Sharing our Stories: 05/07/2024

5th July 2024Geoff Hewitt

Beautiful Work This Week

XP Festival of Arts and Culture – Next Friday 12th July!

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We first opened in September of 2014 in Doncaster and began to offer a creative and purposeful curriculum based on learning expeditions that connect subjects together so that learning is deepened and made relevant. Ten years on we have established a successful Trust that has shared this model with two more secondary schools, XP East in Doncaster and XP Gateshead, as well as five primary schools in the Doncaster area including: Carcroft Primary, Green Top Primary, Norton Infants, Norton Juniors and Plover Primary.

Our students create beautiful work that connects to the community and the world through the creation of high quality products that actively serve to make the world a better place.

To kick off our celebrations we are hosting our first community wide ‘Music and Arts Festival’ at XP East on the 12 July. This will become an annual event to bring together creatives from across the XP community, the wider community and the world to show why the Arts are so important to making our world more just, more beautiful and more humane and why they are at the heart of our curriculum.

We look forward to seeing you at the start of our festivities and hope you will join us as we continue to celebrate and share our stories throughout the rest of 2024 and 2025!!!

Andy Sprakes

Chief Academic Officer – XP Trust

We’re got vacancies across XP Trust!

We’re looking for:

Cleaners at Plover School

Cleaners at Green Top School

A Leading Learning Coach (HLTA) at Plover School

A Learning Coach/Crew Leader at XP Gateshead

Top of the Blogs

Kindess is Contagious! @ Norton Infants

Class 8 Proud Passage Presentations @ Green Top

Early Years Explorers Celebration of Learning @ Plover

DT Baking @ Carcroft School

Farewell Crew Pankhurst @ XP School

C29 Artwork in progress! @ XP East

Baking Bonanza @ Norton Juniors

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!

Year 1: Presentation of Learning

5th July 2024Carly Schon

On Monday 8th July Year 1 children would like to invite their grown-ups to their presentation of learning for our Expedition ‘Diverse Doncaster – Where do I belong?’. The hall will be open from 8:30am for grown-up to get a hot drink whilst the children are registered in their classes. Children will then come to the hall to share their learning with you. The children cannot wait for you to see all their hard work!

Class 8 proud passage presentations

3rd July 2024Aime Shaw

Year 2 have been working hard over the last couple of weeks to get their presentations drafted, completed and typed onto their individual presentation slides. They have created their own avatars, looked and reflected on their HOWLs and thought about their favourite experiences from their time in ks1. They have presented them so well and I am immensely proud of their confidence!

Thank you so much to everyone that has managed to be a part of this process!

Mrs Shaw x x

Class 10 melting experiment!

3rd July 2024Simon Gerrard

Yesterday, Class 10 learned about the different states of matter and the properties that make them up: solids, liquids and gases!

Today, we looked at whether a solid could turn into a liquid and this involved chocolate buttons. We predicted that the chocolate would melt, meaning it would change from a solid to a liquid, so we held the chocolate in the palm of our hands.

Then we observed what had happened…

We were correct, so as a treat, we finished off the melted chocolate!

Y3/4 Presentation of Learning

3rd July 2024Rebecca Knowles

Don’t forget to join us on Thursday 4th July at 4.30pm in the hall for our Y3/4 presentation of learning. We can’t wait to share our learning with you from this expedition!

Important parking notice

2nd July 2024Rebecca Knowles

Yorkshire Water have informed us that due to the road closure on part of Ellison Street (near the garage), buses are using Middlebrook Lane. Yorkshire Water have said they will be placing ‘no parking’ cones along Middlebrook Lane from tomorrow for the next few weeks. 

Please can you respect this enforcement to ensure the safety of our children. Buses are getting stuck due to poorly parked cars, especially at school times.

Thank you for your support.