePlover

Sharing our Stories: 05/09/2025

5th September 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Welcome back!

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from the our first two weeks back! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Year 6 leavers party 2025 @ Green Top

Family learning fun @ Plover

Our colour monster journey! @ Carcroft School

Acts of service to others @ Norton Juniors

Crew Barnes: 1st week back @ XP

Beautiful Artwork by Freya @ XP East

Weekly Update for Families @ 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!

Family Learning Fun!

4th September 2025Mrs Haycock

What a busy morning! Thank you to all of our parents who joined us this morning to hook your children into their new expedition. Special shout out to Sienna’s mum who helped us to build our Roman centurions. They were much trickier for children’s small fingers to manipulate and build than I had anticipated. Everyone had so much fun and had learnt so much that moans and groans could be heard when it was time to pack away – so we didn’t – we extended the session instead. I hope you had a great day 4H, I know Miss Carter loved her morning with you and I have thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon too!

Mrs Haycock

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We love maths!

4th September 2025Mrs Haycock

Year four have made a fabulous start to their new maths learning. Using the manipulatives, they practised building numbers up to 1,000 and representing them in different ways.

Well done, Year 4. Keep working hard!

Mrs Haycock

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I am compassionate!

4th September 2025Mrs Haycock

Thank you to this young man who was so kind and compassionate all day on Wednesday. He saw when others needed a helping hand and did whatever he could to help them out. He helped me when he could see I had too many things to carry and his manners are absolutely second to none! I can guarantee that should you see him in the corridor, he will always say hello and ask how you are! What an amazing young man!

Mrs Haycock

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