Andy Sprakes
Last week, Gwyn and I had the privilege of attending the 2024 EL Conference in Atlanta, USA with five colleagues from across our Trust. The highlight of the conference was a keynote speech by our great friend, mentor and inspiration…
Andy Sprakes
At XP Trust we collaborate together to create our learning expeditions. On every other Staff Day, we all work out of one of our sites so that we can share collective ideas and collaborate to create and powerful learning expeditions…
Andy Sprakes
In July 2024 we launched 'XP Live' by hosting our first Festival of Arts and Culture. Last night, we followed this up with our first in a series of events entitled Thursday Night Live. The gig gave the opportunity for…
Andy Sprakes
One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff…
Andy Sprakes
It is a privilege to work at XP Trust but I don't reflect enough on the wonderful things I see and experience every day as I work alongside students, teachers, colleagues and other stakeholders in, and across, our Trust. As…
Andy Sprakes
On Tuesday 26 April the Communications Team had a day away to reflect on the great work that the Comms Crew do for our Trust and consider how we can make this work even better. We started with a crew…
Beautiful Work This Week 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 xptrust.org. Top of the Blogs Shrinky Dink Excitement @ Norton Infants Class 7 Fruit Baskets @ Green Top Classification or Chaos? @ Plover Stan and Mabel Experience … Continued
Beautiful Work This Week Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust for the last time in 2024! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org. Top of the Blogs Our Wonderful Christmas Concert @ Norton Infants Christmas @ Green Top Christmas Cards and Calendars @ Plover Helping … Continued
Beautiful Work This Week Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust over the last week! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org. Top of the Blogs Christmas Singalong in FS2 @ Norton Infants Y6 Space Lecture @ Green Top Year 2 Multi Skills Christmas Festival @ … Continued
In July 2024 we launched ‘XP Live’ by hosting our first Festival of Arts and Culture. Last night, we followed this up with our first in a series of events entitled Thursday Night Live. The gig gave the opportunity for all our indie bands in school to perform live!! It was a fantastic evening! Students … Continued
Beautiful Work This Week Beautiful Curation at Green Top! Have you seen these beautiful newly curated areas at Green Top – awesome spaces for students to learn and play in! A great sporting week at XP Doncaster! On Monday, students met a few of the Doncaster Rovers first team players and were able to have photos and … Continued
Beautiful Work This Week Celebrating XP Doncaster’s Duke of Edinburgh 2024 Expedition Check out these beautiful highlights from C28s DofE Expedition last academic year! They had an awesome POL to celebrate their success this week. Working with the National Gallery On Monday, our dedicated Art Staff at XP Doncaster had the incredible opportunity to attend … Continued
Beautiful Work This Week Outward Bound 2024: XP Doncaster and XP Gateshead This year, we were lucky enough to have new Year 7s from both XPD and XPG working closely together at the Ullswater and Howtown Outward Bound centres. As a result, we were able to capture these wonderful highlights of both sets of students … Continued
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One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff induction process with a group of educators from across our Trust. We headed out into … Continued
Beautiful Work This Week Yorkshire Sport Foundation – Opening School Facilities at Plover Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff at Plover were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding they secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! Plover have been … Continued
