XP East

I’m sure parents maybe having a quick last minute look at the preparations for Y8, Y9 and Y10 students returning back to school tomorrow (Y7s and Y11s started back today)

Please remember that we communicated the changes for reopening during the last week of term via the website as we created this website to support parents through this tricky process.

At a glance, I’ve included the overview of the start times below.

Please remember that XP East parents should use the DRFC Away Fans car park as a drop off / pick up point. Parents of XP students should continue to use Car Park 3.

It was great to welcome our new Y7s at both XP and XP East today. After so many concerns, questions and worries our school corridors and classrooms were buzzing again today – and I’m absolutely delighted that the day went so well.

The morning started with a community meeting for Y7 students from both schools in the Sports Hall at XP East. I explained to all students that despite feeling a little bit nervous about starting a new school, it was actually an exciting time because it was a new start for everyone. I built on this by saying that everybody enjoys the feeling of having a new start somewhere (including staff!). It is a time to leave any problems or issues that may have happened elsewhere and seize this opportunity to start afresh.

Students were then organised into their Crews, where they spent the entire day working with their Crew Leaders, reflecting on XP’s character values and habits of work and learning. The majority of this time was also spent just getting to know each other – after all, strong and purposeful relationships are at the heart of everything that we do.

A special thank you to Mrs Vayro (Assistant Principal for the Y7 phase at XP & XP East) and the Y7 team for such a well organised and thoroughly enjoyable day.

Check out some of the photos from the day.

Hi everyone,

please find a link to the new ‘school reopening: support for parents’ website that we have created in order to help our community to understand the changes for the return of our students in the last week of August.

As you will see, we have produced a series of videos that explain:

• the rationale behind the planned changes
• overview of the safety measures
• details for the first week back and the staggered approach to students returning
• helping students to get back into the swing of things
• how PE will work
• individual videos for every year group at XP, XP East and XP16 (zoned locations of ‘bubbles’, entry/exit locations, lunch arrangements, equipment, staggered end of school day times).
• a section for FAQs
• Google survey to ask any questions (bottom of the link)

We have worked hard to produce such detailed resources because we want to reassure parents about the comprehensive plans that we have in place, and to let our community know well in advance of the changes that we have made.

We have also produced this video (also embedded below) which explains how the website works, and I encourage all parents to please take the time between now and the week beginning 24th August to make themselves aware of the changes.

Please stay tuned for further details between now and the start of the new school year.

Click below to access the site

Hi everyone, further to my update from the 3rd July I can confirm that on Wednesday 15th July we will be publishing the final details concerning school reopening.

We are currently finalising many different aspects of this work, and we will be releasing a specific website that will include a series of documents and different walkthrough videos.

The website will include video presentations on how the site has changed, details about the first week back, timetable changes, advice for encouraging children to get back into good habits and the different protocols for keeping our community safe.

We’re nearly there – please stick with us.

Hi everyone,

please check out the student overview doc for WB 13.07.20.

Hi everyone,

With us not being able to run sports day this year we have decided to give our students the opportunity to take part in a virtual competition hosted by Yorkshire Sport. The emphasis is on participation and all students who take part will gain points for their crew with additional points awarded accordingly for the top 3 scores in each year group. There will also be bonus points for the crews who have the most participants for each event. Share evidence of your scores with your crew leader who will pass it on to me. I have attached the details around what events to expect here. The link to the love event video feed is here. (This will be live on Friday)

Please also submit your scores via the link on the youtube video so that we can compete against other schools. It is hosted live on Friday 10th July at 10am and scores should be submitted no later than 12pm on Monday 13th July.

If you have any questions then don’t hesitate to email myself or Miss O’Grady. Thanks and good luck!

Hi everyone,

please find below the student overview for this week. All staff are in school today (like last Monday) finalising expedition plans for next year. As mentioned here, we are also busy implementing the new Government guidance for students returning to school next academic year.

I’m sure parents will be aware of the recent announcement by the Government about all students returning to school for the new academic school year.

Yesterday, new guidance was released which provides specific details on some of the procedural aspects concerning the return. This is a 41 page document which needs careful consideration by our Leadership Team, and will take some time to fully digest – there is lots of hard work ahead of us.

I intend to be able to provide details of the measures that we will be taking in a published plan which will be available for the final week of this term. I can reassure parents that our decision making process will always consider what is best for our students, within the local context of Doncaster – not the national one.

It’s been a long time coming, but we are hoping that there is some light at the end of the tunnel as we have really missed our students. Please stick with us for the next week or so in order to ensure that we get this right.

Best wishes, Jamie Portman (Principal of XP and XP East)

Good afternoon. We are really looking forward to welcoming our new students to school via google hangouts tomorrow on Friday 3rd July.

We know that some families have been having problems accessing the Google Classrooms which have been set up by the Local Authority. This is understandable given that we have never set up this type of provision across the whole of Doncaster before, and we would like to thank the Local Authority for the huge amount of work they have put into the transition events across all schools in the borough.

We have come up with a solution using our own Google apps. Students in each group should be able to use the same link to join our hangouts throughout the day tomorrow.

The first session will start at 10.00am on Friday 3rd July

The second session will start at 1.15pm on Friday 3rd July

To find which group your child is in, please look for your child’s initials alongside their Primary school.  Children from the same Primary school have been put in different groups where possible to enable them to meet other new students.

E27 XP East group 1 – Use this link to join the Google Hangouts throughout the day.

E27 XP East group 2 – Use this link to join the Google Hangouts throughout the day.

E27 XP East group 3 – Use this link to join the Google Hangouts throughout the day.

If you have any queries about your son or daughter’s group, please email [email protected] .

Hi everyone,

please find below the student overview for week beginning Monday 29th June.