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Madrid 2022 – passport details and EHIC/GHIC polite reminder

17th November 2021D Pearson

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.

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a valid European Health Insurance Card (E.H.I.C.) for your child/ren, then please be aware that these have now been superseded by the General Health Insurance Card (G.H.I.C.) that is completely free-of-charge, and details may be found here.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 November, although you are free to make overpayments any time. Thank you.

Launch of C26’s Fight the Power plaque – Friday 3rd December 2:00PM

16th November 2021Katie Haughey

The Fight the Power final product is being officially launched on Friday 3rd December at 2PM, at Sir Nigel Gresley Square (just outside of CAST).

We’d like to say a massive thank you to parents, carers, and our community for supporting the crowdfunder, and we look forward to launching it with students and those involved with the expedition.

If your son/daughter is in C26 (Year 9) and you would like to attend the event to celebrate its launch with us, please join us – feel free to email [email protected] if you have any questions about the grand reveal.

Badminton and Girls football

16th November 2021Charlotte OGrady

Thursday 18th November 2021

Key stage 3 and Key stage 4, Badminton home against Don Valley and De Warenne 3.30- 5pm

Year 7 Girls football, home against McAuley 3.30-4.30

Please tick your name off the team sheet on PE notices Thanks PE

Y11 ‘down time’!

15th November 2021Web Blogger

It’s been a wonderful lunch time today spent with Y11 (and other years!) at Embrace in the library at XPE. Some Y11s were revising in study groups ready for this afternoon’s maths exam, but the highlight for me was seeing Tom, Hollymay, Frida, Mia, Ruby and Eleanor play Twister with students from Y7! [I’m not sure how Mia managed to stand back up, though!!] What a fantastic example of Crew – and a good laugh, too!

E26 / Year 9 Spanish students’ exceptional productivity!

12th November 2021D Pearson

I’m really proud of the exceptional levels of productivity of E26 / Year 9 students since the start of this academic year. Last term they interpreted the results of a summative assessment on media to prioritise language skills or learning targets that need further development, and this term they are routinely producing extended writing about their school in Spanish. Yesterday they used one of 4 writing frames – the one within the quadrant that is closest to or above their ME – to help produce a positive and negative opinion of school subjects, justified with one or more comparatives and extended with extra details about staff. Although the work is increasing in its complexity, they are responding with extremely strong H.O.W.Ls. Great work, E26!

How can we fight injustice?

11th November 2021Web Blogger

E27 Pioneer have been working hard picking apart the anchor text, To Kill a Mockingbird, for types of injustice they think is wrong! They are doing a fantastic job and talking about the subject with such maturity!

They have been looking at how characters are treated differently through stereotypes such as race, gender, age and even areas they are from!

We have focused on the transatlantic slave trade and have moved on to injustices in the present and what we can do to stop this happening!

Begging the question…..what does it mean to be human? You will find out their answer to the guided question in their coming Presentation of Learning! Keep your eyes peeled for updates on this!

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11th November 2021XP East

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Back to Business!

9th November 2021Web Blogger

After returning from half term we have been busy in Crew, alongside our additional Common Mission and Duke of Edinburgh sessions, which are new for this year and it is great to see.

Before breaking up for the half term, Year 9 were introduced to ‘Passage’. This is something we will be working on in our Crew sessions and Common Mission sessions in order to demonstrate why each individual is GCSE ready. As part of this we began to think about careers and what our hopes and dreams for the future were. This led to a fantastic afternoon of Crew researching careers, and job roles they may be interested in.

Last Wednesday was the first session working on our Passage presentation scripts and I have to say that we were blown away with how hard each person worked and how seriously they took the task.

Since starting the Duke of Edinburgh bronze award Crew have been learning the skill of First Aid and have worked on specific topics each week which have included, practical skills, completing a workbook, posters and diagrams. It has been great to see how the Crew have helped and supported each other in these sessions when completing tasks and produced some beautiful work.

We also don’t want you to think we have forgotten about our charity we selected to help at the end of Year 8, as this certainly is not the case. As a Crew we emailed ‘Big C Little Warrior’ at the start of last term asking how we could best help them. They were so grateful we had selected them as our charity and were keen for us to be able to help. They had a team meeting where our offer of help was discussed and they came back to us asking if we could raise money, as this would be used towards the cost of making hair accessories for those undergoing cancer treatment. How we can raise money is something we are currently looking into and organising in Crew.

As we have moved Crew rooms this year this meant that we were able to redesign the Crew wall. This is something Crew Rowling pride themselves on and take very seriously. Our plan is to continue to add to this throughout this year’s journey and move it with us if we relocate again next year. Just like the photos from the Year 7 Outward Bound week have!

We have already begun thinking of how we can decorate the Crew room at Christmas!

We can’t wait to show you more beautiful work and keep you up to date on all things Crew Rowling.

Mrs Barnes and Miss Johnson 🙂

Enrichment Timetable – October – December 2021

9th November 2021Web Blogger

Due to the fantastic efforts of our incredible staff, we are delighted to be able to offer so many extra curricular opportunities to our wonderful students!

Please see attached an updated version of our enrichment timetable. On here, you’ll find sports clubs/fixtures, Arts clubs (including our new Vocaleles!) and KS4 Revision sessions with staff. We would encourage our students to attend as many of these sessions as possible to secure their GCSE grades and achieve their potential!

I can also share with you that D6 will begin again this coming Saturday, November 13th. D6 is our Saturday provision where students are able to come and work with coaches in school from 9am – 12:30pm. For the time being, D6 is open to year 11 only.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the staff running any extra-curricular activities, or myself at [email protected].

Thank you for your continued support – we look forward to seeing many of our students in these sessions!

Mel Cocliff
XP Y11 Phase Lead
Crew Macmillan Crew Leader