Explore our news page where you’ll find stories about the ongoing life of our school and the journeys of those who’ve been part of it.

From the classroom to the wider world, this is where past and present come together.

Alumni News

Keep up to date with what your fellow alumni are up to…

If you have any exciting news to share, please get in contact with [email protected]

XP. School News

  • 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…

    Read more here…

  • Sharing our Stories: 13/10/2023

    Beautiful Work This Week XP Trust’s first ever Tag Rugby Tournament! Last week, we hosted our first ever Trust Sport Tournament for three of our primary schools. Hosted at Club Doncaster near XP, the three schools competed in a series of games of tag Rugby – here are some of the exciting highlights! Yomiuri Shimbun…

    Read more here…

  • Sharing our Stories: 06/10/2023

    Beautiful Work This Week At The Coalface: A Plover Expedition Story Beautiful Curation in the XP Ideas Cafe! Top of the Blogs Crew MW’s School Trip @ Carcroft School Beautiful Work from Scarlett @ XP Gateshead Year 3 Glow Day Crew Maths and Science @ Plover Rainforest Research @ Norton Juniors Reading for Pleasure @…

    Read more here…

  • Sharing our Stories: 29/09/2023

    Beautiful Work This Week (…and last week!) XP Outdoors: Campfire Training! A Visit from Ron Berger! We’ve been very lucky since XP first opened and as the Trust has grown over the last ten years, to be able to welcome Ron Berger to our schools. Ron, the CAO of Expeditionary Learning (EL) in the US,…

    Read more here…

  • Let’s get Critical… Critical!

    Following up on our experience and journey of producing and delivering last year’s XP Y11 Christmas Carol Study Guide, which culminated and in a beautiful CoL at the Dickens’ Museum in London, I just wanted to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions made by the students after their initial artworks and written work/reflections had been submitted…

    Read more here…