D6 is back for our wonderful Y11 students as they prepare for their upcoming GCSEs. For the next 3 weeks until Mock exams, year 10 are also invited to give them additional opportunity for support with revision. This allows students the opportunity to revise in a quiet space away from home or to meet up and work in small study groups. Students can join us in the Study Area at XP East anytime between 9.30am-12pm, grab a drink and a snack.
Here is the new Enrichment timetable for April- July
Y10 students will be sitting a full set of mock exams w/b: 29th April. These will take place under full exam conditions to give them a taste of what to expect next year. The timetable is attached, along with some information around what each subject will be covering. Students have been provided with revision resources, and will be expected to revise outside of school to ensure they give their best efforts.
To help them prepare, we would like to invite Y10 students to D6, our in-school Saturday provision, which runs from 9.30-12pm in XP East’s study area. These are really useful sessions where students can meet up for independent study-time or form study groups and access more revision resources.
Y10 have lots of things to look forward to on the run up to the Summer break (fieldwork, college open days, work experience to name a few!) so to keep you fully informed we will start sending out a weekly planner so we can all keep track of key dates and events.
It’s really encouraging to see that many of our Y10 students are already showing the learning behaviours and focus needed to pass GCSEs, which will make the transition into Y11 so much easier for them!
Mrs Parker and Miss Cocliff.
Crew CBU have had a great start to the term- today we looked at the impact energy drinks can have on children. Crew were really surprised to find out the amount of sugar and caffeine content they contained.
Crew also had a fantastic first couple of days with a check in on Monday – learning what everyone got up to over the holidays and tranquil Tuesday where all students made sure they had a book to read and completed some independent reading to start the day.
Great work crew!
We would like to remind you of the Year 7 XP’s presentation of learning which will consist of them showcasing their work from both Humanities and Science. The POL will take place on Thursday 25th April from 4:30 to 5:30pm.
We look forward to seeing you there!
High challenge work in Year 8: simplifying indices
Beautiful work in Year 9: learning about angles in parallel lines
Wonderful work in Year 10: Calculating the parts of a circle
Its summer sports time.
Rounders practice will start this week on Wednesday 3.15-4.30. All welcome, please bring your PE kit.
Welcome back, hope you have all had a lovely easter.
Extra curricular this week is as follows:
Tuesday: Cheerleading 3.30-4.30
Wednesday: Y7 and Y9 boys football game at home. Students will finish between 4.45 and 5.
Thursday: BTEC Sport catch up.
There will be lots more going on next week and the enrichment timetable will be shared via blog later this week.
On Tuesday 16th April we’ll have our final Art learning lab before the GCSE Art exam the following week. As it’s the last chance before the exam for students to get some extra time in, we’ll be running an extended session running from 3.30 until 5.30pm. To keep everyone energised and working we’ll have a selection of food and snacks for students who attend.
All year 11 students are welcome, but we’ll be sending invites out to those who we’d really like to see for that final push.
Crew SMI have had another busy term. From visiting a Gurdwara to running a mile for the British Heart Foundation, Crew SMI have well and truly done it all this term. We’ve had some ups and downs, but we’ve made it through as a crew. We’d like to share a couple of our highlights from this term.
Highlight 1 – Passing our SLCs
We spent a few weeks preparing for our Student Led Conferences, gathering work to show our parents – work we were proud of, work we found challenging and work we needed to further improve. We all worked really hard to put together a presentation showing these pieces of work. Everyone completed their SLC and passed! Here’s a few of us with our certificates.
Highlight 2 – World Book Day
Crew SMI decided to dress up as characters from the famous book ‘The Lorax’ by Dr. Suess. We spent a few days planning our outfits, ensuring everyone had a character to portray. Then on the day, we arrived early and got into our costumes, ready to attend Community Meeting as our Lorax characters. Were we the only ones dressed up that day? Yes. Yes we were. But we didn’t care, as we had great fun choosing characters and coming up with costume ideas. It really brought us together as a crew. We did get a few funny looks and laughs throughout the day though, but we stayed in character. It was a great day and we can’t wait till next year to do it all again… but as who?
To finish the term on a high, Crew SMI celebrated Easter with a few games and an Easter basket full of goodies each. We hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and eat lots of chocolate!
See you all in two weeks!
Miss Mitchell
FXP would like to thank those who supported the Easter tuck shop and raffle today. The tuck shop raised a whopping £155 in just 15 minutes and the raffle raised £120, so a grand total of £275 to go towards future XP projects. We can’t thank you enough.
Congratulations to our raffle winners today Carl, Kian J and Bal, we hope your enjoy your prizes!
We look forward to seeing you all at our next tuck shop on Thursday 16th May. Happy Easter everyone, enjoy your two weeks off!
Friends of XP
