Final Product week.

21st September 2025Elizabeth Frost

During our current expedition Marvelous me, we have been working very hard in crew Frost learning how to create a self portrait, as you can see the children have been learning how to use shapes to form the features of their face, such as a circle for the face, lines for eyelashes and hair. Whilst developing new language such as “dot or wavy” for the nose and lips. The children have particularly liked learning our little parrot rhyme to help our pen grip. We cannot wait to see all the images brought together in our celebration of learning!

Sharing our Stories: 19/09/2025

19th September 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

Reception: Crew champion music makers @ Green Top

Demonstrating the character trait courage @ Plover

Bye-bye litter! @ Carcroft School

First week back – CREW CHIPS @ XP

Star of the week @ XP East

Rain or shine: Learning outside every time @ Norton Infants

G28 morning fitness, breakfast, revision! @ XP Gateshead

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It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

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Bye-Bye Litter!

18th September 2025Charlotte Newman

Today Crew McLoughlin put their stewardship skills into action by freeing the forest school of litter. Together we worked on our teamwork and communication skills while taking pride in making our school a cleaner place. Crew McLoughlin thoroughly enjoyed making a positive difference to the environment, as they have been eager to help save the planet after learning about the detrimental effects of pollution in their expedition lessons.

Litter Legends!

18th September 2025Ann-Marie Rankin

Today our crew put our stewardship skills into practice by taking part in litter picking at the back of the school field. Working together, we showed pride in our school community and respect for the environment around us.

It was a great opportunity to spend time outdoors, look after our shared spaces, and enjoy making a positive difference as a team. We finished the task feeling proud of what we achieved and motivated to keep caring for our environment every day.

Making a healthy pizza

18th September 2025Tracy Haddock

In life skills today the children made their own healthy pizza and enjoyed handing some out to staff too. they hope they enjoyed it?

Ingredients: Pizza base-250g Fat free greek yogurt, 1 cup of self raising flour, Topping-pizza sauce, cheese and then any extra that you may like.

Who was Boudicca?

17th September 2025Nicola Robson

Today in expedition we learnt about Boudicca and how she fought against the Roman invasion. The children had to decide if they thought she was a hero or trouble maker. This led to a healthy debate as each child shared their opinions.

Technology Safari

17th September 2025Ruth Shields

In year 2 this afternoon, we have continued our learning about technology by doing a safari around school to see what technology we could spot. We used a whiteboard and pen to help us record the technology we could see. It was also a great opportunity to apply our phonics knowledge for spelling. When we returned to class, we complied a list while discussing why this would be classed as technology.

Brute Force Hacking

17th September 2025Ruth Shields

In year 6, we learned about the importance of using a secure password. We initially looked at 3 digit passcode but discovered that a computer could hack these within a few minutes. We give this a try and started to think about how we would guess a password. Would you guess randomly or develop a system to finding the code? Children really showed their resilience when building the code and is something we’ll continue next week as children were determined to complete the code and try it out.