Pancake day

7th March 2025Abbie Hanson

Tuesday was the best day ever! We made pancakes, and it was VERY messy (but that’s the fun part!).

First, we mixed all the ingredients in a big bowl. The flour went poof! everywhere, and our faces turned white like snow. We stirred and stirred with big wooden spoons—our arms got super tired, but we didn’t give up!

Then, we scooped the gooey pancake mix into little cups. It was sticky and squishy, and some of it even landed on the table (oops!). But that’s okay because we were having so much fun!

They were the BEST pancakes in the whole wide world!

Sharing our Stories: 07/03/2025

7th March 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from this week. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

We are artists! @ Norton Infants

Outdoor Maths @ Green Top

Leading our own learning outside in the sunshine @ Plover

Writing Skills @ Carcroft School

Making music! @ Norton Juniors

Crew Lovelace @ XP

E31 Explorer @ XP East

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Rock, paper, run!

6th March 2025Laura Godley

Today, we had to run through an obstacle course where every challenge was unlocked by a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors! We had to defeat obstacles (us!) with the right move, and sprint to the finish. Strategy, speed, and quick thinking led the children to victory – it was such great fun and lots of positive sportsmanship observed!

Book talk/Demo comp

6th March 2025Kate Thompson

In our book talk and demo comp lesson this week, we have focussed on a range of comprehension skills. We have used a variety of different lenses such as, trawling for evidence, inference and language. We worked really hard to explain why and use evidence from the text.

Would you try Zombie cuisine?

4th March 2025Natasha Holdsworth

After reading our story ‘Zombies don’t eat veggies’, in writing today a few of us in Crew Marsh spoke about what type of foods would be changed to fit the cuisine of a Zombie. We got so engrossed and came up with lots of great ideas including brain pizza, knees on toast and gut bolognaise! We then put all of our ideas on a slide and presented these ideas in our small group. We are working on orally recalling sentences and the children showcased this amazingly today, by linking their ideas to the story and using the characters names. What a gruesome experience!

Mindful colouring in MI

4th March 2025Stacey McClare

In our crew session we continued with our discussions on mental and physical health. We talked about how mental health allows us to feel good about ourselves and also cope with challenges. It allows us to build strong relationships, enjoy life and be more resilient. We discussed that we care for our physical health by eating well and exercising, and how we need to do the same with our mental well-being in the same way. We then listened to some mindful music whilst completing some mindful colouring.