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We have been showing courage this morning tasting lots of different fruits that we have read about in Handa’s Surprise. We thought carefully and used our anchor chart to describe the different fruits.
We pulled some funny faces trying some of the sour fruits!
Mrs Parsons x
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
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 …
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.
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
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
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.
Our Wonderful Christmas Concert @ Norton Infants
Christmas Cards and Calendars @ Plover
Helping in the forest and having fun! @ Carcroft School
To Infinity and Beyond @ Norton Juniors
Another Brick In The Wall @ XP Gateshead
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!
It has been a truly magical morning for the children and their parents celebrating Christmas festival with us. The children were absolutely amazing acting out with confidence and spreading their joy and happiness around. Well done everybody!
