Book Sale / Crack the Code!

1st October 2023Rebecca Knowles

Don’t forget that all this week (Monday 2nd October – Friday 6th October) we are celebrating reading! We will have a daily book sale where you can purchase books for just 50p per book and you can buy as many as you like.

We will also have a safe full of goodies and you can try and crack the 3 digit code for just 50p ago! Again, you can have as many turns as you like!

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Any money that we raise will go towards our goal of purchasing a reading vending machine!

Sharing our Stories: 29/09/2023

29th September 2023web admin

Beautiful Work This Week (…and last week!)

XP Outdoors: Campfire Training!

A Visit from Ron Berger!

We’ve been very lucky since XP first opened and as the Trust has grown over the last ten years, to be able to welcome Ron Berger to our schools. Ron, the CAO of Expeditionary Learning (EL) in the US, has visited us several times, sharing with us his knowledge, energy and wisdom. 

Always supportive and inspiring, Ron has now, after a two week stay, just returned home. His time here has included visits to all of our schools, a well received and inspirational talk with our staff and chatting with our students and hearing their stories. 

He also travelled to Scotland to visit our brilliant partners at The Wood Foundation and the educators they support in the Aberdeen area. Their school teams have been regular visitors to XP Doncaster on our delegate days for the last four years. 

Last but not least, Ron joined colleagues on their induction in Derbyshire, sharing moment by moment with them the experience of developing Crew and fellowship. 

Renowned as an educator and catalyst for innovation and compassion in education all over the world, we hope it won’t be long before we can welcome Ron back again. 

Beautiful Curation at Plover

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Let’s get critical… critical! @ Comms

Year 2 Music – playing tunes on the Glockenspiel @ Carcroft School

More beautiful work in the community from Elyse and Brody @ XP Gateshead

Our Ambassadors run their first Macmillan Event @ Plover

Rainforest Research @ Norton Juniors

Drama Hut Visit in Class 6 @ Green Top

Let the children march @ Norton Infants

Awesome artwork in Crew @ XP

Food Bank Fundraising @ XP East

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!

Drama Hut Visit in Class 6

28th September 2023Jayne Rodgers

We had a fantastic time today in our Great Fire of London workshops. Some of us even dressed the part! We met Thomas Farriner – the baker who owned the shop where the fire was thought to have started, and also Samuel Peyps, who buried his famous diaries containing a recount of the event in his garden to protect them from the flames. We sang London’s Burning with actions, used tableaux to illustrate certain points of the story and even acted out the events to a poem. Many thanks to Jenna for bringing our history learning to life!