We had a fabulous picnic yesterday in the sunshine on the school field. Thank you so much to all of the parents and carers who came and enjoyed it with us!
Have a fantastic Summer everyone and let’s hope that the sunshine returns soon 🤞
Stay safe, from all of the Green Top Staff 💚
G29 Students at XP Gateshead launched their book ‘From The Ground Up’ which answered the guiding question ‘What do the communities of North East England owe to the miners?’ at Seven Stories in Newcastle!
They also celebrated all of their beautiful work from their first year at XPG – you can view a collection of it here!
Year 5 and 6 Students at Plover School launched their awesome new Poetry Anthology ‘At the Coalface’ at a Mining Gala they hosted for their local community – beautiful work!
Over 5 years ago Miss Stewart and Miss O’Neill started their journey with us at Green Top as apprentices. They then progressed and secured Learning Coach positions whilst studying towards a degree in Education. Over the last two years they have both completed their degree and qualified as teachers! We are so unbelievably proud of them both and grateful that we were a part of their special journey. Sadly we didn’t have any teaching positions for them at Green Top so they have secured teaching positions in other schools. Again, we are so, so proud of them! We wish them both lots of luck in their new schools and know that they will be wonderful teachers inspiring many children in the future!
This year we say goodbye to Sue, one of our school cooks. She has been looking after us all for 30 years and we will be sad to see her leave!
We presented Sue with flowers and gifts today and celebrated her time at Green Top!
Good Luck Sue!
Year 9 students from XP and XP East gifted 30 terrariums they created for the residents of the Oaklands Care home this week. The home on Bawtry Road was delighted to accept the miniature indoor gardens, which the residents will look after and keep.
Darren the Oaklands manager is pictured here accepting the terrariums – all of which are low maintenance and were happily handed over to residents.
Ed Miliband shared an update from his Facebook page about XPCC23, praising students for their awesome work and involvement in the conference.
Pizza Party! @ Carcroft School
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
Red Carpet Celebrations @ Plover
Products at the Picnic @ Green Top
Ahoy there, Shakespeare? @ Norton Juniors
Year 10’s Final Year Group Community Meeting @ XP
Jeff’s Law – exciting Expeditions on the horizon! @ XP Comms
Thank you for joining us for another great year of beautiful work and stories from across the XP Trust – we hope you have a wonderful summer!
We’ll see you in September!
XP Comms Crew
G29 Students at XP Gateshead launched their book ‘From The Ground Up’ which answered the guiding question ‘What do the communities of North East England owe to the miners?’ at Seven Stories in Newcastle!
They also celebrated all of their beautiful work from their first year at XPG – you can view a collection of it here!
Year 5 and 6 Students at Plover School launched their awesome new Poetry Anthology ‘At the Coalface’ at a Mining Gala they hosted for their local community – beautiful work!
Over 5 years ago Miss Stewart and Miss O’Neill started their journey with us at Green Top as apprentices. They then progressed and secured Learning Coach positions whilst studying towards a degree in Education. Over the last two years they have both completed their degree and qualified as teachers! We are so unbelievably proud of them both and grateful that we were a part of their special journey. Sadly we didn’t have any teaching positions for them at Green Top so they have secured teaching positions in other schools. Again, we are so, so proud of them! We wish them both lots of luck in their new schools and know that they will be wonderful teachers inspiring many children in the future!
This year we say goodbye to Sue, one of our school cooks. She has been looking after us all for 30 years and we will be sad to see her leave!
We presented Sue with flowers and gifts today and celebrated her time at Green Top!
Good Luck Sue!
Year 9 students from XP and XP East gifted 30 terrariums they created for the residents of the Oaklands Care home this week. The home on Bawtry Road was delighted to accept the miniature indoor gardens, which the residents will look after and keep.
Darren the Oaklands manager is pictured here accepting the terrariums – all of which are low maintenance and were happily handed over to residents.
Ed Miliband shared an update from his Facebook page about XPCC23, praising students for their awesome work and involvement in the conference.
Pizza Party! @ Carcroft School
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
Red Carpet Celebrations @ Plover
Products at the Picnic @ Green Top
Ahoy there, Shakespeare? @ Norton Juniors
Year 10’s Final Year Group Community Meeting @ XP
Jeff’s Law – exciting Expeditions on the horizon! @ XP Comms
Thank you for joining us for another great year of beautiful work and stories from across the XP Trust – we hope you have a wonderful summer!
We’ll see you in September!
XP Comms Crew
A massive shout out to Jersey and Dexter for sharing their art work with me. Well done guys – it looks like you have spent a long time doing this and it is lovely to see you got the whole family involved!
On this day 54 years ago Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the lunar surface and children from all of our year groups watched this historic event on the final day of our moon landing history week. Armstrong’s now famous words – That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind – really struck a chord with me and how relatable this was to the first steps our children have made this week into their new year groups during their transition days. As adults we probably see this event as a small step, but to our children it can be a hugely scary giant leap. Thankfully, with the love and support of their families and the wonderfully nurturing way we do things at Green Top, their tentative first steps have been a fun and positive experience, leaving them excited to begin the next chapter of their education.
I really hope this week has inspired the children to aim for the stars, just as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins did all those years ago.
Wishing you all a wonderful summer break.
Miss R x
What a fantastic achievement for these year 2 superstars in class 8! They have been at school every single morning and afternoon of this school year! That is absolutely amazing and the children and their families should be so proud. We know that children can be poorly but everyone has to agree that having 100% attendance is definitely worth celebrating! Well done guys…you deserve your amazon voucher, certificate and prize! Well done!
Mrs Shaw and Miss Good x x x
We have had the best day celebrating our crew today. We spent our attendance money on hotdogs, pizza, sausage rolls and biscuits. We watched some TV together and coloured in. Then we ended our day with some party games and sweets! I will miss this gorgeous bunch so much! What a lovely day we have had and they’ve been so helpful, tidying and sorting the classroom in between all of that fun! Let’s enjoy our last day tomorrow before the Summer begins!
Mrs Shaw x x
I am so proud of the learning that has happened in key stage 1 this year. The children have risen to the challenge and gone above and beyond with the products that they have made this year and I will forever be grateful for the support from our parents to help celebrating these fantastic achievements.
At the picnic tomorrow, which starts at 12.30, we will have 2 of our amazing products on sale for parents to buy. We have the beautiful recipe books, which feature the children’s writing, photographs and work. There will also be our newest product…the reusable bag, with a self portrait of every child in key stage 1 on, which they sketched this term. I have bought one to use for myself next year too!
we hope you love them as much as we do!
thanks again for all of your support this year
Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 team x x
It was so lovely to have my class back today! To celebrate the end of history week and the end of transition week, they created some beautiful artwork! I was so impressed watching the children choose to work with new people based on the new friendships that have been made during transition!
