Year 4 – MTC important information

Year 4 parents / carers, please read the information regarding the Multiplication Tables Check which the children will sit in June.

We are working really hard on times tables in school and will continue to do so throughout in the run up to the MTC.

You can help at home by encouraging your child to use their TTRockstars account regularly. The ‘Soundcheck’ mode is particularly useful to support them with their practice as this is similar to the official MTC layout.

Information about the presentation of learning for years 1, 2, 3 and 4

*** Friday 22nd March 2024 ***

Years 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be holding an art gallery in school on Friday 22nd March. We will have their art work ready to share with you on display in frames. This is a fantastic experience for the children to see and share their art work in this kind of setting.

Key stage 1

Key stage 1 will have their art work set up in their classrooms and also have time slots to have a workshop with reptile rendezvous and their animal guests.

The time slots are as follows:

You are welcome to come and celebrate the children’s work with them at any time between 4 and 5 but if you are around for your child’s class time slot with reptile rendezvous, then this would be fantastic too!

Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 will have their art work in the hall set up in an exhibition ready for you to view anytime between 4 and 5pm. There is also the opportunity to use the green screen and have photos taken with polar bear backgrounds.

Every visitor

There will be canapes made by Michael, in the hall for all guests to enjoy. We really hope to see as many parents and children as possible at our first ever Green Top Art Exhibition. The children’s art work will be available to buy on the night (as well as any pre-orders that have been made) at a cost of £10. Thank you as always for your support with the children and their education…they have all worked extremely hard to produce good quality art work and can’t wait to share it with you!

Spectacular Spoons!

I can’t believe the amount of wonderful character spoons we had fetched into school as part of our World Book Day competition! The creativity and effort that has gone into each and every one is amazing!

The Learning Council judged the spoons this morning but it was such a hard choice that we have ended up with 8 winners instead of 4!

Watch this space to see the winning spoons tomorrow …

Here are just some of the fabulous characters!

Class 8 maths

We have started our new maths unit today which is on length and height. The children did the learning in their books and then had a chance to measure different objects around the classroom. We needed a few reminders to start from 0 and line the ruler up straight but I was really impressed with the skills they already have. Well done class 8!

Easter Bingo tickets still available

Check out the fabulous prizes that will be on offer at Easter bingo on Thursday night!

There are still some tickets available for our “Easter Themed Family Bingo Night’ on Thursday this week. The Christmas event was a huge success and lots of fun was had by all who attended.

This is a family event therefore all children must be accompanied by a grown-up so that they can play the game. Entrance tickets cost 50p per person – a ticket must be purchased for each person attending the event.  Admission is by ticket only.

If you would like to purchase tickets, please send money in to school this week and the Year 6 children will collect it from classrooms and allocate tickets accordingly.  

Doors will open at 5:30pm with ‘Eyes Down’ at 6:00pm.

The bingo cards for each game will be on sale on the night and there will be 6 different coloured games during the evening with lots of Easter chocolate themed prizes. Bingo cards will cost 20p each or cost £1 a coloured strip for 6 bingo cards for one game. You can even take advantage of our offer of 6 coloured strips for £5! Of course, you can play as many cards as you can manage in each game.

Refreshments will be on sale during the evening and all funds raised are to go towards the Year 6 leavers and end of year celebrations.

I do hope you will be able to support us at this event. The more people who come the better the atmosphere so please do try to fit this event into your diary and come and have some fun!

Girls football tournament!

Wow! What a massive well done to the girls who participated in the football tournament over at XP as part of our Trust competitions. We did such a great job that we scored plenty of goals, didn’t concede and ended up winning the tournament overall.

The best thing was seeing the enjoyment of girls who have played together and those making their way into such a great game. Keep your eyes posted for more photos of the tournament from Mr Ambler!

A massive well done to the girls for being such super stars and to the adults for taking you to the tournament! Rest up and have a great weekend 🙂

Sharing our Stories: 15/03/2024

Beautiful Work This Week

For the love of reading: curation at Green Top!

As part of their Expedition ‘Once Upon a Time’ Green Top have had some beautiful displays created for their reading areas in Nursery and Reception!

Staff Days across the XP Trust

All our staff were getting their heads together and planning for next term’s Expeditions last Friday and Monday – lots of exciting learning and products are on the horizon for students in term 3!

As with all of our Expeditions, students will work within one of our three curriculum seams and staff will do the project first! If it’s good enough for our kids, it’s good enough for us!

Passage Presentations at XP Gateshead

This week, G28 were the first year at XPG to complete their ‘Passage’ – these are presentations to a panel where they reflect on their learning journey, discuss examples of their work, and talk about how they are prepared for next steps in learning and GCSEs.

Top of the Blogs

Beautiful Work from Winnie and Evan @ XP Gateshead

We are sprouting scientists @ Norton Infants

Year 6 Learning Club @ Green Top

Crew Ardern DofE Volunteer Work @ XP

We are Activists! @ Plover

Raising money for the British Heart Foundation @ XP East

Creating confidence in Crew @ Carcroft School

Scientific Discoveries @ Norton Juniors

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!

Year 6 Learning Club

In Year 6 we don’t let a busy morning of 2 maths SATs papers and an afternoon of writing stop us – we power on and show exceptional HOWLs at learning club too. Mrs Rafferty and I were blown away with the hard work and dedication of the group of children that stayed after school yesterday to practice their maths reasoning skills ready for this morning’s final maths assessment. Well done guys – you are awesome!

London Meeting- Y6 residential

Can you believe it’s less than 8 school weeks until our London residential?

Mr Ambler, Mrs Jackson and I would like to invite parents of those children who are attending this year’s visit to join us on Monday 22nd April from 4:30. This meeting will be to inform you of our finalised itinerary, kit list and to ask any questions you might have. The meeting will be held in the school hall, please access via the Ash Tree Road entrance.

There is no requirement to bring your child to the meeting. If you are unable to attend, please contact [email protected] and the slides can be shared via email to you.

Thank again for supporting this residential,

Mr Mumby