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This week’s adventures led us on a delightful walk to the lake at Lakeside. It was heartwarming to hear students reflect on how fortunate they are to have access to such a beautiful space to visit and enjoy.

We briskly made our way to the lake, where we took a moment to soak in the peaceful surroundings on a crisp, chilly day. Students had the chance to do a bit of bird spotting and appreciate the tranquility before heading back to the hustle and bustle of school life.

We look forward to more fun and adventures of the coming weeks

Mrs Watson, Miss Wade, Miss Leatham and Mr Booth.

Fortunately, the weather is on our side this week, meaning fieldwork to Hyde Park Cemetery for X31 is back on!

We will be leaving school and heading to the cemetery by foot after lunch. We will return to school in time for the end of the day, so students will leave at normal time.

Please can you ensure that your child arrives to school wearing appropriate footwear and wearing a coat. We will be outside for the entirety of our visit and it is important students stay warm!

This fieldwork is in support of our Expedition 7.2 Dig Deep.

We appreciate your support in working with us through the many changes we have faced due to adverse weather.

Beautiful Work This Week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week! To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Shrinky Dink Excitement @ Norton Infants

Class 7 Fruit Baskets @ Green Top

Classification or Chaos? @ Plover

Stan and Mabel Experience Lesson @ Carcroft School

C28 Product @ XP

3SG get hooked into science @ Norton Juniors

Weekly Update for Families @ XP Gateshead

Crew White @ XP East

Share your stories with us!

We now have a new dedicated news email so that you can send your stories, updates or ideas about potential news articles directly to us in Comms.

It might be something you or your students have achieved, a charity you’re supporting or anything at all that deserves a wider audience.

Write to us at news@xptrust.org –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

Tuesday- KS4 Badminton and Girls football 3.30-4.30

Wednesday – Year 8 Netball match away return at 5.30 to XP school

Year 7/8 football match at home finishes at 5pm

Thursday- Cheerleading practice 3.30-4.30

Thanks Team PE

All extra curricular starts this week.

Tuesday- Girls football and Badminton (KS3)

Wednesday- Netball

Thursday- Cheerleading

All practice are from 3.30-4.30.

Thanks Team PE

We are currently working to create a directory of experts for our upcoming Year 9 Passage Presentations and would appreciate your help! 

Passage Presentation is an opportunity for students to reflect on their learning and demonstrate their readiness to move onto the next phase of their education – GCSE.

Students share their high quality work to a panel of experts and their family through an oral presentation, increasing their accountability and character development demonstrating the skills and knowledge they have gained in Key Stage 3. 

As part of the presentation students provide insight into their future goals and aspirations and we would like to ensure an authentic expert for each of them at their presentation – this is where you come in! 

We are seeking support from any members of our community to become an expert panelist at a Passage Presentation, to listen to the presentation, ask questions and support in directing pathways. In order for this to be a success we request help from members of the public who are able to share their own experiences and advice in order to advance our students to the next level of formal schooling.

If you feel this is something you are interested in, please use this link to sign up to the directory. 

Presentations will take place week commencing 27th January 2025 for 3 weeks. You will receive an invite from the student you have been allocated nearer to the time. 

Should you have any further questions, please contact a member of our Key Stage 3 Team: 

Natalie Johnson- njohnson@xpschool.org (KS3 Lead) 

Emma Watson- ewatson@xpschool.org (Phase Lead XPE 8/9)

Chris Morrison- cmorrison@xpschool.org (Phase Lead XP 8/9)

We appreciate your support in advance. 

Year Ten have taken part in some community activism this term as part of their final product for the expedition ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’. After studying Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and watching Scrooge’s transformation, pupils were keen to demonstrate their own compassion to others. As such, we gave our support to Doncaster Food Bank. Inspired by a visit from the Food Bank’s manager, pupils made Christmas crackers which will be distributed with the Christmas food parcels by the Food Bank. Pupils created artwork, poetry and the attached supporting video to help make a difference in their local community. 

We would like to invite parents and guardians to echo this support in the new year by bringing donations for Doncaster Food Bank along with them to the rescheduled Presentation of Learning in January. Please see the attached poster for details of what is best to donate. 

Merry Christmas to everyone!