Crew Pashley celebrates Earth Day @ Carcroft School
Beautiful work from Olivia, Connor and Lewis @ XP Gateshead
A healthy balance @ Norton Juniors
Crew Nightingale working hard in their new Expedition @ XP
We are storytellers @ Norton Infants
We welcomed delegates from across the UK to hear about what we do and how we do it and meet our wonderful students.
At lunchtime, some of our Year 10s from XP and XP East joined our delegates for lunch and a chat about all things XP.
Adam Austen visited our school from Australia. He said ‘What Toby said about our schools was inspirational, and very moving…’
Love for books @ Carcroft School
More beautiful work from G29 @ XP Gateshead
Magna Science Adventure Centre @ Norton Juniors
C26 Work Experience Launch @ XP
Best Seats in the House – Attendance Awards @ Plover
“Three of my colleagues attended today and they have said it has been an absolutely inspiring day – thank you so much” This was an email sent by a colleague of 6 visitors to XP East, from Cantonian School in Wales, last week. They have asked if more colleagues from their school can visit in the coming months.
We also had 18 visitors from Hong Kong at XPE this week. They were blown away by what they saw and experienced. Students showed their portfolios and talked with expertise and authenticity about their learning. Staff ran superb sessions too on Expeditions and Crew. Massive thanks to Julie Morrell for expert organising, Mel Hewitt for sublime hosting and Claira Salter, Abbie Blackham and Laura Parsons for delivering high quality sessions. Days like this highlight the importance and international significance of the work we all do, everyday, across the Trust.
This week, C28 and G28 answered their guiding question ‘What is Power’ with two awesome Presentations of Learning – including inspiring performances of Macbeth!
Easter Bunny came to visit us! @ Carcroft School
Beautiful Work from our students @ XP Gateshead
A spring celebration @ Norton Juniors
Year 8 Spanish Food Topic @ XP
We welcomed visitors from Aberdeen, including teachers parents and students from Northfield Academy this week. They visited over two days and enjoyed a tour of Doncaster on Friday morning to see our students’ beautiful work in the community.
These beautiful products from LKS2 across the Trust arrived hot off the press this week – stay tuned for individual school celebrations!
This week, C28 and G28 were visited by professional actors to help them prepare for their productions of Macbeth next week!
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Some of our XP Doncaster DofE staff went on a Countryside Leader Award (CLA) training day this week!
In September 2022, Year 3 and Year 4 began their Learning Expedition focusing on World War Two. The guiding question was, ‘Lest We Forget: How does war change lives?’
The expedition has culminated in the creation of a series of books to celebrate the stories of local community members who were alive during the Second World War. We were able to hear stories of both soldiers who were caught up in the fighting as well as those who were just children at the time, offering a wide-range of experiences for the children to reflect upon. The books are made up of biographies, poems and artwork and will be going to print very soon!
Good luck to all our students representing us at the Doncaster School's Indoor Athletics today at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield!! @EISSheffield #XPE pic.twitter.com/BFAjCDX20e
— XP. School (@XPschool) March 2, 2023
As part of an Expedition slice, staff from across the XP Trust put together boxes of food to be donated to Plover Pantry – the Plover community foodbank.
Staff designed recipes influenced by Jack Monroe’s ‘Tin Can Cook’ including affordable meals for families of four to make together for three days. We then made recipes cards to put in the boxes for each meal and made them available from Plover Pantry.
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Parents’ Update @ XP Gateshead
How much room for volume? @ Norton Juniors
The Power of Communication @ XP
Class Five Café @ Norton Infants
Our CAO Andy Sprakes and CEO Gwyn ap Harri have been working with a school in Amritsar, India to help them develop and implement Crew and Expeditions. Their visit to the Miri Piri Academy came as a result of their team visiting XP earlier this year.
As part of their visit, they completed an Expedition slice with the school – the product of which is to be published in the coming weeks! Watch this space…
Andy Sprakes, our Chief Academic Officer, was proud to present two of our Year 11 students Guraaj Kaur and Declan Richards with framed artwork representing their participation in, and contribution to, an international education conference that took place last year at XP Doncaster.
Both students spoke with eloquence and authority about Learning Expeditions, in particular the outstanding ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ which involved students creating a film about the plight of refugees in Doncaster, what we as a community can do to help and which was premiered at Cast Theatre in Doncaster.
Guraaj and Dec are superb ambassadors for our Trust. Both great students and wonderful human beings!
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Planting Daffodil Bulbs @ Carcroft
Parents’ Update @ XP Gateshead
Children’s Mental Health Week @ Norton Juniors
Crew Blessed at the halfway point @ XP
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Storytelling with EYFS @ Carcroft
Parents’ Update @ XP Gateshead
6CC Globetrotters learn to master fractions, decimals and percentages @ Norton Juniors
Shared reading in phonics @ Plover
More Expert Visitors @ Norton Infants
