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XP. School News
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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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How will you support and challenge high ability students?
We have the highest expectations for all students. The aim for our high ability students is to produce work that is indistinguishable from that of a professional. As such, there is no ceiling to the work they produce. In addition to this, many academically gifted students find the social and creative aspects of our curriculum extremely challenging. Our…
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What GCSEs will my child be taking?
Students will study through cross-subject learning expeditions until January of Year 11. This will provide our students with a broad and balanced curriculum. As a consequence of this, our approach to GCSEs is that our students will take a core of GCSEs, then a personal choice. The core GCSEs that all our students will take are: English…
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Do you support children with SEN?
We are a mainstream Secondary School with extremely high expectations of our students. Our curriculum is therefore highly academically rigorous and we have high expectations for all our students to be able to go to university. We expect all our students to work extremely hard to this end. We are an inclusive school and therefore…
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Can I appeal if I didn’t get a place through admissions?
Every year since opening, we have been oversubscribed. We understand there are many parents who passionately want their child to have a place at XP. However, as a school with a deliberate size of 50 students per year, we cannot allocate places for all children that apply. Our oversubscription method for allocating places is a…