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XP. School News

  • Celebrate XP… support a charity!

    Announcing Our New Publication: ‘Celebrating Ten Years of Expeditions at XP’ A new publication, ‘Celebrating Ten Years of Learning Expeditions at XP’, written by our co-founder, Andy Sprakes, is now available. The book highlights an extensive and broad selection of the beautiful work created by our young people and staff from across our Trust. It…

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  • Appreciation for Gary

    Appreciation to Gary for his support with the network issues this week at XP School, we have been without telephones, printing and cctv for 48 hours but Gary has truly saved the day with this!

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  • Sharing our Stories: 06/06/2025

    Beautiful Work This Week Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust from this week. To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org. Top of the Blogs Y5 Mining Expert visit was amazing! @ Green Top Pompeii and Pebbles @ Plover Consolidating Maths Learning @ Carcroft School Weekly…

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  • Alumni Activism

    At XP, we truly get to experience and learn the strength of community, both in times of celebration and challenge. And right now this means more than ever before. Recently, a fellow former student who was part of the very first cohort at XP. School, as well as mine and Miss Scott’s best friend since…

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  • Facilities repairs this week 23/05/2025

    Over the last 2 weeks the facilities team completed 30 jobs from the repairs and requests log      11 repairs at XPD 5 repairs and 4 request at Plover 1 repairs at Norton 5 repairs  at Carcroft 3 repairs and 1 requests at Green top Shout out to Dave Hull for attending a few urgent maintenance…

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