Crucial Crew!

1st April 2022Charlie Cicero

On the first of April, Year 6 took the annual trip down to Rotherham for Crucial Crew; a day of safety training and life skills practice. The children experienced a range of life scenarios, from a visit to the magistrates court to learning about the serious impact of hate and knife crime. All of the scenario leaders were from backgrounds relevant to the training they delivered who helped to make their training as engaging as possible.

After a busy Spring term which has flown by, the visit to Crucial Crew was a pleasantly different way to mark the end of term. We hope you all enjoy the Easter holidays and look forward to seeing you again in Summer!

🎤🎤 ‘The Band is just fantastic that is really what I think!’ 🎸🎸

30th March 2022Thomas Edwards

This expedition has had a very heavy music focus this last half-term! This initially cultimated in a trip to the recording studio to record our verses for the Trust’s song ‘Dear World’. Recently however, we have taken the tune of ‘Dear World’, and wrote our own verses in order to create our own song! The version above, with exception of the chorus, was written fully by different children in the class, then their verses were put together to create class 4TE’s very own song! Then, in the space of an hour, we hastily rehearsed, practised and then recorded our song as you can see above. I think the children wrote some beautiful verses and given the short amount of time we had to practise, performed fantastically. Lovely stuff songwriters!

A Musical Masterpiece

30th March 2022Lauren Gate

As an end to Case Study Three, 3LG had a fabulous time this afternoon making music and playing instruments. We can now officially play Twinkle Twinkle on the glockenspiel! It has been so exciting playing around with tunes, tones and melodies over the last few weeks, cumulating in playing a song today.

Culture Burger Podcast – Series One

29th March 2022Norton Junior School

Across the XP Trust we love to share our beautiful work, celebrate our communities and share how we do what we do and why we do it.

We have captured, Our Vision, Our Ethos, Our Design Principles – Our Story, in a series of podcasts – The Culture Burger – and thought you might like to experience How We XP and hear about it first hand from our Crew here at XP. 

You can now chow down on the entire first series here!

We Are Crew!

29th March 2022Emma Gould

Last week 5EG organised a bake sale in aid of Maggie Cancer Care Charity. Maggie’s relies on charity donations and provides support and care to families at desperate times. We are proud to say that we raised over £120 for this amazing charity and this wouldn’t have been achieved without the amazing Crew of 5EG and their families who were baking furiously last week, so THANK YOU!

Live, laugh and log!

27th March 2022Charlie Cicero

Out in the idyllic South Yorkshire sunshine, our year six wood workers were grafting hard on Friday morning to sand down their wooden frames. With it being such a distinctly different design and technology task, all enjoyed the opportunity to smoothen their frames in preparation for decorating next week!

An Eggcellent Eggsperiment!

25th March 2022Thomas Edwards

Today with Easter looming, 4TE were given a challenge… In small teams could they create a protective casing fit with parachute to protect an egg from mighty drop? The teams did a fantastic job working together to conjure up such incredible and fantastic creations as you can see! Overall, we had 3 eggs suffer crackings and 4 which successfully survived the drop! It was a great bit of fun and developed our teamworking skills and a good time was had by all!

Dodge the Ball!

23rd March 2022Gavin Chadwick

That’s right. And didn’t our year 4 children do well in today’s dodgeball competition hosted by Campsmount. We took two teams who competed in separate competitions. One team finished 3rd whilst the other won their group setting up a humdinger of a final against Owston. Alas, they just missed out to a pretty drilled Owston side. However, special praise is reserved for Madison who faced a 6 v 1 situation in the final and cut the deficit to 3 v 2 after some superb catching and throwing. It was a great afternoon all round and the children deserve credit for their performance.