XP East

Good evening, just a reminder that next week, XP East Year 11 Spanish GCSE students will take their final speaking exam, worth 25% of the overall marks. This will be on Monday 24th April. Students know their times, and should arrive at XP East about ten minutes before their time. Team Spanish wish all of our students LOTS OF LUCK

Due to strikes occurring on Tuesday, May 2nd, our Y10 Mock Exam timetable has been updated to ensure minimal disruption.

Mock exams will commence on Wednesday, May 3rd – there has been no change to the order of mock exams.

Here is the updated timetable.

Best wishes,

Marc, Mel & Angella

Please see the updated enrichment timetable below:

Thank you so much to the students and families of C26 for attending the launch of Work Experience 2023. We had a great turnout and some really great questions from people. Thanks also to ‘Willows’ of Warmsworth for refreshments.

Work Experience presentation

This year is going to be awesome for our year 10’s with a range of activities coming up. From 3 days of work experience to 2 college taster days and a range of employability skills. With mock exams just around the corner, year 10 are also invited to D6, our Saturday morning school, XP East 9.30am – 12pm

Tonight we have our Y7 and Y8 boys football teams heading to Laurel Academy for their league fixture tonight,

Students who are picked have been made aware and have ticked their names off the team sheet,

The students are leaving school at the end of the school day and are due back around 5:30 tonight, parents please be aware that your child will contact you when we set off to give a more accurate arrival time. Pick up from the Rovers car park.

Any questions please contact Mr Stables [email protected]

The Outward Bound Trust is very proud to be able to support 25,000 young people every year to discover they are ‘more than they think’ and in the current climate it is ever more critical that they are afforded such experiences whenever possible!

Outward Bound know that access to other adventures outside of school is not always a possibility, as a Trust they are extremely fortunate this year to have been granted a number of larger funds which are specifically aimed at supporting young people to have adventures over the summer holiday period, a chance to escape the strains of life at home, or perhaps to be rewarded for all they have done to support others throughout the year. 

Funding levels vary. No one will be excluded on the basis of money and they welcome applications into our Adventure Fund from everyone.

Courses are 5,7,14 or 19 days in length and our age range is 10 – 22 years.

Please use this link for information.

We can also provide individual conversations should you wish to reach out, information can be found here.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back – we hope you have all enjoyed your Easter break! We have loved welcoming our students back yesterday for the start of the Summer Term at XP and XP East and can’t wait to see them engage in all the exciting experiences we have planned. 

Please be reminded of a few things as we move into the Summer Term. 

PUNCTUALITY

School opens at 8:00am every morning. Students should arrive between 8:00am and 8:30 am and there are spaces available for socialising, reading or completing extended study. Students must be on site for 8.30am for the call to Crew. 

DAILY KIT LIST

As always, students need to bring a school bag with:

• School bag
• Water bottle
• A fully charged & appropriate device (a phone is not suitable for learning)
• Locker key
• A reading book from their AR book level (please remember that as part of our reading strategy, we expect all students to read 20 mins of their own AR book each day). Ask your child (or child’s crew leader) if you are unsure of your child’s book level. 
• Pen, Pencil, Ruler (in a pencil case where possible)
• PE Kit (on specific days) 
• Outdoor kit (on specific days) 

Our full equipment list with further exemplification can be found on the website for each school (here)

DRESS CODE

As always, we ask students and staff to dress appropriately and modestly. We regularly remind students of our dress code within crew and community meetings. Please support us by reminding your children of this at home as the weather improves. 

See link here to details on dress code from our website.

THIS WEEK

NEW TERM – NEW EXPEDITIONS

A new term means new and exciting expeditions for many of our students (C27 have a few weeks left of their Spring term expedition). As always, immersion takes place this week for those starting their new expeditions and our students will be working hard to find out what their new guiding questions are and the challenges and new learning their expeditions will bring. We can’t wait to welcome you to the Presentations of Learning at the end of term, including our annual Climate Conference which is currently developing.

C26 Work Experience Launch 

Parents of C26 students are invited to school for the C26’s work placement information evening which starts at 5pm on Tuesday 18th April. Please make your way to XPE stairs for this event.  The evening will provide you with detailed information on the work experience process, including: 1:1 career advice available in school, expectations, finding a placement, roles and duties as well as the all important health & safety measures of the placement. 

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES

Mr Stables is finalising the summer term enrichment programmes this week and this will be published on the website later this week.

C25 update

Each week Miss Parker and Miss Cocliff will be blogging a ‘WOOP – What’s on our plate’ to update parents of the information shared with crew leaders and students in the run up to the exams. Please also be reminded of the revision sites and information for parents of Y11. 

LOOKING AHEAD:

STRIKE ACTION

As you may be aware, the NEU teachers union balloted and agreed two further days of strike action this term on Thursday 27th April and Tuesday 2nd May 2023. As a leadership team, we will do our best to minimise disruption to your child’s education and we will update you in due course.

EXPEDITION NEWSLETTERS

These will land in your email inbox next week including the important dates planned this term and any further relevant updates for your child’s year group in the same format as last term, please look out for the email.

STARTERS AND LEAVERS 

Last term we held lots of interviews to replace staff who are moving on to pastures new. We have said goodbye to Mrs Daniels and Miss Boon who have moved onto alternative provisions within the field of education. We wish them well in their future endeavours. 

On the 12th May, Mr Tucker leaves us to take up a Headship in a Wakefield school. We thank him for his work at XP Doncaster over the past 12 months. Miss Johnson, our school SENCO, has been successfully appointed as Leader of Key Stage 3 to replace Mr Tucker and a thorough handover has already started. Miss Johnson knows the students in Key Stage 3 well and will be able to use these existing relationships to hit the ground running in her new role. 

In addition, we have appointed a Trust Maths Lead, School Maths Lead and four new teachers to our schools who will join us over the coming weeks. As with our students, when new staff start in any of our Trust Schools they are exposed to an immersive experience to learn what it means to be a crew member and to understand how we teach and learn through expeditions in an XP school. 

As usual, if you have any questions please contact your child’s crew leader in the first instance. 

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Claira Salter 

Principal

There is no after school football today, 

Cheerleading is on in the sports hall, all welcome meet at the changing rooms at 3:15 

A full enrichment timetable will go out on the blog this week, 

Any questions please contact Mr Stables 

On the 26th of April at 4.30pm we will be holding a parents evening for parents to explain the changes in your child’s curriculum which will happen in year 9. 
Towards the end of this term we will be splitting the students into two groups. One of these groups will continue with Spanish and complete a GCSE in year 11. The other group will begin a GCSE in RE and Ethics. 
This evening will discuss both choices and the content within them. We will also explain how students are separated into the groups and how they will be taught. 
We would encourage attendance of all parents so that you have a full understanding of the process and enable you to support your child with this. 

Many thanks 

Polly and Nicola.