XP Gateshead

The XP Gateshead team will host an open evening on Monday 4th November, at 6.30pm in the Hyperion Room at Jury’s Inn, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3AE.

This event will provide prospective parents and other interested members of the community an opportunity to hear about:

• Our proposed School and its innovative and successful model for education.
• Our Team, our Trust and our track record of success.
• Details of when and where we are proposing to open
• Details of our proposed admissions process

There will also be an opportunity to ask questions and to raise concerns or make suggestions.

We are really excited to share our plans with you and hope to see you there.

To help us to determine numbers for the event, it would be really useful if you could fill in this short form to let us know that you are coming to the open evening event:

Directions to the venue can be found here:

For students in XP Secondary Schools their very first day at school involves getting on a bus and going on an Outward Bound expedition with their new crews.

This week is hugely important in establishing our culture and helping students to realise what it means to be crew.

“To start a school is to proclaim what it means to be human”

Tom James – EL Education

XP schools’ provenance is closely linked to the Outward Bound Trust. The very first EL schools in the US were born out of the idea of taking the Outward Bound design principles and reimagining them for the classroom and scholarship.

Year 7 Students from XP School and XP East have gone to the Aberdovey Outward Bound Centre for the last four years.

They go as strangers, they come back as a crew.

#wearecrew

We Are Crew *super-cut* from Relational Schools on Vimeo.

This video highlights the importance of Crew, which underpins our entire curriculum model. Crew is our pastoral structure, where students are known well, and work together on their common mission being university-bound.

There are 12 or 13 students and one adult in each crew. Crew is for 45 minutes every morning.

The role of the crew leader is to support each student academically and personally through their time at XP Gateshead.

#wearecrew