Lost property
This morning Crew White acted as stewards of our community and sorted the lost property that has been gathering at East. To say we are only 5 weeks into the term we have a lot of items. Please check the photo’s to see if you recognise any items, if so they can be collected from East office. Anything unclaimed after Friday 4th October will be donated to the clothes bank.
Thanks
Crew White
Harrison College open evening for SEN
Please see below information regarding the upcoming open evening at Harrison College.
Harrison College’s open evening is taking place on Wednesday 20th November 2024. We receive a high volume of enquiries each year therefore if you have any young people in Year 11 (Or Year 10) that would like to attend Harrison College please encourage them to attend the open evening. It is also an opportunity for education colleagues to come and have a look around the college and speak to the team.
Please direct interested parents/carers/students/colleagues to our website where there is a wealth of information about the college and also there is a function to reserve a place at open evening. Book Open Evening – Harrison College
We look forward to welcoming you to the college.
Kind regards
Gemma Peebles
Principal and Chief Executive Officer
T: 01302 540495
M: 07921 657028
Crew Spencer Mindfulness activity
Today, Crew Spencer welcomed a new member to our Crew. We took part in a mindfulness activity that beautifully demonstrated the impact of our words. Using a toothpick, they attempted to put toothpaste back into the tube, showing how once words are spoken, they can’t be taken back, no matter how much we try to make things right. Just like toothpaste, our words can leave a mark, reminding us to always choose them with kindness and care.
Miss Dickinson
School Dinners
We’d like all parent/carers opinions on school dinners, including those who’s children have packed lunches. XP Trust would like as many children as we can having delicious healthy meals so your and your child’s opinions are important to us. Children will be asked about their dinners at school but it would be good to have parent/carer opinions too.
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Sharing our Stories: 20/09/2024
Beautiful Work This Week
Yorkshire Sport Foundation – Opening School Facilities at Plover
Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff at Plover were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding they secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! Plover have been lucky enough to secure some OSF funding this year too, so watch this space for Community Clubs starting in October! #LovePlover
Beautiful Curation!
We don’t just ensure our work is made public – it needs to live inside our school communities, too! More beautiful work has been curated at Plover School, celebrating their ‘Pride of Plover’ award winners and recent Expedition products!
‘If we get staff Crew right, we get everything right…’
One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff induction process with a group of educators from across our Trust.
We headed out into the wilderness to answer the guiding question, ‘What does it mean to be Crew?’ through a number of shared experiences and activities our Crew formed very quickly. We explored the purpose of Crew deeply and considered how we could make Crew even stronger on our return to our respective schools so that we continue to create the culture in which our students grow their character and make our community and the world a better place for everyone.
Below is an immediate reflection from one of our XP educators:
‘This experience has helped me to understand the building of community. The support that other members of our Crew showed this week has been immense. There have been some activities that have been challenging but everybody has been supportive whilst giving positive challenge so that everybody has been able to push themselves in a safe environment where everybody trusts each other and it’s lifted me and made me feel that I can achieve anything I put my mind to with the support of other people.’ – Louise
It was an honour and privilege to support and challenge our adults to reflect on the imperative we all have at XP to become and create great learners and even better human beings!
We are Crew!
Andy Sprakes and Kate ap Harri
Student Showcase for Year 6 at XP Doncaster
We’re got vacancies across XP Trust!
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Y11 GCSE Revision Information
Thank you to everyone who attended our GCSE Information Evening on Wednesday. We hope you found it useful.
The presentation from the evening is published above so that you have all the information, key dates and teacher contacts to hand.
Mrs Parker
Sharing our Stories: 13/09/2024
Beautiful Work This Week
Race for Bears at Plover!
This week at Plover, students in EYFS completed a sponsored Bear walk as part of their new Expedition! They raised £1148 to support their local community – and dressed up as bears to perform bear related exercises and have fun during the process! Beautiful work!
Beautiful Curation at XP Gateshead
Last week, Comms installed some new wonderful displays of student work at XP Gateshead. These wall displays are culminations of recent Expeditions and Activism from the last year.
Steplab Coaching @ XP Trust
Last Monday, our staff worked closely with Steplab to start implementing their ICT platform for coaching across XP Trust. Staff spent the day looking at effective coaching and learning and how Steplab can help create a positive culture around it.
Crew JPO/JNO’s Ullswater Story
Over the coming week’s we’ll be sharing more stories of Crew from our recent Outward Bound Expedition – here’s another from Crew JPO/JNO!
Student Showcase for Year 6 at XP Doncaster
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Manveer gets to the top of her mountain!
We talk a lot about getting to the top of our metaphorical mountain at XP East, but last weekend Crew Rashford’s Manveer actually made it to the top of Mount Snowdon!
Manveer was part of a wider group raising funds to expand Sant Baba Bhagwan Singh Ji Public Sen. Sec. School in India. The group have collectively raised over £20,000 and we are so impressed with Manveer’s fundraising efforts, as well as taking on the physical challenge of climbing Mount Snowdon.
You can find out more about why this fundraising is so important and donate here: Sant Baba Bhagwan Singh Ji Public Sen. Sec. School Fundraiser
A massive well done also to Crew Marx’s Arina who joined Manveer for part of the ascent. We are super proud of you both!
Mrs Parker