We are excited to share that Crew Spencer has taken on a fantastic initiative to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research by participating in a 30-Day Sit-Up Challenge! The challenge involves crew members committing to a set number of sit-ups each day, steadily increasing the count as the days progress. As the challenge unfolds, the sit-ups will be recorded by various members of the crew to track their progress and dedication.
Macmillan Cancer Research is a wonderful charity that offers support, care, and assistance to those affected by cancer, and Crew Spencer is eager to do their part in helping this worthy cause. This effort isn’t just about building physical strength – it’s also about building empathy, community spirit, and understanding the importance of helping others in need.
Members of Crew Spencer will be bringing home a sponsor form today for parents/carers/families. We will be also accepting donations from other Crews when we move onto making collections if anyone else would like to support us.
Look out for the video that we plan to create to show you all how we get on!
What a busy morning we had today selling goodies for our chosen charity Dementia UK. It was a roaring success! We have a few bits left to sell tomorrow, but as it stands, we have raised £122.50. What a fantastic effort Crew Windsor!
This year, we were lucky enough to have new Year 7s from both XPD and XPG working closely together at the Ullswater and Howtown Outward Bound centres. As a result, we were able to capture these wonderful highlights of both sets of students building Crew and expressing what it means to be Crew at the end of their week in their first ever presentation of learning.
Beautiful Curation across the XP Trust
More beautiful work has been made public this week – in both Plover and Carcroft School. Look at these awesome selections from final products, now curated for all to see!
XP Trust Crew Away Day @ YWP
Our Heads, Admin, Facilities and Comms Crews came together to further develop positive relationships and build Crew at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. They spent the day exploring Case Studies to improve communication and conceptual understanding around day-to-day crucial aspects of what we do at XP Trust.
The day was extremely positive and productive – thank you to YWP for your hospitality!
This morning Crew White acted as stewards of our community and sorted the lost property that has been gathering at East. To say we are only 5 weeks into the term we have a lot of items. Please check the photo’s to see if you recognise any items, if so they can be collected from East office. Anything unclaimed after Friday 4th October will be donated to the clothes bank. Thanks Crew White
Please see below information regarding the upcoming open evening at Harrison College.
Harrison College’s open evening is taking place on Wednesday 20th November 2024. We receive a high volume of enquiries each year therefore if you have any young people in Year 11 (Or Year 10) that would like to attend Harrison College please encourage them to attend the open evening. It is also an opportunity for education colleagues to come and have a look around the college and speak to the team.
Please direct interested parents/carers/students/colleagues to our website where there is a wealth of information about the college and also there is a function to reserve a place at open evening. Book Open Evening – Harrison College
Today, Crew Spencer welcomed a new member to our Crew. We took part in a mindfulness activity that beautifully demonstrated the impact of our words. Using a toothpick, they attempted to put toothpaste back into the tube, showing how once words are spoken, they can’t be taken back, no matter how much we try to make things right. Just like toothpaste, our words can leave a mark, reminding us to always choose them with kindness and care.
We’d like all parent/carers opinions on school dinners, including those who’s children have packed lunches. XP Trust would like as many children as we can having delicious healthy meals so your and your child’s opinions are important to us. Children will be asked about their dinners at school but it would be good to have parent/carer opinions too.
Yorkshire Sport Foundation – Opening School Facilities at Plover
Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff at Plover were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding they secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! Plover have been lucky enough to secure some OSF funding this year too, so watch this space for Community Clubs starting in October! #LovePlover
Beautiful Curation!
We don’t just ensure our work is made public – it needs to live inside our school communities, too! More beautiful work has been curated at Plover School, celebrating their ‘Pride of Plover’ award winners and recent Expedition products!
‘If we get staff Crew right, we get everything right…’
One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff induction process with a group of educators from across our Trust.
We headed out into the wilderness to answer the guiding question, ‘What does it mean to be Crew?’ through a number of shared experiences and activities our Crew formed very quickly. We explored the purpose of Crew deeply and considered how we could make Crew even stronger on our return to our respective schools so that we continue to create the culture in which our students grow their character and make our community and the world a better place for everyone.
Below is an immediate reflection from one of our XP educators:
‘This experience has helped me to understand the building of community. The support that other members of our Crew showed this week has been immense. There have been some activities that have been challenging but everybody has been supportive whilst giving positive challenge so that everybody has been able to push themselves in a safe environment where everybody trusts each other and it’s lifted me and made me feel that I can achieve anything I put my mind to with the support of other people.’ – Louise
It was an honour and privilege to support and challenge our adults to reflect on the imperative we all have at XP to become and create great learners and even better human beings!
