Brew Monday – Coffee Morning – Monday 20th January!

Feeling the ‘January Blues’? Well we’re switching it up and making it a ‘Brew Monday’!

Come and join us for our next Coffee Morning on Monday 20th January in the school hall between 8:30 and 9:30am.

There will be refreshments and cakes available as well as some fun interactive games and support from our Crew Councillors and Digital Leaders!

We can’t wait to see you there!

Key stage 1 reading books *Please read*

Reading book google form

I know that many parents are aware that we are changing how we are supporting children with their reading, moving forward. Please read the attached letter and complete the google form above.

As soon as a parent has signed the google form to say that they agree, your child will come home with their set of reading books, which will be changed on a Friday from now on.

In the meantime, please don’t worry that you don’t have school books over the weekend because any books that you read will count towards your school reading challenge.

Thank you for your support with this change

Collection4Clothes – Reminder!

Have you had a clear out over the Christmas period and have lots of unused items that you no longer need?

We still have our Collection4Clothes bin the school office. This will be available to use throughout the school year.

Last term, we managed to fill the box 3 times and have began raising money for the chosen charities.

Thank you to all those who have donated so far this year!

Sharing our Stories: 10/01/2025

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust for the last time in 2024! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Shrinky Dink Excitement @ Norton Infants

Class 7 Fruit Baskets @ Green Top

Classification or Chaos? @ Plover

Stan and Mabel Experience Lesson @ Carcroft School

C28 Product @ XP

3SG get hooked into science @ Norton Juniors

Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead

Crew White @ 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!

Year 2 important information for Spring term

As we start a new term, there may be some changes that you need to be aware of so we hope that you will find this blog post helpful.

Year 2 XP Outdoors kit – every Monday

Year 2 PE kit – every Wednesday

Family learning for parents and carers – Wednesday 5th February @2pm – Please dress appropriately for being outdoors.

Reading book changing day – every Friday

Please also send the children with a warm coat, gloves and hat every day whilst the weather is cold. Thank you for your support,

Mr Gerrard and Mrs Shaw