Our students have been doing some beautiful work in the sporting field (and pool).

Students took part in the Junior Great North Run recently, and contributed to the wider wonderful work that the Great North Run does in raising money for such a wide range of great causes.

Well done to Harris, Arlo, Drew, Elyse and Ethan here with their medals!

And last weekend, Winnie was swimming in the Sheffield North of England regional competition. Winnie was representing Gateshead and Wickham Swimming Club in what is an  event for elite level athletes with super-fast qualifying times!

Winnie’s club have said that Winnie and her team had an excellent attitude throughout the weekend.

This video was created by our Mandarin teacher Xiaolu Tan for the Confucius Institute in China. the Confucius Institute work with partners such as Newcastle University to provide Chinese language education outside of China.

The purpose of the video is to promote teaching of Chinese in England, and highlights just how much Xiaolu and our students are enjoying learning together.

Our students are learning Mandarin as part of Common Mission at XPG. A place in the week where students follow a personalised curriculum to enable them to become the best versions of themselves. Work here also contributes to the ‘My interests’ section of the Gold JASS award.

https://www.jasschools.org.uk/about/jass

The video above won the third place prize of the 2022 Confucius Institute Moments Global Short Video Collection Event!

Our students have taken Chinese social media by storm!!!!

The  video can be found in full on the CI website by clicking here.

Student in Year 7 have been experimenting with mark making techniques to create mono-prints of mining artefacts as part of their expedition “From The Ground Up.”

Here are two beautiful examples from Eleanor and William!

G28 students have written letters which summarise many of the topics that they have learned in Spanish since the start of Year 7.

To help them to memorise their extensive vocabulary they created mind maps, and then wrote to their pen pals to tell them about themselves.

You can hear some of their beautiful final recordings by clicking here too.

Muy impresionante trabajo G28!

We would like to pass on our appreciation to all of the families that came to our events these last two evenings. Over the two evenings we were visited by over 300 people. Our students led the events with presentations on important aspects of our model, as ambassadors taking visitors on tour and answering questions about their school.

We are so proud of the way that our students demonstrated how they can lead their learning with over half of our students involved in the event.

Again thanks to all of the families that attended as this gave our existing students another opportunity to learn that there is ‘more in them than they know’.

We are sorry that given our temporary accommodation we were not able to host more families across the two nights. A reminder that we will be posting a series of associated videos and answering questions from the evening on our website next week.

Here is the perfect example of how we get smart at XPG!

Jason in Y7 received some feedback on a recent assessment and decided to take this away, check the rubric and have another go at it, taking that feedback onboard to ensure he could securely meet the learning target.

Well done for getting smart by taking responsibility for your learning, Jason!

Students in G29 have now completed the immersion to their new expedition including some pencil sketching in Art. We will be sharing some of that beautiful work very soon. Students have also been keen to show some of their own artwork from home too. Here is some wonderful rotoscope style footy artwork from Ben M, and a beautiful big cat from Lyra.

Beautiful work indeed!

You can rewatch our presentation of learning for our final learning expedition: What a Wonderful World here:

We could not be more proud of our G28 volunteers that helped promote our book at the Miners’ Gala this weekend.

Students spoke with confidence to members of public about their work, why it is important to continue to tell the stories of our cultural heritage and clocked up some pretty decent sales figures too.

Members of the public were blown away by how articulate our students were and there were very emotional moments as students spoke to members of the mining community specifically.

First class work from Ethan, Mason, Beth, Daniel, Daniel, Charlie, Elyse, Isla, Katie, Maddie, Betsy, Daria and Jessica!

During our Crew Day of adventure in our local ‘Green Corridor’, Katie N took some fantastic photographs of floral species throughout the day. Beautiful work Katie!