World Book Day / Sponsored Read

We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 6th March which will be a dress up day. The children are welcome to come to school dressed as their favourite book character!

During the same week, we will also be hosting a sponsored read event where we are encouraging children to raise money for reading! All of the money raised will be spent on books for our school and for our children to enjoy!

More information on the sponsored read event will follow during the first week of the new half term.

Sharing our Stories: 14/02/2025

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

Play is the work of childhood @ Norton Infants

Class 12: working on conjuctions @ Green Top

Great Maths Learning @ Plover

Bob Marley is 80 @ Carcroft School

Celebrating Rosa Parks @ Norton Juniors

Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead

A star in the making in Crew Pasteur @ XP

What a treat! @ XP East

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Class 12: working on conjunctions

The children had a bit of active learning for their conjunction work this week, going around the room looking at words and trying to work out how to sort them. Working out, that they were coordinating (FANBOYS) and subordinating (I SAW A WABUB) conjunctions. They then used this knowledge and our class discussions to come up with some really lovely stand alone sentences within their SPAG lesson.

Key stage 1 disco fun

We had lots of fun last night at our half term disco! There was lots of dancing, a lot of smiling and loads of sweets eaten by the children. Can’t wait for the next one already!

Thanks again to the friends of Green Top as these discos couldn’t happen if it weren’t for you! Thankyou for raising money to support our school to be even better!

Key stage 1 community crew

What a fabulous community crew assembly we have had! Our stewards, HOWL point winners, numbots heroes, tt rockstar champs and reading book winners have all been celebrated!

A huge special mention for our Crew Champions this week too, it was lovely to hear all of the reasons why you won this week. You look so smart in your lanyard and badge!

Also, well done to Crew Schon for being our attendance winners this week! Well done and keep it up!

Crew Schon Attendance!

Crew Schon were absolutely thrilled to finally win the weekly attendance last week. We now have some money in our new kitty! We also received Paddington in assembly this afternoon and he will be living in our Crew room until our next Community Crew Assembly. One more day this week – I wonder if we can be winners again?

KS1 Reading Books Tomorrow!

Don’t forget tomorrow is reading books day! Please make sure all reading books are returned tomorrow so that children’s phonics books/homework can be updated in their phonics groups. We have seen huge improvement in children’s confidence, enjoyment and fluency since starting our new home reading strategy. Thank you so much for all your support with this. It is so lovely to hear comments from parents about their child’s achievements at home!

KS2 Disco Divas!

KS2 children had a blast at our Valentine’s Day Disco yesterday – lots of hotdogs, dancing and sweets were enjoyed by all 🙂 Mr Mumby took to the decks and by children’s request, the highly acclaimed tune – ‘Sigma Boy’ – had the school hall jumping like never before!