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Exploring Relationships
In Crew Godley, we are learning how to recognise our own feelings in the moment and understand how others might be feeling too. In our Crew session today, we explored different everyday scenarios and decided which ones made us feel happiest and which made us feel least happy. We challenged ourselves to explain why we felt this way.
By sharing our reasons, we discovered that everyone can feel differently about the same situation and that all feelings are important, building empathy.
Tudor Crimes and Punishments – do they match?
Last week, in Crew White, we looked at some of the typical crimes of Tudor England: stealing food, believing in a different religion to the ruler and speaking (or even thinking) badly about a ruler. We decided what punishments we thought these deserved. Many of us said fines, community service or short prison sentences but we found out that the Tudors treated criminals much harsher than we do today.
All of the crimes above could be classed as TREASON and, because of this, the punishments often included execution. Our next task will be to give some written opinions on some of these crimes and their punishments.
Sharing our Stories: 23/01/2026
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Baking biscuits.
This week in our Life Skills lesson we made chocolate chip biscuits. We spoke about how we need to have clean hands and surfaces to bake. The children listened to instructions and both waited patiently while taking in turns to mix the ingredients. Getting their hands stuck in and feeling new textures, using our rolling skills and being careful placing them on the baking tray. Altogether taking 10 biscuits home for our families to share.
Wonderful Writing in Y5/6
Today I had a visit from 4 of our Y5/6 Pupils who were keen to share their diary entries- they were so entertaining to listen to. I also loved the way the children read their work aloud, loud and proud, using their reading voices…
Within their writing, they have been focussing hard on writing for effect and I loved their varied sentence structures. It was also good to see them improving their work to make it even better using their purple polishing pen.
Finally, it was also good to see that handwriting was improving after a slight decline in standards over recent weeks, it was clear pupils were trying to ensure high quality work consistently. A super visit- thanks Crew McLoughlin.
Apple Monster’s
So today in life skills the children made apple monsters. They used apple’s for the head. Next they cut a mouth shape and added some peanut butter , strawberry for his tongue, mini marshmallows for the teeth . Finally the used some icing for its eyes.
P.E
IN p.e today they started to look at football. They learnt how to kick a ball with the side of their foot and not their toes. Then they had ago at kicking it in the goals.
We’re looking for a School Caretaker at XP Gateshead!
We’re looking for a School Caretaker at XP Gateshead:
https://xptrust.org/xp-gateshead-school-caretaker/
It’s a role for someone who takes pride in keeping a school safe, welcoming and running smoothly.
There are more details via the link above – you can apply by sending your application form to [email protected] and please share to help us reach the right person.
Solar Sounds
Crew Godley had a blast in ‘Create Your Own Verse’ today! We explored space through poetry, thinking about what we could see, hear, or feel, and turned our ideas into short, creative lines. We also practised reading our poems aloud to the crew with expression. It was lovely to see how hard everyone worked.
