Good Afternoon
Just a reminder to those of you joining us at Ladies Night tonight.
Please use Rovers Car Park 3 and remember to log your vehicle registration upon entry, FXP have no control over any fines issued for anyone who doesn’t log their Registration Details.
Doors are open from 1800 and tickets are available on the door, Just £1.50 each, including an entry into the prize draw.
Dear X21 Students and Parents
I am pleased to announce that we will be holding our inaugural GCSE Presentation Evening on Friday 6 December 2019. Please note that that this is a change to the original date suggested on Results Day letter due to unforeseen circumstances.
The evening will start at 6.30pm and finish at 8.00pm. We want to celebrate with you the fantastic outcomes X21 achieved last summer as well as present students with their GCSE Certificates and a number of special awards.
Could you please contact the school to indicate your attendance at this special evening by contacting the office on 01032 898792 before the 29th November.
We look forward to seeing you on the 6 December.
My very best wishes to you all
Andy
Dear X24 parents,
Passage presentation will be scheduled shortly. They will run in the last two weeks of term, from 9th December – 20th December.
Best wishes
Mr Campbell
On Monday 18th November students from X24 Skipper will be carrying out service learning between 9.15 and 11.30am at Balby Church’s Big Sort. Students will have the opportunity to talk to volunteers at the food and clothing bank as well as take part in the sorting of donations ready for the food and clothing banks opening later in the week. This will help students develop their answer to our guiding question Why do we still need charity?Â
Crew Hahn had 2 crew sessions today.
This mornings session we checked in and then continued planning our charity fundraising ideas.
So far we will be holding a raffle, Guess the name of the cute puppy, car washing (during the summer months) and encouraging the ‘staff with beards’ to shave them off all to raise money for Cancer Research.
We have a target set of £250.
So far Mr Voltaire, Mr ap Harri & Mr Said have all agreed to rid themselves of their facial hair if we manage to raise the full £250!
This afternoon we celebrated Tom’s birthday. Tom got to choose what we did and he chose to play dodge ball.
Before we started we discussed our character traits to our newest crew member, Josh explaining what these would look like, feel like and sound like during a game of dodge ball.
I think you can see we had a lot of fun as crew.
Happy Birthday Tom!
Crew Tomlinson and Stan-Lee have worked really well this week organising a bake sale at XP. All members of both crews contributed by either bringing cakes in, serving students or rounding people up to make sure we made the sale a success! We had so many goodies that we managed to hold the bake sale on Thursday and Friday this week and everything was sold! Brilliant effort by all and we can’t wait to see how much was raised!
Students will need to bring a packed lunch unless they usually have a school meal provided, in which case a packed lunch will be provided.
The visit will take place within the normal school hours and students should be back in school by the end of the day.
This week during academic crew we used the ‘blob bridge’ (thank you Mr Nixon!) to reflect on the previous week and where we’d like to be on the ‘blob bridge’ by the end of this week: ‘which blob person were you most like last week?’ and ‘Which blob person do you WANT to be like this week?’
Crew discussed what the bridge could represent, what stops some of us from crossing the bridge and how we make sure that we get to where we want to be on the bridge.
The answers our Crew gave were very insightful and intuitive. What a lovely way to start the week. We’ll be reflecting on this during our next academic crew. Well done 🙂
Crew MRO got started with thinking about what jobs they would like to do later in life and what their strengths and interests are. After each student filled in the online survey we had a range of career suggestions generated for them. Suggestions included a PE Teacher, RAF Regiment Gunner, Nurse, Animal Carer, Colourist, Chemical Engineering Technician, Forensic Scientist, Chemical Plant Worker and an Entertainment Officer.
The survey produced a recommendation of a Performing Arts Teacher for me, so it was good to know I was already in the right job!
A big appreciation to Mrs Green for leading our session and supporting us with getting logged on.
It looks like Crew MRO are set to make a meaningful contribution to society with this range of possible careers!
Unfortunately we have once again been informed that the y9 football fixture which was due to go ahead tonight at Rossington has been cancelled due to the weather. We will inform the students if and when it is rearranged.
Today students from XP and XP East went to Doncaster Schools Cross Country at the Keepmoat. Students braved the cold and muddy conditions but still showed determination to finish. Well done everyone.
Students in X23 Admiral have been reviewing their learning of the first three acts of Macbeth. They have been preparing a presentation on how either Macbeth or Lady Macbeth have been presented and how they have changed up to this point in the play. Students have been working really hard in session and I’m looking forward to them presenting their ideas next Monday. Special mention must go to Isaac Heyes, Bradley Elwick and Henry Harris who have done some outstanding research as well as working effectively as a team. Keep this up!
X23 have grappled with the imperfect tense this week, working out how to describe their Primary schools, then comparing them to XP. Students completed text coding, a Gogomo, and constructed sentences to help them do this. Well done X23, keep grappling!
