Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks...

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Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks...

Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/

Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks...

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Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks... Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/

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Above All, Compassion

Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks... Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/

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Above All, Compassion

Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks... Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/

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Above All, Compassion

Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks... Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/

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This Week In The Trust: 15/05/2020

Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks... Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/

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Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks... Find out more here: xptrust.org/thisweek/


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Book Launch Evening

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It's been a wonderful first week back at XP, XP East and Green Top! We've welcomed back familiar faces and been lucky enough to get to know some new ones, too! These are challenging times, but we continue to move forward together as one #Crew - we're already looking forward to another week of #ComingBackStronger.

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Each year thousands of students from the EL Education network take action on Better World Day to co-create a better world in partnership with their local communities, connect with each other, and celebrate meaningful student work.

It’s a day where we get to experience school the way our students do every day: as a place where learning is the key to changing the world.

Here’s how our schools in the XP Trust have contributed to EL’s Better World Day
through activism, beautiful work and acts of kindness.

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'Should I Stay or Should I Go' is a film created by Year 8 students at XP & XP East schools over a number of weeks in the Autumn of 2019. Working with the support of the Doncaster charity the Conversation Club and the people they help, the film is about migration and the stories that deserve to be told.

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The Journey of All Together Now

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Our Expeditions 19-20

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The Assessment Process at XP

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What are SLC's?

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'Should I Stay or Should I Go' is a film created by Year 8 students at XP & XP East schools over a number of weeks in the Autumn of 2019. Working with the support of the Doncaster charity the Conversation Club and the people they help, the film is about migration and the stories that deserve to be told.

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The Journey of All Together Now

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Our Expeditions 19-20

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Inspire, Challenge, Collaborate, Achieve.
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Join us for a digest of everything that's been going on in the XP Schools Trust in the last few weeks...

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A digest of what's been going on in Humanities over the last week at XP and XP East.

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#WeAreXPEast

'Should I Stay or Should I Go' is a film created by Year 8 students at XP & XP East schools over a number of weeks in the Autumn of 2019. Working with the support of the Doncaster charity the Conversation Club and the people they help, the film is about migration and the stories that deserve to be told.

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Preparing our children to be successful in the modern world.

X25/E25 visited Hatfield Moors Nature Reserve this week as part of their latest Expedition, 'Welcome to the Machine'.

Find out more about the Expedition here: https://sites.google.com/xpschool.org/y9-c25-welcome-to-the-machine/home

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Are the benefits of industrialisation worth the costs?

Find out more here:
tinyurl.com/WTTMXP

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Selections from a recent Spanish Expedition with the guiding question 'La tecnología - somos sus servidores o sus maestros?'

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Inspire, Challenge, Collaborate, Achieve.
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You can always 'Lean On Us' at Green Top #WeAreCrew

Join us again for another Feel Good Friday!

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Inspire, Challenge, Collaborate, Achieve.

We celebrated #Pyjamarama on Friday and spent all day learning in our pyjamas! We read our favourite books and bedtime stories! #CrewGreenTop

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Inspire Challenge Collaborate Achieve

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Inspire Challenge Collaborate Achieve

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#CrewGreenTop

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We're all about teamwork at Plover - even when it comes to dancing together when we have to be apart! Why not join in with a few steps and a quick sing into a hairbrush!

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Excite Challenge Engage Celebrate

Happy Birthday, Captain Tom - from all of us at Plover!

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Plover & Green Top VE Day Celebrations

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Plover Exercise Challenge!

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Our Year 6 Leavers - you'll all be missed! #LovePlover

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To the class of 2020... We wish you lots of luck and best wishes throughout your next chapter! #WeAreCrew

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Free schools are new independent state schools. Charities, groups of teachers, existing schools and parents can set up these new schools if they can prove that they are needed and wanted by a local community. Free schools are set up for many different reasons so New Schools Network followed six as they got ready to open for the first time this September. This is the story of XP...

Based on successful schools in the United States, this free school is bringing new ways of learning to the UK education system. Expeditionary Learning, which is based on the idea that pupils learn best by completing challenging ‘expeditions’, has been popular in the United States for over 30 years and has been praised by Barack Obama for its success. But it hasn’t been an option in the UK, until now.

XP School is a new secondary school in Doncaster which was started by a group of local teachers and parents. It’s using its freedoms as a free school to pioneer an Expeditionary Learning style curriculum, which is based around pupils completing challenging projects, or learning expeditions, that cross over different subjects. In the school’s first year this means expeditions which include, for example, looking at the site where the school’s permanent building will eventually be located or working with local partners to think about what makes a good community.

Community is an important theme for the school, which aims to involve the talents of local people in all of its expeditions and is currently housed in a wing of Doncaster Rovers’ football stadium.
Doncaster is certainly an area where new thinking in education is needed – currently around 70% of its secondary schools are rated as ‘Requires Improvement’ or ‘Inadequate’ by Ofsted – and XP School is offering its pupils to the chance to do things very differently, including by starting their school year in the wilds of Wales!

NSN followed XP School as it got ready to open its doors for the first time in September 2014. This is their story...

XP School in Doncaster is by no means an ordinary school. At XP, the focus is on character growth and creating beautiful work that has a place in the real world.

Students learn via a series of cross curricular expeditions which can might include activities such as an outward bound trip, interviewing older local people for a history project or working with a local charity. Not only does this make learning more engaging for youngsters, it puts lessons in the context of the real world and helps them develop the skills they’ll need in the workplace and beyond.

XP believe that by ‘working hard, getting smart and being kind’ students can achieve academically. So it seems to be true. This year, in their first set of GCSE results since its foundation, XP students scored half a grade higher than the national average in the subjects taught via expeditions. They have been judged by Ofsted as ‘outstanding’ in every category.

However, while the ethos at XP is for students to have the confidence and resilience to be ambitious, high exam grades are seen as a consequence of making beautiful work, not a goal in itself.

Teachers like Andy and Gwyn are setting up new schools across the country. If you’ve ever thought of starting a school of your own, read our free guide and see how we can help you: http://www.newschoolsnetwork.org/setting-up-a-new-school-teachers

Chief Academic Officer Andy Sprakes gives an ignite speech at the Whole Education stand out schools visit to XP School.

Principal Andy Sprakes and Teacher Martin Said talk about using realsmart as the vehicle to showcase beautiful work at XP School.