Sharing our Stories: 22/07/2022

Beautiful Work This Week

Dear World – Children of XP Trust

The Children of XP Trust are proud to present their Charity Single to raise money for WildLife Foundation – ‘Dear World’.

In the Spring of 2022, Year 3 and 4 Pupils from Norton Junior School, Carcroft Primary School, Green Top School and Plover School studied a cross-curricular expedition, ‘What a Wonderful World’ looking to answer the guiding question, ‘Why should we protect our beautiful planet?’

During the Expedition, the students wrote and recorded this beautiful song to raise money for their chosen charity, the WildLife Foundation.

There is no better way to sum up the beauty of the work the students have created than with lyrics from the song created by them… ‘there is no Planet B.’

You can Download the song and make a donation here! https://childrenofxptrust.bandcamp.com/album/dear-world

XP Gateshead – What a Wonderful World

On Thursday 21st July, XP Gateshead hosted their final POL of the year for their Expedition ‘What a Wonderful World’ online! You can watch them answer their guiding question ‘what is our relationship with the natural world?’ and present their beautiful work here!

How can a healthy lifestyle impact your body and mind?

In 2022, Years 5 & 6 began their learning exploration with the guiding question ‘How can a healthy lifestyle impact your body and mind?’

In Case Study One they became historians, they developed our knowledge of history on a timeline to understand chronological order.

In Case Study Two, they became scientists working in the field of biology. They learnt depth in human anatomy, studying the circulatory system, function of the heart and how nutrients are transported around the body.

Finally, in Case Study Three, they became designers and developed our food technology knowledge and skills. They learnt how to store food correctly and how to handle food. In addition to this, they looked at the different food groups and why these foods are important for a balanced diet. They unpicked recipes to look at calorie content and what healthy foods look like. In our final week of food technology they learnt to bake and cook following simple recipes and how to prepare and cook a variety of foods.

Their key literature was ‘Pig Heart Boy’ by Malorie Blackman; a tale based on morality about a young boy who urgently requires a heart transplant and is given a pig heart. Alongside this, other texts such as ‘At the sign of the Sugared Plum’ were used to support our first Case Study.

The work from English and expedition lessons culminated in a series of beautiful videos that were created collaboratively from children in Y5/6 from across the Trust primaries. There were four main topics included in the video: the history and evolution of medicine, physical health, mental health and first aid.

You can watch them all below!

Carcroft School – Mental Health

Plover School – First Aid

Norton Junior School – Physical Health

Green Top – Healthy Eating

XP/XP East Madrid Trip 2022

A few weeks ago some of our C25 and C26 students viewed priceless paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Dali, relaxed with an ice cream in the Buen Retiro Park, enjoyed a sociable meal out, and rode some scary roller-coaster rides…all over a long weekend in Madrid. This culminated in a Celebration of Learning event last Friday, during which our students invited their parents to view their work journals, and shared their memories and highlights in fluent Spanish or English. The video below was shown at the end of the evening, and we would like to appreciate all the students for their hard work in making this such a success.