Sharing our Stories 17/10/2025

17th 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.

Top of the Blogs

We are Scientists @ Green Top

Plover is proud to receive the ‘Choose Kindness’ award! @ Plover

Pumpkin Carving @ Carcroft School

Authors in the making! @ XP

Two NJS Teams enjoy success! @ Norton Juniors

Expert Visitor – Ed Miliband @ Norton Infants

Crew Peake – Shining stars! @ XP East

Congratulations to Hannah in G28 Crew Frank! @ XP Gateshead

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!

Story Maps for the Lorax

17th October 2025Charlotte Newman

This week, Crew McLoughlin have used story maps to plan their independent writing. They came up with lots of amazing different endings of how The Lorax might end. Using their story maps, they organised their ideas and thought carefully about how to bring the story to a happy ending. At the end of the lesson, a few brave volunteers stood in front of the class to share their wacky and wonderful alternative endings.

Crucial Crew!

16th October 2025Ann-Marie Rankin

Year 6 had a fantastic time on our trip to Crucial Crew! We learnt so much throughout the day, including important lessons about road safety, bus safety, knife crime, and antisocial behaviour. Each activity helped us understand how to make sensible choices and stay safe in different situations.

It was a really fun and interesting day, and we’ll definitely remember and use what we’ve learnt as we move forward.

Crew Colclough

16th October 2025Shannon Colclough

Yesterday in Crew Colclough, we began our independent writing. We have created our own historical narratives based on the book ‘Escape from Pompeii’. Today we will move onto editing and publishing our own stories.

Crew McLoughlin’s Plant-Tastic Lesson!

14th October 2025Charlotte Newman

Today, Crew McLoughlin had a fantastic expedition science lesson learning about the different parts of plants and their roles. The class explored real plants kindly shared from Miss Newman’s mum’s garden, which made the lesson extra special!

Students carefully examined roots, stems, leaves, and flowers, discussing how each part helps the plant grow and stay healthy. They loved getting hands-on with the plants and spotting the unique features of each one.