Thank you to everyone who attended our GCSE Information Evening on Wednesday. We hope you found it useful.
The presentation from the evening is published above so that you have all the information, key dates and teacher contacts to hand.
Mrs Parker
Thank you to everyone who attended our GCSE Information Evening on Wednesday. We hope you found it useful.
The presentation from the evening is published above so that you have all the information, key dates and teacher contacts to hand.
Mrs Parker
This week at Plover, students in EYFS completed a sponsored Bear walk as part of their new Expedition! They raised £1148 to support their local community – and dressed up as bears to perform bear related exercises and have fun during the process! Beautiful work!
Last week, Comms installed some new wonderful displays of student work at XP Gateshead. These wall displays are culminations of recent Expeditions and Activism from the last year.
Last Monday, our staff worked closely with Steplab to start implementing their ICT platform for coaching across XP Trust. Staff spent the day looking at effective coaching and learning and how Steplab can help create a positive culture around it.
Over the coming week’s we’ll be sharing more stories of Crew from our recent Outward Bound Expedition – here’s another from Crew JPO/JNO!


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Crew Knowles – Expedition @ Green Top
Plover Praise Postcards @ Plover
Book Talk in Crew Elmer @ Carcroft School
Crew Brunel: first week back @ XP School
Manveer gets to the top of her mountain! @ XP East
A rainy day in space! @ Norton Juniors
Beautiful Work from Will @ XP Gateshead
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@xpschool.org – we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!
Our second student showcase to allow prospective parents and children to visit XP & XP East school takes place on 26th September 2024 between 4-6 pm.
Please follow this link to register your interest for the Y6 showcase.
We look forward to meeting you.

Crew Brunel have had an amazing start to Year 8! Everyone has shown me the best version of themselves so far and I look forward to seeing them blossom over the next academic year.
As part of their Presentation of Learning (POL) last week, Crew Brunel created a short video describing all of the activities they had taken part in on their first week back. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Here’s to Year 8!





Crew Kelly started the new school term really positively. Team games, making hampers for care homes, fieldwork to Lakeside to reflect on the guiding question ‘How can I show kindness to myself and my community and have a positive impact?’. Seeing the beautiful seals with tunes curtesy of Alfie, made for a lovely coastal walk in Flamborough and a great end to Crew Week.
Crew Lovelace engaged in some in and out of school activities with links to team work and kindness during their first week back at school. We had a great week back navigating each other through obstacle courses, listening to ‘with me in mind’ visitors, making, creating characters then playing cluedo, visiting Age UK and gifting a kindness box and a tranquil walk along the coast at Flamborough as a crew. A great start to the new year, before immersing into their new expeditions.














































What a fantastic first week back we had in Crew Sinfield!
On Tuesday we completed our crew norms and had a great check in finding out what everyone got up to over the holidays. We also created time capsules through looking for a newspaper article from this year and completing a solo where students wrote a letter to their future self. Wednesday we went to Sandall Beat Wood where we completed lots of activities including den building- where we had some fantastic shelters. On Thursday we completed crew activities including the floor is lava and minute to win it- crew worked really well- particularly with Line ball!
Crew showed each other fantastic compassion and really worked hard and together. I was so impressed with the hard work they showed and I am really excited about the year ahead.
Well Done Crew!
Mrs Burnitt







What a fantastic first week back crew have had!
We completed den building, time capsules and played some amazing team games.
Crew were respectful and helpful to each other. We had a fantastic time!
Crew Peake came closer together over the first week. Here are some of the highlights that they had!
As a Crew, we can’t believe it’s Week 3 already! Crew Pasteur have come back excited and positive about the challenges of Year 10, and it’s been a whirlwind since those first (mostly) sunny days since the first week back.
