Get ready for something special
Memory Lane Radio are hosting our Y7 students’ work on Friday 20th May at 2pm. You can listen live by clicking on the link and pressing the play button.
What a fantastic way for our students work to connect with their community and a listenership of over 100,000 people!
Clear your diaries, you will not want to miss this!
Happy Friday – here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit http://xptrust.org/stories
#AboveAllCompassion
Last week this beautiful film, made by Schools on Screen about XP, premiered at the Samsung Centre in London – how exciting! Now itâs available to watch on YouTube! Be sure to give this wonderful story a watch and share it with your friends and family!
We are really looking forward to getting to know our new students and families. Our transition is set to start with an online family meeting for every child with their family.
Parents of Year 6 students joining our G29 cohort in September should expect an email from us in the next few days with details of how to book a slot for the online family meeting.
We are delighted that we can now also confirm the following dates:
We’re looking for a Teacher at Plover and a School Admin + at XP Gateshead
Visit xptrust.org/vacancies find out more.
Katie has also been trying out recipes before they were gathered in our food boxes.
Here are Katie’s socca gluten free frying pan pizza and since she had some free time, she also made the cookies.
Beautiful work Katie!
Dear Parents/Guardians
Last week we revealed our big new Summer expedition – ‘What a Wonderful World’ with the Guiding question:
What is our relationship with the natural world?
Students have already begun looking at physical geography as they explore biomes and habitats and have been learning about how the earthâs atmosphere has changed over billions of years. They have also begun to learn about cells which are the basic âbuilding blocksâ of all living things.
We have yet to appoint an admin post for next year to join our Staff Crew – we are looking for someone with experience of admin, ideally in a school setting, who in addition to normal school admin and looking after our front desk will also help us to contact local organisations to support expeditions and liaise with the Trust Communications team to help us curate beautiful work.
Further information will be available on our website from tomorrow and the deadline for applications is Friday 13th May at 12pm with interviews taking place w/c 16th May. Put the word out and if you know anyone who might be suitable for such a role then please let us know.
PE lessons are back to normal times (Tuesday) this week.
The Edge foundation UK have made a film about XP schools which premiered at the Samsung centre in London last week. We will share the film as soon as it is made public.
As you know students have access to a virtual library of books and they were reading from this library over the Easter holiday. Students have already taken a baseline test so we have a good idea of reading ages now and this week we will be launching our AR reading programme. Students should be reading for between 20 – 30 minutes each day and we will be asking parents to support us in this – we will also reconfigure the amount extended study we set to make space to incorporate the daily reading. Further details will be forthcoming from Ms Tatters in due course. Reading is such an important skill and like all skills it needs to be practised on a regular basis; for students to be great learners then they must also be great readers.
Please complete a Lateral Flow Test with your child on Sunday evening (tonight), and again on Wednesday evening and complete our website with the results before sending your child to school.
Whilst COVID infections are decreasing in the community and given the size of our setting this really helps us to keep everyone safe and for our school to remain open.
If you require any extra LFT kits please let us know.Â
We will continue to keep doors and windows open for ventilation so students are advised to bring multiple layers to school to keep warm. This is how we look after each other – #wearecrew
Any student who has a positive Covid-19 test result should stay at home and avoid contact with people for 3 days. As long as they are well they may return to school follwoing the three days. There is no longer a requirement for students to test negative on the day when they return to school.
As usual if you have any questions please contact crew leaders in the first instance.
Kind regards
Mark Lovatt
Principal
More experimentation her, Lucy chose to mix up the pizza toast with her idea of a crumpet base.
Again, these picture could have come straight from a recipe book.
Beautiful work Lucy!
Happy Friday – here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust this week, visit http://xptrust.org/stories
Here is Maddie trying out a recipe for our food boxes.
Maddie went a little off-piste and used plain flour rather than wholemeal flour for these cookies with a difference, and chose to make fewer, larger cookies too.
That’s what it’s all about, experimenting in the kitchen and having a great time, which is fantastic to see!
(Not sure about drinking raw egg though)
Great work Maddie!
