That’s right everyone, after a grand total of 66 full throttle football fixtures at Norton’s now famous sports field – culminating in a total of 142 goals and some quite extraordinary celebrations – we have our winners to be announced during tomorrow’s leavers assembly.
I must say, however, that the spirit in which the game has been played has been magnificent, as has the level of magnanimity from the majority of the players in defeat.
Who needs the Euros when you have Mr Fellowes’ Cup?
Dear parents,
We have recently received next year’s prices from our current catering providers, Doncaster Council Schools Catering Service.
Due to rising food and labour costs, they have significantly increased the price to all of our schools across the Trust.
Even with the schools heavily subsidising this, we may still need to increase the cost per meal for parents to £3.00. We are greatly disappointed to ask this of our parents, but this is a decision we have had to make due to reasons out of our control.
We will continue to work with Schools Catering over the summer holidays to try and bring these costs down, whilst ensuring a high quality meal will be provided to each of our students. We will keep parents informed with any updates on this.
We are exploring other providers, and if necessary, we will look to change providers if a more cost effective offer is available elsewhere.
We will do everything we can to keep the price of school meals affordable to our parents, but we wanted to provide early warning that our prices are likely to increase from September 2024.
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 looking for:
A Leading Learning Coach (HLTA) at Plover School
A Learning Coach/Crew Leader at XP Gateshead
Farewell Crew Pankhurst @ XP School
C29 Artwork in progress! @ XP East
Baking Bonanza @ Norton Juniors
3LG have been in full baking mode this week in preparation for our Celebration of Learning. With a total of 190 cookies baked, we think we might have a few spares for a taste test!
That’s right. Even though we had much fun and frivolity during the Summer Fayre yesterday, a unfortunate consequence of the day was the amount of litter that I am sure was accidentally dropped on the school grounds. Fear not, however, as Crew Chadwick this morning were hungry! We were ravenous! We needed food! How did we feast? On any foreign object that dared spoil our landscape. Yum Yum!
In 2023, XP had over 1000 visitors from all over the world – including India, Australia, America, Israel, Norway and Spain, just to name a few! As we continue to welcome more visitors, here’s what they’ve said about our students…
This week we held our second Friends of Norton Campus Association Summer Fair. We were joined by members of our local community to raise funds for our schools. There were bouncy castles, penalty shoot outs, welly wanging and face painting.
Askern Community Brass Band provided the music – and there were plenty of sweet treats and snacks to enjoy too. Children were spending their pocket money on the hit the teacher coconut shy and sponge the teacher! Not forgetting we were joined by our special VIP’s Lenny and Alan (the alpacas!) We’re already looking forward to next year.
We’re looking for:
Learning Coaches at Carcroft School
An EYFS/KS1 Specialist SEND Teacher at Carcroft School
A Leading Learning Coach (HLTA) at Plover School
A Learning Coach/Crew Leader at XP Gateshead
Year 9 Sports Leaders @ XP School
The sun was cracking the flags today in what was the first round of matches in our intra-school tournament – Mr Fellowes Cup. Indeed, the sun wasn’t the only thing that was gleaming as the smiles on the y3/4 girls’ faces were every bit as bright as the sun. A nod also to our selfless year 6 children who kept the order to proceedings by refereeing.
