This week Olivia Shaw from Crew Frank in E26, took on several long distance swimming trials. Olivia completed a 5000m swim beating her past best along with a 60 length challenge that was completed in just 24 minutes!!
Olivia also competed in the 800m and 400m time trails where she placed second and third respectively. It seems we have our very own Rebecca Adlington in the making!!
Well done from the whole PE team Liv!! keep smashing it!
Crew Rowling have once again been extremely busy during their crew time.
On Friday last week, the lovely ladies from Big C Little Warrior came into school and Crew Rowling were able to support them by helping put together Christmas bundles for patients receiving vital cancer treatment. These included warm socks, mindfulness colouring books, pencils, hand and lip cream, power banks and much more. Crew felt really humbled to be a part of this task and enjoyed every minute of it. We were also finally able to present Annette with the funds we raised from our bake sale which totalled £105!
Today, Crew had a little bit of down time and we spent time engaging in a little festive activity with help from Mrs Watson from XP Outdoors. The task was making wood cookie ornaments. This activity gave us time to chat and have fun together while getting into the festive spirit. Faith can’t wait for her ornament to have pride of place!
Next week we are looking forward to Harvey running his own student-led crew session which I know he has been working hard behind the scenes preparing for.
We look forward to keeping you updated on what this entails.
Mrs Barnes and Miss Johnson
If there is a better way for C25 to revise for A Christmas Carol, I don’t know it!
Last Thursday we took the students of C25 to the Savoy cinema for an exclusive private screening of Mark Gatiss’ National Theatre Production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in preparation for their mock exam on Friday. The students’ behaviour was superb and the production was excellent. It showed the disparity between the rich and the poor in Victorian society whilst giving clarity to the students on both plot and character development. We hope to be able to replicate this event with future production.
A special thanks to all the staff at the Savoy cinema who were so friendly and patient with both our staff and students.
After our regular Mindful Monday check in crew Moore were set the challenge of working as a team to create banner of Christmas bunting. Each table was given just a craft pack and a set of instructions. The activity was time bound meaning they need to work quickly and communicate well. Both teams grappled with missing parts and elements falling off before achieving their goals. We ended with a quick clean up maintaining our leave no trace moto.
We had an amazing night presenting C24 with their GCSE certificates and celebrating their achievements one last time. Extra congratulations to those students who received an Exceptional Contribution award (see full list in the slides above), although it’s worth saying that you *all* deserve an award for showing resilience, determination and commitment to learning throughout your time with us – especially during lockdown.
Special mentions must go to Lewis D (XPE) and Eleanor D (XP) who were given the Exceptional GCSE Results Award. Absolutely amazing results and very well deserved. We are so excited to see what the future holds for you both!
If you were unable to attend, certificates will be available for collection from Tuesday 6th December from your school office. We are unable to post these to you as they must be signed for. Please let us know in advance if you would like to collect your Art Portfolio at the same time and we’ll have this ready for you.
Important notice to all BTEC Sport/Music/Engineering Students: your certificates are also available for collection (apologies to those who came to the presentation evening… you’ve got to come back again!)
Keep in touch, C24. Your XP/XPE journey may be over, but we will be Forever Crew.
Mrs Parker and Miss Cocliff x
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit http://xptrust.org/stories
Last week we hosted De Warenne School at XP for the opening round of KS4 badminton fixtures. Most of the students who have been attending the after school badminton club represented the school in what was for many the first time in a sporting event.
They played brilliant and we are all so proud of them.
We look forward to host future fixtures and seeing a great turnout at our enrichment clubs
Well done to everyone!!
Farewell Breakfast
Last week we said farewell to one of our Crew members. A great chance to reminisce on our time together and see them off in style. We had an amazing crew session and a lovely breakfast.
It is safe to say there is a great big hole left in crew and they will be missed very much. We wish them all the best for the future and academic success of course, keep in touch!
Crew Rashford x
C27 have a wonderful relationship with the VC Trust over at Lakeside, they are a very important charity and we will be working with them for years to come on our future expeditions about WW1.
They kindly invited us to a memorial service for remembrance in which we took a few of our students who have being showing great HOWLS recently. We stood among veterans and gave our thanks.
Lest we forget – so important to remember all soldiers, especially those in our locality!
Year 9 have started their D of E Bronze award. We started the term with a mission to complete a lap of lakeside in 45 minutes…we have since SMASHED that target. We now manage to complete a full lap during crew time. The kids have done so well that we allowed a visitor to join us last week in crew time walk…Meet Simba, Miss Cades puppy who accompanied us last week!
