Apply to become a reading ambassador!

Miss Knowles is looking to recruit a group of reading ambassadors who will help her to promote a love of reading across Green Top as well as improve the reading that is already happening!

If you would like to apply to become a reading ambassador please complete the Google Form below. A parent can help you!

https://forms.gle/FVWTVxGHeYy3D6uD8

The deadline to complete the application is Friday 24th January.

Class 12: feature finding

Another very proud teacher during our feature finding lesson.  The children were given their wagoll text and worked to identify the text’s structure, content and SPAG features.

They did an excellent job, they are getting so good at finding the features and in our discussions understanding how the features are used differently in the new genre.

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Sharing our Stories: 17/01/2025

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.

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Family Learning @ Norton Infants

Class 8 Fabulous PE @ Green Top

Awesome home learning in Year 5/6 @ Plover

Maths is better with chocolate @ Carcroft School

Learning Outside the Classroom @ XP

Light and Shadows @ Norton Juniors

G29 9.2 Expedition Reveal @ 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!

Y3/4 Family Learning

Parents and carers of year 3 and 4 children are warmly invited to this term’s Family Learning event which focuses on our latest Expedition and our current case study: electricity! The session will be fun and interactive, getting hands on with circuits! We look forward to seeing you there! Please note, due to us needing electrical equipment, year 3 and 4 will take place on separate days which are as follows:

Year 3 Family Learning: 30th January 1:45- 3pm

Year 4 Family Learning: 29th January 1:45 – 3pm

Reminder – Brew Monday – Coffee Morning 20th January!

Feeling the ‘January Blues’? Well we’re switching it up and making it a ‘Brew Monday’!

Come and join us for our next Coffee Morning on Monday 20th January in the school hall between 8:30 and 9:30am.

There will be refreshments and cakes available as well as some fun interactive games and support from our Crew Councillors and Digital Leaders!

We can’t wait to see you there!