Sharing our Stories: 16/05/2025

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

Block Volcano Art @ Green Top

Innovating the Gingerbread Man @ Plover

Identifying features of a map @ Carcroft School

Activism in action – the second annual public health conference @ XP Gateshead

Seascapes @ Norton Infants

Fully immersed in Wordsworth @ XP

Arts Festival 2025

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Innovating the Gingerbread Man

Yesterday and today the children have come up with different ‘happily ever after’ endings to innovate our Gingerbread man story. Well done to the children who have worked hard to write their ending independently using finger spaces, Fred fingers and correct letters.

Beautiful writing from Laura “The dolphin makes a magical bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross the river!” #LovePlover

How can we help the Gingerbread Man?

After reading the story, the children made predictions of what might happen if the Gingerbread man fell in the river: float, break, snap, melt, turn to liquid, crumble, go soft, sink, make the water brown.

So we did a science experiment to see. We put the Gingerbread man into water and we were correct… he dissolved and went into a soggy mush. After, we thought of different ideas to help the Gingerbread Man so he didn’t fall in the water. #LovePlover