X27 Crew Day 15th July

14th July 2022Miss Boon

As you are all aware, crew forms the foundation of everything we do at XP. Strong crew relationships are essential to supporting students to become the best versions of themselves. Quite simply: 

‘if we get crew right, we get everything right’

At key points each year, we plan activities to refresh and revitalise crew to ensure we give students and their crew leaders the opportunity to bond together to make their relationships even stronger. 

With this in mind, I am pleased to inform you that we have arranged a crew day for students in X27 on Friday 15th July at The Tournament Ground.  A selection of the following activities based on individual crew needs: 

  • Pioneering
  • Bush craft
  • Team building
  • Air rifle 
  • Combat archery
  • Archery
  • Axe throwing.

Each crew will be participating in 4 activities followed by a final whole year group activity at the end of the day. This will be followed by a BBQ then a final period for quiet contemplation of our overarching question 

“What is my vision for the best version of myself and how can I achieve this?”

Students will need to bring:

  • A packed lunch. If your child receives a free school meal we will provide this. Please reply to this email to order your dinner. 
  • Any medication they require, including inhalers. 
  • Sun cream
  • Sun hat
  • Water bottle

Students will need to be in school at 8am. We will be leaving school at 8:30am and will return to school at approximately 4:30pm. We will update you if we are delayed due to traffic. 

If you require any further information regarding this please don’t hesitate to get in touch with your child’s crew leader. As this visit is part of our crew curriculum, all students will take part in the visit. 

Praise and Reward indeed!

25th March 2022Nicola Marshall

Our students in crew Tubman have been working exceedingly hard this term at improving their HOWLs and especially looking at our Spanish HOWLs in more depth. We have done this by self assessment of our own behaviour within this session. The reason for this is that the students had begun to grapple with how to move forward, as well as in other sessions.

By looking at their own behaviour and making pledges every week and sticking to these pledges, the students have been able to see the rewards for their consistent hard work, with everyone achieving either a 3.5/ 4.0 for all of their Work Hard, Get Smart and Be Kind HOWLs in the last two weeks of term.

There has been a marked improvement across all subjects as a result of the mini pledges our students have made this term based on their work around SLCs. As their crew leader i am tremendously proud of all their efforts and as such they were rewarded this afternoon with a picnic and team games.

It was lovely to see the students kick back and enjoy the sunshine i particularly enjoyed hearing their giggles.

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Crew Goodall’s Flower Garden

11th February 2022Miss Boon

Last term we planted some spring bulbs in our planter and this week we went out to see how they were doing. Roxy’s crocuses have started to appear and a few more look like they will be out soon!

Well done to all crew members who did their SLCs this week. A lot of them worked really hard and were able to explain their work from year 8 and their howls with maturity. Many pledges were made, which we will be continuing to discuss regularly and support each other.

We also had a new crew member joining us this week, welcome to Phoebe!

Hope you all have a lovely half term holiday.

Miss Boon