Sharing our Stories: 17/04/2025

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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Year 3 Family Learning @ Green Top

We’re going on an egg hunt @ Plover

Tectonic Plates @ Carcroft School

Crew Brunel @ XP School

G31 Year 7 POL – Tonight! @ XP Gateshead

Eggsellent Effort Class 6 @ Norton Infants

Digging into our New Expedition @ Norton Juniors

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

Digging into Our New Expedition

This week has seen Yr 5 embark on our new and exciting expedition ‘At The Coalface’. Check out our miners who really captured mining both past and present (we even had a few canaries).

After looking at the structure of a mining head, children were set the challenge of building one using wooden skewers, cocktails sticks and modelling clay. The outcomes were amazing and extremely well designed.

Outstanding Artwork

Over the past few weeks, year 5 have worked diligently to complete their pencil sketches of iconic figures who have helped change the world. The children learned skills to use tone to create light and dark and how to proportions facial features accurately. 5HJ selected Nelson Mandela, Michelle Obama and Millicent Fawcett and the completed artwork is phenomenal.

We’re looking for an awesome Maths Teacher at XP Doncaster!

Join Our Crew – Maths Teacher Vacancy at XP Doncaster

We’re currently looking for a talented and passionate Maths Teacher to join us at XP Doncaster. Our approach to education is different – through Crew, Expeditions, and a culture of compassion, we support our students to do work that truly matters.

If you’re an educator who wants to be part of something meaningful and collaborative, we’d love to hear from you.


Apply now: https://xptrust.org/careers-at-xp/current-vacancies/

XP Gateshead is looking for great teachers and leaders!

We’re excited to announce two fantastic opportunities to join the team at XP Gateshead.

We’ve got vacancies for:

Faculty Leader for Arts

Teacher of Art and Design

Teacher of English and History

Learning Coach (Teaching Assistant)

At XP, we do things differently. Our approach to education is rooted in Crew, beautiful work, and purposeful learning. If you believe in developing meaningful relationships with students, delivering real-world learning, and fostering creativity in every corner of the curriculum – we’d love to hear from you. XP Gateshead is part of the XP Trust family of schools, and we’re proud to offer an innovative, supportive and collaborative working environment.

Apply now and find out more: https://xptrust.org/careers-at-xp/current-vacancies/

Come and be part of something special. #JoinOurCrew

Technical Problems

Unfortunately, we are experiencing some technical difficulties with our phone lines and internet connection. This means we will not be able to answer the phones or pick up any voicemails so if we could ask that you report any absences via email on [email protected] or message Mrs Bradshaw on Class Dojo. Please do not inform teachers directly as these may not be picked up.

Our technicians are working hard to resolve this issue and we are hopeful a solution can be reached tomorrow. We will keep you updated.

Thank you

Super Sketching!

to culminate our spring expedition, ‘FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS’, year five have been busy working away on their sketches of iconic figures who have helped change the world. Following a sequence of learning about how to use of tone to create a 3D effect and learning how to accurately sketch features of the face, 5CC began to draft their sketches with the class being given a choice of three: Martin Luther King, Bob Geldof and Lord Shaftesbury. We are looking forward to seeing what their final drafts look like and how they will feature in our final product, the iconic figures calendar.

Fabulous Flatbread!

As the end of term draws ever closer, we have being finishing up our final Case Study as per our current expedition: What makes us Human? Here, we delved into the world of diet and nutrition and in particular asked the question: what is a balanced diet? As part of our learning, we designed a snack including the requisite amount of carbohydrates, protein, fats, fruit and vegetables etc… and the result was a delicious treat that was consumed by our fabulous foodies (the pupils…..and Miss Oliver).

Beautiful Work This Week: 28/03/2025

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.

Top of the Blogs

Class 8 POL @ Green Top

Science Fair Preparations @ Plover

Presentation of Learning @ Carcroft School

What a week in PE @ XP Doncaster

G31 STEAM Presentation of Learning @ XP Gateshead

World Maths Day 2025 @ Norton Infants

Inspirational Portraits @ Norton Juniors

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!