Norton Junior School

Introducing… Year 4 Explanation Text Experts!

17th January 2025Thomas Edwards

In Year 4’s English Cycle, we shall be writing explanation texts all about the human body for our expedition, ‘What Makes Us Human?’. These explanatory pieces of writing shall be aimed towards the infant school reception children and such, our texts need a friendly narrator! That’s where these characters come in… Today, we have been creating our explanation text narrators who are going to tell the infant children all about the human body and it must be said, they do look fantastic so far. I’m sure they can’t wait to explain all about science to the reception children!

We’re looking for a Teacher with a Specialism in SEND

17th January 2025Geoff Hewitt

Exciting opportunity at Carcroft School! We’re looking for a Teacher with a Specialism in SEND to join our team and make a difference. Interested? Find out more here: https://xptrust.org/carcroft-school-teacher-with-specialism-in-send/

Sharing our Stories: 17/01/2025

17th January 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

Family Learning @ Norton Infants

Class 8 Fabulous PE @ Green Top

Awesome home learning in Year 5/6 @ Plover

Maths is better with chocolate @ Carcroft School

Learning Outside the Classroom @ XP

Light and Shadows @ Norton Juniors

G29 9.2 Expedition Reveal @ XP Gateshead

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Beautiful Eyes!

17th January 2025Stephanie Oliver

Year 6 spent hook week looking at light and the eye. We discovered how light travels in science lessons before moving onto our focus artist: M.C. Escher. This artist was famous for drawing an image of his own eye so we sketched our own eyes in the same style. The pupils then critiqued each others’ work and completed a second draft. They were extremely proud of the outcomes!

Light and Shadows

16th January 2025Helen Jenkins

5HJ we’re fully immersed in their learning during hook week focussing on investigating how light travels in straight lines. The children used torches and a range of objects from string to mirrors to investigate explain that objects are seen because they give our or reflect light into the eye.

An emphatic win for the NJS Y5/6 basketball team

16th January 2025Charlie Cicero

In the initial group stage with seven back-to-back victories, the team beat every team at the tournament without any teams scoring against against them.
In the knockout stages, a 4-0 victory against Plover Primary secure passage to the final where the team won a cagey 2-1 victory against Owston Park. With NJS dominating the ball for the vast majority of the game, Owston managed to score once before another NJS hoop. Outstanding work from all involved, with year 5s stepping up in what was a demanding, physical tournament at XP School.p

We’re looking for an awesome Central Administrator at XP Trust!

16th January 2025Geoff Hewitt

Join our Crew at XP Trust as Central Administrator! Play a vital role in keeping everything running smoothly and making a real difference.

Apply now: https://xptrust.org/central-administrator-xp-trust/

Musical magic!

15th January 2025Emma Gould

This afternoon 3EG were lucky enough to have a visit from Luke, from Doncaster Arts, who ran a workshop with the children. The children wrote their own lyrics to create a short composition, which will be sang by Doncaster children at an upcoming music concert held at Doncaster Dome. All of the children were engaged and enthralled and wrote some beautiful lyrics for a lullaby. Well done 3EG!

Being scientists!

10th January 2025Emma Gould

What a great first week for 3EG! We have studied how the human body moves, where our main organs are, and what our body needs to stay healthy. We have had an expert visitor, an advanced clinical practitioner, to show us how our heart works, and we were even able to listen to our heart beating!