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
Working Hard in Phonics
Sharing our Stories: 05/09/2025
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.
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Acts of service to others @ Norton Juniors
Crew Barnes: 1st week back @ XP
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Family Learning Fun!
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!
I am compassionate!
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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Roman expert visitor!
Thank you Claire from Want2B workshops. We had a fantastic experience with you yesterday. Our favourite activity was using the role play shields to march in line as Roman soldiers using the correct Latin terms and stereotypical Roman army formations.
Looking at the genuine Roman artefacts was really interesting. Although, it felt weird to know we were holding buttons from the uniforms of actual Roman soldiers. Building aqueducts was great fun too. This really challenged many of us, so we had to be courageous to give the task a go and resilient when things went a little wrong and our aqueducts collapsed.
Special shout out to Zara who was the first to successfully build her aqueduct! You superstar, well done!
What an amazing day!
Mrs Haycock
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Character Traits – F1
Whilst learning our school rules, F1 have also been looking at our new school character traits and what British values are. We can’t wait to explore these deeper in the coming weeks.
Mrs Williams
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6B’s super stewards!
These superstars have done an amazing job as our classroom stewards and they have been holding us all to account in 6B to keep our learning environment clean and tidy. They have taken their roles very seriously and I very proud and very thankful for them,
Keep it up superstars!
-Miss Blackham
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