The deadline for comment and critique of the Academic Holiday Calendar will be 12pm Thursday 25th February. If you haven’t already, please use your voice. Thank you
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We’re looking for an English Lead at XP/XP East
There is the opportunity of a lifetime to lead English at our extraordinary schools, XP and XP East.
We need someone to further design and creatively develop the study of English into our highly regarded expeditionary learning curriculum.
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XP Trust Holiday Pattern Consultation
Thank you for your feedback regarding the future holiday pattern that was shared with you on Friday 5th February. We appreciate and understand the concerns raised by some of you. You are invited to give your feedback about a new proposed calendar. Please follow the link below to the XP Trust Holiday Pattern Consultation page, where you will find a letter from Gwyn ap Harri, the CEO of XP Trust and a Google Form for you to complete.
https://xptrust.org/xp-trust-calendar/
Thank you
Another Wonderful Week!
This week in English and expedition we have had some great discussions about whether animals should be kept in zoos. We began by exploring reasons for and against and then came to our own conclusions. Do you agree?
In art we have been producing some beautiful drawings and redrafting our work to make it even better.
And finally we have had a wonderful week of reading which culminated in sharing our book reviews in our reading target crew.
Have a wonderful half term everyone! x
Norton Carnival….Rio Style
Our costumes, hats and masks were very colourful.
We even had some carnival floats:
The carnival in Rio looks like lots of fun….we all had a great time too.
Class 2 Carnival
Dancing the Samba 
Preparations 
Dressed up and ready to celebrate 
Making music
Rio Carnival Celebrations
Our Nursery children had so much fun having their very own carnival celebrations.
What an end to this half term…
I have received some brilliant photos and videos this week. You have all been so busy and I want to say a huge thank you for sharing all your incredible work.
Check out Chloe’s ‘Stop Go Animations’. I think we have a budding film maker in our class…
Harry Potter
Sit back and enjoy…
The children have also produced some beautiful art work and have redrafted their work to make it even better! Super stars…
We have been busy interpreting and drawing tally charts and pictograms in maths…
We have had some great discussions this week about whether animals should be kept in zoos. Here are some of our reasoned arguments…
You presented your ideas brilliantly 🙂
Enjoy your break everyone, you deserve it xxxx
Zoos – For or Against?
This week in English and Expedition we have been thinking about whether we are for or against zoos. We had some great discussions where we thought about both sides of the argument and generated our own conclusions. What do you think?