Crew Obama have made a great start to the year. We came second in the ’Wise Up’ team building activities, thanks to some great problem solving and communication. Pupils completed road maps to success recording their expectations for the year ahead. There is some trepidation about the demands of GCSE study, but this is matched with determination and awareness of the importance of Leading Our Own Learning.
Ms Cross
What a start to the term in Ethics! Year nine have settled in amazingly and are starting to explore what we mean by the term God and how it is different for different people – We have been learning new language such as omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipresent – see if your child can tell you about them!
Shout outs to Lucas M, Keegan, August, Riley and Zach F!
Year 10 are in philosopher mode, considering the problem of evil and Thomas Aquinas’ argument that the world cannot have been created without the existence of a transcendant being! – can it all be explained by science??
Big shoutouts to Scarlett, Charlotte, Rhianna, Robert, Josh A-G and Josh B!
13th September 2022
C29 will be travelling to Bletchley Park on Tuesday 13th September. We will be leaving school at 8am so students need to arrive at school by 7:30am. Students will also require a packed lunch, however free school meal students will have them provided. Students will be arriving back in school by 5pm, however, depending on traffic, this could change and so I will post updates on the website.
Any questions please email [email protected]
Andrea Goddard
Crew Malala have been working on communication and team skills. We talked about how working together means listening to one another and learning how to communicate in a productive way. To practice these new skills, Crew Malala played the spider web game. Standing in a circle, one person had to hold onto the end of a ball of wool and throw the ball across the circle to another crew member. That person had to hold on to the wool and throw the ball to someone else, and so on, until everyone was holding onto the wool. This created a spider web in the middle of the circle. Crew Malala then had to work together to untangle the wool without letting go, with the final goal of standing in a straight line while still holding on to the wool. There was some frustration but by working together, giving clear instructions to each other and listening carefully, they finished the game in a straight line! Well done Crew Malala!
Mrs. Collinson & Mrs. Batty
We wanted to update you about Crew Turing’s first week back at school! Along with welcoming a wonderful new crew member, Tyler – who has started to settle beautifully – crew have been up to loads of activities this week to reestablish their bonds as crew, ready for their final year at XP East!
Crew Turing joined the rest of Y11 in walking around Flamborough Head. They were absolutely fantastic! Ralph & Lewis led the way beautifully, Crew showed compassion by checking in on each other, and it was lovely to be out and about getting to know Turing more.. (and have a sneaky ice cream at the Lighthouse!)
We had a gorgeous day for walking, and took in some stunning scenery. Behaviour was impeccable, and the day was a beautiful start to Y11!
On Wednesday, we had a crew activities day – again, this was a lovely opportunity to get to know students in crew more, to start to build solid relationships, and to just have a laugh! We started to think about our journey through Y11 and the challenges we may face. We spoke at length about how crew Turing can support each other throughout the upcoming year – Crew has some beautiful ideas about how they can do this, and began to create some amazing ‘road maps to success’!
We started and ended the day with some card games – UNO seems to be a favourite! (Sami doesn’t like Liar, though – he ended up with half the deck!!) During the day we also took part in Mrs Elliott’s version of ‘the Cube’ – I’m very proud to say that Crew Turing’s sterling efforts, Sami, Lexi & Dylan’s FABULOUS point scores, and Mollie’s photographic memory meant that Crew Turing came out as the champions with 6,500 points!
On Thursday, Crew took part in more crew team building activities with an external company called Wise Up. We couldn’t even pick out a superstar from Wednesday – all students in Crew were AWESOME! They worked together really well, built each other up when they needed it, and offered loads of support! It was fantastic to see them come together as a crew to work out brain teasing conundrums and physical challenges throughout the day.
We ended our first week back with more crew activities and a presentation of learning. We’ve reflected on our time as crew from year 7 to now – identified our favourite moments (LOTS of them with Miss Haughey – gone but NEVER forgotten!) – and got some photos together from Y7 to now (and Lewis hasn’t changed a bit, but Lexi is unrecognisable!) Crew presented their slides to the rest of Y11 and did a great job!
A fanstastic start to what will hopefully be a fantastic final year.
Miss Cocliff & Mrs Parker
Welcome back to all our students returning from the summer holidays,
Starting this week the PE team are starting their after school sports clubs:
Male and Female Football Wednesdays- 3:30 – 4:30
Netball Thursdays- 3:30 – 4:30
All students both experienced and new to sport are welcome to join
Any questions please see Mr Stables
We are very lucky to have the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Brass Band visiting school this week to support our Y7 expedition.
Y7 Explorer and Pioneer are invited to come back into school (on the XP Stairs) on Wednesday 7th September from 7:30 – 8:30pm.
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band (currently ranked 9th in the world!) have agreed to be involved with us again this year and support our students, which is amazing.
Y7 Students and their parents / guardians are invited to come in and watch an hour of the band’s rehearsal so we can use this experience during our work in Music in the coming weeks. This will be a great opportunity to see world class musicians at their best.
Any questions please email Mr Robins at [email protected]
Best wishes,
Mr Robins.
Students in E29 Year 7 will be visiting the National Coal Mining Museum on Thursday 8th September. This fieldwork will be part of students immersion into their first expedition of the year. We will leave school at 9am and return by 3.15pm. Students will need to bring a bag with:
A packed lunch (students on free school meals will be provided with a lunch), a pen / pencil / pencil case to complete work during the day and a warm coat as part of the day is outside.
If your child needs to take any medication, please inform their Crew Leader so that any necessary arrangements can be made.
If you have any queries please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
After a successful show last year, XP’s Dance and Drama Club are putting on another show. This year we will be doing a rendition of… Disney’s ZOMBIES!
Are you interested in Dance, Drama and all things Performing Arts? Are you wanting to try something new? Look no further, XP’s Dance and Drama Club is here.
Auditions will take place tomorrow (Monday 5th September) in the XP Drama Space after school from 3:15 – 4:30pm. There will be an audition preparation session at lunch from 12:45 – 1:10pm in the XP Drama Space. This will be a chance for students to look at some of the audition material before the auditions after school. The auditions are open to all year groups!!
A note for all students wanting to join the club – rehearsals will take place on Mondays and Thursdays, both at lunch and after school. 100% commitment is needed for this club, as everyone has a part to play in the show.
If you have any questions, please contact Miss Mitchell via her email [email protected].
Please join us and show us what you’ve got. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at lunch and after school!
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