We have another exciting week of extra curricular ahead! There are a few changes ahead of the coming week.
Tuesday – Boys football training, this has been changed for this week only.
Wednesday – Girls football fixture at home. We expect to be finished for around 5pm.
Thursday – Cheerleading
Check out this actively awesome video courtesy of Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The children and staff at Plover were superstars in explaining their positive experiences regarding the OSF funding they secured last year, to provide after school and community clubs! Plover have been lucky enough to secure some OSF funding this year too, so watch this space for Community Clubs starting in October! #LovePlover
We don’t just ensure our work is made public – it needs to live inside our school communities, too! More beautiful work has been curated at Plover School, celebrating their ‘Pride of Plover’ award winners and recent Expedition products!
One of our great friends and mentors, Ron Berger, once said to us that ‘staff culture can never outpace student culture.’ With this firmly at the forefront of our minds we set out last week on our bi-annual outdoor staff induction process with a group of educators from across our Trust.
We headed out into the wilderness to answer the guiding question, ‘What does it mean to be Crew?’ through a number of shared experiences and activities our Crew formed very quickly. We explored the purpose of Crew deeply and considered how we could make Crew even stronger on our return to our respective schools so that we continue to create the culture in which our students grow their character and make our community and the world a better place for everyone.
Below is an immediate reflection from one of our XP educators:
‘This experience has helped me to understand the building of community. The support that other members of our Crew showed this week has been immense. There have been some activities that have been challenging but everybody has been supportive whilst giving positive challenge so that everybody has been able to push themselves in a safe environment where everybody trusts each other and it’s lifted me and made me feel that I can achieve anything I put my mind to with the support of other people.’ – Louise
It was an honour and privilege to support and challenge our adults to reflect on the imperative we all have at XP to become and create great learners and even better human beings!
We are Crew!
Andy Sprakes and Kate ap Harri
Find out more and apply here to #JoinOurCrew
Year 5 Teacher/Leader at Carcroft School
F2 Teacher/Leader at Carcroft School
EYFS Community Meeting @ Norton Infants
Class 7 eBook day! @ Green Top
Hooking in to Expedition @ Carcroft School
Crew Pasteur Check In! @ XP School
Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead
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 Pasteur have spent lots of time working on their scrapbook, something that will take them through Years 10 and 11. We would also like to introduce you to our Crew mascot, Kacper Lily Hall! Crew will continue to update their scrapbook, the next exciting event will be a bake sale for our Crew charity, Dementia UK in a few weeks time. Watch this space!
Thank you to all parents in Years 8, 9, 10, and 11 who completed and submitted the flu vaccine consent form during the summer holidays (the email was sent on 24th July 2024. A special thank you also to our Year 7 parents, who received the link on 24th August 2024, and responded promptly.
We are pleased to inform you that the School Age Immunisation Team will be visiting our school to administer the flu vaccinations this week on Thursday 19th of September .
Thank you once again for your cooperation.
Thank you to everyone who attended our GCSE Information Evening on Wednesday. We hope you found it useful.
The presentation from the evening is published above so that you have all the information, key dates and teacher contacts to hand.
Mrs Parker
This week at Plover, students in EYFS completed a sponsored Bear walk as part of their new Expedition! They raised £1148 to support their local community – and dressed up as bears to perform bear related exercises and have fun during the process! Beautiful work!
Last week, Comms installed some new wonderful displays of student work at XP Gateshead. These wall displays are culminations of recent Expeditions and Activism from the last year.
Last Monday, our staff worked closely with Steplab to start implementing their ICT platform for coaching across XP Trust. Staff spent the day looking at effective coaching and learning and how Steplab can help create a positive culture around it.
Over the coming week’s we’ll be sharing more stories of Crew from our recent Outward Bound Expedition – here’s another from Crew JPO/JNO!
Find out more here to apply now and #JoinOurCrew
Crew Knowles – Expedition @ Green Top
Plover Praise Postcards @ Plover
Book Talk in Crew Elmer @ Carcroft School
Crew Brunel: first week back @ XP School
Manveer gets to the top of her mountain! @ XP East
A rainy day in space! @ Norton Juniors
Beautiful Work from Will @ XP Gateshead
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!
Our second student showcase to allow prospective parents and children to visit XP & XP East school takes place on 26th September 2024 between 4-6 pm.
Please follow this link to register your interest for the Y6 showcase.
We look forward to meeting you.
Crew Brunel have had an amazing start to Year 8! Everyone has shown me the best version of themselves so far and I look forward to seeing them blossom over the next academic year.
As part of their Presentation of Learning (POL) last week, Crew Brunel created a short video describing all of the activities they had taken part in on their first week back. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Here’s to Year 8!
Crew Kelly started the new school term really positively. Team games, making hampers for care homes, fieldwork to Lakeside to reflect on the guiding question ‘How can I show kindness to myself and my community and have a positive impact?’. Seeing the beautiful seals with tunes curtesy of Alfie, made for a lovely coastal walk in Flamborough and a great end to Crew Week.
