XP East

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Festival of Learning 2024

The Staff Day in January saw the launch of our proposed teaching and learning model as part of our Festival of Learning. The event took place at XP Doncaster and was attended by staff from across all schools in the Trust. All staff had the opportunity to explore the model in more depth as well as attending other workshops on different parts of the model.

This is part of the Trust’s commitment to ensure that we expose more students to more impactful teaching more of the time.

Beautiful Curation: A Christmas Carol

There is now an awesome display at XP to celebrate the Christmas Carol Study Guide – the beautiful work of last year’s Year 11s. Be sure to go and admire their hard work on display!

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Thoughtful Thursday @ Norton Infants

Year 5 Photography Club @ Green Top

X28 Crew Lovelace Beautiful Work @ XP

Bobby’s awesome home learning @ Plover

C27 Community Meeting @ XP East

Exploring Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores @ Carcroft School

Our Learning Journey – Hook Week @ Norton Juniors

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!

Please see the weekly planner which covers the next two weeks.

Key Messages: 

• The next round of mock exams start on Monday: Mock Exam Timetable

• D6 launches on Saturday 27th January, 9.30am-12pm at XP East Study Area

Please note that there will be no maths learning lab during the mock exam period.  English and Science will run as normal. 

D6 is our Saturday revision session, open to all Y11 students.

This allows students the opportunity to revise in a quiet space away from home or to meet up and work in small study groups.

Students can join us in the Study Area at XP East anytime between 9.30am-12pm, grab a drink and a snack, and get some all important study done!

Dear Parents and Families of Students in Year 11,

Please find attached the mock exam timetable for the exams which will begin next week. This round of exams will be the last before the final GCSE examinations and will provide teachers and students with valuable feedback to ensure that we are as prepared as possible.

As always, thank you for your support.

Best wishes,

The Year 11 Team

We were able to share some fantastic praises in this morning’s Y10 Community Meeting.

Special mention to Ben S for earning 20 praise points so far this term – really impressive!

It is coming to the time of the academic year where our Year 9 students begin to think more deeply about whether or not they are GCSE ready in relation to their future aspirations.

Each of our Year 9’s has worked alongside their Crew Leader to write their Passage Presentation, reflecting on their time at XP Schools and how they have developed as a person and demonstrated character growth. As part of their presentation they have looked back on Expeditions and experience to illustrate themselves as a writer, mathematician, scientist and other more bespoke subjects of interest, with the aim of demonstrating their readiness for GCSE’s.

Their next task is to share this with a panel of specialists who will assess them against the rubric, offer support and critique and give them the enthusiasm to continue towards their chosen career path. Which is where you come in!

We would like as many expert panelists as possible, with the hope that each student can have a panelist already working in the field they aspire to reach.

Your role in the panel will be to listen to the students presentation and provide kind, specific and helpful feedback and experience to support them into Key Stage 4.

If you think this is something you could help with, please sign up here.

If you have any further questions please contact:

Emma Watson – Phase Leader XP East

Chris Morrison – Phase Leader XP School

Natalie Johnson – Key Stage 3 Leader

Click the picture to find out more…

Thank you in advance! We hope to be contacting you soon!

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Festival of Learning

On Friday, staff across our Trust gathered to launch the first phase of our exciting new Teaching and Learning model, with a focus on our culture of Crew, underpinning principles, deliberate & intentional teaching/learning behaviours at its heart…

Staff from our secondaries and primaries grappled with this exciting new model and took part in a wide range of workshops to develop teaching and learning at XP.

More on this next week…

Carcroft School: How Could We Help Our Planet Survive?

In Autumn 2023, Years 5 and 6 completed an expedition looking at the impact we are having on the planet and what we could do to make a difference now and for future generations. They held their presentation of learning last week!

Their final product for this expedition was a picture frame made from sustainably-sourced materials. Students then chose their favourite piece of writing from across the expedition to publish in the frame alongside (or behind) a simple piece of artwork reflecting elements of our learning. Beautiful work!

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Delicious Recycling @ Norton Infants

Crew Oldridge’s Experiments @ Green Top

Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead

XP Outdoors – Mindfulness Walk @ XP

Future Architects? @ Plover

Life Skills in LOOL @ XP East

Crew Challenge @ Carcroft School

Problem Solving – Square Numbers @ Norton Juniors

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!

Dear Parents and Families of students in Year 11,

Next Thursday 25th of January, we invite parents to join us for our first run through of our Teacher-Student Led conferences. These conferences will provide parents with an opportunity to meet with subject-specific teachers, allow students to discuss and reflect on their progress in different subjects and look at areas for development in the weeks leading up to the GCSE exams in the spring.

Students have been given a booking form to share with you which will allow you to book a time between 16.30 and 19.30. Slots last for 5 minutes and will be booked on a first come first served basis so please ask your child to see their booking form and suggest a time to meet teaching staff.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

We had a lovely Community Meeting this morning with Y11, celebrating the awesome work that’s going on across all sessions. We also spoke about the importance of balancing our mental health and wellbeing alongside our studies during this final run up to mocks and exams.

Great to hear so many positive appreciations for Y11 – keep it up!

Mrs Parker and Miss Cocliff