We are well on our way home after a great day in parliament, even meeting the MP for Doncaster Central. We have hit intermittent traffic along the way and so our current return ETA is 18:30.

The countdown is on! In just two days, the XP Festival of Arts & Culture kicks off – and alongside the incredible music, dance, and creativity on show, you can enjoy some fantastic food from Relish!

You can check out their menu below – there’s something for everyone to fuel your festival day.

Just a heads-up: Relish is card payment only on the day!

🎵 Great food, great music, and a celebration of our amazing young people – it’s going to be a day to remember.

Tickets are free but essential – there’s still time get yours here: xptrust.org/festival

Hello

Thank you to all the parents, carers, and students who attended our recent Silver DofE Information Evening. It was fantastic to see so the interest and enthusiasm for the next exciting stage of the Duke of Edinburgh journey.

For those who were unable to attend, or would like a recap, we’ve attached the slides from the presentation below. These outline everything you need to know about how the Silver Award will run this year, including:

• 🏃‍♀️ How the Physical, Skills, and Volunteering sections will be completed independently
• 💼 Expectations around kit, costs, and planning
• 📆 Important deadlines and next steps

We’re really excited to be working with this year’s Silver participants and can already see how eager they are to take on the challenge. Expedition supervisors Emma Watson and Chris Morrison will be leading both the practice and qualifying expeditions and will be on hand to support throughout the process. Please see the links for information and forms of interest on the slides below.

We’re aware that there was some miscommunication regarding the letters that were recently sent home. Please accept our apologies for any confusion this may have caused. The attached slides should help clarify the key information, but if anything remains unclear, don’t hesitate to get in touch. I will also be avalibale tonight (Wed 9th July) to meet with anyone that requires more information till 4:30pm.

If your child had previously expressed interest but is no longer wishing to take part, please let me know as soon as possible by emailing ewatson@xpschool.org so we can update our records.

Thanks again for your continued support, we can’t wait to see what this next chapter brings for our amazing students.

DofE Crew

Hi all,

Just a quick message to keep you in the loop with the work going on behind the scenes!

As you can imagine, we’ve got quite the task ahead as we work to verify all the Bronze DofE Awards on the eDofE portal. Our incredible expedition supervisors are busy finalising individual reports for each student and passing them on to the award verifier. It’s a big job – but we’re on it!

Our goal is to have everything completed by the end of term. Once that’s done, we’ll be sharing details about a very special Celebration of Learning event and an official Award Ceremony, we’re currently looking at the last week of September for this. 🎉 Stay tuned for more info soon!

As ever, if you have any questions, please contact your child’s Crew Leader in the first instance.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

DofE Crew.