Congratulations to Mason who was awarded RNB Anglers United Junior Club Champion 2024/25 and to Katie who was runner up!
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Happy Easter Sunday to all our students, families and friends who celebrate today.
Happy Vaisakhi
Happy Vaisakhi’ to our Sikh friends at Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha and Rav Singh from Little History of the Sikhs.
We are pleased to offer your child the opportunity to purchase the CGP GCSE Combined Science AQA Revision Guide, an excellent resource to support their studies.
We highly recommend this revision guide as a valuable tool to support your child’s preparation for their GCSE Combined Science examinations.
We highly recommend this revision guide as a valuable tool to support your child’s preparation for their GCSE Combined Science examinations.
Pricing:
By purchasing these through school you will be able to buy at a discounted price.
By purchasing these through school you will be able to buy at a discounted price.
Foundation or Higher Level Revision Guides: £6.75 (RRP £11.99)
Exam Practice Workbook – Higher or Foundation (includes answers): £7.50 (RRP £11.99)
Exam Practice Workbook – Higher or Foundation (includes answers): £7.50 (RRP £11.99)
To buy these please use the XP Trust Shop. We would recommend buying the Higher editions as they contain all of the information for both foundation and higher entry. We can direct students at a later date to content that is relevant to their GCSE entry in year 11. Please select the ‘pick up’ option at checkout.
In the first instance could you please order before Wednesday 26th of March, so we can place the order. If you miss the deadline we will be organising a second order later in the next half term..
https://shop.xptrust.org/collections/xp-gateshead-revision-guides
Many thanks.
The Science Crew.
The Science Crew.
Ramadan, a significant month in the Islamic calendar, is being observed by Muslims around the world. This fast, known as Sawm is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and during this time, many Muslims fast (refraining from eating and drinking) from dawn until sunset, dedicating themselves to reflection, prayer, and acts of kindness.
We recognise that fasting is an important commitment during this time, and we want to extend our understanding and encouragement to those in our school community, and their families, who are observing Ramadan.
Ramadan will continue until 30th March, and we encourage everyone to be mindful and considerate of those who are fasting.
To all who are observing, we send our warmest wishes during this special time.
Happy Half Term!
G28 have brought home their History books to enable them to complete their History extended study which is revision of CS2 in preparation for an assessment in the first week back (date to be confirmed but students need to be prepared for it to potentially be the Monday). All instructions for the specific task are on their google classroom.
I rarely allow students to take their books home as their books are such an important resource, rich with all of their accumulated learning and knowledge. For this reason, it is so important that they are taken care of and kept safe. Please can you remind students of this and support them with this if necessary.
They will all need to bring their books back into school with them on Monday 3rd March.
Thanks for your support and I hope you have a lovely half term.
Apologies, in the previous post it should have said:
- For G28 Class 1 this event will take place on Monday 10th February between 4pm and 7pm.
- For G28 Class 2 this event will take place on Tuesday 11th February between 4pm and 7pm.
Dear Parents and Carers,
Our Raiders and invaders POL takes place from 4.30pm on Thursday 19th December. Doors will open at 4.15 pm so that the lessons can start promptly at 4.30pm. Yes, you read that right… lessons. Our PoL will take the form of taught lessons where students will teach you about an aspect of Viking History and the science of metallic materials from our expedition.
We are asking you to sign up for two sessions. Your child will be able to tell you which session they have planned and are carrying out. This will be the first choice you make on the form, but the second session in the evening that you will attend. This means you will be with your child at the close of the evening and be able to take the “Are you smarter than a Year 10? “ challenge, competing against your child!
Our DT and IMedia students have designed a kiosk and the interactive quiz as part of their studies, so please also take the opportunity to ask them about their work.
The sign up is below and we will confirm your choice with you in the evening. We will cap the sessions at 15 people.
Class 1 Sign up
Class 2 Sign up
We are looking forward to seeing you!
The G28 Team
Don’t forget you can order a bespoke tote bag featuring your child’s beautiful artwork!
G28 students are going to undertake the production of these bags and guarantee the 1st 30 orders will be ready by 20th December (making it the perfect Christmas gift for family members). The bags cost £5 and the money raised will go towards helping to fund the Silver Duke of Edinburgh expeditions.
If there is appetite for it, we will reopen orders in the new year but due to time constraints we can only at this stage guarantee the 1st 30 orders will be done in time for Christmas.
To order a bag you must use this Shopify link. It will show as sold out once 30 orders have been made. It is crucial that you leave a note on your order with your child’s name, Crew and the artwork you would like printed on the bag. Without this, we will not be able to create your bag and therefore it may not be ready by 20th December.
If the artwork you are requesting is digital, it is very easy; your child simply needs to share the piece of work with Miss Tatters.
If it is a physical piece, it is very important to us that the student artwork is kept safe and secure. For this reason, we are asking your child to follow these steps once you have ordered a bag.
- Inform your child you have ordered a bag and which piece of work you have requested.
- The student will then collect the piece of artwork from their folder during their next art lesson (or at break or lunch)
- They will bring the artwork to G8 and place it in the purple folder on the teacher desk (ensuring their name is on the work either on the back or by attaching a post-it note). Without this, we will not be able to proceed the order.
- When the bag is printed, we will hand the bag and the original artwork back to the student who will need to return the artwork to their art folder immediately.
We are really excited to be able to showcase the student work in this way and get it out into the community!
Dear Families
As we come to the end of term, we continue to celebrate our expedition work with Presentations of Learning where our students publicly share their final products and answers to their guiding questions with an audience of peers, staff, families and invited guests. Here is a lovely note of thanks from the Dickens society who attended G28’s PoL a couple of weeks ago.
Thank you for inviting myself and my fellow Dickensians, Chris McLoughlin and Chris Robson to discuss and share with your pupils our love of Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol.
They were open, receptive, challenging and keen to share their thoughts with us on the narrative and characters within the book.
Having attended your event on Wednesday it was wonderful to listen to various crew members share excerpts from their essays addressing, with confidence, the expedition question “is charity enough”? A Christmas Carol deals with huge emotive themes of hunger, ignorance, poverty, greed and isolation along with family, love and happiness. As 14 and 15 year olds, they handled these with maturity and understanding.
It was heart-warming to hear our words reflected back in depth showing they listened to us and used our conversations as a catalyst to undertake more indepth research.
Your students did you proud and are a credit to themselves and their school.
I wish all the students every success with their exams and thank you for the opportunity to be involved in some small way.
As Tiny Tim says “God bless us, every one!”
Yours,
Anne and all my fellow Dickensians in the N.E. branch of the Dickens Fellowship.
Last week was the chance for our G29 students to share their work from this term’s expedition with the GQ: How are structures important in helping us to explain our world?. We returned to Newcastle University where our students also got the opportunity of a campus tour and time with ‘The 93% Club’ ( a students’ society for young adults who have come from state schools) who shared their experience of attending University.
We are very sorry but there is an issue with our website at the moment which means we can’t post images. We will put out another update at the end of the week with some more images, or there were some posted here at the end of last week.
Our students took over the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University and also showcased work at the Great North Museum creating a living expedition. They shared their knowledge around art and architecture, atomic structures in science, structures in government and society and made connections to the anchor text for this expedition, Lord of the Flies. Standing back and listening to our students ‘lead the learning’ in every sense of the word was simply stunning and we all could not have been prouder of G29. We will post a link to the final product of the oral histories of Trinity Square Car Park in January – we had more experts in on Friday being interviewed to contribute to this important piece of local history.
We owe a huge thanks to all of the people who supported us and gave our students another opportunity to spend time at Newcastle University.
Our week ahead
As always, we will be working hard until the end of Friday at XP Gateshead and students will be continuing to complete work on end of term assessments, final products, answers to GQ’s (guiding questions) and preparing for presentations of learning.
Presentations of Learning this week
A reminder that students will stay in school until they present. If you want to provide healthy snacks, students will be given some time during the afternoon to get a break between rehearsals.
Students should dress smartly for these occasions.
G31 Presentation of Learning – Monday 16th December at St Mary’s Church in Heworth at 4.30pm.
G31 will be presenting their learning from their first expedition – A Whole New World. More information can be found here.
G30 Presentation of Learning – Wednesday 18th December at XP Gateshead at 4.30pm.
G30 will be presenting their learning from their current expedition – What does it mean to be human? This presentation of learning is taking place in school, so please arrive from 4.15pm.
G28 Presentation of Learning – Thursday 19th December at XP Gateshead at 4.30pm.
G28 will be presenting their learning from their current expedition – Raiders and Invaders. More information can be found here
No Extended Study and Clubs this week
We are not running our extended study offer or clubs this week due to Presentations of Learning this week.
PE sessions this week
Our PE sessions this week are as follows. Please ensure that your child has their full PE kit.
- All G30 students (Year 8) have PE on Monday.
- For G31 students (Year 7)
- G31 Class 1 students have PE on Tuesday.
- G31 Class 2 students have PE on Wednesday
- All G29 students (Year 9) have PE on Thursday.
- All G28 students (Year 10) have PE on Thursday.
And finally…
Christmas events this week:
- Crew Watson’s Christmas Bric-a-Brac event takes place during lunchtime, Monday 16th December. Students will be able to purchase gifts for a loved one and get it wrapped too! Full details here.
- XPG Christmas Lunch will take place on Tuesday 17th December. There will be a vegetarian option for Christmas lunch but none of the usual deli options on this day. If your child does not want a Christmas lunch, please provide a packed lunch on Tuesday. We are really looking forward to our whole school community having lunch together on Tuesday, it’s always a special one thanks to the hard work of our kitchen team. We’d love to see students in Christmas jumpers if they do have them too!
Early closure this Friday
Don’t forget that school finishes at the earlier time of 1.30pm this Friday. This is to allow us time to “degunge” and set up for the next term. Please make arrangements to pick up your children at the school gate for 1.30pm. As always, please be conscientious of our neighbours if parking as it is always very busy when students all leave school at the same time.
We return to school on Monday 6th January 2025.
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].
Julie Mosley