Year 1: Phonics

4th October 2025Carly Schon

This week in phonics Miss Schön and Miss Rodgers group have been learning /ie/ ‘Tie your tie’.

Ou® new red words or Mr, Mrs, work, can’t and class.

We have been reading the book ‘Let’s Sort it Out’. We have discussed the the vocabulary and the meaning of different words and phrases.

We now know 2 differerent /ie/ sounds

/igh/ as in high, light and bright – We know that the igh sound is only Followed by a ‘t‘

/ie/ as in tie, cries and lied

We have also learned that words can end in il and al make just a ‘l‘ sound at the end of a word

Don’t forget to practice as often as possible so that you can beat your ‘word count per minute’ scores!

Autumn DISCO

3rd October 2025Kelly Overson

NEON Themed Autumn DISCO 

Wednesday 15th October 2025

EYFS 1:30pm – 2:30pm

KS1 3pm – 3:45pm

KS2 4pm – 5pm

£2 entrance to the DISCO will include a hotdog and juice. Additional drinks and sweets will be available to purchase.

Neon items will be available to purchase!

Uniform / clothes:

Nursery and F2 children are welcome to come to school in their DISCO clothes.

Y1 and Y2 will be in school uniform and will get changed in class before the DISCO begins.

KS2 will be in school uniform for the day and change at home or during their club (if they attend a Wednesday club).

Children will be collected from their usual doors after the DISCO

Thanks

Sharing our Stories: 03/10/2025

3rd October 2025Geoff Hewitt

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.

G29: What makes a great education?

Last term, students in G29 at XPG were challenged to give a keynote at the MTEM conference on what makes a great education. Over a week they drafted and put together an incredible speech which they have now recorded back in school.

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Class 8’s American themed day

2nd October 2025Aime Shaw

What a great day we have had today. We have had a cheerleading session, a music session using the drum sticks and baseball available during lunch time. We would like to thank the dinner staff for making such a delicious lunch too! Well done Dominik for being our lunch time winner because he had the tray with a sticker on…and on his birthday too! Well done guys!