XP School

Wednesday – Netball and Football 3.30-.4.30

Thursday – Cheerleading 3.30-4.30

Please come to the changing rooms at the end of the school day.

Community meetings at XP and XP East serve as a crucial anchor of our community for embedding our school culture. They bring all of our students and staff together to tend to our crew identity, align on shared expectations, celebrate achievement, and reflect on collective growth. Rather than acting as passive assemblies, community meetings embody the core principle that everyone is part of a crew, fostering belonging and mutual accountability across our schools. Our community meeting on Friday highlighted some of these core practices through some magical moments:

• We always start by reinforcing shared norms around our school spaces, reminding our student to respect outdoor boundaries.
• We celebrated student achievements in the arts, recognising Year 7 for a strong start in Art and highlighting Year 10 students as Artists of the Week for their outstanding effort.
• We praised Students of the Week across year groups for earning top praise points and celebrated some great attendance for this week through additions to their Crew Kitty.
• We shared updates on how Crew Kitty can be earned through additional contributions, such as blogging photographs of learning activities or reaching the top of the leaderboard in the Sparx and Tassomai challenges. This initiative reinforces that every student can contribute to their crew’s collective reward, which can be spent on shared experiences like crew breakfasts or end-of-term activities.
• We hand the catch box to our students for the majority of our community meeting ensuring that these meeting are guided by student voice through Appreciations, Apologies, and Stands:
• We reinforced character traits through some powerful stands and lots of appreciations.

By gathering regularly to celebrate success, reset expectations, and speak honestly with one another, our community meetings continue to strengthen our culture of crew.

Year 7 XP students showed excellent teamwork skills this week. Students circled up and worked as a crew to figure out what their strengths and areas for improvements were. What a fantastic start to PE.

Here is the link to order the PE t shirt. All students in year 7-10 should have a PE t shirt for their PE lessons.

Any questions please speak to your crew leader.

https://romirosport.com/product-category/education/xpe-doncaster

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Arts and craft club @ Green Top

EYFS Sponsored Bear Walk @ Plover

Could You Be a Change Maker? @ Carcroft School

Inside the Code @ XP

]Celebrating Crew @ Norton Infants

Digital Leading Experts @ Norton Juniors

G29 @ XP Gateshead

Fossils, Discovery, and Coastal Exploration @ 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 comms@xptrust.org –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

What a fantastic week for Crew ABT! 🎉

We are incredibly proud to celebrate 100% attendance this week. Every member of Crew ABT has shown commitment, resilience and a fantastic attitude by being in school every day and ready to learn.

This is a brilliant achievement and shows the strength of our Crew when we work together, support each other and take responsibility.

A huge well done to everyone in Crew ABT – keep it going! 💪🔥

100% attendance. 100% commitment. 100% Crew ABT! 🏆

Good morning from slightly warmer and sunny Silkstone.

Slower start this morning, some tired feet and extra tired faces today.

Day 3 is upon us, they have all shown true grit and determination and as they embark on the last leg they will no doubt dig that bit more to get through.

We will keep you posted on our arrival time home

Just a little update!

We’ve arrived at the campsite and now setting up tents. It’s a little drizzly but in good spirits… we think they will be in asleep early tonight!

Photo is the last leg before they arrived at the campsite!