C28 (Year 8) have safely arrived at Ullswater. They are presently having their lunch before they are shown their rooms.
E24 Results 2022
Wow! What a morning!
We are so proud of the overall great results that our students in the Class of 2024 at XPE school (E24) achieved in our GCSE results.
Early indications show 70% of our students achieving 9-4 in English Literature. 67% achieved 9-4 in History and in English language, all of these subjects are taught within the humanities lessons of our expeditionary learning curriculum. Incredibly, 21% of all our students achieved a 7, 8 or 9 in History. We teach them in mixed ability classes all the way through to the exam.
This E24 success is all about our culture of crew, the E24 student crew, crew leaders and staff crew surrounding the students has supported these achievements despite the disruption caused to their education by the pandemic.
However, academic achievement is only one measure of success.
Through our cross-subject expeditionary curriculum, students have enjoyed an engaging, creative and rich learning experience. This has allowed our students to engage with the world and create beautiful work that really matters and that has made a difference.
For example, all of our students in E24:
- Have given back to our community through their work at the food bank as part of the BIG SORT foodbank campaign
- Have given back to our school community by working with lower years to lead crew sessions
- Have given back to our local community through their work around kindness boxes with Age UK
All of our students in E24 have been the audience for theatrical productions of:
- A Christmas Carol
- Macbeth
- Romeo & Juliet
All of our students in E24 have worked purposefully at university and with experts in school including:
- Visited Sheffield Hallam University when looking at study skills, working with medical students, doctors and professors.
- Experts from the Holocaust Memorial Centre who worked with students delivering sessions on the Holocaust and its impact.
- Experts who worked at the Doncaster Plant Works – the hub for locomotives including the famous Mallard and Flying Scotsman.
Through our learning expeditions our students not only gain the knowledge to pass exams, not just the cultural capital of knowing the world around them, but also the powerful knowledge to positively change the world they will adopt when they leave school.
This builds the character and resilience of our students as we allow them all to respectfully express who they are through their work.The work our students do is three dimensional:
Academic success + character growth + beautiful work = The best version of you
We remind our students throughout their journey with us that, as adults, we are judged by who we are and the quality of our work. This is why we focus relentlessly on character growth and beautiful work as well as qualifications at XP Trust schools. Qualifications will get you through the door. Who you are and the quality of your work will get you the job, the place at university, the start up business loan.
Therefore, we are extremely proud of our staff, students, parents and the wider community that has supported our students to be the best version of themselves. We have achieved all this because of our differences.
We welcome all of our former students to join our XP Alumni to keep in touch with our schools and each other, sharing your experiences beyond our school.
XP Alumni –
Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/company/xp-alumni/?viewAsMember=true
Facebook https://www.linkedin.com/company/xp-alumni/?viewAsMember=true
We look forward to continuing this work with our current and future schools and remind our E24 students that they will always be part of Crew XP!
Mrs Salter
Principal
Y11 Results Day: 25th August 2022
The wait is almost over: GCSE results will be available for collection from XP School on Thursday 25th August between the hours of 9.30am-11.30am.
Please read the following information about the collection process:
- Entry and Exit will be by the usual student entrance at car park 3.
- Each Crew will have a designated area within the heart of XP school (all students of XP and XPE will collect their results at XP School).
- Crew leaders will have the results for their crew.
- Students will have the opportunity to wait on the stairs whilst waiting for a space with their crew leader.
- Students can open their results envelope with their crew leader or leave school to open them.
- If students want to speak to Crew Leaders after they have received their results they will need to wait on the stairs.
- Students will need to complete a destinations form with Mrs Burns before leaving school. Mrs Burns will also be available to discuss next steps, if required.
- If students are not able to come to collect their results they must email Miss Cocliff if XP ([email protected]) or Mrs Parker if XPE ([email protected]) from their school email account and request their results be sent to them. Results will be emailed to their school account.
- If students have any concerns about their exam results they must email Miss Cocliff or Mrs Parker in the first instance outlining their concerns.
- Official GCSE certificates arrive in School late October and students will be invited to a presentation evening in November to receive their certificates.
We are really looking forward to seeing you all on the 25th, and can’t wait to see the results of your hard work, through the most challenging of times. Please remember that – as important as your exam results are – they are just a small part of your XP/XPE journey. We are all super proud of the young people you’ve grown up to be, regardless of what’s in the envelope.
Mrs Parker and Miss Cocliff
Descendants 2022!!
What a fantastic evening the Dance and Drama Club had last night! After a full day of rehearsals on their first day of the summer holidays, they performed their rendition of Descendants to an audience of family and friends. The atmosphere was amazing, everyone enjoyed the performance and the audience turn out was great! The students worked hard all year round to produce this show and the hard work paid off. It was lovely to see them shine and share their beautiful work through Performing Arts. The Dance and Drama Club can’t wait to get started on next year’s show!
We hope to gain more members in September and hopefully they will join the XP Dance and Drama family, a group full of wonderfully talented human beings!
#PerformingArtsForTheWin
Happy Friday – here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week, for the last time this Academic Year!
Thank you for joining us for another great year of beautiful work and stories from across the XP Trust – we hope you have a wonderful summer!
We’ll see you in September!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org/stories
#WeAreCrew
E27 Micro Adventure to Cleethorpes
This was an exciting opportunity to reset crew norms and establish relationships. It was a pleasure to see Crew, support each other and celebrate success throughout the day
At XPE we firmly believe ‘If you get crew right you get everything right!’ This statement could not be any more true and we witnessed some awesome character traits being displayed.
Here are some of E27’s reflections from the day.
Why does our crew need you?
I think my crew needed me because I was very calm.
I think my crew needed me because I showed respect and acted as steward, I made sure the beach was clear of any rubbish.
I think my crew needed me because I encouraged and supported them throughout the day
Reflection: List one character trait that each crew member has displayed.
Manveer for working hard and trying to get us out and showing courage.
Keegan for being smart and getting answers.
Isabelle for staying calm and showing courage.
Sofiya gave me her hoodie when I was cold. Showing compassion.
Callum for showing compassion when I was scared.
I think these reflections say it all! What a crew E27 is becoming and with these awesome mindsets and character traits they displayed. We know that our year group is fast becoming a stronger united crew. Students stepped up and steppe back, allowing everyone to be involved and show their strengths and XP character traits.
As part of their personal development students stepped outside of their comfort zones and support each other in many ways. It was an absolute pleasure to see by all crew leaders!
We have more activities planned for when we return next academic year! Please have a look at the blog post for our first week back in August.
Here is our video montage of our day in Cleethorpes.
These kids are awesome!
E27 Cleethorpes 2022
We look forward to the holidays but even more so for our return to Year 9!
Have a fun packed summer and we will see you all real soon!
C25/C26 Bronze DofE Award
Hi, after a few years of Disruption, DofE will start back as normal in the new school year. For C25 and C26 this has prompted a slight change to plans, due to not being able to complete the Expedition through our normal route. We are therefore giving the students within year 10 and year 11 the chance to complete the award if they choose to.
To take part Students must:
- Commit to staying behind one day at school to complete the planning.
- Have good or improving HOWLs.
- Commit to having one day out of school time and one day of the weekend to complete the expedition.
These students know that this is a possibility so please have a discussion with your son/daughter to ensure that they understand what a commitment this is.
We will start preparation for this in the second week of the new school year.
Madrid 22 Visit – Celebration of Learning
A few weeks ago some of our C25 and C26 students viewed priceless paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Dali, relaxed with an ice cream in the Buen Retiro Park, enjoyed a sociable meal out, and rode some scary roller-coaster rides…all over a long weekend in Madrid. This culminated in a Celebration of Learning event last Friday, during which our students invited their parents to view their work journals, and shared their memories and highlights in fluent Spanish or English. The video below was shown at the end of the evening, and we would like to appreciate all the students for their hard work in making this such a success.
First Week Back: Crew Immersion
As Y7 and Y8 go off on their Outward Bound adventure, Y9, Y10 and Y11 will also spend the first week back with their crews undertaking various activities because, if we get Crew right, we get everything right 🙂
The plan for the week is above, and you will notice that it includes a coastal walk to Flamborough. Details of the coastal walk for each year group have been posted on separate blog posts:
Crew Leaders will go through the kit list with crews before we break up.
If you have any questions, please contact your child’s Crew Leader.
#wearecrew
C27: Coastal walk on 31st August
As ever, we will be kicking off our first week back at school by regrouping and rebooting Crew.
On Wednesday 31st August our C27 (new Y9) students will be going on a coastal walk to Flamborough.
Students should arrive at school between 8am-8.15am so that we can leave at 8.30am. We are aiming to be back at school by 3.30pm, but will keep you updated on the day.
All students will be expected to bring the Outdoor Kit listed below:
- Appropriate rucksack for walking.
- Packed lunch (those on FSM will be provided with a school pack lunch.)
- Water bottle: approx 2 litres (no energy drinks, milkshakes or fizzy pop)
- Waterproof jacket
- Appropriate walking trousers/shorts/leggings for the weather.
- Walking top/base layer; made from synthetic, man made material (polyester, nylon etc). This type of material removes sweat away from your skin keeping you cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather
- Appropriate outdoor shoes (sturdy trainers, walking shoes or walking boots are compulsory – no open toe sandals, canvas shoes or sliders)
- Sun hat/Sun cream
- Medication
For further information or questions please email your child’s crew leader.
Thanks!