A huge congratulations to our Year 5/6 pupils who took part in the recent netball tournament. They played with great teamwork and determination, earning an impressive 3rd place.
We are very proud of you all !
Congratulations Year 5/6 Netball Team!
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P.E
Crew Haddock had a fun session in p.e trying out the new activities.
Sharing our Stories: 28/11/2025
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Crew Nightingale – kindness @ XP
Stitching up a colourful rainforest @ Norton Juniors
E29 Expert – mental health @ XP East
A Marvellous POL @ Norton Infants
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Case Study 3 Begins!
Crew McLoughlin have officially begun their third case study of DT and Art! Yesterday, pupils worked in groups to design their frames, sharing ideas and planning how their final pieces might look.
Today, they moved on to researching their artist, Frank Bowling, exploring his vibrant style to inspire their own work. They also spent time practising key oil pastel skills, including sgraffito and blending from light to dark, building a strong foundation for the artwork they’ll create later in the case study.
Oil pastels inspired by Frank Bowling
As part of the creation of our final product for our Expedition, ‘Lungs of The Earth’, Crew White have been exploring oil pastel techniques along with research the abstract artist, Frank Bowling. We used Google Classroom again to help develop independence and organisation. We look forward to sharing our final designs with you soon!
Using Blooket for retrieval practice
In Crew White this week, we have been using the quizzing tool Blooket to retrieve previous learning from our long term memory. The quiz included homophones, adaptations and features of the country we studied in Case Study 1: Geography, ‘Colombia’.
Over the week, our scores have improved from a class average of 72%, to midweek at 83% to finally the end of the week with a score of 90+%!
David Hockney style artwork
This afternoon we have looked at the work of David Hockney and how he used Ipads to create artwork. We have then created a piece of artwork in the style of him. We glitched our images and placed them in a different order to look just like David Hockney’s artwork – we are so proud of them!
Writing to Baby Bear
In our experience lesson we wrote a Christmas card for Baby Bear and posted it to him just like the Jolly Postman.
Writing Experience Day!
For our next writing unit, we will be constructing a letter to the Romans to tell them all about Christmas. However, yesterday we received a letter from a Roman citizen called Marcus. He told us about their Roman celebration Saturnalia. We then had a go at making sun decorations, writing menus for a feast and creating small gifts. This helped us to understand the festival Saturnalia.
Character Traits
Crew Ramsay loved learning about our character traits and the superheroes which represent them! We made up actions for each hero and did some drama around what this trait might present as in our lives. Here we are modelling our action for ‘Courage’. Don’t we all look so courageous!?
