The vaccine nurses are in school tomorrow for those students (boys and girls) who have consented in Year 8 (1st dose) and Year 9 (2nd dose) for the HPV Vaccine. Thank you to all those parents who have been prompt in filling the form in and sending it off to RDASH.
Category : Students
Well, it’s been a busy couple of weeks in crew. We have been working hard and cracking on.
This week, crew Kahlo has been looking at ‘British Values’ as part of our crew curriculum. We have been learning about how British Values teach us tolerance and respect for others.
We even made a display in our crew room.
We then moved onto looking at the difference between weather and climate. Pupils carried out research into causes of climate change.
I wanted to highlight this beautiful work by Bryan and Jessy. For our current Y8 expedition ‘Wherever I Lay my Hat’ where we have been looking at the artist Luke Dixon for inspiration. Pupils have practiced adding lines and patterns to simplified copies of his work and also using a viewfinder to zoom in on details. I don’t know about you, but I think Jessy’s pencil-tone portrait is absolutely amazing! I only asked for a line drawing – but she went for it! We didn’t want to add any lines (like Luke Dixon does) over this drawing – so we have photocopied her work and she is adding lines to a copy so she has not one but two beautiful pieces of work!
On Thursdays, crew Kahlo has started to think about the HoWLs grades that they would give themselves for that week in each subject area and crew. Pupils critiqued each other’s grades and commented on whether they agreed with them or not. This led to loads of discussion about what ‘work hard’ looks like and how they could try and improve their own ‘get smart’ in lessons. It has been really great to have Mr. Challen in crew with us as he has been able to comment on pupils’ work in their maths lessons.
A very productive couple of weeks crew! Keep up the good work.
Crew Berger have made a great start on their preparations for their Final Word at the end of their time with us.
We’ve been looking back at past expeditions and thinking about how being at XP has built character. But mostly so far we’ve been being entertained by photos of everyone looking really young!
Thanks to parents who’ve already booked slots for the presentations – we’re really looking forward to seeing what our amazing young men and women have got to say about their growth and development over the past 5 years at XP.
Crew Macmillan take on Captain Tom’s 100!
“The family of the late Captain Sir Tom Moore is inviting the world to take inspiration from his famous 100 laps around his garden to celebrate Captain Tom’s life, his generosity of spirit and the hope and joy he brought to millions.
The Captain Tom 100 is taking place on what would have been his 101st birthday weekend, from Friday 30 April to Bank Holiday Monday 3 May”.
So, as a crew, Crew Macmillan have decided we will be taking on Captain Sir Tom’s 100 Challenge this coming Friday, April 30th.
The Challenge involves completing 100Â of something!Â
Crew have decided to collectively complete 100 laps of XP school in one single crew session. Actually, then, we had a trial run on Friday; and managed to smash that target, so we’re going to challenge ourselves to achieve 200 Laps instead!!!
We’ve set up a fundraising page to try and raise some money in aid of our chosen charity, Macmillan Cancer Support. If you are in a position to help us to do so, the link is here.
We would love to be able to raise ÂŁ100 – what a lovely amount in honour of Sir Captain Tom Moore.
I look forward to taking on this challenge – come on crew, we’ll smash it!
The Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) school age vaccination team will be visiting XP school shortly to continue the HPV programme for all boys and girls in Year 8 (1st dose) & 9 (2nd dose). Thursday 6th May 2021 is the day allocated. All parent/carers of Year 8 students only should have now received an email with an attached link from your child’s crew leader. It is really important you fill in the form that is attached with the email in the link. This will save time in phone calls being made a week before vaccines in response to whether your child will be having the vaccine or not.
If you have not received the link for the HPV vaccine from your child’s crew leader then please contact them or myself nmawby@xpschool.org requesting the link for the HPV vaccine.
HPV Vaccine OverviewÂ
It’s been great to be back so far this term! We’ve been spending time getting back into the routines of working hard, getting smart and being kind.
On our Tranquil Tuesdays reading sessions, we’ve started a new book called Pet by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi. This book has been sparking some great discussions in crew as it address some quite challenging themes. I’ve been so impressed with how maturely crew Thunberg have approached the issues that this book touches on.
We’ve also taken the time to challenge ourselves to engage in something a bit more sporty by playing dodgeball against other crews. It has been lovely for me to spend time with Crew Thunberg doing something like this, as I don’t get a chance to see them when they’re doing PE. I was blown away by the sportsmanship and the drive and determination shown by everyone in crew Thunberg.
Attendance has also been fantastic in crew so far — it’s great to see everyone turning up to school every day prepared and ready to do their best!
Well done on an excellent start, Crew Thunberg!!
Crew Blessed have been enjoying reconnecting in recent weeks.
It’s been great to get back into Mindful Mondays. Today we wrote positive postcards for staff who have supported us.
Tranquil Tuesdays have been relaxing with some focused reading going on and we have taken responsibility for our own HOWLs in Thoughtful Thursdays.
Wise Wednesdays have been great to get into too, with some meaningful face to face discussions about British Values.
It is great to have the crew back in school. They have all settled very well in getting into their routine and working off their Timetable. As you can see their timetable in school is very busy.
Now the crew are back, they have started to reflect on their habits of work and learning and this is where they critique themselves and their peers in crew on their HOWLS. To support their Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind grades each student will once a week reflect and grade themselves on their HOWLS and enter their own grades for each subject lesson they study on how they are performing in Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind. through this process each student will hopefully work on the subject areas where they need to improve.
How we grade ourselves in Crew. Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind.
During Crew today our learning target was: ‘I can explain how you can participate in politics and why political participation is important’
Our check in was a discussion around this satirical cartoon:
We then thought about why Marcus Rashford was so passionate about free school meals and whether or not you have to be a politician to be involved in politics.
We looked at the ways you can participate and why it is important that we do and use our voices.
Finally, we all participated in politics!
Welcome back crew Hahn… again!
Unfortunately due to my role with covid testing and then the year 11 students having to go home again i haven’t seen much of my crewbies. So as today was the first proper session with them for ages I decided we’d do something fun…… an Easter egg hunt outdoors!
Here’s a photo of what we collected.
It’s great to have them back in school and back in crew!
Kate