Please note that on the last day of this term, Friday 17th December 2021, the school will be closing for all students at 1:30pm after Crew. This is for staff to prepare for the new term. There will not be any provision for students to stay after this time so all students need to be collected or have left the school premises.
Many thanks
XP School Office
XP East has had a sudden surge of lost property. Crew Marx spent some time today sorting through and taking pictures of all the belongings we have had handed in.
If you see any of your child’s property in the photograph, please email crew leaders or advise your child to collect from reception before the end of term. Please tell students to be mindful when approaching reception to avoid a crowd trying to collect. If you have any questions, please email your child’s crew leader rather than calling the reception. This is all to try and minimise the impact on our reception staff as lost property is huge!
Any items not collected by 17th December will be taken to a charity shop in order to degunge our reception area.
As always, we appreciate your support!
Thanks all!
Find out more about both vacancies here:
https://xptrust.org/school-admin-xp-doncaster/
https://xptrust.org/were-looking-for-an-admissions-lead-at-xp-trust/
The sports fixtures are coming thick and fast leading up to the Christmas break, we have the KS4 badminton finals on Thursday 9/12/2021 away at Rossington All Saints alongside a Y7/8 girls football league game also away at Rossington All Saints on the same day.
Students are to meet at the changing rooms at 3:15 and should be back at XP by 5:15 to be picked up.
Both team sheets are by the PE office if students can tick their name to confirm attendance
Any questions please contact Mr Stables ([email protected])
Good luck to all the teams!
To confirm the Badminton sports club is on as planned tonight
Many thanks Mr Stables
We look forward to welcoming you to E27’s first Presentation of learning tomorrow, Tuesday 7th December.
Guests should arrive at 3.45pm for a 4pm start at XP East reception.
Please remember to wear a face mask.
Many thanks
Kate ap Harri
As a way of giving back to others in our community Crew Rowling have chosen to raise money for a local charity called ‘Big C Little Warrior’.
Big C Little Warrior was founded in 2019 and specialises in boosting the self esteem and confidence for individuals going through treatment for cancer by offering beauty and grooming treatments. After speaking with Big C Little Warrior they informed us of a new venture that we could support with. This is to raise money towards vouchers that individuals undergoing treatment who have lost their hair, can use towards handmade hats and headbands with hair pieces. Every £50 raised will help go towards one voucher per person.
We brainstormed ideas on how we could raise money and one of our amazingly kind and thoughtful crew members, Rhys has offered to cut his thick shoulder length hair, going for a short back and sides! This is something he felt fitted well with the charity and what the money raised was being used for.
As a crew we feel it is important to give back and support others in out community. The character values and traits that we strive to maintain at XP East are extremely important to us and we hope you will agree this is for an amazing cause!
Crew Rowling would really appreciate a small donation to help our charity and for Rhys’ courage in having his hair cut short.
The proposed date is 18th December for Rhys to have his hair cut so there will be updates to follow this 🙂
We are already doing so well in such a short amount of time but here is the link to donate.
We want to thank everyone in advance for supporting Big C Little Warrior and Crew Rowling.
Kirsty and Natalie
Thank you to the parents of students in C26 and C25 (year 9 and year 10) involved in the Madrid 2022 optional visit that have already provided a photocopy of their child/ren’s passport details page. This information will be requested by our travel company, on behalf of our airline, shortly after Christmas.
If you don’t yet have a passport for your child/ren, your child/ren’s passport has expired, or there are fewer than six months remaining on this document after we return on Monday 27th June 2022, then could I remind you that you need to apply for one as soon as possible? For details of applying for or renewing a passport please visit the UK government website here. Crew Leaders of students for whom we don’t have a photocopy of a valid passport will be asked to contact home soon to verify that your child/ren has this document, so that we can provide these details to our travel company when they are requested.
Additionally, if you do not have a valid European Health Insurance Card (E.H.I.C.) for your child/ren, then please be aware that these have now been superseded by the General Health Insurance Card (G.H.I.C.) that is completely free-of-charge, and details may be found here. We ask that you take out an E.H.I.C. or a G.H.I.C. to supplement the basic travel insurance policy that we have arranged.
Finally, a polite reminder that the next payment instalment date is 31st December, although you are free to make overpayments at any time. Thank you.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and Crew Finch have created a ‘reverse’ advent calendar where, instead of us getting the chocolate, we give a little treat to the Year 11 team (don’t worry; there will be a few chocolatey treats in it for Crew, too!)
Our advent is very much based around on doing good things for others and making an extra effort to be kind and thoughtful on the run up to our Christmas break, which tends to be when staff and students feel a little bit more frazzled than usual!
We’ve also pledged to do other little acts of kindness over the next couple of weeks, which will hopefully bring a little bit of happiness to someone else’s day.
I really can’t believe that this will be Crew Finch’s Last Christmas* together but I’m happy that we will be spending it spreading a little bit of joy to our wider school Crew 🙂
(warning: don’t click that link if you’re taking part in Whamageddon! like us… too late? oops!)
Students in C28/Year 7 will be visiting the University of Sheffield on Tuesday 14th December as part of their current expedition ‘’Food Glorious Food’. The primary purpose of the visit is to work with Dr Megan Blake and her International Development postgraduate students to look into how we might go about improving food distribution and waste. Whilst at the university, students will also be able to meet with student ambassadors and have a tour of the campus to give them a sense of what uni life is like!
We will be departing at around 9:15AM and returning for approximately 15:50PM so there will be a slight change in finish times of the school day for students. Students will need to bring a packed lunch unless they access free school meals, in which case school will provide one for them. Students will need to dress appropriately and in a waterproof coat and warm layers, as we will be walking around the campus at parts. If you have any questions about the day, feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Best wishes,
Miss Haughey
