Sharing our Stories 17/10/2025
Beautiful work this week
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.
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Two NJS Teams enjoy success! @ Norton Juniors
Expert Visitor – Ed Miliband @ Norton Infants
Crew Peake – Shining stars! @ XP East
Congratulations to Hannah in G28 Crew Frank! @ XP Gateshead
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Crew Knowles – Faith Day
As part of our faith day today, we have been working hard on creating some beautiful Rangoli patterns and designs linked to Diwali!
Crew Knowles – plant experts!
We had a brilliant science lesson today learning all about reproduction in plants and the different parts of a plant!
We built up our background knowledge, through watching videos, reading, playing games and finally dissecting a lily! Lilies are great to be able to see the different male and female parts of a plant really clearly!
Headteachers Weekly Newsletter – issue 6
Message:
Year 6 parents – Applying for secondary school
Message from the LA:
The national closing date is 31 October 2025; the announcement date is 2 March 2026. All applications made by this date will be considered together.
Applications received after the 31 October will be dealt with after the offer day and if they never receive an application the child will be given a place at the nearest school with spaces. This may not be the child’s catchment school.
Please apply for your chosen secondary school ASAP!
Message:
Tempest Individual School Photos – Wednesday 5th November
Individual school photos will take place on Wednesday 5th November.
All children will have an individual photo taken.
If siblings both attend Green Top, a joint sibling photo will be taken automatically.
If you would like a photo including a sibling who does not attend Green Top, these can be taken in the school hall from 8:00am on the same day by the Tempest photographer.
Class Spetch – We are scientists – Parts of a plant
Wow! What a very busy and jam packed science lesson we’ve had this morning! We’ve worked so hard to learn about the different types of plant reproduction, the different parts of a plant and their functions and we even dissected a lilly and labelled the parts we could find! Well done Crew Spetch – You’ve been SUPER SCIENTISTS!
Class 8 Hinduism Faith day
Today the children have listened to the story of Rama and Sita and made their own clay Diya candle stand.
KS1 football tournament!
What a great day for the boys this afternoon as they represented school at their first ever tournament. It’s fair to say we showed lots of courage and determination to be our best. Some highlights included a wonderful solo goal in a tough match, lots of great defensive work and some brave goalkeeping. We can’t wait for more! 🙂 Just a reminder to bring the kits back tomorrow, please!
