School Football Fixtures

This coming week we have some exciting football fixtures to look forward to with both boys and girls fixtures home and away.

Our year 11 boys start their journey in the National cup away at Astrea Woodfields and the KS3 girls team at on Maculey at home in their opening league game.

Y11 Boys V Astrea Woodfields- 21/9/22 Meet at the changing rooms at 3:15pm- Pick up from XP at 5:15pm

KS3 Girls V Maculey- 22/9/22 Meet at the changing rooms at 3:15pm- Pick up from XP at 4:30pm

Both team sheets are now up on the PE notice board, if you have any questions ask see Mr Stables

C28 English

There has been some beautiful work produced across C28 in English sessions as part of the Being Human expedition. Students have begun to explore our new anchor text ’We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices’. There were some excellent examples of quality and craftsmanship alongside some mature and insightful ideas predicting what the book may include.

We are all very excited to get reading!

E28 / Year 8 Spanish students using the GoGoMo protocol…

Our E28 / Year 8 students recently followed the GoGoMo (Give One, Get One, Move On) protocol to help build and test their understanding of regular Spanish verbs. As can be seen in the photos below, it involves plenty of action and student interaction, and I wish to praise their very high levels of engagement in this session.

Praising E27 GCSE Spanish students!

Our E27 / Y9 GCSE Spanish students have got off to a flying start this year. I would like to appreciate their high levels of engagement and productivity in focused pair work as they practise how to express opinions of TV shows in their foreign language sessions.

Rugby League World Cup

Good evening, as a school we are delighted to have the opportunity to secure tickets for our students and parents for the upcoming Rugby World Cup matches at the ECO-Power Stadium on Monday the 17th and Monday the 31st of October.

On the google form below you can fill out the how many tickets you would like and the cost of each the tickets. Tickets will be charged to the parent pay accounts. For those ordering ticket you will be contacted about payment from the week commencing the 19th of September.

Please note that this is not school led fieldwork. If you purchase tickets, it is your responsibility to get to and from the stadium.

Any questions please contact Mr Stables- [email protected]

If you would like a ticket please fill in the google form below,

https://forms.gle/krGjvKhjT1EHvRmj7

Sporting Success

Here at XP we are always looking for our students to achieve and strive for amazing things and we are lucky to have some very successful student athletes, no other than C28’s Sophia Hunter of Crew Boseman.

Sophia is a golfer who spends most of her free time practicing and playing in tournaments around south Yorkshire and she has been competing all summer. Recently, at the Peter Cowen Gold Academy Awards night, Sophia picked up 6 trophies which means Sophia is the current leader for the over 12’s tour.

The Crew and whole school are incredibly proud of Sophia and look forward to hearing of more success in the future.

Mr Stables and Team PE

Praise for 11 Pioneer History

Year 11 have been thrown straight back into it in history – we’ve started our new history unit ‘The People’s Health’ that is a thematic study focusing on how factors such as beliefs, technology, government, wealth and poverty impacted public health from 1250-present day. I’ve been so impressed with Pioneer – particularly in our lessons this week as they have been so focused and motivated to do well. It seems like everyone has their eye on the end of the year and there is definitely an atmosphere of determination and motivation to do well – I’m pleased that they are taking everything in their stride whether it is the mountain of content and knowledge they need to learn or practising their exam technique each lesson, it is all attacked with hard work and a maturity that seems to have developed over the summer.

It’s been wonderful to watch your personalities and academic skills grow over the years since our first lessons in year 7 and I’m sure all this hard work will pay off – and yes Charlie, I may still have my Miss Battle-Axe moments, you’ll thank me for them later!

Miss Hickson