Sharing our Stories: 14/07/2023

Beautiful Work This Week

XPCC23

“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. 

A Visit to the Dickens Museum

C29 Edale Fieldwork

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Crew Marsh Transition @ Carcroft School

Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead

Crew 5&6 are loving XP Outdoors @ Plover

Sports Day Fun @ Norton Infants

Y6 Leavers Party @ Green Top

Glorious Sports Day @ Norton Juniors

Order my Parental Contribution Scheme iPad

Intro to Science

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!

Glorious Sports Day

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! 🏃‍♀️🏅🎽🏆

Sharing our Stories: 07/07/2023

Beautiful Work This Week

Terrarium Expert at XP Doncaster

DofE Bronze Award Highlights

Beautiful Curation: A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words

A Christmas Carol Study Guide – now available online!

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.

Beautiful Curation at Plover

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Finding doubles – outdoor maths @ Carcroft School

G30 Transition Days @ XP Gateshead

KS3 Girls Football Team do XP proud! @ XP

Well done Crew Marx @ XP East

EYFS Vehicles Celebration Event @ Plover

We completed our final expedition @ Norton Infants

Year 1’s awesome celebration of learning @ Green Top

Sharing our Stories: 30/06/2023

Beautiful Work This Week

Our students contribute to Deeper Learning 2023

XP Trust visits Chicago for EL’s conference

Student Showcase: Book your place!

Staff Crew at XP Doncaster: RDA

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Finding doubles – outdoor maths @ Carcroft School

Weekly update for families @ XP Gateshead

Kick off! @ Norton Juniors

Catch up with Crew Caldwell @ XP

Performance poetry @ Plover

Class 1 hard at work! @ Norton Infants

World Wellbeing Week @ Green Top

Kick off!

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!

Y3 Get Sports Day Ready

As we move into the second part of our summer term, the competitiveness within Y3 is starting to show. We have been utilising our PE lessons to get in all the practice for sports day in a few weeks time. We can’t wait to see our hard work pay off with lots of fun races and activities.