Maths Week 2025- Challenge 1

Maths Week 2025 is here, and we’re kicking things off with an exciting home learning challenge! This is your chance to get creative, have fun with numbers, and showcase your mathematical thinking.

For our first home learning challenge, we’d like you to choose a number and create a poster displaying different ways to represent it. You can show your number using:

  • Numerals (e.g. 7)
  • Words (e.g. seven)
  • Pictures (e.g. seven stars)
  • Number sentences (e.g. 3 + 4 = 7)
  • Arrays
  • Tally marks
  • Money
  • Anything else creative!

How to Take Part

  1. Choose a number that inspires you.
  2. Design and decorate your poster using any materials you like – be as colourful and imaginative as possible!
  3. Make sure your poster clearly shows your chosen number in a variety of ways.
  4. Submit your entry to Mr Mumby by Friday to take part in the challenge.

We can’t wait to see your fantastic ‘Ways to Show a Number’ posters! Get your thinking caps on, grab your pencils, and start creating.

Happy Maths Week!

Spring 2025 DISCO

Spring DISCO 

Wednesday 12th February 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.

Uniform / clothes:

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

F2, 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: 31/01/2025

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

Family Learning @ Norton Infants

Class 9 Family Learning @ Green Top

Family Learning @ Plover

Why do we have a skeleton? @ Carcroft School

Digest This! @ Norton Juniors

A Visit from Brenda Dinsdale @ XP Gateshead

Cheerleading Festival @ XP

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 2 road safety talk

Year 2 loved their road safety presentation this morning by ‘The Riot Act’! They were so engaged, loved the interaction from Dan and the puppets he brought in. Most of all they went away understanding the importance of road safety and that they must remember to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN and then also LOOK again!

They sang songs, joined in and it was a great session to witness! Well done year 2, remember to always STAY SAFE!

Class 9 | Family Learning!

A fun afternoon for everyone as we spent it building electrical circuits. Our aim was to create a fan using batteries, wires and a motor to make the propellers spin around. It was great to see so many getting involved with the activity as well as testing different circuits to see how it affects the speed of the fan when additional batteries are added or the size of the propeller decreases.

Please feel free to take a look at, or even add to, our Padlet from the session!