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Our special world

13th June 2025Emma Powell

This afternoon the children in Reception enjoyed a beautiful walk in the sunshine. We explored our school grounds and found an amazing collection of natural objects. We also spent time sat on the logs, relaxing and listening to the sounds of nature we could hear all around us.

When we came back inside the classroom we investigated and described our collection of natural objects. We then produced some beautiful work to represent what we saw and heard on our walk. We feel very lucky to have such beautiful surroundings.

Sharing our Stories: 13/06/2025

13th June 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

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.

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Year 5 – National Mining Museum @ Green Top

Getting smart @ Plover

Life skills @ Carcroft School

Crew Attenborough Charity Event @ XP Gateshead

EYFS Community Meeting @ Norton Infants

Where is Doncaster on the map? @ Norton Juniors

XP Festival of Arts and Culture – Tickets available now!

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EYFS Community Meeting

13th June 2025Emma Powell

Here are our HoWLs stars of the week from Nursery and Reception. It was so lovely to hear how hard the youngest children in our school are working. We heard about some amazing acts of kindness and great examples of hard work and teamwork. Well done to all of our postcard winners today.

What would you say to the wolf?

11th June 2025Elouise Chadwick

This week the children have considered the mistakes that were made in the story of ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’. We thought carefully about what we would say to the wolf in the story. We took turns to be the wolf and the children came to the front to speak to the wolf. The children showed sensitivity, acceptance and kindness in their words.

The children have written down the kind words that they would say and have produced some fantastic sentences…

Well done Class 1 🙂

XP Festival of Arts and Culture 2025 – Tickets available now!

10th June 2025Geoff Hewitt

On Friday 11th July, the XP Festival of Arts and Culture returns to XP Doncaster, bringing together students, families, staff and artists for a joyful celebration of creativity and community.

Throughout the day, you’ll experience live music, powerful performances, vibrant art installations, and the beautiful work that defines XP. Students from every XP Trust school will be contributing, sharing their talents and passions through exhibitions, dance, storytelling, and more – all designed to connect, inspire and make a difference.

The festival is a key moment in our XP Live programme – a growing Trust-wide initiative that gives young people authentic opportunities to produce, perform and create. It builds on our commitment to purposeful learning and supports our belief that every child can do meaningful, creative work that impacts the wider world.

More details on the line-up will be shared soon – we can’t wait to welcome you.

Sharing our Stories: 06/06/2025

6th June 2025Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

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.

Top of the Blogs

Y5 Mining Expert visit was amazing! @ Green Top

Pompeii and Pebbles @ Plover

Consolidating Maths Learning @ Carcroft School

Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead

Once upon a time… @ Norton Infants

Phoenix Dance Theatre Project 2025 @ XP

When NJS met a Gladiator @ Norton Juniors

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] – we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

Feely bags and the match box challenge

4th June 2025Claire Goodyer

Crew Goodyer enjoyed taking part in some fun crew sessions outdoors this week led by Mrs Jackson. We began by using our senses to explore and describe objects found out in our school grounds.

We then took part in the matchbox challenge to see which team could fit the most objects into a matchbox. Frankie and Eliza were excited to be named champions!

Once upon a time there was a girl called Little Red Riding Hood…

4th June 2025Elouise Chadwick

This week Class 1 have enjoyed listening to the ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’. We kick started our week by acting out the story in our story circle. The children put on some impressive character voices!

In crew, we played a listening game called. ‘In the basket I would put…’ The children had to think of something they would put in the basket to take to Grandma’s house. We then faced the challenge of having to remember what everyone had said. The children then drew all the things they could remember and some children even used their segmenting fingers to spell out words. They did a great job!