Class 8 maths magic!

Class 8 have been fantastic today, measuring different objects in the classroom using rulers and tape measures. There was a focus on measuring accurately but then they were extended to order them from shortest to tallest and vice versa! Great maths today guys…well done!

Year 6 Ice Bucket Challenge!

Our Year 6 children have been nominated by Plover to take part in the ice bucket challenge to raise money for MIND UK.

We will be completing the ice bucket challenge on Tuesday 20th May during the afternoon. Your child/ren will need their PE kit to change into to be able to take part! We would also suggest a carrier bag to put any wet clothes in.

If you would like to donate, please click the link:  https://www.mind.org.uk/donate/

See Plover’s ice bucket challenge and nomination below!

Extended Study – Sikhism!

What do you know about Sikhism?

Find out more using this BBC Bitesize link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjpyrd/articles/zkjpkmn

Who is Guru Nanak?

Become an expert in Sikhism and share your new learning with your crew.

You could create a set of slides to share, a poster, a leaflet or a story board retelling the story of Guru Nanak!

Have you learning ready to share with your crew by Monday 19th May!

Sharing our Stories: 09/05/2025

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

VE Day Celebrations – Moorends Community Centre @ Green Top

F1 are musicians @ Plover

Celebrating beautiful work @ Carcroft School

G28 Fishing Success @ XP Gateshead

Class Five journey to space… @ Norton Infants

VE Day at Norton Campus @ Norton Juniors

Crew Peake tackle the litter @ XP

Netball superfans @ XP East

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!

Meeting Green Top’s Past!

At the VE Memorial Service this morning we were honoured to meet one of Green Top’s very first pupils! Mrs Martin told us that she attended Green Top when it opened in 1939, at the beginning of the war and that she remembers VE Day very well. The children were really interested in her stories and have invited her to visit to see the changes in our school.

We are looking forward to showing you around Mrs Martin!