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iPad Parental Contribution Scheme
All secondary students at XP are expected to bring in a school-managed iPad every day, giving them access to Google Docs, iMovie, GarageBand and Adobe Creative Cloud apps alongside many other school purchased apps. To enable this, we run a great value Parental Contribution Scheme which offers all our parents affordable options to provide the…
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Are the boys/girls football mixed teams?
Girls and boys play football in separate teams.
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What range of languages?
Currently, we offer Spanish as our main language. However, more recently we have offered French as part of our Duke of Edinburgh programme.
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Do the students get enough depth or wide coverage for the way the current GCSEs are formatted?
Learning expeditions are planned to cover all the necessary requirements for GCSE and the broader Key Stage 3 curriculum. Because of the nature of expeditions, where students study through detailed case studies, learners have deep and broad learning experiences.
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How are you ensuring the children are GCSE ready? Is there testing?
Students start working on GCSE assessment objectives right from the start of Year 7 and we begin to test students so that they are used to GCSE assessments as part of our learning expeditions. Subsequently, students are well-prepared for GCSEs.