This weeks extra curricular for PE.
Wednesday 16th March Boys football training (All years) 3.15-4.15
Thursday 17th March C24 coursework catch up in A01 3.15-4.15. No coursework catch up for C25 as Miss O’Grady will be marking the work.
No cheerleading this week.
The E28 Year 7 presentation of learning will take place on Tuesday 29th march starting at 4:30pm and finishing at 5:30pm. The students will presenting work from their current expedition “For King and another country”. During this expedition the students have studied World War One and the contribution of the British Empire driven by the guided question “Do we honour all those who made a sacrifice in war?”.
Students will be expected to stay on site until the presentation starts, parents should come to reception and sign in. The presentation will be held in the heart of XP East school.
Further reminder will be published closer to the event.
Presentation of learning for E27 will take place on Wednesday 30th March starting at 4-5. Students will be presenting learning from their expedition “Do your bit” in which they studied World War One.
Students will be expected to stay on site until the presentation starts, parents should come to reception and sign in. The presentation will be held in the heart of XP East school.
We were extremely lucky to have a visit from the staff over at the Victoria Cross on the Lakeside. Mick and Keith came to speak to C27 about WW1 and men from our local area who fought in the war and who have been awarded the Victoria Cross. They also brought with them some WW1 weaponry and the students were immersed in the knowledge and artefacts Mick and Keith shared with them!
The Victoria Cross Trust is an extremely important charity working in our local area. A part of their work is uncovering local history as well as cleaning graves of soldiers who have died in war. Please check out their website https://victoriacrosstrust.org
The students were so intrigued by them, some of them even went over to their shop after school to find out more!!
Crew Da Vinci have had an awesome time since coming back from February half term. We got told of a Woman who was turning 105! and wanted to get 105 birthday cards for her birthday, So we got right onto it! They designed and drew their own card to send to Hilda.
They can confirm that she got over 460 cards and well and truly made her birthday! We are proud as a Crew for being involved in being part of Hilda’s special birthday!
Ill place the photo of our crew designs below here and see if you can notice them in the picture of Hilda too!
Just a little reminder that E26 will be attending fieldwork on Tuesday. We are going to visit Thackray Museum of Medicine, based in Leeds as part of our current expedition “You Give Me Fever”.
We are hoping to leave school at 9am and will be returning at approximately 3.15pm. Please ensure all medication is labelled and students bring a pack lunch. Unless you are accessing free school meals, in which case school will provide one for them.
Dear Parents and carers,
It is with regret that I have to inform you that we are unable to provide DofE Expeditions during this academic year for any of our students. This is due to staffing limitations within the DofE expedition structure and the lack of availability for training for new staff that want to be part of our team.
Safety of our students is of paramount importance to us and while we understand this is very disappointing news, we cannot compromise this.
On a more positive note we are already planning the training programme and staffing structure to enable expeditions to be delivered in the next academic year, 2023.
We are hoping to be able to offer our current Year 10 students (C25) the opportunity to do their Bronze or Silver expedition after completing their GCSEs in Year 11 (2023). Students that have successfully completed the other activities within the DofE award programme and have good or improving HoWLs will be considered to join the DofE expeditions.
Current Year 8 students (C27) will ALL start working towards their Bronze DofE Award Programme in September 2023 when they are in Year 9. Our School’s DofE lead will be in touch nearer the time with further information.
Best Wishes,
Kate ap Harri
XP Trust DofE Manager
Yes
We’ve had a really busy couple of months in Crew Moore. We have completed all our first SLC’s and all have passed with flying colours!
I don’t know if you have noticed but we also have a crew name! We have decided as a crew, with very few votes against, to call ourselves Crew Moore after Sir Captain Tom Moore as he is an outstanding human being that has done amazing things for our country and our world back in his prime. The students made a fantastic presentation as to why our crew should have this name and found amazing facts about Sir Captain Tom Moore and how he got all his medals.
We also have an amazing young man named Kasper in our crew who has decided to walk 100 miles in march for the WWF charity! So far he has completed 16 miles, which as a crew we think is amazing! He is aiming to raise £100 so £1 per mile, I was hoping we could get some support for him. I will add a link for his donation page at the bottom of the blog post and hopefully add some pictures at a later date to show everyone how well he has done! There will also be posters up around school so students can have a look at what he is doing and why he is doing it.
https://www.facebook.com/donate/459141575912698/?fundraiser_source=external_url
Good luck to Kasper, we know you will smash it!
