The Year 7 and 8 team faced a skilful Hall Cross last night in the cold and wet conditions. Students showed some excellent skills and teamwork. Well done to Abigail for Coaches Player and Safi for Player of the Match. 
Apologies for the delay on the ordered devices, we now have the list and have allocated names to devices, they will be handed out in the last session today, alternatively if you would like to collect from the office please let us know before 2.15 today
This afternoon our E25/Year 8 Explorer students played battleships in Spanish to help them to remember, retain and recall how the near future tense is formed. Needless to say for over 15 minutes not a single word of English was spoken as our students grappled with the Learning Targets and fired salvoes at their opponents.
On the 26/11/19, E25 will be taking part in a 5km sponsored walk or run. This will be part of their HUMAN expedition ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ and will take place during their PE session.
We will be raising money for the Conversation Club, a charity in Doncaster who supports asylum seekers and refugees. This charity is vital in creating a support network for people who have had to flee their country due to political and religious persecution.
Earlier in the expedition, we were lucky enough to be visited by a group of asylum seekers who are supported by the Conversation Club. It was lovely to see the students so engrossed in listening to the stories of each of the asylum seekers but also sharing a laugh with them too! The students were shocked by some of the reasons why our visitors had to flee, what would’ve happened to them if they had stayed and were moved by the stories of being separated from their family and the emotional impact this has. It was also interesting to hear how many misconceptions there are in society about asylum seekers and by speaking to our visitors we all learnt a lot about this.
We were pleased to hear our visitors enjoyed the experience of visiting our school as much as we enjoyed having them!
Asylum seekers have to live on only £37.75 a week and any support they receive from the Conversation Club is funded through charity and the kindness of volunteers. E25 and X25 will be taking part in this event (separately) so we have the potential to raise a lot for this charity. We will be taking part in other fundraising activities throughout this term to raise more money towards this cause. If each student can be sponsored £1 then it will be a massive help in reaching our target amount for the charity, but feel free give as little, or as much as you can.
Students were handed a sponsor form last week in crew but if they have lost it then they can ask myself or Miss Johnson for another one.
Without wanting to get political it is important to remember instead that these are people who just want to secure their safety. Our character traits of respect and compassion ring out in the students when they get involved with members of our community in this way and I am be proud to work with such mature and compassionate students at XP EAST.
ABOVE ALL, COMPASSION.
On Friday 8th November students from both schools in Year 7-9 were part of a coaching session delivered by England Netball. Students developed their skills in defending and shooting. Students were fantastic and showed some excellent skills and teamwork. Well done girls.
Go Netball
Year 9 will be taking part in fieldwork for expedition ‘Slow down’ for STEAM on Monday 11th of November. This will be a 40 min walk from and back to school to identify road conditions in the local area around XP East.
Students will need to ensure they bring a warm coat (waterproof) and comfortable shoes suitable for light walking.
We will remain open as normal for students who are getting collected at 3:15pm.
However if you are concerned about getting to school or to home we are happy for you to collect your child early. Please come to the visitor entrances of the school, via the visitor car park gates to collect your child.
If your child normally uses public transport and has no other way of getting home, please contact the office on 01302 898792 if you wish them to start their journey earlier.
We have contacted the staff on the school visit to Sheffield Hallam and are in touch with the bus company to get them back to school as soon as possible. We will post an update when we an idea of time.
Any questions please just contact the school on the above number.
Thank you.
So this week in Crew we’ve been focusing on gratitude and appreciation. How can we be more grateful for the things we take for granted? How can we remind ourselves of all the positivity around us when there are so many negative images forced upon us each day? How can we use gratitude to shift our feelings from negative to positive?
We started with some appreciations, then looked at this meme and discussed what resonated with each of us in Crew?
It was really interesting that our discussion took us into a way of realising that actually even in really difficult, sad, troubling or depressing situations, gratitude and spending a moment to think about either the positives in an apparently negative situation, or even looking for the things we are grateful for can help to lift us into better spirits: more contentment and happiness.
We explored the language of “cultivating a shift” – how can we take control of our emotions and feelings, to not ignore them (it’s ok to be sad, feel down, have a tough day!) – but we can choose whether we let those emotions control our mind, or whether we want to try and shift our minds into a more positive state.
We can dwell on situations out of our control. For instance, Fin showed courage and talked about his bad knee, and how it prevents him from doing activities and being as physical as he’d like to be, but he realises there is little he can do about the situation.
We discussed how this could be really frustrating or depressing. But with a shift in thinking about what good has come out of his injury – what he has to be grateful about – he could see that his friends really step up and look after him when he’s in pain, rallying around him; his friendships are strengthened by his injury!
We ended the session by writing down as many things as possible on a post-it note that we are grateful for.
Try it at home? What are you grateful for today? Can you acknowledge the things that make us depressed or sad or down, and “cultivate a shift” towards using out emotional energy to be grateful and feel positive about what we DO have?
There’s still time to get your tickets for FXP’s Ladies Night!! Details are below…
Drop your money into one of the offices with your child’s name/crew on & we’ll send out your tickets or you can keep your eyes peeled for one of our FXP Crew selling tickets in the carpark after school.
Our Christmas Craft Fayre on the 15th November will be full of unique and lovely gifts for you to browse, with drinks & refreshments on offer at our FXP mini Bar, you can enjoy some bubbly whilst you choose which well deserved treatment you fancy in our ‘Pop-up pamper parlour’!
Tickets are just £1.50 each and give you free entry to our prize draw!
Doors open at 6pm,
Free Parking available,
Over 30 stands taking part,
Huge Raffle & More!
A chance to kick off your Festive season with friends & fam whilst helping us FUNdraise for our crews 🤗
***All proceeds go to support our students in their expeditions at XP and XP East Schools***
Thanks as always for your continued support!
School is open as normal.
