Sharing our Stories: 12/05/2023

12th May 2023Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

A Christmas Carol: Year 11 Study Guide for GCSE – created by Year 11 at XP!

Students at XP in Year 11 have been preparing for their GCSE English Literature Exam studying a range of different texts. One of these was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. 

As we learn predominantly through Learning Expeditions at XP Trust, students embarked on a Humanities based expedition entitled Is Charity Enough? Students studied A Christmas Carol whilst considering the work they had completed, and were continuing to study, as part of their GCSE History in the thematic module Health and Medicine through the Ages. Students focussed on A Christmas Carol considering what life was like particularly social conditions at the time the novella was written.

Students then began a detailed study of the Dickens classic by reading and writing about characters, themes and the intent of the novella. This was the foundation for the study guide that includes this content as well as beautiful artwork, interviews with Lucinda Hawksley (the Great Great Great Granddaughter of Dickens himself) as well as curators from the Dickens museum in London.

The result of this work is a fantastic guide for the students to use to help them in their GCSE revision as well as a beautiful product that reflects the students authentic voice and deep engagement with the text. However, this guide isn’t just for our students and their studies  – it’s available to everyone studying A Christmas Carol at GCSE, as well as anyone else with a keen interest in Dickens!

You can buy your copy of the guide here!

All students in X25 were given a copy of the guide and further copies can be purchased through our website.

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11th May 2023Aime Shaw

These beautiful children are the proud winners of a recent local community competition that we entered as a school. They drew and created some amazing royal artwork of King Charles and all placed as winners within their age category. They were so pleased with their winning prize chocolate hampers! I hope these guys enjoy them and continue with their artistic flare throughout school!

Well done again guys x x

class 9 running like clockwork

11th May 2023Aime Shaw

The children were working on time this week. They not only made their own clocks but they also recapped their learning on o clock, half past and quarter to. Some children excelled in knowing their 5 minute intervals too – keep up with your maths learning at home too guys. We were so impressed! Well done superstars x x

Beautiful work in class 9

11th May 2023Aime Shaw

The children have been working so hard on their fact files about King Charles this week…well done class 9 – I am so impressed with you!

Let’s finish these tomorrow and make them look fantastic! x x

Maths Club

11th May 2023June Miller

In maths club this week KS1 have been working on place value with tens and ones sheets, we also had Top Trump card games.

All children thoroughly enjoyed, we had some competitive boys and girls. 😁

Year 3 Magna fieldwork

10th May 2023Miss N Hilton

We’ve all had a fantastic day today at Magna. We had a great workshop this morning all about volcanoes and rocks. We’ve explored some exhibitions and managed to have a look in the shop and play on the amazing park before lunchtime. Thank you to all of our parent helpers today we really appreciate you giving up your time to support year 3. Our kids did us proud today setting a great example of how to behave when out and about, we are very proud of you all.

Mr Gerrard, Mrs Pearson, Miss Hilton and Miss O’Neill

Class 11s Magnificent Magna Trip!

10th May 2023Simon Gerrard

Well, it is fair to say that Class 11 loved their trip to Magna today. They got to experience making their own volcano, as well as helping to make it erupt. They used lots of team work, great vocabulary and determination to make sure that the eruption was large.

We then ventured around the Magna Centre to look at other areas, such as the air and fire floors. This literally blew our mind and we enjoyed watching the fire tornado and seeing how that worked.

After a quick spot of lunch and play in the park, Class 11 then went to explore more of the centre, looking at the Earth floor, where we got to try and gather rock and drive diggers (don’t worry, we were in charge of sorting the digging out!) to help collect more rocks. Finally, we finished off in the water area and this was by far our favourite. We got to squirt water guns, drive boats and some of us even experienced a storm on the way!

Class 11 absolutely loved their day at the Magna Centre and have even asked if we can visit again. Hopefully you have heard lots of great stories from them! Thank you as well to the parents that helped out, it definitely made it easier and more settled! 😆