Please find attached the slides for the information given on the C27 POL evenings. Please contact your crew leader with any further questions.
Y11 (C25) Weekly Planner: 15/5/23
Exam Week 1 – let’s do this!
This week’s planner has details of exams, revision sessions and a link to youngminds.org.uk to help with exam stress.
Crew Da Vinci- Hide and Seek crew activity.
Crew Da Vinci- Hide and Seek crew activity.
During this Term year 9 have been working really hard on finishing their passage’s and presenting them. For Crew this morning they wanted to build on being Crew again as they have all presented their passage Presentations and are ready to start their GCSE’s when they come back. They wanted to be outside in the fresh air and celebrate their successes with each other by having a few games of hide and seek!
Every single student in Crew Da Vinci should be so proud of their selves for their effort they have put into it and the courage shown by each and every one of them! Miss Cade cannot wait to see what year 10 and 11 brings with the hard work that they are putting into place now in year 9!
Thanks for all the support from parents, staff members and Experts that have taken time out of their day to come and support Da Vinci. We truly appreciate you!
PS. Spot our reigning champion at hide and seek! ( Shay Robson).
Sharing our Stories: 12/05/2023
Beautiful Work This Week
A Christmas Carol: Year 11 Study Guide for GCSE – created by Year 11 at XP!
Students at XP in Year 11 have been preparing for their GCSE English Literature Exam studying a range of different texts. One of these was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
As we learn predominantly through Learning Expeditions at XP Trust, students embarked on a Humanities based expedition entitled Is Charity Enough? Students studied A Christmas Carol whilst considering the work they had completed, and were continuing to study, as part of their GCSE History in the thematic module Health and Medicine through the Ages. Students focussed on A Christmas Carol considering what life was like particularly social conditions at the time the novella was written.
Students then began a detailed study of the Dickens classic by reading and writing about characters, themes and the intent of the novella. This was the foundation for the study guide that includes this content as well as beautiful artwork, interviews with Lucinda Hawksley (the Great Great Great Granddaughter of Dickens himself) as well as curators from the Dickens museum in London.
The result of this work is a fantastic guide for the students to use to help them in their GCSE revision as well as a beautiful product that reflects the students authentic voice and deep engagement with the text. However, this guide isn’t just for our students and their studies – it’s available to everyone studying A Christmas Carol at GCSE, as well as anyone else with a keen interest in Dickens!
You can buy your copy of the guide here!
All students in X25 were given a copy of the guide and further copies can be purchased through our website.
Beautiful Curation at Norton Campus!
Doncaster Minster – E27 Ethics
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Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
Investigating tectonic plates @ Norton Juniors
Year 8 Spanish fashion topic @ XP
Our Coronation crown winners @ Plover
Celebration Crew @ Norton Infants
C27 Visit to York Chocolate Story
As part of our expedition in Spanish this term, exploring the issue of child labour on cocoa and sugar plantations in Latin America and Fair Trade, C27 from XP and XP East visited York’s Chocolate Story. We learned about the origins of chocolate and how it is produced. Students were surprised to learn that chocolate has its origins in Mexico, and only came to Europe following the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The word that we use for chocolate comes directly from the Aztec word “chocolatl”, which was a cold, bitter drink mixed with chillies.Students tried this drink – not a popular choice with most! They also had the opportunity to try cocoa during various stages of the chocolate making process, and then made their own chocolate lolly.
Mrs. Collinson
Y11 GCSE: important information
We are finally there – GCSE exam time! All the hard work that’s been put in over the last 5 years will be (formally) tested over the next few weeks.
Some sessions have been collapsed in school to allow for revision sessions prior to GCSE exams taking place. Students will receive details about this each week, but are expected to be in school each day from 8:30-3:15pm.
Morning exams start at 9.30am, afternoon exams at 1.30pm.
Please be aware if students receive extra time, some afternoon exams may run past 3:15pm.
We will send out weekly schedules for you to pair with the exam timetables you have already. On these weekly schedules you will find revision sessions (in school), exam times, dates and length, and revision sessions taking place outside of school.
Meanwhile, please see the calendar below for an overview of exam dates and half term revision sessions.
There will be sessions taking place during the half term in May, too – there will be sessions available Tuesday 30th May, Wednesday 31st May, Thursday 1st June and Friday 2nd June. These are highlighted on the attached calendar and further information will be communicated to students.
Please also note that we will be providing breakfast club for Y11 students throughout the exam window, starting from Tuesday 16th May, 8am-8.20am.
Thanks for your support,
Angella & Mel
Y11 Weekly Planner w.b. 9/5/23
Our last push before GCSEs start on next Monday!
We will continue to publish Y11’s weekly planner each week throughout the exam period, which will include revision sessions, any study day details alongside the exam timetable for the week.
EL #BetterWorldDay 2023!
It’s @ELeducation‘s #BetterWorldDay! Here’s a beautiful example of how the community at Plover School are stepping up and doing their bit to make the world a better place with their Plover Pantry food bank.
Year 7 students at XP Gateshead carried out a day of fundraising! Working together in Crews, our students carried 5 litre bottles of water around as many laps of the 400m track as they could…
Be sure to follow #BetterWorldDay on Twitter to see schools around the world sharing their stories!
Sharing our Stories: 05/05/2023
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across our Trust this week!
For more stories, make sure you visit http://xptrust.org/stories #WeAreCrew
Charity Tuck Shop
C27 have been raising money as part of their final product by hosting a tuck shop on Friday break times. This week is our final push and we have LOTS for sale including crisps, biscuits, sausage rolls, toast etc. Alongside this we have the “sponge a teacher event” where students will be able to throw sponges at teachers during lunch!
The money raised is for St Johns Hospice, a local palliative care hospital which is very dear to our hearts at XP. So please bring in a £1 or 2 to support the cause!