Year 6 Transition day will be taking place online on Monday 5th July for XP and Tuesday 6th July for XP East. The day will start with a Community meeting at 8.45 online via a Google Hangout, followed by a range of activities on a website and a closing circle at 2pm again on a Hangout.
If your child is unable to attend the Community Meeting or closing circle it does not matter as they can access the activities via the website at any point in the next few weeks.
Further details of how to log on for the Community Meeting and how to access the website will be published today.
We are super excited to be taking C24 out on fieldwork on Thursday, 1st July.
We have arranged to take the whole of Y10 to Shrewsbury Prison, to support our final expedition of the year: Karma Police – have we got justice right?
Shrewsbury Prison was decommissioned in 2013 and now provides an “interactive prison experience” for visitors. It was also recently used as the location for BBC’s drama ‘Time’, which gave a harrowing picture of prison life.
We’re not giving too much away about the activities we’ve got planned for students, but we promise not to leave any of them locked in the cells 😉
We are booked in at the prison at 9.30am meaning that we do have to set off between 6.45am-7am at the latest. If this is a problem for anyone, please let your Crew Leader know as soon as possible.
We will be leaving the prison at approx 1pm, so hope to be back at school between 3.30-4pm, traffic dependant. We will update socials on the day.
Please make sure students wear comfortable clothes and take a jacket as it can become cold in the prison and sensible shoes. Students will also need a packed lunch and sufficient water for the day. Please don’t pack any products containing nuts in packed lunches as we are a nut-free school! If your child is in receipt of free school meals, a packed lunch will be provided for them.
By Katie Haughey24th June 2021
We’ve waved goodbye to Crew Turing’s 15th member, Miss Narey, the fantastic trainee teacher who has been supporting as well as leading crew sessions the past few months. To celebrate her successes in passing her training year, we had a slightly early afternoon tea with scones. We wish her the best at Armthorpe and look forward to hearing from her through friends of my crew who attend the school.
Thanks to the girls in my crew for cracking a smile for the selfie!
Torran’s student led crew session
During half term, I received an email highlighting the incredible work Torran undertook during the break, supporting his family and local football team by supporting the coaching of the under 12s. I was inspired by his leadership and wanted to try and reboot something with my crew that we’ve not done in a long time!
I’ve got a big appreciation for Torran for hosting our first student led crew of the year. I’ve asked all of my crew to think up an activity that we can do in the remaining weeks, considering the purpose of what we do and how we can build our character doing these activities, as well as develop their leadership skills. Torran requested to lead a football skills and game crew session to help our sports day efforts. I’ve also challenged the rest of crew to come up with a session to run with us.
I’ve also added some footage of our crew stewardship duties to the video below, we spent a Friday afternoon litter picking and managed to fill two bin bags.
Pride
Miss Jones shared a really comprehensive set of resources on why we celebrate Pride, we have spent some crew sessions this month celebrating and learning about the month. Our crew is named after Alan Turing, who was persecuted for being gay which ultimately led to his suicide. We created a water painting mural to decorate our crew wall with, every crew member getting to add background rainbow colours to the image.
Here’s our final product!
Crew mile
This week, we have teamed up with other schools in the trust to run a mile to support Ray Mathews who has worked a lot with Norton Junior/ infant school raising money for charities through running. Ray is 80 this year and he would like the school to run 80 miles to help support the charity Age UK.
We did our 4 laps round both schools on Thursday this week and it was glorious! I am going to donate the money we raised to Age UK.
Just 4 weeks to go until we break up for summer, we’ve got some exciting work in the pipeline that will be ready for sports day that I look forward to sharing with you!
These are the items lost and found, currently stored in XP East School’s reception area. As storage space for lost property is limited, if you can see anything that is yours then please go to the office and retrieve it. Any unclaimed items will be donated to local charities if they remain unclaimed by next Tuesday 29th June. Thank you, Louie B (Crew Young)
Dear parents and carers of C26 students, we would like to inform you about a reorganisation of Spanish groups ready for September. An email will go out later this week to let you know whether your son / daughter has been placed in the Spanish GCSE group, or the Ethics and Philosophy GCSE / Spanish+ group. The email explains this in more detail, but please contact Mrs Sprakes in the first instance if you would like to discuss anything further.
To celebrate this we have teamed up with our Trust primary schools to run a crew mile. Our Trust schools have been working with Ray Matthews to complete 80 miles and raise money for Age UK.
During crew time each crew will walk a mile with the aim of collectively reaching the 80 mile target “WE ARE CREW”. Any students who wish to donate 50p or £1 to support the charity Age UK should hand this to their crew leader.
Let’s see everyone getting involved in supporting Ray Matthews and taking part in National School Sports week.
As a Crew the HOWLs grades we collectively needed to work on were in Spanish. We discussed in Crew why we thought this was and we established that many were not as confident to offer answers in these sessions because they were unsure of pronunciations of words. So in true Crew spirit we decided that we would practice Spanish together via the website linguascope. in Crew, Miss Johnson and Mrs Barnes included! Our first go at this was great fun and we look forward to improving with this and building everyone’s confidence, hopefully resulting in an increase in HOWLs grades and becoming Spanish masters (maestras/maestros de Español).
We have also been looking into which local charity we would like to support. Crew Rowling selected Big C Little Warrior which is a Doncaster based charity that works in hospitals, homes and hospices in the surrounding area providing free beauty and grooming treatments to anyone undergoing treatment for cancer. We thought this linked with our drive to encourage confidence. During our sessions we are looking at possible ways of fundraising for the charity and we can’t wait to get started!
We look forward to keeping you all up to speed with our Spanish and fundraising efforts.
Following a fantastic day at Shrewsbury Prison, C26 are expecting to return to school at 4.30pm.
This is slightly earlier than planned due to us making good time travelling back to school.
Please make sure you are at school for this time to collect your child.
Thank you.
