G28 Welcome Back Parents/Guardians – Summer Term

By Mark Lovatt18th April 2022

Dear All,

I hope you have all had a restful and safe Easter break and I would like to take the opportunity to welcome you all back to what will be an exciting new Summer term at XP Gateshead.

We are expecting students at the normal time tomorrow and look forward to welcoming them back after the holiday.

Expeditions

Students will be completing their final product from the “Staying Alive” expedition this week and we will start on Tuesday morning with students sharing the recipes they have been cooking from the Jack Munroe recipe book. Students will be using what they have learned about nutrition during this expedition to put together food boxes. Our food boxes will contain ingredients and recipes to feed a family of four for a whole week. We hope to be able to deliver our food/recipe boxes to Edberts House in Gateshead next week.

We will also be  starting our major new Summer term expedition and students will begin immersion this week. I wonder if anyone will be able to guess what it is about!

PE sessions this week

As mentioned above, this coming week we are starting a new learning expedition which will combine HUMAN and STEAM. This has meant that we have changed the timetable slightly for the coming week.

For this week, Class 2 will have PE on Tuesday 19th April as normal. However Class 1 will have PE on Wednesday 20th April this week.

In the week commencing Monday 25th April, both classes will return to PE on Tuesday.

Covid Testing

Covid infections are still high in the community so as normal we would ask you to ensure that your child has taken an LFT test and entered the result on our website as normal. LFT tests are available on request so if you have run out your son/daughter can ask their crew leader for more. We appreciate your support in helping to keep our community safe and our school open.

As usual if you have any questions/queries please ask your child’s crew leader in the first instance.

Best wishes

Mark Lovatt

Principal

Beautiful work from Emily

By Martin Said18th April 2022

Emily has also been cooking some of the recipes from Jack Munroe’s ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap‘.

A reminder that students are trying out the recipes ahead of us putting together food boxes with food for a whole week’s worth of Jack Munroe’s recipes. These food boxes will be donated to families through our partners Edberts House.

This is part of our STEAM learning expedition, Staying Alive.

Here is Emily with her frozen berry pancakes.

Tasty work Emily!

Beautiful work from Beth

By Martin Said18th April 2022

Beth has also been cooking some of the recipes from Jack Munroe’s ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap‘.

Here are her corn muffins, which looks absolutely yummy – some strong apron-based professionalism as you can see from Beth’s photos too.

Delicious work Beth!

Beautiful work from Freya

By Martin Said17th April 2022

Freya has also been cooking some of the recipes from Jack Munroe’s ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap‘.

A reminder that students are trying out the recipes ahead of us putting together food boxes with food for a whole week’s worth of Jack Munroe’s recipes. These food boxes will be donated to families through our partners Edberts House.

This is part of our STEAM learning expedition, Staying Alive.

Here are some fantastic action shots of Freya working hard in the kitchen. This week Freya has cooked and tried flatbread and a roast carrot and chickpea soup. You can see that Freya has also started to work out the cost of ingredients. We will be sharing our costings when we return to school on Tuesday so that we can start working out what we will need for our food boxes.

Delicious work Freya!

Slightly adjusted timetable this coming week (w/c 19th April)

By Martin Said17th April 2022

Good afternoon and Happy Easter to you all.

This coming week we are starting a new learning expedition which will combine HUMAN and STEAM. This has meant that we have changed the timetable slightly for the coming week.

For this week, Class 2 will have PE on Tuesday 19th April as normal.

However Class 1 will have PE on Wednesday 20th April this week.

(In the week commencing Monday 25th April, both classes will return to PE on Tuesday.)

We’ve been delighted to receive lots of photographs of your children cooking at home. We promise that every one that has been sent will get posted in the beautiful work section of our website, we are working through them day by day.

Beautiful work from Bella

By Martin Said17th April 2022

Bella has also been cooking some of the recipes from Jack Munroe’s ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap‘.

Here is her pizza bread, which looks absolutely delicious – this photograph could have come straight out of the recipe book.

Great work Bella!

Beautiful work from William

By Martin Said13th April 2022

William has also been trying out some of the recipes from ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap’ during the Easter break.

A reminder that students are trying out the recipes ahead of us putting together food boxes with food for a whole week’s worth of Jack Munroe’s recipes. These food boxes will be donated to families through our partners Edberts House.

This is part of our STEAM learning expedition, Staying Alive.

Here are some shots of his Double-Chocolate Guinness Brownies (with extra nuts at his Dad’s request). Beautiful baking William!

Beautiful Work from Holly and Betsy

By Martin Said12th April 2022

Holly and Betsy have teamed up and have also been cooking some of the recipes from Jack Munroe’s ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap‘.

Here are their pizza bread, which they have identified could be part of a lunch or tea from our set of meals for the week.

Delicious work girls!

Beautiful work from Elyse

By Martin Said12th April 2022

Elyse has also been trying out some of the recipes from ‘Cooking on a Bootstrap’ during the Easter break.

A reminder that students are trying out the recipes ahead of us putting together food boxes with food for a whole week’s worth of Jack Munroe’s recipes. These food boxes will be donated to families through our partners Edberts House.

This is part of our STEAM learning expedition, Staying Alive.

Here is Elyse making a chilli

Great work Elyse!