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Tuesday- KS4 Badminton and Girls football 3.30-4.30

Wednesday – Year 8 Netball match away return at 5.30 to XP school

Year 7/8 football match at home finishes at 5pm

Thursday- Cheerleading practice 3.30-4.30

Thanks Team PE

All extra curricular starts this week.

Tuesday- Girls football and Badminton (KS3)

Wednesday- Netball

Thursday- Cheerleading

All practice are from 3.30-4.30.

Thanks Team PE

We are currently working to create a directory of experts for our upcoming Year 9 Passage Presentations and would appreciate your help! 

Passage Presentation is an opportunity for students to reflect on their learning and demonstrate their readiness to move onto the next phase of their education – GCSE.

Students share their high quality work to a panel of experts and their family through an oral presentation, increasing their accountability and character development demonstrating the skills and knowledge they have gained in Key Stage 3. 

As part of the presentation students provide insight into their future goals and aspirations and we would like to ensure an authentic expert for each of them at their presentation – this is where you come in! 

We are seeking support from any members of our community to become an expert panelist at a Passage Presentation, to listen to the presentation, ask questions and support in directing pathways. In order for this to be a success we request help from members of the public who are able to share their own experiences and advice in order to advance our students to the next level of formal schooling.

If you feel this is something you are interested in, please use this link to sign up to the directory. 

Presentations will take place week commencing 27th January 2025 for 3 weeks. You will receive an invite from the student you have been allocated nearer to the time. 

Should you have any further questions, please contact a member of our Key Stage 3 Team: 

Natalie Johnson- [email protected] (KS3 Lead) 

Emma Watson- [email protected] (Phase Lead XPE 8/9)

Chris Morrison- [email protected] (Phase Lead XP 8/9)

We appreciate your support in advance. 

Year Ten have taken part in some community activism this term as part of their final product for the expedition ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’. After studying Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and watching Scrooge’s transformation, pupils were keen to demonstrate their own compassion to others. As such, we gave our support to Doncaster Food Bank. Inspired by a visit from the Food Bank’s manager, pupils made Christmas crackers which will be distributed with the Christmas food parcels by the Food Bank. Pupils created artwork, poetry and the attached supporting video to help make a difference in their local community. 

We would like to invite parents and guardians to echo this support in the new year by bringing donations for Doncaster Food Bank along with them to the rescheduled Presentation of Learning in January. Please see the attached poster for details of what is best to donate. 

Merry Christmas to everyone! 

This is just a reminder that the school will be closing for all students at 1:30pm today as it is the last day of term.This is so staff are able to prepare for the new term.

There will not be any provision for students to stay after this time so all students must leave at 1:30pm.

School reopens on Monday 6th January 2025.

Many thanks as always for your continued support. Have a lovely break and we will see you all in the new year.

XP Office

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust for the last time in 2024! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

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Our Wonderful Christmas Concert @ Norton Infants

Christmas @ Green Top

Christmas Cards and Calendars @ Plover

Helping in the forest and having fun! @ Carcroft School

A Whole New World @ XP

To Infinity and Beyond @ Norton Juniors

Another Brick In The Wall @ XP Gateshead

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at [email protected] –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

Crew Breakfast: The Heart of the Morning

The crew breakfast was the perfect complement to our Secret Santa exchange. We wanted to keep it casual, festive, and full of options to suit everyone’s tastes. From steaming hot chocolate in orange flavour, white chocolate and original and apple juice at crew’s request. For food we had some fruit with crepes, croissants, pains au chocolat to yum yums from Greggs. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all from crew Lovelace!

Exploring history through immersive learning! From Vikings at Murton Park to Shakespeare’s magic, C31’s Expedition journeyed through the Roman, Medieval, Early Modern & Industrial eras. With hands-on activities, creative writing, and expert insights, they connected past & present in unforgettable ways.

At their Presentation of Learning they recreated a historical timeline for parents and staff and a variety of drama performances as well as student led teaching sessions to demonstrate our learning. 

Their knowledge culminated in a piece of narrative writing, independently written by students to reflect the life and experiences of a different person in history. The book is available to purchase here.