We are loving our maths learning on time! Today we continued to show and write the time using an analogue clock! We really are becoming much more confident 🙂
Continuing with time in MT
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Sharing our Stories: 09/05/2025
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.
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G28 Fishing Success @ XP Gateshead
Class Five journey to space… @ Norton Infants
Crew Peake tackle the litter @ XP
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VE day
VE Day Picnic
What a Day! Bunting, sunshine, and sandwiches galore! Our VE Day picnic was a fantastic celebration filled with laughter, music, and a whole lot of red, white, and blue. Crews came together to remember the end of World War II in Europe with a joyful afternoon of games, dancing, and classic picnic treats. It was a wonderful way to honour history, share stories, and enjoy each other’s company – just like they did back in 1945!
The water cycle!
In expedition, we investigate how water travels around the world. We found out that the continuous movement of water around the Earth is called the water cycle. The four main stages of the water cycle are: evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection. We set up an experiment to see how the water cycle works. We cant wait to see if evaporation and condensation happens!
Consolidating 24 Hour Time
Crew Hamill had a more practical lesson today to help consolidate their understanding of 24 hour clocks. We were ensuring we had a clear understanding of how to convert 12 hour time into 24 hour time by taking part in a carousel of activities.
- Matching written times to the correct digital representation.
- Completing a table of conversions.
- Completing a lesson on MyMaths
Celebrating beautiful work
Well done to everyone this week, some fabulous work 🙂
Crew McGlone – Expert illustrator Liz Million
On Tuesday, Crew McGlone welcomed illustrator Liz Million to our school to support us with drawing skills that we can use within our final product creation – a bookmark including children’s drawings of traditional tales characters.
Liz talked to us about her job as an illustrator, told us lots of stories from her childhood and how she decided she wanted to become an illustrator. She then began to show us many examples of artwork she could create just by simply using lots of different shapes. She showed us how easy it was to create the wolf, Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma’s cat, before then doing a step-by-step draw along to create a troll from Billy Goats Gruff!
We listened so well to each of Liz’s instructions and our final pieces were absolutely fantastic! We cannot wait to put our new skills intro practise when we come to do our final product illustrations. Thank you SO much Liz for coming in and working with us, we are very lucky! We will be sending you a bookmark to showcase our fantastic drawings!
Interviewing an Ex Miner
Crew Hamill and Crew Wilkinson were visited by an ex-miner who came to share his detailed experiences of working within the British coal mines. He shared moments of joy and camaraderie with his workers and stories of tragedy when accidents occurred. We were engrossed in his experiences and through this process, we developed a deeper understanding of how more modern mines operated and what a day in the life of a miner was like. Afterwards, the children had many prepared questions to ask to ensure that we got the most from the experience and allowed us to embed our understanding.
You can listen to the interview if you follow this QR code.