XP Gateshead Open Evenings – 12th and 13th October

By Julie Mosley7th October 2022

We are pleased to be holding two opening evenings on 12th and 13th October for prospective parents interested in considering XP Gateshead as a destination school for their children in the next academic year (from September 2023).

UPDATE: These events are now fully booked. Please do not try to attend the events if you do not have a place confirmed.

If you are interested in attending either open evening at XP Gateshead you can still complete the google form linked here . If places do become available we will use the information you provide to make contact with you.

We will be signing families into the school based on this sign up information – again, please do not attend if you do not have a place confirmed. 

We are holding two evenings due to our limited space in our current temporary building and we want to ensure that families have time to find out as much about our school as possible.

As we are anticipating high interest in these evenings we will be running two sessions each evening with the first starting at 4.30pm – 5.45pm and the second from 6.15pm – 7.30pm.

Our website is also a valuable source of information and will give you a real flavour of our school and the beautiful work our students do.

Frequently asked questions can be found here.

We look forward to meeting you.

Julie Mosley and Mark Lovatt

Co-Principals, XP Gateshead

 

UPDATE: Wednesday 12th October’s 6.15-7.30pm slot is now fully booked.

G29 Fieldwork – Whitburn and Marsden – Mon 10th and Tue 11th October

By Martin Said6th October 2022

All G29 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.

G29 Class 1 will be going on Monday 10th October

G29 Class 2 will be going on Tuesday 10th October

Students will need:

  • to wear clothes that will keep them warm and dry – lots of layers. 
  • wellies or old trainers are needed for footwear as part of the fieldwork will involve studying the rocks in Marsden Bay which is a sandy beach.
  • a packed lunch.
  • their school bag with regular school kit list inside including iPad. Most bags are not waterproof so we suggest putting kit inside a plastic bag inside the rucksack.

A packed lunch will be provided for students that have free school meals.

Students need to be in school at the normal time of 8.25am on each day.

We expect to return to school at 3.30pm on each day and will update our website if there are any delays due to traffic.

G29 Parents – Instrumental Music Tuition

By Martin Said6th October 2022

If you think you may be interested in INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC TUITION for your child to start in the next half-term from November, please complete this form before Monday 10th October at 5pm.
Gateshead music service can offer tuition on almost any instrument.
We part-subsidise these sessions so we need to determine the level of interest before we can provide further details of pricing.
This is not a commitment at this stage but will help us to work out a sustainable pricing structure and how we can timetable the lessons during the school day.

XPG Football Cancellation Wednesday 05/08/22

By Tom Devitt5th October 2022

Due to the tragic news n Gateshead yesterday, all football fixtures have been cancelled for the rest of the week. This means our fixtures tonight are now cancelled.

We thank you for your understanding.

Mr Devitt

XPG year 7/8 school football fixtures.

By Tom Devitt5th October 2022

As many of you are aware XPG has launched our first ever competitive football side into the Gateshead schools league. We are currently fielding a mixed team of year 7 and 8s with fixtures taking place on:

Wednesday 5/10/22 @Emmanuel. XPG vs Lord Lawson and XP vs Emmanuel

Wednesday 12/10/22 @Grace college. XPG vs Grace College

Wednesday 19/10/22 @Heworth. XPG vs Kingsmeadow and XPG vs Heworth.

Fixtures are set to start at 4pm at each venue and students will report back to school at roughly 5.30pm.

Fixtures will then carry on into 2023 from March onwards. Parents are welcome to attend and support.

Training will be held every Monday after school 3.15pm-4.30pm and a selected squad will be released via student notices on the Tuesday morning prior to a game.

 

Many thanks,

 

Mr Devitt

 

Parents Update: W/C Monday 3rd October 2022

By Julie Mosley2nd October 2022

Dear Parents/Carers

It’s been another great week at XPG. We continue to be impressed by how hard our students are working both in and outside of classrooms exhibiting our character traits and demonstrating HoWLs. There’s a real ‘feeling of Crew’ as you walk around the school and talk with students and we celebrated this in our Community Meetings on Friday.

As you know, on Monday, all of our staff team travelled to Doncaster for an XP Trust wide inset day focused on teaching and learning. The day was attended by all staff employed by XPTrust (over 300 people) .We all enjoyed a day of hard work, challenge and the chance to spend time and collaborate with our colleagues from primary and secondary schools across the Trust. 

We were reminded of the schools we are in XP Trust: schools that have a relentless focus on character growth, creating beautiful work and achieving academic success. The following short film is well worth a watch, bringing this to life – Why is it important to share our stories? 

Another moment of real pride this week has been our first football team outing. We couldn’t have been prouder of our Year7 and 8 students who displayed real courage this week in playing against other, much larger secondary schools in Gateshead. Although the final scores were not great, our students shone in terms of their conduct and character. Staff at the event praised every one of our students for their courage, respect and above all compassion.

This week: 

Trials in clubs are starting this week

Students will have the opportunity to try out our offer of extra-curricular clubs this week, having expressed an interest in each club last week. We will still be running the support for students that want to work on Extended Study each evening from Monday-Thursday too.

Advance notice for next week

Open Evenings

We are hosting open evening events for Year 6 families on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th October, and will be asking for support from students on those evenings. More details will be given to those students that are helping out via a letter this week.

Extended Study next week

Due to our open evening, we will run Extended Study after school on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th only next week.

Half Term and early finish on Friday 14th next week

Please be aware that it is half term for two weeks from w/c 17th October and so as normal students will finish at 1.30pm on Friday 14th October to allow staff to replenish resources and to de-gunge rooms and teaching spaces ready for after the half term holiday. Students will return to school at the normal time on Monday 31st October.

Thank you as always for your ongoing support.

Julie Mosley

Co-Principal