Year 1: Phonics Drop In

On Thursday 2nd October 3-4pm Year 1 teachers will be hosting a Phonics Drop In session in the school hall. We would like to invite all parents and carers of Year 1 children to join us to find out more about our school phonics programme, how you child is taught phonics in school and what you can do at home to support your child. Miss Schön and Miss Rodgers will be available to talk you through activities and resources and to answer any questions or concerns you may have. There will be lots of activities for you to take part in with your child. Phonics is a huge part of your child’s learning in Year 1 and we really hope you can join us!

XP Outdoors | KS2 Den Building Week

This week, KS2 have taken part in our exciting Den Building Week. Armed with logs, branches, sticks, and plenty of imagination, every crew rose to the challenge of working together to create their very own shelters in the great outdoors.

What really shone through wasn’t just the impressive dens, but the way crews collaborated. Each year group showed amazing Craftsmanship and Quality – carefully thinking about design, testing ideas, and adjusting their builds to make them stronger, safer, and more creative. From problem-solving to making sure everyone had a role, our crews truly embodied teamwork at its best.

The results were fantastic: unique dens that reflected each crew’s creativity and resilience. More importantly, the crews had fun. Well done to all of KS2 – you should be incredibly proud of what you achieved this week!

Headteachers Weekly Newsletter – issue 3

You can see our American themed day Blog post here:
https://greentopschool.co.uk/american-themed-day-2025/

See the blog post for this weeks song!
https://greentopschool.co.uk/young-voices-this-weeks-song-disco-fever/

Have you seen our recent XP Trust ‘Sharing Our Stories’ and ‘Beautiful Work’ blog post?
https://greentopschool.co.uk/sharing-our-stories-26-09-2025/

Sharing our Stories: 26/09/2025

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Class 6’s visit to 1666 @ Green Top

Amazing craftsmanship and quality in home learning @ Plover

]Crazy Crew Challenge @ Carcroft School

Outstanding Craftsmanship and Quality in X29! @ XP

Crew Hoy – Not Passengers @ XP East

Continuing Our Marvellous ME Expedition @ Norton Infants

Weekly Update for Families @ 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!

Class 6’s visit to 1666

Class 6 took a huge step back in time today with our Great Fire of London workshop. We were visited by Thomas Farriner and Samuel Pepys who gave us first hand information about the tragic event and who were both mightily impressed by the knowledge that the children were able to share. We also demonstrated our dramatic talents as the children became the wind, flames, houses and fire fighting citizens in ’10 second freeze frame’ activities. We had an amazing time!

I was very proud of the behaviour of ALL the KS1 children today and our visitor commented on the beautifully calm atmosphere as she moved through our school.

Well done everyone!

Year 3 – Sporting Superstars!

Today, Year 3 enjoyed another fabulous football PE session with Coach Morgan from Activ8. He was super impressed with everyone’s efforts but there were a few children who really stood out and received a postcard for great listening and sportsmanship – top job, everyone – well done!

Class 7 Time Travellers!

Today, Class 7 had 2 special visitors. One was Thomas Fariner telling us about how and why the Great Fire of London started. The second was Samuel Pepys telling us about what he had written in his diary during this great, historical event. Both let us make freeze frames from the event and we even sang nursery rhymes as well. We loved it!