Here’s E28 Crew Moore diving into the world of DofE, mastering the art of CPR and striking a pose with the recovery position. Our DofE adventurers are on a quest to blend life-saving skills with a touch of flair. Here they are learning the ropes, making safety training a lively and memorable experience. 🚀💙
On Friday 8th March we have a Staff day planned. This means that year 11 students will miss their usual 2 hour GCSE Art session where they would be completing important preparation work for their upcoming exam.
In order to minimise the time lost and to allow students to prepare fully for their exam piece, we are asking that
year 11 students at XP East attend school on Friday 8th March from 9am-11am.
year 11 students at XP attend school on Friday 8th March from 11am-1pm.
They will work in their normal Art classroom with their teacher, Miss Taylor or Mr. Doyle.
On Wednesday 21st February, our wonderful E26 students visited the University of Huddersfield to discover what higher education has to offer. All students are to be commended for their excellent behaviour and the way they interacted with the University staff and student ambassadors.
During the quiz, students demonstrated their background knowledge and problem solving skills by working together in teams to win prizes (we all wanted one of the snazzy pens so competition was fierce!) There was some surprise at finding there are over 40,000 higher education courses to choose from and most people thought the accommodation with free gym membership and transport looked like a bargain! The session on student finance also helped to alleviate some of the worries around the cost of HE.
An informative lecture about Nazi Germany gave pupils the opportunity to interact with an expert about a key element of their GCSE study. Their history teacher would have been very proud to hear our students forming convincing arguments about Nazi propaganda and the other factors that played a part in Hitler’s rise to power. Their ability to confidently draw on their background knowledge to deal with new source material was impressive. Special mentions to Harvey, Faith, Liv, Rhys and Sam for their excellent contributions!
Students had plenty of opportunity to quiz the student ambassadors about student life. Questions such as “‘what happens if you fail or don’t do well in a module, can you resit?” and “how many lectures do you have each week?” kept the ambassadors on their toes! There was also lots of interest around the clubs and societies available to join and, of course, the social side of University life 😉
We were also treated to a campus tour where everyone was very impressed with the facilities, including a state-of-the-art gym and sports hall, huge science labs, a fantastic library and lots of places to grab food and drinks. One thing that we weren’t expecting was just how picturesque the campus was, set amongst historic converted mills and the scenic working canal.
All in all an excellent day, and – as always – it was a real pleasure to be in E26’s company.
Mrs Parker & Ms Cross
Please see attached this week’s C26 Weekly Planner.
What a fun, fieldwork filled week we had last week! Let’s hope this week is just as awesome 🙂
E30/Year 7 students learned to describe their hair, eyes, and give more details like glasses and moustaches in Spanish today. Students used photobooth props to create descriptions and then had a photobooth!
Mrs. Collinson
We hope you have all had a restful half-term break and are coming back refreshed and ready for the another 6 weeks of hard work and exam prep… Can you believe this is the last full term before GCSEs begin?!
Key Messages this week:
Thank you!
Mrs Parker & Miss Cocliff
XP Doncaster are excited to launch Work Experience 2024 on Wednesday 21st February at 5pm – 6pm which will include information on Next Steps for Year 10 as they prepare for their transition from Secondary school. Parents and Students are advised that it is important to attend.
Have you seen this awesome Instagram page, created to showcase the beautiful work from the 150 (and counting!) artists at XP Gateshead? You can see everything they’ve done and follow them here.
Here are some examples recent work they’ve produced…
This week, beautiful work from LKS2’s last Expedition ‘Coming to Doncaster – Why then, why now?’ has been curated outside the school! Be sure to stop and take a look at their work on migration, Roman history and sharing stories!
In Autumn 2023, Green Top School’s UKS2 children undertook a learning expedition called Earth Emergency. The guiding question was: How can we help our planet survive? Their beautiful artwork is on display on a shopfront on Fieldside in Thorne.
Beautiful work from Arlo and Daniel @ XP Gateshead
Exploring and Embedding Goldilocks and the three bears @ Norton Infants
Safer Internet Day @ Green Top
Crew RPU/ABT getting SLC ready @ XP
Crew Rashford sharing the love @ XP East
Fun in the snow @ Carcroft School
Ponder, Persevere, Practice but never Procrastinate @ Norton Juniors
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Year 8 are currently studying the Fight the Power expedition. In Hums we are focusing on the theme power in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the power of the earth in geography, by examining tectonic processes and natural hazards, power in Christianity and the fight for and against power in history over time by studying the Peasant’s Revolt.
Today both classes undertook a workshop with the help of Miss Buckley who was joined by Alex and Deanna from year 9. We began in small groups by showing how power changes or is shown in key scenes focusing on Lady Macbeth, Macbeth and the witches. Finally each class prepared and performed Act 3 Scenes 3-4 where Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost. It was great to see the courage and talent shown by those who took on a leading role and everyone else getting involved, even if it was pushing themselves out of their comfort zone. Mrs Woodward and Miss Wilkinson give massive appreciations to you all!
