Scarlett competed in the northern area regional schools judo championships over the weekend and secured a silver medal! She has also qualified for the national finals in March, what a fantastic achievement. Good luck for the finals Scarlett!
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Please arrive from 5.45pm this evening. You will be signed in based upon the surname of your child:
- If you the surname of your child begins with A-D you will be in GROUP 1
- If the surname of your child begins with E-K you will be in GROUP 2
- If the surname of your child begins with L-Q you will be in GROUP 3
- If the surname of your child begins with R-Z you will be in GROUP 4
There is very limited parking available on our site so please be considerate of our neighbours if parking on the street. Please do not park in front of dropped kerbs or pathways arcoss the verge as many of the residents are elderly and require easy access to their homes from the street.
This week Ollie and Owen took part in trials for the district football team at under 12 level. Fingers crossed for both boys, but we know that they gave a great account of themselves. Beautiful work Ollie and Owen!
Dear Families
I start with a repeat of last week’s starting sentence: it was another very busy and productive week, even with four days due to our second staff day on Monday. We really do work hard here to produce beautiful work with our staff and students always striving to be the best versions of themselves.
If it’s good enough for our students…
This week has seen the first of our staff days for this term. We have two staff days each term at XP so that our teachers can collaborate across the Trust to create and deliver the high quality curriculum that our students study. On Friday 22nd September we focused on our teaching and learning model at XPG and on Monday 25th September we carried out some Outdoor Education work which focused on crew development including crew reads, crew initiatives and outdoor safety. This work sets us in good stead for future student learning opportunities and Year 9 DofE challenges.
Visitors in school …
We have had several visitors in school this week meeting our students and looking closely at the work they do. As adults, we always step back and let our students take the floor when visitors come and our students always talk openly and honestly about their school and work here at XP Gateshead.
Verbal feedback from Ron Berger’s visit and our external school review last week has been really positive praising our strong school culture and the quality of our work. We will share more detailed feedback when reports come our way.
Our Local Governors Committee (LGC) meeting …
On Thursday we had our first LGC meeting of the year. Our LGC is set up to provide support and challenge to XPG leadership around the three dimensions of XP:
Our LGC focus on our school improvement priorities and regularly visit school to validate, support and challenge our work. We have a very strong LGC group as you can see below
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Andrea Mead |
Chair | Headteacher , Specialist provision |
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Jane Sutton |
Governor/Parent |
Primary Link Advisor, Gateshead LEA |
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James Renwick |
Governor/Parent |
Y6 primary teacher |
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Elizabeth Shipley |
Governor/Parent |
Senior Clinical Psychologist |
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Phil Latham |
Governor |
CEO Endeavour Academies |
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Julie Mosley |
Principal |
XP Gateshead |
| Steph Oliver |
Staff/Governor |
Leader at Norton School, XP Trust |
In our first meeting we looked at last year’s review, this year’s school improvement priorities and the work we plan to undertake. LGC visits are scheduled across the year to check on our progress around these priorities.
Our week ahead
G30 Fieldwork – Whitburn and Marsden
As part of their G30 expedition “From the Ground Up’, our Year 7 students will be carrying out fieldwork at the location of the former Whitburn Colliery and Marsden Village near to Souter Lighthouse in South Tyneside.
- G30 Class 2 will be going on Tuesday 3rd October
- G30 Class 1 will be going on Wednesday 4th October
Please see the website post for full kit details and times of the day.
Open Evening Tuesday 3rd October
On Tuesday we will open our doors to prospective families that are considering XP Gateshead as a destination school for their children in the next academic year (from September 2024). Our students will host sessions across the evening around our 3D approach, sharing their responses to key questions:
- Beautiful work – How do we create beautiful work and why is this so important?
- Academic success – How do we lead our own learning to ensure that we are successful?
- Character – How do we grow our characters at our school?
As always, it will be their voice and work that is centre stage. Unfortunately we are not able to have all students with us for the night (all would happily volunteer) due to space but we have a great group of ambassadors who have stepped up to work with us for the evening. Thank you to their families who have supported too with late collection from school.
PE sessions this week
Our PE sessions this week are as follows. Please ensure that your child has their full PE kit.
- G30 students (Year 7) have PE on Monday this week.
- G29 students (Year 8) have PE on Wednesday this week.
- G28 (Year 9) Class 1 students have PE on Thursday this week.
- G28 (Year 9) Class 2 students have PE on Friday this week.
Extended Study
We will offer extended study sessions, from 3:15pm – 4:30pm each day this week Monday-Thursday.
We will be sharing our after school club offer with students later this week and taster sessions for clubs will start in the final two weeks of this half term.
As usual if you have any questions about your son or daughter please get in touch with your child’s Crew Leader in the first instance or email general enquiries to [email protected].
Thank you as always for your ongoing support. There is more in us than we know #WeAreCrew.
Julie Mosley
Year 6 Open Evening – IMPORTANT FULLY BOOKED
Our Open Evening this week is now fully booked
Due to high demand and our limited size and space in our current temporary building, we have had to limit the number of places at the event. If you have not registered to attend, please do not turn up on the evening as we will not be able to accommodate you.
More information about our school
Our website is also a valuable source of information and will give you a real flavour of the rigour of XP and our relentless focus on academic success, character growth and beautiful work.
We have put together an information website for families that were are not able to attend which you can find here.
Frequently asked questions can be found here.
We look forward to meeting lots of year 6 families this week.
Julie Mosley
Principal
XP Gateshead
As many of you know, Go North East has confirmed a series of strikes on the following dates:
Saturday 30 September – Friday 6 October inclusive
Saturday 14 October – Friday 20 October inclusive
The Gateshead depot is affected.
Go North East anticipate that very few of its bus services across Gateshead will run. They are therefore advising customers to make alternative travel arrangements.
It is important, and your duty, to do everything that you can to get your child to school. Attendance is important in all schools, but as you know in our setting missed days mean that students miss big chunks the wider story of their learning expeditions.
Passes for buses and children’s nexus tickets will be accepted on the Metro where this is a viable option.
If you are encountering problems in arranging for your child to get to school, please do reach out to our Families Group on Facebook, we have a very supportive community and we know that other families will offer to help where they can.
Thanks for your support.
Some stunning monoprints that capture the grit, tone and texture of mining artefacts from Year 7.
Beautiful work G30!
Sharing our Stories: 29/09/2023
Beautiful Work This Week (…and last week!)
XP Outdoors: Campfire Training!
A Visit from Ron Berger!
We’ve been very lucky since XP first opened and as the Trust has grown over the last ten years, to be able to welcome Ron Berger to our schools. Ron, the CAO of Expeditionary Learning (EL) in the US, has visited us several times, sharing with us his knowledge, energy and wisdom.
Always supportive and inspiring, Ron has now, after a two week stay, just returned home. His time here has included visits to all of our schools, a well received and inspirational talk with our staff and chatting with our students and hearing their stories.
He also travelled to Scotland to visit our brilliant partners at The Wood Foundation and the educators they support in the Aberdeen area. Their school teams have been regular visitors to XP Doncaster on our delegate days for the last four years.
Last but not least, Ron joined colleagues on their induction in Derbyshire, sharing moment by moment with them the experience of developing Crew and fellowship.
Renowned as an educator and catalyst for innovation and compassion in education all over the world, we hope it won’t be long before we can welcome Ron back again.
Beautiful Curation at Plover
Top of the Blogs
Let’s get critical… critical! @ Comms
Year 2 Music – playing tunes on the Glockenspiel @ Carcroft School
More beautiful work in the community from Elyse and Brody @ XP Gateshead
Our Ambassadors run their first Macmillan Event @ Plover
Rainforest Research @ Norton Juniors
Drama Hut Visit in Class 6 @ Green Top
Let the children march @ Norton Infants
Food Bank Fundraising @ 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 [email protected] – we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!
Elyse was a flag bearer at the recent game between England and Scotland at the Stadium of Light. Elyse has really grown as a footballer over the last couple of years, and what an honour to have such an important role at this local event. Great work Elyse!
If you visit the Shipley Art Gallery, and we think you should, you will see Brody’s pottery piece displayed in one of the cabinets in the Gallery. Fantastic and beautiful work Brody. Our students can say they are published authors, Brody is a published potter!
Lizzie has produced some thoughtful writing about the importance of coal in our region to help drive the Industrial Revolution. Josh, having produced similar quality writing then made extensive notes on the Industrial Revolution as an extension task. Great work Lizzie and Josh!
