We’re delighted to announce that E27 / Year 7 Spanish students’ first ever Final Product is ready!
Unfortunately we have had to cancel Sports day on Friday 9th July. Therefore lessons will run as normal. Hopefully we will be able to run sports day in the next academic year.
Students please can you still bring a packed lunch for the day.
Any questions please ask crew leaders.
Thanks Team PE
We have been notified today that a student has tested positive for Covid19 in Y10/E24, and after liaising with the Public Health England helpline, we have been able to identify 12 students who now need to self isolate until Tuesday 13th July – returning to school on Tuesday 13th July.
The helpline advised me that the year bubble can remain OPEN, and that further positive cases in the year bubble would require additional advice from PHE.
We have either emailed, spoken to or left voicemail messages to all concerned, and I have also contacted the year group to reassure them that if I haven’t contacted them directly they should come to school as normal.
We will now move to a hybrid educational provision where students will be taught in class and at home at the same time – we have become adept at this style of approach due to the issues that we have faced throughout the pandemic.
All students should continue to take the Lateral Flow Tests that school have provided every Sunday and Wednesday. With regards to Y10 students, we recommend undertaking this as a priority tomorrow morning at the latest.
I understand that the student in question is feeling poorly, but is doing well.
Best wishes,
Jamie Portman
Sports day will take place on Friday 9th July.
Please can all students ensure they come to school in their PE kit. They will need:
– A packed lunch
– Water bottle
– Suncream
Any questions please direct them to crew leaders.
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.
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)
Today E24, E25 and E26 had an inspiring talk from an
ex-inmate and a prison guard. They spoke about making good choices and how small decisions can make big differences in your life.
All of the pupils were outstanding, asking inspiring questions and showing excellent behaviour.
Both guests commented on the amazing atmosphere and how impressed they were with our pupils maturity and attitudes.
Miss Wilkinson and I were so proud of them!
Miss Burrows 🙂
