From all of us here at XP Trust, we wish you all the best over the festive season! Thank you for being part of our story in 2022 – here’s to 2023!
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
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Christingle Assembly
We have had some very special assemblies across NortonCampus today. Mr Chadwick arranged forReverend Chris to visitus, and he brought with him his friend Chris. He talked to us aboutthe importance of aChristingle and what it means.
He invited us all to a special Christingle service at CampsallChurch on Christmas Eve at 4pm. During theservice we will get totake part in a Nativity, sing some Christmas carols, make our ownChristingle and we willeven be able to hear Chris’ voice (it onlyworks on Christmas Eve!)
For more information about the meaning behind Christingle -follow this link.https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/how-you-can-help/fundraise-and-events/christingle/what-is-christingle
Thank you,
Mrs Parsons xx
Decoupage Christmas Decorations
This week saw us making our very own Christmas decorations courtesy of XP Outdoors. All children engaged in this festive task and created a découpage wooden cookie slice by cutting characters from napkins and using sealer to create the finished look. How amazing do they look!
Wood Cookie Christmas Decorations
Over the last two weeks 3LG have put their DIY socks on and created some beautiful wood cookie christmas decorations. They have been using a range of materials including napkins, mod podge, plastic bags and, of course, glitter to create dazzling decorations. The children have worked gently and precisely, making sure not to rip the extremely thin napkin images.
We think the decorations are fab and will look amazing hung among twinkling lights on their Christmas trees.
Finding Fractions
This week 6EG have been working hard to solve a range of problems involving fractions. Today they have worked in small groups to consolidate their learning from the week.
Sharing our Stories: 09/12/2022
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit http://xptrust.org/stories
Take a sneak peak…
At some of Y4’s monoprints in anticipation of the publishing of our product in the new year. Exciting!!
Christmas Craft event
Check out the wonderful Christmas crafts Year 3 made during our community event with parents and family members. We made amazing hanging wreath decorations and Christmas cards! Thank you so much to everyone who attended and help kick of the festive season!
And so it begins …
This week has seen the return of our little friend, Egbert Elf. He has already been causing lots of mischief: stripping all the baubles of the Christmas tree, changing the iPad wallpaper and having a midnight art lesson in mono-printing! Please be good Egbert!
Christmas is for sharing! 🎅🎄
This week, 6CC have stepped into Christmas with full effect and have already begun their Christmas expedition inspired by the novel and film, ‘A boy called Christmas’. After watching this Santa origin story, the children have been busy exploring characters and the language author’s use to create a vivid picture in the reader’s mind. So far, we have generated vocabulary for various fictional characters and sought to enhance our descriptions from simple words and phrases to expanded noun phrases, similes, metaphors and alliteration. Later in the week, the children will be writing their own descriptions for Matt Haig’s characters.
Christmas Scenes
To help capture the Christmas spirit, 6CC have also started work on their own Christmas scenes. So far, the children have chosen a stimulus to help them draw the outline in preparation for adding their chosen media over the next two weeks.
