Sharing our Stories 11/03/2024

11th March 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

Expedition Stories: UKS2 @ Plover

This week we’re proud to share the beautiful story of UKS2s Expedition from last term ‘Earth Emergency’. The carefully designed planters and greenhouse will surely be a catalyst for Plover growing its own produce for generations to come!

Beautiful Curation at XP Doncaster

XP on the TV!

For anyone who missed it – XP Doncaster has been featured in a BBC Two documentary which aired on the 7th March. All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer now.

We’d like to thank everyone who has got in touch or left a comment about the programme – we are so proud of our students and how eloquently they expressed how they feel about their school.

If you’d like to learn more about our schools and how you can do what we do too, you can get a copy of our book How We XP here.

Top of the Blogs

Just another day… @ XP Trust

Beautiful Work from Reuben @ XP Gateshead

World Book Day @ Norton Infants

Class 8 Story Writing @ Green Top

FXP Tuck Shop @ XP

Save our Seas! @ Plover

Crew Da Vinci SLCs @ XP East

Magnets @ Carcroft School

Lowry inspired artwork @ Norton Juniors

We’re looking for a Cleaning Lead at XP Doncaster

Find out more about the role and apply here to #JoinOurCrew

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!

Opportunity during Easter Break for students interested in management / finance

By Martin Said10th March 2024

During the Easter break on Monday 3rd & Tuesday 4th April 2024 KPMG are hosting a two-day virtual employability skills session. Sessions run from 10.00am until 12.20pm on each day.

Students that complete of the tow-day course students will receive a £25 Amazon voucher.

This is a great opportunity for students to gain insights into KPMG and enhance their CV.

KPMG are a leading global management consulting company. This opportunity would be of particular interest to Year 9 students considering a career in management and/or finance.

The sessions will involve interactive skills sessions, enhancing students employability skills.
Students will also be able to network with like-minded students.

To sign up, click here or scan the QR code.

Opportunity during Easter break for students aged 13+ interested in Health and Social Care

By Martin Said10th March 2024

During the Easter break there is a free week-long course for young people interested in Health and Social Care. This is such a great opportunity for students to experience working alongside health and care professionals.

The event is being held at Kingsmeadow Community School in Dunston on Monday 8th April – Friday 12th April.

There is also the option to sign up to a summer school in August too.

Either scan the QR code below or click here to sign up.

 

Year 6 Families – Welcome to XP Gateshead

By Julie Mosley7th March 2024

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 2024.

Please check your emails as we have sent you the details that are in this post below.

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. 

There are two forms for you to complete as family:

1. XPG – New Year 7 Admissions Form Aug 24 

There are lots of questions to complete on these forms, please take your time. It is vital that we have up to date and relevant information for all of our students (contact details, medical information, dietary requirements, school meal entitlements). We have also included sections here which ask for your permissions around media consent and fieldwork.

2. XPG New to school Parent/Carer Voice Aug 24

This form is really important to us and gives you the chance to share more details about your child with us.  It’s the start of us building an individual picture of your child and getting a better understanding of them. 

In addition to gathering this information from you as a family we will also communicate with your child’s primary school to ensure we have the fullest picture of your child and how we can support and challenge them.

Our wider transition programme will include an online meeting with you and your child as a family, primary school visits and a transition day in the summer term. 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.

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.

Families will be added to our private Facebook group 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

G28 Families – A guide to passage presentations

By Martin Said6th March 2024

This video explains a little more about the process of Passage Presentations, how they are different to SLCs and what you can expect as a family member.

Please arrive at least ten minutes before the start of your child’s passage presentation as we will have lots of families and panellists signing in.

A reminder too that we need families to let us know what your child will doing on Tuesday 12th March.

Tuesday 12th March not a staff day, however Year 9 teachers will be involved in passage presentations throughout the day so we will not be running a regular timetable for this day for Year 9 students. There are three options for Year 9 students on this day:

  • Come into school for the full school day (including staying in school after a Passage Presentation).
  • Come into school for a Passage Presentation and then leave with their family.
  • Work on extended study from home.

Here is the  this Google Form to let us know what your child will be doing, and whether they will need a school lunch.

Beautiful Work from Reuben

By Martin Said5th March 2024

Reuben had a wonderful day this weekend learning to be a blacksmith. He loved the day learning new skills and creating 3 items from forged steel – a key ring, a wall hook and a blade letter opener!

This really is beautiful (hot) and intricate work. Amazing stuff Reuben.