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