Exciting earthquakes!

In our lesson, we used our prior knowledge about tectonic plates and began to deepen our thinking around what they could cause. We discussed how the movement of tectonic plates can cause earthquakes. There are three different tectonic plate boundaries where earthquakes occur: convergent, divergent and conservative. We then demonstrated our newfound knowledge in an experiment. We used crackers and cream to show how the tectonic plates move at the different boundaries. At the divergent plate boundary, the tectonic plates move apart. At a convergent plate boundary, the plates move together and the denser oceanic plate subducts under the lighter continental plate. Finally, at a conservative plate boundary, tectonic plates slide past each other. Friction happens and pressure builds up which is released as an earthquake. We showed these using the crackers and cream!

Sharing our Stories: 25/04/2025

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

Class 8 are Historians @ Green Top

Children dress up day @ Plover

Crowning the King and Queen of Carcroft @ Carcroft School

G31 Year 7 POL – Tonight! @ XP Gateshead

A Fairytale Tea Party @ Norton Infants

Fabulous Fieldwork @ Norton Juniors

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Crowning the King and Queen of Carcroft

On Wednesday we continued our first case study all about King Charles III. We learnt that he became King of England after the death of his mother and that he had a ceremony called a coronation.

We then decided to hold our own coronation to celebrate the King and Queen of Carcroft. We even had trumpet players, the Prince of Wales and finished with a rendition of the National Anthem!

Going on a journey

To hook us into our learning we have started to learn about journeys, what they are and how you can travel on them. In order to find out what our guiding question is for this term we went on a journey around the school grounds to find the different words. We used a map to help us.

Cheerleading showcase

What a way to end the week before bank holiday weekend, thank you to everyone who came to watch and everyone who performed for us!

The King’s Crown

Today in our writing lesson we listened to the story ‘The Queen’s Hat’ by Steve Arnold.

We enjoyed the story and then talked about how Queen Elizabeth sadly passed away and now we have a King. We then became illustrators to design a front cover for our new story that we will write over the next three weeks. Everyone worked hard and showed resilience, even when faced with challenges.

Crew Robson presents – The King’s Crown!