Red is ready to go!

This week the crew Frost have been introduced to a rekenrek. A rekenrek is a is a hands-on maths teaching resource used to help young children visualize and learn essential early years maths. It is perfect for building up subitising skills and concrete experiences during their maths sessions putting their fast maths eyes to the test. However, to start in crew Frost we have just been practicing the golden rules for using a rekenrek such as “red is ready to go” meaning we always push with the color red at the front and only with one finger and one big push! Once crew Frost mastered this we were able to have a go at pushing just one red bead across and to really challenge two for some! Well done crew frost you were amazing at it!

Chocolate Crew!

Crew Ramsay would like to acknowledge the kindness and generosity of the donators of our advent calendars. We have loved counting down the days to Christmas so far. We have learned to take turns, recognise numerals and share life’s little joys with our friends… what a beautiful way to be a crew! Thank you!

Peer Critique!

In Crew Ramsay, we have enjoyed independent writing which culminated in peer critique time today. We read our work loud and proud and received critique from a peer. We have already edited our work so didn’t make any changes to our actual work but we did think about our feedback and pledged to consider it going forward. Check us out using our actions and signs for our critique protocol: I praise, I notice, I suggest, I wonder. What a compassionate, courageous morning!

Life Skills

I life skills the children really enjoyed making a cheese pizza. They had to make sure that they rolled out the dough with a rolling pin . They put flour on the table to make sure it didn’t stick.

Final Product!

In Year 4, we were given the opportunity to trial our final product. We then reviewed it and chose our favourite activity! We are super excited to share our final product with the school community.

Sharing our Stories: 04/12/2025

Beautiful work this week

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

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Top of the Blogs

Crew 5/6 Community Crew Meeting @ Green Top

We are Scientists @ Plover

Testing out our final product @ Carcroft School

Epic week for PE @ XP

Year 5/6 Netball Tournament @ Norton Juniors

Weekly update @ XP Gateshead

A Christmassy Start to December! @ Norton Infants

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