We have the highest expectations of all our students that go way beyond the National Curriculum and qualifications, to include skills, competencies and knowledge crucial to life, university and career readiness.

However, in terms of qualifications, we aim for 100% of our students gaining the equivalent of 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Maths, and 100% of our students gaining the English Baccalaureate. We know that in reality, there will be some issues we cannot overcome, so the actual figure will be a few percentage points off this target.

More importantly though, we aim for 100% to be able to go to university. We recognise that for some students, this may not be their chosen path, but we see no reason why any of our students should not have the opportunity and option to go to university either straight after graduation, or in the future.

Please see our admissions page by clicking here.

All our projects are rigorously mapped to the National Curriculum standards as well as skills and competencies such as problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, persistence toward excellence and active citizenship.

As your child progresses through an expedition, they create evidence of their learning and maintain a physical and digital learning portfolio that they can share with you.

All their evidence of learning will map against the standards and skills, so rather than just being given a report once a year, you will be able to actually see your child’s progress through their work, along with critical feedback from their teacher.

After every expedition, your child will exhibit their work along with the rest of their class, where your child will present to you their work and that of their classmates.

As well as this, our teachers will know you and your child personally, and will make sure they keep you up to date with their progress, any issues and how you can help with them.

For further information as to how we do assessment at XP, please click here.

Our school structure, timetable, pastoral system and curriculum give us many advantages that ensure good behaviour.

We know our students, families and background well. Our school is small, with a fixed class size of 25 and a teaching assistant assigned to each class. Classes work with three teachers for each expedition allowing teachers to know each student personally.

In most other schools, teachers would see 250-300 students over a fortnight, and students would see 20-30 teachers.

Our curriculum is engaging, personalised and authentic. When students do work that actually matters and is useful to them and their community, they have a much greater need to engage in it. When they know that they will be exhibiting their work in front of people that they care about, positive peer pressure is a great motivator.

We have an extremely strong behaviour policy and extremely high expectations for our students.

On top of our firm zero-tolerance anti-bullying policy, we have pastoral structures that support the total elimination of bullying, such as our ‘crew’ and the small, personal size of the school.

Each crew is a group of 12-13 students and an adult that stay together for the 7 years they are with us. Crew meet every morning and follow a supportive and challenging pastoral and academic curriculum.

Each Crew Leader visits and regularly contacts parents which gives us a very strong pastoral team enabling them to deal with issues such as bullying extremely effectively.

We do not have a school uniform. Instead, we have a dress code, which you can read about by clicking here.

XP is a place where we learn about the world, and therefore its religions. XP as an organisation does not have a particular view on religion, or doctrine, and takes a secular (non-religious) approach to its activities as much as possible, whilst fulfilling its statutory requirements.

Any student wishing to practice their own religion will be given a negotiated way to do this.