G33 join XP Gateshead in the first year of our music specialism.
To support this, we are funding instrumental tuition for all of our incoming Year 7 students, in partnership with Gateshead Music Hub.
Please use this form to tell us more about your child’s previous musical experience and their preference for music tuition moving forwards.
Our new Year 7 students’ Outward Bound adventure begins on Tuesday 25th August 2025. Students need to be arrive at school between 8.00am and 8.25am. The coach will depart later that morning.
We need all parents to complete a Participant Information Form by following the link below. The form must be submitted by Monday, July 6th, 2026.
Students must bring a £10 deposit with them on the morning which will be handed back to them at the end of their adventure if there is no loss or damage to equipment. This is an important part of the process for the week, and teaches the students about join responsibility as a Crew.
Any medication for students must be in the original box, clearly labelled with your child’s name and details of regularity of administration and dose. This includes:
Please get in contact with [email protected] if your child will be bringing medication and we can provide you with a self-administration or permission to administer form.
Specialist equipment such as walking boots, tents, sleeping bags, hiking rucksacks and waterproofs will be provided by the centre.
The kit list for students is listed below. Please ensure that your child has all of these items.
If you are having problems sourcing these please get in touch with our office via [email protected] . Older clothes are far better for the week as they will get wet and or muddy.
Thanks to all of those families that attended – we are really excited for the next five years of working with you to help your children produce beautiful work, grow in character and see academic success.
There were a number of families that were not at the event. We will be in touch to organise another evening.
To be clear, our Home School Agreement makes clear the expectation that families invest in their child’s education. This includes the expectation that someone from the family attends important events like last night.
We are visiting Primary Schools to meet your children over the coming weeks. In the meantime:
The slides from last night can be found below:
We are delighted to be able to announce the calendar of transition events that we have planned to welcome your children and your family into our community at XP Gateshead.
More details on each of these events will follow in due course, but here is an overview of the activities so that you can plan ahead and discuss this with your child.
Thanks to those families that have already booked online family meeting. Meetings have started today, Monday 27th April. These take place via Google Meet during the evening and are with a senior leader in the school. The meetings are a first chance for us to meet you and your child, to find out about them and discuss our expectations as a school. Your meeting will last up to 30 minutes. To book a meeting if you have not already done so, please follow this link:
We aim to visit every child in their Primary School in the summer term. This is done by members of our transition team and means that as well as seeing your child in an educational setting, they get to know another friendly face before they come to us.
We will be holding an In-Person Information Evening at our school on Wednesday 20th May at 6pm.
It is vital that all families attend as we will give important information about the Outward Bound course that takes place for all students at the start of Year 7 as well as our iPad scheme and music specialism. In addition, we will address some of the misconceptions about our school so that families are completely clear on what we are: ‘A mainstream school with a relentless focus on beautiful work, character growth and academic success’, and also what we are not. There will be an opportunity for you to ask us questions too of course.
Your children will join us in school on Tuesday 30th June and Wednesday 1st July. Again more details of these days will follow in due course. Like a regular school day, students can arrive in school from 8:00am but need to be present by 8:25am. Our school day finishes at 3:15pm.
Your child will follow a typical day at XPG on both days which include some crew sessions, expedition sessions and a community meeting.
There will be an additional programme of transition activities for some children on Thursday 2nd July. We cannot offer this to all children and will contact families to let you know if we decide that your child would benefit from and needs this additional day in school.
Following the transition days, on Tuesday 7th July we will invite parents and carers into school in the evening at 5pm to meet your child’s new Crew Leader. We expect all families to attend this event. We are proud of the strong relationships that we form with families at XP Gateshead and this is an important opportunity for you to begin to build that relationship with the person that will be the key adult for your child when they start with us. As well as our cross-curricular learning expeditions, our pastoral structure Crew is what sets us apart from other schools.
We start school earlier than other schools in the local authority to allow for the Outward Bound experience. Our first day of term for year 7 is Tuesday 25th August 2025. More info on our term dates can be found by clicking here.
We are really excited to get to know our newest students and their families over the coming months.
Welcome to our community and crew at XP Gateshead!
A warm welcome to all of the Year 6 families that have been lucky enough to be offered a place at XP Gateshead for your child to join Year 7 in August 2026.
There is not a need to contact us at this point in time, but please do check your emails as you should already have received information about our enrolment process including some forms for you to complete online.
You will no doubt have lots of questions, but rest assured, all of these will be answered over the coming months of transition. At XP Gateshead we spend a lot of time getting to know our students and families prior to starting with us and we have a range of transition activities planned to allow this to happen. Our wider transition programme will include:
We will publish a timeline of these events soon.
Our website xpgateshead.org contains a wealth of information and should be a start in answering your questions, in particular the frequently asked questions section is useful for new parents. Please do also look at our calendars so that you can see our term dates and staff days for the next academic year and beyond.
It is really important that you subscribe to our website by entering your email contact in the section on our front page as this will update you with an email every time we post some new information.
This is what the box to subscribe looks like:
It can be found on the right hand page of our website homepage on a laptop or computer, and at the very bottom of the screen if you are viewing the website your phone or a tablet.
Families can be added to a private Facebook group for families of XP Gateshead once we have carried out the online family meetings.
Should you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact [email protected] .
Thank you again for choosing XP Gateshead, we really look forward to working with you and your child over the next five years.
Julie Mosley
Principal
XP Gateshead
Thanks so much to all of those families that came to our Open Evening last week. We hope that it was of help in making good decisions about your child’s secondary school application.
We apologise again that we were not able to host all families that wanted to attend, we are still in temporary accommodation and as those families that attended will have seen – our students led the evening. For these reasons we are not able to put on the event over a series of nights.
As well as the presentations from students, our Deputy Principal Mr Said spoke to families about our admissions process and that fact (and myths) about what our school is and is not. A video summary of those slides and answers to questions from exit tickets can be found here:
More information on our school can be found on our virtual open evening website here:
https://sites.google.com/xpgateshead.org/xp-gateshead-online-open-eve/home
Frequently asked questions can be found here:
We are pleased to be able to announce that you can now book a place at our Open Evening on Tuesday 30th September at 5.45pm.
This is an event for families that are considering XP Gateshead as a destination school for their children in the next academic year (from September 2026).
Please take the time to read our prospectus before signing up to the event.
As we are anticipating a very high level of interest in these evenings, and due to our limited size and space in our current temporary building, you will need to sign up for this event to be able to attend. This was indicated in the secondary admissions booklet sent to you by Gateshead Council.
We are limiting the number of places to three places per family, including your child in Year 6.
Last year there were some families that could not be accommodated on the evening as they had not booked in advance. Due to our limited size, if you have not booked in advance, you will not be able to attend on the evening.
Please do not attempt to sign up if your children are currently in Year 5 or below. All of the above will mean that we can accommodate as many Year 6 families as possible.
We will post again if the event becomes fully booked.
You can book your place at this event by clicking on this link.
Julie Mosley
Principal
XP Gateshead
Beautiful Work – Character Growth – Academic Success
We are pleased to be able to announce more details for our Open Evening on Tuesday 30th September at 5.45pm.
This is an event for families that are considering XP Gateshead as a destination school for their children in the next academic year (from September 2026).
At this event our staff and students will present to you details of our school, our admissions process and importantly our 3-D approach: a relentless focus on Beautiful Work, Academic Success and Character Growth.
As we are anticipating a very high level of interest in these evenings ,and due to our limited size and space in our current temporary building, you will need to sign up for this event to be able to attend as was detailed in the Secondary Admissions Booklet.
We are limiting the number of places to three places per family, including your child in Year 6.
Last year there were some families that could not be accommodated on the evening as they had not booked in advance.
Please do not attempt to sign up if your children are currently in Year 5 or below.
All of the above will mean that we can accommodate as many Year 6 families as possible.
You will be able to sign up for the event from Tuesday of next week, the 9th September. Please check our website on Tuesday for that link.
If you are interested in our school and have not already done so you can subscribe to get updates from our website by looking for this button on our homepage:
Julie Mosley
Principal
XP Gateshead
Students can be dropped off at XP Gateshead school from 8am on Tuesday 26th August 2024. They must be in school by 8.25am.
We will be leaving school at around 10.am to travel to Outward Bound, Howtown Centre, Penrith CA10 2ND on Ullswater.
The journey to Howtown will take approximately 2.5 hours by coach and we do not intend to stop at a service station. There is a toilet on the coach.
Students must bring a packed lunch in a plastic bag and this will be eaten on arrival at the centre. Meals will then be provided from that evening onwards.
All students need to bring their belongings in a suitable bag (e.g. a holdall or small suitcase) with their names displayed on a tag or written on the bag. Students may want to bring a small bag, wallet or purse to bring smaller personal items with them on the coach.
We expect to be back at school around 3.30pm on Friday, but will update the school website if there any delays.
Some of the activities will involve getting wet at some point, so please make sure your son/daughter has plenty of spare dry clothes to change into.
If your son/daughter needs travel sickness tablets please ensure they take them before we depart school.
If your son/daughter needs to take medication during the course of the trip, or has travel sickness tablets for the return journey, please ensure the medication comes in its original packaging along with instructions for when the medicine needs to be taken and your son’s/daughter’s name written clearly on it. All medication except inhalers must be handed to your crew leader before departing from school.
All medication must have been documented on the medical consent form and signed.
A refundable £10 deposit is required for each student for the use of the Outward Bound’s specialist activity/safety equipment. This must be handed to crew leaders before departure in a sealed envelope with your son’s/daughter’s name on it.
The signal for mobile phones can be unreliable. Students will not be allowed to take their phones with them on their daily activities. They will be handed into crew leaders and left securely on site. The students will have access to their mobile phones at a specified point in the evening on Tuesday and then again on Thursday evening. They will not have access to their phones on Wednesday evening as they will be staying overnight away from the main centre. If you need to get hold of a member of staff and/or get a message to your son/daughter please telephone the appropriate Outward Bound centre:
Howtown Centre Phone: 017684 86272
Please contact myself or the school office if you have any further questions.
Martin Said
Thanks to G32 families for attending our event yesterday evening.
A couple of important reminders:
You can sign up to our iPad scheme by clicking here.
To complete the Outward Bound participant form please click here.
Please remember if there are any changes, for example an injury to your child, please log in and change the information on the participant form. To contact the Outward Bound Howtown (on Ullsw centre to inform them of changes to the form you can call: 017684 86272
Here are the slides from the evening:
