This week Year 3 were lucky enough to begin our expedition with a bang! We visited Magna Science Centre and learnt all about sound in an amazing workshop. We learnt about fire tornados, and all the elements including earth, air, fire and water.





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This week Year 3 were lucky enough to begin our expedition with a bang! We visited Magna Science Centre and learnt all about sound in an amazing workshop. We learnt about fire tornados, and all the elements including earth, air, fire and water.





WOW what a wonderful start to our new expedition. We had a wonderful time exploring the elements and learning all about how sound travels. The children got the chance to partake in lots of experiments and even made their own instruments!











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.
G31 Year 7 POL – Tonight! @ XP Gateshead
Eggsellent Effort Class 6 @ Norton Infants
Digging into our New Expedition @ Norton Juniors
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.




















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.
Green Top School is looking for a caring, committed and creative teacher to join our team on a maternity cover contract.
If you want to work in a school that values collaboration, Crew, and doing what’s best for kids, we’d love to hear from you.
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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/
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.
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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.



















