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On the morning of the final Monday of year six, 6CC enjoyed putting their coordinates skills to good use as friends became enemies in today’s pirates bay game.Â
When friendships had rekindled, the team had the pleasure of engaging in a Shakespearean murder mystery: Romeo and Juliet Edition with Campsmount English teacher, Mrs Green. All enjoyed putting their detective skills to the test as they attempted to piece together a timeline of events from the evidence. Well done all!Â
“Every young person should learn about climate change in school. It’s marginal to most people’s curriculums – not XP School as you’re such a brilliant school”
Ed Miliband – Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero
After the success of our inaugural conference last year and with climate change at the heart of our activism as a Trust, we held this year’s event on 13th July with the question: If not now, when? If not us, who?
The programme for the evening featured the work and research of our Year 10 students and the contribution of experts from across our region.
Powerful keynote speeches, delivered by six students left the audience in no doubt that the planet is in crisis and action has to be taken now.
What that action might be was ably and inspiringly answered by the panellists taking part in our Q & A.
These were The RT. Hon Ed Miliband MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero; David Pulham, UK Manager Vossloh and Tim Newton, Sustainability officer, Doncaster City Council.
The conference also featured many stalls covering such subjects as Sustainability and ‘greener’ food, as well as scientific demonstrations and break out discussions.
One of the breakout presentations was delivered by Dr Mike Sprakes, Gastroenterologist, Mid Yorks Hospitals NHS Trust and Peter Leighton Jones, Head of Sustainability, Mid Yorks Hospitals NHS Trust.
Their talk focussed on Climate Change and the NHS.
We’re already thinking about next year’s conference – but more importantly if you can pledge to make a difference all year round we can all work together to save our planet. There is no Planet B.Â
Crew Marsh Transition @ Carcroft School
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
Crew 5&6 are loving XP Outdoors @ Plover
As you know a school-managed iPad is part of the standard kit required of students in secondary schools across XP Trust. We have brokered a successful Parental Contribution Scheme to enable this for all our children for the last 4 years and continue to do this again for 2023/24.
We will have a bank of Apple Pencils for use in Art and Design sessions. You are welcome to purchase an apple pencil of your own, should you wish, and we would recommend either:
The extended warranty is covered by Apple for the first two years. You handle your own claims through an app. Further information can be found here:
https://www.apple.com/uk/support/products/ipad/
There is a claim excess for broken screens at £29, we will supply a glass screen protector free of charge. This will be checked regularly by Crew Leaders as part of our kit checks.
You can get support and make warranty claims here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/apple-support/id1130498044
Loss or theft of the iPad needs to be covered by your personal home insurance.
The total retail cost of these items bought separately would be £598. Through our new purchase scheme the cost to you is £451.
This balance will be applied to your Parent Pay account and you can manage your own payments. Here are a few options.
At the end of your child’s time in school the device can be kept by the family if the balance has been paid in full.
To order your child’s ipad, please complete this Google Form.
This afternoon 6EG had a visitor from Campsmount – Mr Wilson, a science teacher. They have learnt about acids and alkalis, all in preparation for next year!
I couldn’t have been prouder of this wonderful class who were absolutely amazing during sports day today. It was a hot one but the effort they put in was tremendous! Everyone ran their hearts out and the sportsmanship was great to see, congratulating winners and cheering encouragement to those competing! 🏃♀️🏅🎽🏆
Gotta love these days.
This week, the awesome guide created by our Year 11 Students has been published on the Charles Dickens Museum website as a free educational resource! You can find it amongst a plethora of different resources on Dickens’ work.
We’re looking forward to visiting the museum next week to celebrate the work the students have created.
Finding doubles – outdoor maths @ Carcroft School
G30 Transition Days @ XP Gateshead
KS3 Girls Football Team do XP proud! @ XP
EYFS Vehicles Celebration Event @ Plover
Wonderful to see our students @XPtrust @XPEastSchool @XPschool taking part in the @ukEdge #DeeperLearning conference today @DoncasterRaces – what a great view from the Royal Box! With @clairabelle5 @SprakesA & @gwynap pic.twitter.com/2sbu9lrCtz
— Melanie Hewitt FRSA (@MelanieHewitt61) June 22, 2023
Just back from attending an @ELeducation institute in Boston on cultivating high quality work. So many take aways from the institute and from around Boston. Very much looking forward to sharing all that we have learned with @XPtrust pic.twitter.com/4f6qusysSD
— Laura Parsons (@lauraparsons700) June 25, 2023
Finding doubles – outdoor maths @ Carcroft School
Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead
Catch up with Crew Caldwell @ XP
The first fixtures for Mr Fellowes Cup were played on Tuesday by our amazing y3/4 girls and the afternoon was full of poses, passion and punctuated by fistpumps and handshakes. Amazing!
