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  • 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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  • Sharing our Stories: 26/09/2025

    Beautiful work this week Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org. Top of the Blogs Class 6’s visit to 1666 @ Green Top Amazing craftsmanship and quality in home learning @ Plover ]Crazy Crew Challenge @ Carcroft School Outstanding…

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  • Facilities Update

    Between the 15/09/2025 and 19/09/2025 the facilities team completed 14 jobs from the repairs and requests log       3 repairs at XPD 3 repairs & 2 requests at Plover 3 repairs at Green top 1 repair at Norton 2 repairs at Carcroft.

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  • E30 Pioneer – Working Hard and Getting Smart

    E30 Pioneer have really engaged with our current anchor text ‘Lord of the Flies’. This week after reading chapter 3 they considered whether the island is a utopia or a dystopia. We explored the etymology of the words and offered their own opinions and definitions. Then we looked closely at an extract about the den/shelter…

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  • Supporting our whole school crew charity- RSPCA.

    Staff supported the RSPCA- our whole school charity by engaging in acts of service. ‘We are crew, not passengers strengthened by acts of consequential service to others’ Kurt Hahn. We know this will be the start of something special and we can’t wait to continue to support such a special charity. Miss Blackham LovePlover

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