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Sharing our Stories: 13/03/2026
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Beautiful Work by Daria @ XP Gateshead
Mindful Monday @ Norton Infants
Highwayman ‘Swift Nicks’ Nevison visits NJS @ Norton Juniors
C30 Tranquil Tuesday @ XP East
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Highwayman ‘Swift Nicks’ Nevison visits NJS!
This week, Year 5 and 6 had a visit from Highwayman John Nevison, who was on the run from the constables and needed a safe place to hide for the day! He entertained the pupils with his amazing stories and taught them about the dangerous life of a highwayman in the 17th century. The pupils created some poetry, wrote letters and produced some wanted posters.
Running for the Arts Festival!
Once again, I’m donning my running shoes, together with my brother Michael, and attempting the challenging Sheffield Half Marathon on Sunday the 29 March to raise funds for our upcoming Music and Arts Festival in the summer term.
This year will be the third time we have brought together students from across the Trust to showcase their artistic and musical skills alongside community partners and professional artists. Take a look at the highlights from last year.
To make this happen again we need your support! If you could make a donation, however big or small, we can place music and the arts right at the heart of our mission to make ourselves, our community and our world a better place! And make the third Community Arts and Music Festival the best yet.
Just click the link here to make a donation.
Thank you for your continuing support.
Andy Sprakes
Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer, XP Trust
Sharing our Stories: 06/03/2026
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Crew Peake – stewards of our community @ XP
Crew, Collaboration, Critique and Teamwork Tigers! @ Norton Infants
Multiplying our Maths Skills @ Norton Juniors
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Multiplying our Maths Skills!
Recently, 3TE have been actively traversing around the classroom to solve a range of mathematical problems. Our mathematical movement has engaged our minds and worked our brains and ensured our mathematical abilities continue to expand, multiply, enlarge… and however many more mathematical synonyms for increasing you can think of!
Sharing our Stories: 27/02/2026
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
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Crew Brunel: Finishing Half Term Strong @ XP
Building Bright Ideas for a Better Planet @ Norton Infants
The Last Straw: Making Maths Fair and Square @ Norton Juniors
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The Last Straw: Making Maths Fair and Square
If you think making shapes is easy, try handing a group of determined students a tricky polygon problem! This week, in class, we entered into the world of geometry by challenging the children to make squares using exactly six straws.
At first glance, it sounds impossible—after all, a standard square only needs four sides. Did we draw the short straw with this lesson plan? Not a chance!
What followed was a beautiful display of grit and determination. At times, it might have felt like they were literally grasping at straws, but the children worked tirelessly. They experimented with different angles, overlaps, and spatial reasoning, showing incredible courage and resilience in the face of a genuinely puzzling task.
I am so proud to report that every single student got there in the end!
Great work 4GC!
Divide and Conquer!
This week, 3TE have been developing their division skills with a variety of challenges, including this particular activity where the children were traversing around the room solving a variety of problems using a newly discovered method. The children have since expanded this knowledge even further with addtional methods and even harder problems. Keep up making those division discoveries!
Happy Valentines!
