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Shrinky Dink Excitement

8th January 2025Lauren Gate

Class Six have already started thinking about our final product. We have had so much fun playing with shrinky dink and creating keyrings with our names on the.

What a fun afternoon in class five! We spent the afternoon exploring and playing with shrinky dink paper. We worked hard to figure out how it works (and how it doesn’t!). We are really looking forward to seeing how it will help us with our final product.

We created some great pieces already – take a look.

Mrs Parsons xx

Hook Week – Clue One

6th January 2025Laura Parsons

We kicked off our hook week recapping our knowledge of the parts of the human body. We decided our expedition must have something to do with the body and our senses …

Could you help to inspire the next generation of XP and XP East?

6th January 2025Geoff Hewitt

We are currently working to create a directory of experts for our upcoming Year 9 Passage Presentations and would appreciate your help!

Passage Presentation is an opportunity for students to reflect on their learning and demonstrate their readiness to move onto the next phase of their education – GCSE.

Students share their high quality work to a panel of experts and their family through an oral presentation, increasing their accountability and character development demonstrating the skills and knowledge they have gained in Key Stage 3.

As part of the presentation students provide insight into their future goals and aspirations and we would like to ensure an authentic expert for each of them at their presentation – this is where you come in!

We are seeking support from any members of our community to become an expert panelist at a Passage Presentation, to listen to the presentation, ask questions and support in directing pathways. In order for this to be a success we request help from members of the public who are able to share their own experiences and advice in order to advance our students to the next level of formal schooling.

If you feel this is something you are interested in, please use this link to sign up to the directory.

Presentations will take place week commencing 27th January 2025 for 3 weeks. You will receive an invite from the student you have been allocated nearer to the time.

Should you have any further questions, please contact a member of our Key Stage 3 Team:

Natalie Johnson- [email protected] (KS3 Lead)

Emma Watson- [email protected] (Phase Lead XPE 8/9)

Chris Morrison- [email protected] (Phase Lead XP 8/9)

We appreciate your support in advance.

SIGN UP HERE!

Musician of the Week

6th January 2025Laura Parsons

As part of our expedition, one of our ongoing strands is going to be Music. To help us ensure the children are exposed to a wide range of musicians and genres, both past and present, we are going to be having a musician of the week.

We will be listening to music from the artist/s each morning as the children enter the classroom and we will be learning more about the artist as the week goes on.

Each week we will add a playlist to our website and ClassDojo pages, this will enable you to share in the Musician of the Week and listen along at home too!

We had a great time this morning dancing around the classroom to our first musician/s – Abba!

Enjoy,

Mrs Parsons xx

ABBA-Playlist-Musician-of-the-Week Download

A beautiful end to the Autumn Term…

20th December 2024Elouise Chadwick

This morning the children enjoyed distributing their kindness calendars to every class across Norton Campus. They were very well received and we put smiles on lots of faces. We are all looking forward to showing we care in 2025 and completing the random acts of kindness each month.

We then enjoyed some party games in the hall and of course a little Christmas boogie…

We had some very special visitors today and Santa himself brought us all a special present! We are pleased to announce we are all on his good list 🙂

We’ve had a fabulous day and we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas xxxx

Sharing our Stories 19/12/2024

19th December 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust for the last time in 2024! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.