Happy Friday – 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
Above All Compassion: The Story of XP School
Last week this beautiful film, made by Schools on Screen about XP, premiered at the Samsung Centre in London – how exciting! Now it’s available to watch on YouTube! Be sure to give this wonderful story a watch and share it with your friends and family!
Automaticity…
Posh word isn’t it? Basically meaning performing a task almost unconsciously. This is the state we wish our pupils to be in when recalling their times tables, especially by the end of year 4. From time to time however, we witness the unique. Watch and behold.
Torres, take a bow son!
Breaking News! 4TE are first on the scene!
Today, 4TE have become news reporters! Recently, we have been learning about the tarnished history of sugar and its links to slavery. We have specifically been looking at the life and times of Mary Prince – a famous abolishionist. Below is a compilation of various parts of our individual news reports blended into one. The children wrote their own scripts and researched all of the information themselves. This has hopefully culminated in a very professional and informative report!
Newsround Presenters
Today, 3HJ took on the role of news readers, presenting their research about the Triangular Slave trade and the lives of Equiano and Mary Prince. Each group worked well together to plan and write their scripts which were carefully practised and performed to the whole class. Future journalists in the making!
Mary Prince Presentations
Today the children pretended to be news readers and presented their research from yesterday about Mary Prince. They pretended they were the first people to report on Mary Prince, telling the class everything about her, from her time as a slave to the part she played in the abolition of slavery.
We’ve got Vacancies at XP Trust!
We’re looking for a Teacher at Plover and a School Admin + at XP Gateshead
Visit xptrust.org/vacancies find out more.
#BetterWorldDay – ‘Dear World’
Our contribution to @ELeducation‘s #BetterWorldDay – an exclusive preview of ‘Dear World’, a song written by our LKS2 students from Plover, Green Top, Carcroft and Norton Juniors
Thackray Medical Museum
Medical historians!
5EG have had a fab day learning about how medicine has changed over the years at Thackray Medical Museum. They walked down Disease Street, learnt about how surgery has developed, and pandemics have evolved.
