XP East

Football tournament next week

By James Walker17th January 2020

We have teams competing in football tournaments in years 7, 8 and 9 next week. The event takes place at Rossington All Saints school and we will travel there straight after school – returning at around 5:30-6pm.

Wednesday 22nd January – Year 9 tournament

Finn O

Christian M

Brendan K

Denzil M

Alfie C

Bobby

milo

Aden

Sam Coates

Callum B

Thursday 23rd January – Year 7 & 8 tournament

Year 7

Ben Boettcher

Lynden B

Harrison P

William L

Danny Davis

Arjun D

Sam Fielding
Josh B

Year 8

Riley Coates

Declan Richards

Evren

Ben Williamson

Alfie L

Andrew Hurst

Ricki Tomes

Harley A
Kyle SJ

Luke H

Finlay A

Big Picture Doncaster Vacancy

By Michelle Jones16th January 2020

Big Picture Doncaster opened in April 2019 and is the first UK school set up under the Big Picture Learning UK charity. It follows the Big Picture ethos developed in the US which focuses the educational experience of the learner in a bespoke and tailored way.

The role of advisor is unique and multi-faceted. Advisors are not traditional teachers and do not work from a deficit model where they are the experts and students come with nothing. They are a guide to enable the student to learn how to learn and open up and explore their own learning. Advisors will work with a relatively small number of students to enable them to foster meaningful and authentic relationships and will be the key architect along with students and families of the learning plan.

Closing date: 9am Friday 8th February 2020

Below is further details:

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E24 / Y9 GCSE Spanish Extended Study

By D Pearson15th January 2020

This week’s E24/ Y9 GCSE Spanish Extended Study is centred on learning the irregular verbs “tener” (“to have”) and “estar” (“to be”), currently being used to describe ailments and injuries. Vocabulary retrieval, i.e. a test on these two verbs, will take place in session on Friday 17th January. Relevant slides will be shared with students.

Thank you.

E25 HUMAN Fieldwork 22nd January!

By H Hickson14th January 2020

On Wednesday 22nd January, E25 will be going on fieldwork to develop their knowledge and understanding of the medieval period.

Their current expedition ‘I’ve Got the Power!’ has the guiding question ‘how does power affect us?’. We are undertaking a thematic study of power over time, with our first area of study focusing on the medieval period. This fieldwork will directly link to our learning in lessons and greatly help to support the expedition.

We will be going to a mystery location that will be revealed to students on the day.

Students need to arrive at school by 8:15 and we will be returning to school at 5:30.

Students will need a packed lunch and a warm coat as we will be outside for some of the day.

E25 HUMAN Presentation of Learning

By H Hickson13th January 2020

Last term, students in E25 studied the expedition entitled ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ with the guiding question of ‘Why should we care about migration?’

Our final product for this expedition is a documentary that explains our answer to this question. The first screening of this documentary will shown at X25 Presentation of Learning next Monday 20th January at 6.40pm at Cast theatre, Doncaster.

We have worked closely with the Conversation Club, a charity which helps asylum seekers, during this expedition. It has been a valuable experience for all involved and our work with this charity has played an important role in our documentary.

Every student will be expected to attend on Monday with one ticket for one adult companion. Unfortunately, as the theatre has a full capacity of 130 people, students are unable to invite more than one person. Students need to make their own way to and from CAST theatre as transport will not be provided.

Therefore to allow students to showcase their hard work to more relatives/friends we are putting on another screening at XP EAST on Thursday 23rd January at 4.30pm.

Please arrive in enough time to be seated before the screening begins.

We look forward to sharing our expedition with you.

E24 Pioneer (Bring a coat and spare trainers)

By J Smith13th January 2020

E24 Pioneer students will visit Hatfield Moor tomorrow morning as part of their immersion into their new learning expedition.

Students must dress prepared for the weather. It is likely to be wet/muddy so hiking boots or a separate pair of trainers, along with a plastic bag to place them in (PE trainers will be fine).

Students will eat lunch in school as normal.

Explorer will visit Hatfield Moor on Thursday morning.

Crew Young explore rites of passage

By D Pearson13th January 2020

In an attempt to explore the social, moral, spiritual and cultural reasons behind rites of passage practised by communities throughout the world, we spent Crew time this morning studying the Apache and Fulani tribes. It quickly became apparent that Crew Young were largely ignorant of the term “rites of passage” and its significance in E24 Year 9 at XP East.

We watched Dashina, of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, prepare for the trials of womanhood, by enduring four days of ancient tests of strength, endurance, and character before taking her Apache woman name of “morning star feather”. We saw two adolescent boys of the Fulani tribes of Benin, Western Africa engaged in a whipping trial to prove their strength and courage before tribal elders.

We then considered the similarities and differences between these two cultures and made a connection between these rites of passage, and “passage” that is being planned for this term.

It was the French anthropologist and folklorist Arnold van Gennep, who coined the phrase rites of passage in 1909. In 2020 at XP East our students’ preparations for a more academic “passage” are well under way.

Year 7/8 Girls Football Match 16/1/20

By Charlotte OGrady12th January 2020

Football Team Sheet

Thursday 16th January 2020

Home McCauley

Year 7/8

15.30-16.30

Faith F

Faith P

Lydia T

Sareena K

Abigail T

April C

Safi R

Cerrina G

Millie H

Maddie E

Leoni H

Maddie M

Lacie H

Molly

Please tick your name off if you can play or come and see me if you can’t

You will need to bring: Water Bottle, Black Shorts ,Shin Pads ,Moulded boots or trainers ,Black football socks (if you have them)/ any football socks and a Warm jumper.

Y7/E26 ‘Get Up! Stand Up!’ Fieldwork

By K Poncia12th January 2020

Following the big reveal of E26’s new HUMAN expedition, ‘Get Up! Stand Up!’, we would like to let you know about fieldwork which has been planned to support learning during our first case study ‘Say It Ain’t So!’

On Monday 27th January 2020, we will be travelling by coach to a location approximately 2 hours from Doncaster. Remember – we aren’t revealing the exact location until Monday, as we would like to maintain an element of mystery with regards to the upcoming case study!

The arrangements are as follows:

all students to arrive at school by 7.50am to ensure a prompt departure from school at 8.10am
we will be travelling by coach (approx. 2 hours)
all students will need to bring a packed lunch (no glass bottles or fizzy drinks, please)
please bring any prescribed medication required, clearly labelled in a plastic bag or envelope with your child’s name and required dosage
sensible clothing and shoes need to be worn (we will be inside for the day)
all students will return to school at approximately 5.15p.m
please bring £1.00 for a locker to store bags and coats (this is refundable)

In the interests of ensuring a prompt departure from, and return back, to school it is important that – as always – our students arrive on time on these fieldwork days.

Many thanks.

What will 2020 bring?

By Katie Haughey12th January 2020

Crew Turing have just reunited for their first week of crew in 2020 after a joyous 2 weeks off celebrating Christmas and getting some well deserved rest! We started check-in on Monday by sharing any new year’s resolutions that we had thought of. Some included

Lexi wants to gain confidence in gymnastics so she can accomplish more
Reece would like to learn certain skills with his surfing that he wasn’t able to master last summer
Many students wanted to improve their organisation – making sure they had their equipment and homework was completed on time
Lots of us spoke about increasing time for reading

I invested in a crew calendar to help with the resolution of improving our organisation. In the coming weeks, we will have SLCs to prep for, a HUMs presentation of learning, and various other deadlines to meet. Crew agreed that by tracking this we’d be much better prepared for what we’ve got coming up so we can hold each other (including myself) to account.

On Wednesday, we ate breakfast together in the student kitchen and created a ‘Crew To-do list” for the student led conference preparation, which included dates for when work needed to be completed by. It was nice to refresh ourselves of the whole process and what we would need to do. We agreed that rather than doing SLC prep in crew every day, that this time some of the work would be set as extended study. I trust that my crew can work well independently on these tasks now they’re a whole year wiser, and I can’t wait for them to share their expeditionary work with me.

I’m going to be putting on Monday night sessions where students can come and work in my room (A04) to get scripts completed.

We ended the week with a little inter-crew competition of capture the flag. I loved how my crew discussed their defensive strategies and were working as a team to fend off the other crew. It was also lovely to get a bit of fresh air and get our blood pumping after an exhausting first week back!