Scarlett and Hallie recently  played in the Darlington all stars summer football tournament today and their team, Cleveland Hall U13 girls, finished in second place. An amazing achievement for the team.

Fantastic effort girls, well done!

We would love to be able to upgrade our library space, which is integral to our reading strategy and promoting a love of reading with our students. Students are engaging really well with reading and we would like to make the space more inviting, invest in a proper library monitoring system and invest in a wider range of books. Our library is completely student led and run during social times and the student librarians would really appreciate your support.

One thing we’ve tried to do is use the library space to provide students with recommendations to delve deeper into their expeditions by reading associated texts. This idea of having themed displays and recommendations is something we’d love to develop further.

The National Book Token programme are taking nominations for schools to win a grant to invest in their libraries (scroll down on the website to place your nomination). We are asking all families, students and friends of the school to please nominate XP Gateshead for this prize.

Thanks for your support,

Miss Tatters and the XPG student librarians

The weather forecast is suggesting that we will have showers, please remind students to bring a waterproof coat.

Reminder that class 2 students are due to return to school at 3.30pm.

Northumbria Police have shared the following update with us about messaging sent out last week on their behalf:

On Friday, March 22, communication was shared about a report of a group on a social media messaging app containing inappropriate content aimed at young people.

Although this messaging was shared in good faith, some of the details had at that point not been verified.

We would therefore ask you to please not reference this, including on social media.

As always, we would also ask that you continue to take an interest in your children’s use of social media and if you do have concerns that you report these to the police.

Officers take matters such as this extremely seriously and are investigating the report of the social media group.

Please note that we break up for half term on Friday 16th February. We return to school on Monday 26th February.

We have another week in school next week.

Please make sure that you refer to the relevant Gateshead-based calendar on our website 2023/24 Calendar.

In preparation for the RSPB Big Garden BirdWatch this weekend, XPG Nature club set up a bird feeder in our grounds and went off to practise some bird identification. Despite the fading light we managed to spot Great Tits,Blue Tits, Black birds, Carrion Crows, Magpies, Feral and Wood Pigeon. However, our highlight was a small flock of Siskins, small finches that visit the UK in the winter from Northern Europe. We spotted them  eating one of their favourite foods, the seed of Alder trees. 

The 2024 big garden birdwatch for the RSPB will be happening from the 26th – 28th of January. Getting involved in the big garden birdwatch is great as it helps scientists keep track of which birds need help and what not so much. All you have to do is watch out your window for one hour  and record what types of birds land in your garden. To find out more and sign up, click the link below 

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch

The Assessments for Science will take place during the following sessions next week.

G28 Class 1- Tuesday session 3

G28 Class 2- Tuesday session 2

G29 Class 1- Thursday session 3

G29 Class 2 -Thursday session 3

Topics for revision can be found on this post

Thanks

Mr Mead