C26/Y11 Weekly Planner: 4/12/23
This week’s planner includes reminders about learning labs, the upcoming Art deadline and a link to Mrs Desborough’s English Literature Advent (with a little help from a certain Elf!)
Get ready for Christmas Jumper day
Get your Christmas jumpers (and Santa hats) ready for this Thursday.
Please donate via the just giving page instead of bringing money into school
Thankyou
Sharing our Stories: 01/12/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Pride of Thorne Awards
This very special event has brought together nominees from across Green Top’s local community who have been recognised for their invaluable work both with and for the people of Thorne. From food banks to emergency services to care homes – all were presented awards by KS1 children at Green Top, as part of their Expedition ‘Not all superheroes wear capes’. The list and variety of work celebrated this evening was incredible and each and every award was so well deserved. Congratulations to all of you from Green Top!
Norton Infants march for Askern CRY Foodbank
Carcroft celebrate and share their awesome ‘Chronica Carcroft’ Roman Newspaper!
Top of the Blogs
Year 6 final touchdown writing @ Green Top
G28 Class 1 Court Case @ XP Gateshead
X27 Ethics revising hard! @ XP
Case Study 3 – Reflection in 1M @ Plover
A freezing day out at the Kids EFL Cup! @ Norton Juniors
Christmas is coming! @ XP East
What does it mean to be British? @ Carcroft School
Presentation of Learning @ Norton Infants
We’ve got Vacancies at XP Trust!
Visit xptrust.org/vacancies to find out more and apply to #JoinOurCrew
Share your stories with us!
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!
🎄FXP’s Christmas Film Night!!!!🎄
Just a reminder that our new Friends of XP are hosting their first Christmas Film Night for XP & XP East students next Thursday, 7th December 2023!
The votes are in… and the viewing will be (drum roll, please)…..
HOME ALONE!
We are in need of chocolate/sweet donations for the sweet stall; plus, please search in your cupboards for any unwanted gifts you may have – we’ll have a stall to sell these on the evening!!!
We will be selling cans of pop, too, so any donations of those would be gratefully received.
As FXP is starting up again, the team have no funds to work with on these events; and so are relying on donations and volunteers to help our events run smoothly.
Let’s make the FXP Film Night a fabulous end to Christmas Day in school!
If you’re able to volunteer some time or donations, please do get in touch with your child’s crew leader, or contact Vic directly.
Donations of gifts/food and drink to be sold can be sent to XP or XPE office.
Funds raised will be put back into supporting things like quality fieldwork in expeditions, so it’s really important work!
We look forward to seeing our students next week – the film begins at XP East stairs at 4pm sharp!!!
Christmas is coming
In year eleven, crews Frank and Rowling came together in the spirit of Christmas to create their kindness calendars. Each year staff and students like to share the cheer and make deposits into peoples calendars. These may be tasty treats or words of kindness, either way the whole point is to bring some light and warmth into these cold days and long dark nights.
We’re looking for Cleaners and a Cleaning Lead at XP Doncaster!
E28 Crew Malala D of E Voluntary Stewardship
Crew Malala continued their Duke of Edinburgh Voluntary Stewardship yesterday by taking the time to pick up litter around XP East. They have it down to a science, splitting into four teams of three to cover the whole site in around ten minutes. Good work Crew Malala!
Mrs. Collinson & Mrs. Batty
Crew Malala Preparing for Passage
Members of Crew Malala have started preparing for the passage presentations in the new year. Passage is where students have the opportunity to show how they have grown and that they are prepared for starting their GCSEs. This morning students reflected on their time at XP East and started preparing what they want to talk about during their Passage presentations.
Mrs. Collinson and Mrs. Batty
Lost Property 20/11/23. We still have a lot of unclaimed lost property at East reception. If you see anything which belongs to your child could you please tell them to collect it. This will be located at XP East reception. Thank you from Crew Boseman
Sharing our Stories: 17/11/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
Rail City
From Market Town to Railway City – The Railway Journey that Helped to Shape Doncaster.
This is an updated collection of all the beautiful work created over the last few years by students across the XP Trust schools, inspired by the centenary of the Flying Scotsman and the railway heritage of Doncaster.
This book has given us an opportunity to update the original content of the many rail expeditions, with quotes from experts and our community about the importance of railways, the steam engines built here and the ongoing rail-related business here that will help shape the future of rail.
Published to coincide with a centenary celebration visit from the Flying Scotsman, we humbly hope that this book, created by our students and a new generation of rail enthusiasts, will become part of our railway story.
Norton Infants march for Askern CRY Foodbank
XP Gateshead: ‘Unheard voices of WWI’ broadcast on Memory Lane Radio
XP Doncaster: ‘Do Your Bit’ Radio Broadcast
Top of the Blogs
Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead
C30: Hearing the stories of mining @ XP
A big thank you from KS1 @ Plover
World Diabetes Day 2023 @ XP East
Jaffa cake fractions @ Carcroft School
Fantastic family learning @ Green Top
Tranquil Tuesday Reading Crew @ Norton Infants
We’ve got Vacancies at XP Trust!
Visit xptrust.org/vacancies to find out more and apply to #JoinOurCrew
Share your stories with us!
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!