Following the leader.

This week crew Frost have been practicing their listening and attention skills in follow the leader style games! They have been amazing at starting, stopping, up high, and down low. Furthermore, we have expanded our vocabulary by learning new words such as wavy and arch. They have built astonishing problem solving skills when working together in the game seen below to stop the ball from rolling off. We cannot wait to stretch and challenge this lesson next time. Well done crew Frost!

Sharing our Stories: 07/11/2025

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

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Top of the Blogs

Class 7 Pop Art @ Green Top

Hedgehogs! @ Plover

Tracing Map @ Carcroft School

Success in PE @ XP

Reptile Rendezvous @ Norton Juniors

Poetry Superstars in E29 Pioneer @ XP East

Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead

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Tracing map

We have been working very hard in crew Frost this week! The students have been learning how to complete a new welcome task. Using clear A4 wallets we have placed a document with various dashes and dots, creating shapes and patterns named after a tracing mat. The tracing mat is a foundational skill the children will master to begin forming marks for their names! It is also a great tool for helping our crew practice our listening and attention skills.

Spellings

In crew Haddock our spellings are abit different but today we want to celebrate that we got all our spellings right for the ‘ur’ sound. Ms Haddock is so proud of us.

Autumn slice.

Crew Frost has had so much fun returning back this week! We have been learning all about autumn and the changes we see outside and the events we might celebrate. This week the children have enjoyed using pumpkins and colored golf pins to create their own patterns and arrangements, this really pushed our fine motor development by having to use hammers to secure our pins. We also enjoyed building our social and emotional skills by sharing with our friends and using our listening skills to recall how we use the tools safely.

Google Account

In year 6, we have been getting ourselves logged on to our google account and familarising ourselves with the different apps available. To begin with, children were asked to set themselves a new password but they were asked to ensure it was something that would be memorable. Once everyone was on, Miss Shields demonstrated how to compose an email and send it to someone else before the children had a go at emailing their shoulder partner. Next we looked at how to create a google doc and slides before sharing them.