Y6 Crew Week = Complete!

Year 6 have hit the ground running this week, throwing themselves into exploring our core character traits through a variety of hands-on tasks. Class 6CC have bonded brilliantly, and watching pupils collaborate so seamlessly across their crews has been a true highlight.

Among the pupil favorites were ‘courage charades’ and a collaborative crew graffiti project, where each child crafted an individual oil pastel piece to build a vibrant mural now displayed in the Year 5/6 corridor. Demonstrating incredible determination, the children also tackled a massive crew challenge—walking, jogging, and running laps of the field to push their collective limits. Together, they logged an average of 880 laps (66 km) per class, reaching a staggering combined total of 265 km! That is the equivalent of scaling the height of some of the world’s highest mountain peaks.

For Mrs Blunt and me, it has been wonderful getting to know the children we haven’t previously taught, while watching familiar faces continue to grow and express themselves. We are both thoroughly looking forward to the exciting year ahead with this incredible group!

Year 4 Crew Week Teamwork!

This week, Year 4 celebrated the First Week Back through undertaking the challenge of answering the Crew Guiding Question of, ‘How can Crew work together to achieve an end goal?’. To answer this, Year 4 decided that spreading kindness would be our end goal! We would achieve this by baking a range of treats to take home and gift to parents and carers, and to also create a range of ‘Kindness Cards’ to spread to children in our school. Year 4 showed great craftsmanship and quality to create such beautiful creations and bring smiles to the faces of many! Well done Year 4 on a lovely start to the year!

Year 5 Crew Week!

This week, Year 5 Crew has focused on the guiding question: How can our community be strengthened by acts of service? The pupils decided they would like to give back to the community in a variety of ways. They created bookmarks, poetry and cakes which they delivered to the residents at the Laurels carehome, they held a bake sale and toy sale to raise money for the local foodbank and they did a litterpick in the school grounds. Each and every child showed just what the power of Crew can do!

Back With A Bang!

This week, Year 6 have focused our crew week heavily around understanding and demonstrating our Character Traits: Courage, Respect, Integrity, Compassion and Craftsmanship & Quality.

For our final Character Trait, the children worked together to create an exceptional piece of artwork which really demonstrated the jaw dropping quality that they can produce. Every child worked with exemplary precision, care and patience allowing them to produce something they were all extremly proud of.

What a first impression! We are well and truly back and straight in with a bang: I can’t wait to see how much they can achieve!

First Week Back Fun

We’ve engaged in a multitude of challenges this week in 3GC and haven’t we had some fun along the way!

Sharing our Stories: 17/07/2026

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

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Year 6 leavers party 2026 @ Green Top

Our class of 2026 @ Plover

KS1 Celebration of Learning @ Carcroft School

Powering the Future @ XP Doncaster

Colour run fun! @ Norton Infants

Year 6 raises money for local donkey sanctuary @ Norton Juniors

G29 Final product @ XP Gateshead

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Year 6 raises money for local donkey sanctuary

During the Autumn term, the Year 6 pupils took part in a sponsored walk to raise money for the Wonkey Donkey Sanctuary in Knottingley and we raised an impressive £554! Yesterday, NJS was visted by Jennie, the owner of the centre, and we presented her with the cheque. The money will go towards the building of an indoor donkey therapy centre.

Thank you to families for your generous donations which will really help the sanctuary.

Sharing our Stories: 10/07/2026

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

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Year 3 to 4 Transition Days @ Green Top

Thank you Intake library @ Plover

Making our Final Product @ Carcroft School

Crew Irwin attending the ‘We Care’ event @ XP School

Year 9 Sporting Leaders Shine at Owston Sports Day @ XP East

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!