Sharing our Stories: 07/02/2025

7th February 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

Know Yourself, Grow Yourself @ Norton Infants

Year 3 Singing with Geoff @ Green Top

Yummy Veggie Fajitas @ Plover

Do you want to make a pizza? @ Carcroft School

March against Segregation @ Norton Juniors

Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead

X31 Skipper – Bringing a ‘Storm in a teashop’ to life! @ XP

E30’s Powerful Work on Macbeth @ XP East

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!

Safer Internet Day – F2 Pop Ups

7th February 2025Joshua Meade

We explained and learnt about how to stay safe online, whenever using our iPads, tablets, grown ups phones etc.

If something POPS UP onto your screen don’t click on it, STOP and TELL A GROWN UP – it could be unsafe and scary! So we made crazy pop ups to help remind us. #LovePlover

What do plants need to grow?

5th February 2025Amy Woods

Today we have been scientists and learnt what plants need to grow. We discussed if we need the same/different things to help us grow.
Shout out to Aaron this morning who said “plants and children are both living things”.

This afternoon we acted out how plants grow with Mrs Bubb. We started of as the tiny seed, and grew into a beautiful plant. We remembered that the roots go down and the shoots go up.

Mrs Williams
#LovePlover

We can use a thesaurus!

4th February 2025Mrs Haycock

Years 3 and 4 have been playing around with the story ‘Funny Bones’ today. We noticed there was a lot of repetition in the book so decided to re-write a section of it. The word ‘dark’ was banned though, so we had to find as many synonyms for this word as possible!

Keep thinking about different ways to say the same thing. That way, your writing will become so much more exciting and your understanding of vocabulary will soar!

Mrs Haycock

#LovePlover

We are the Pride of Plover Pupils!

4th February 2025Mrs Haycock

Well done to everyone who was awarded ‘Pride of Plover’ last week. You worked hard, got smart and were all very kind too. What more can we ask of you? Nothing! Keep it up. I wonder who will be awarded this week?

Mrs Haycock

#LovePlover