E27 – Crew Rashford SLC’s

13th March 2024Emma Watson

Over the past 2 weeks Crew Rashford have been taking part in their Student Led Conferences. Parents and carers have had the opportunity to gain insigh into the incredible work and learning that they have been doing over the last few months.

Student-led conferences put students in charge of sharing information about their progress with their families. Students learn to advocate for themselves; they reflect upon and provide evidence for their progress. The structure builds students’ sense of responsibility and accountability for their own learning, and it helps to hone their understanding of what it means to meet learning targets.

Student-led conferences also greatly enhance family engagement. The conference structure builds family members’ interest and understanding in what has been happening in the classroom. As such, relationships among students, family members and staff are strengthened.

You are awesome Crew Rashford!

Year 7 Spanish describing a house!

13th March 2024Web Blogger

Today Year 7 (E30) learned words and phrases to say what rooms they might find in a home. Students practised the language and then worked together to produce a description of a house in Spanish. Students used sentence builders and graphics to develop their writing. They also worked on building their character traits of respect and integrity by working well and showing kindness to one another in their groups. Some students challenged themselves by adding in negatives and plurals.¡ Buen trabajo!

Mrs. Collinson

The School Age Immunisation Team will deliver the School Leaver Booster and Meningitis vaccinations to all Year 9 (C28)

12th March 2024Mrs N Mawby

On 17/04/2024, students will have the opportunity to have their School Leaver Booster and Meningitis at school with the RDASH immunisation team visiting. Emails with the attached link to confirm consent (YES or No) need to be filled in and sent. The emails were sent to each parent or carer on Monday, 11th March. If you can’t see the email in your inbox, ensure you check your junk mail.

E29 Celebratory Breakfast

11th March 2024Web Blogger

Students of E29 were invited to attend a celebratory breakfast during crew time for the effort they have put into their recent Student Led Conferences.
As Crew Leaders we were really impressed with how far they all have come from last year. The dedication and improvement has not gone unnoticed. How could we not do something to show how proud we all are of them!
E29 Crew Leaders 

Sharing our Stories 11/03/2024

11th March 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Expedition Stories: UKS2 @ Plover

This week we’re proud to share the beautiful story of UKS2s Expedition from last term ‘Earth Emergency’. The carefully designed planters and greenhouse will surely be a catalyst for Plover growing its own produce for generations to come!

Beautiful Curation at XP Doncaster

XP on the TV!

For anyone who missed it – XP Doncaster has been featured in a BBC Two documentary which aired on the 7th March. All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer now.

We’d like to thank everyone who has got in touch or left a comment about the programme – we are so proud of our students and how eloquently they expressed how they feel about their school.

If you’d like to learn more about our schools and how you can do what we do too, you can get a copy of our book How We XP here.

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Find out more about the role and apply here to #JoinOurCrew

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

C30 Year 7 Fieldwork to the Doncaster Gurdwara

7th March 2024B Batty

On Wednesday 20th March Year 7 XP East students will be taking part in fieldwork to the Doncaster Gurdwara. Followed by Year 7 XP students on Friday 22nd March.

This fieldwork has been planned to support their learning in humanities and the expedition ‘Do your bit’. It is a brilliant opportunity to bring the students’ learning to life in an exciting and engaging way. Students will find out more about Sikhism and the Gurdwara itself. The experience will be used to support learning back in the classroom to help the children better understand the content and develop a deeper understanding of the subject/expedition. 
We will depart school at 10am and our expected arrival time back at school is 12.30pm.

Students must bring a head scarf (we can provide scarves if students are struggling for one) and they must be wearing clean socks (they will be asked to remove their shoes).

The visit will be in the morning so lunch time will not be affected.

If you have any questions about the visit please get in touch with your child’s Crew Leader or myself by emailing [email protected]

Thanks Mrs Batty

FXP Tuck Shop

7th March 2024Web Blogger

Thank you for your support of the first FXP tuck shop held this morning. Students and staff gathered at break to buy delicious treats, raising money for FXP. Today we raised £102 in just 15 minutes! All the money raised will be used for future XP projects, helping all of the schools of the XP Trust.

FXP are always on the look out for more volunteers and donations. In order to boost fundraising, we need more donations. For this event we received two. We appreciate all the help we received this time and wish to continue this moving forward, but we need your help so we can raise more. Look out for the FXP leaflet coming out soon with further details on how to support FXP. 

Our next tuck shop date is Thursday 25th April. But first we have Easter Hamper Day on Thursday 28th March. We look forward to seeing you there!

Friends of XP