Dear Parents

The success of XP now means that we are now responsible for two secondary schools (XP and XP East) and four primary schools (Green Top, Plover, Norton Infants and Norton Juniors) as part of our Trust. We also support many schools both nationally and internationally who visit our schools to learn from the work we are doing.

We have grown significantly over a short space of time and, last Friday, the leadership team of the XP Trust met to discuss the expansion of our work and how we need to change our leadership structure to accommodate this growth.

As a result, we have made some important and exciting changes to our leadership structure.

I will now work across both Secondary and Primary sectors as the Chief Academic Officer of our Trust supporting all our schools to develop and implement our expeditionary curriculum. I will also work with leaders across the Trust to ensure expeditions are of high quality. In addition, I will promote our approaches across the wider education system both nationally and internationally.

As a result, I am proud to announce that Mr Portman will become the Principal of both XP and XP East. He will ensure that we are maintaining and improving on the high standards we have already achieved and he will take over responsibility for the operation of both schools. 

Mr Portman will be supported by our newly appointed Assistant Principals:

Ms Robinson Y7/8 at XP Mrs Poncia Y7/8 at XP East 

Mr Voltaire Y9/Y10 at XP Mr Smith Y9 at XP East

Mrs Vayro Y11 at XP

Mr Blair will continue to offer leadership support to both schools. 

Our newly established Post 16 provision will be led by Mr Said and he will be assisted by Mrs Green.

The graphic below outlines the changes at XP/XP East:

 

 

In addition, Mrs Butler is our newly appointed SENCo who will work across the Trust and Mrs Stonier has been appointed to work as an Associate Principal across the Trust to support and challenge our Executive Leadership Team.

Mrs ap Harri will continue to lead our highly successful outdoor expeditions including the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

These are exciting times at XP School Trust and as we move into this next phase in our development I would like to thank you for your continuing support. 

Best wishes

Andy Sprakes

Chief Academic Officer 

XP School Trust

 

Due to the level of demand we receive each year, once again we will be holding two information evenings for prospective students and parents for both XP and XP East. These will take place on Wednesday 2nd October and Thursday 3rd October.

The evenings will take place from 6:00pm. Both evenings will have the same schedule and will be appropriate for parents applying to either/both of our schools, with an opportunity to see both.

Please attend on Wednesday 2nd October if your son’s or daughter’s surname is between A and K in the alphabet.

Please attend on Thursday 3rd October if your son’s or daughter’s surname is between L and Z in the alphabet.

The evening will provide details of how we learn at XP Trust secondary schools through academically challenging learning expeditions, what you should expect from us and what we expect from you. This will include presentations from our students as well as a chance to see both of our secondary schools where there will be activities taking place in different rooms.

We expect each evening to finish at around 7.30pm.

Please park in Doncaster Rovers FC Car Park 3 and enter the school through the student entrance gate on the south side of the campus and not the vehicle entrance gates on the north side.

There will be an opportunity for parents/carers to ask any questions, all are welcome.

We look forward to seeing you there!

I would like to take this opportunity to remind parents about our system for using Car Park 3 to pick up and drop off students.

Please could parents observe the speed limits so that students aren’t put at risk and can we be patient with one another as the car park does get congested, particularly at the end of the day.

If parents could use the proposed routes as suggested on the picture below then we should be able to ensure a steady flow through the car park.

In addition, please could we ask that you switch your engine off whilst you wait, in the interests of keeping the environment as healthy as possible for our students and the wider community.

Once again many thanks for your support.

We would like to invite all X22 parents to a GCSE information evening on 26th September at 5pm.

As part of the evening, the new GCSE grading system will be explained and then there will be a carousel where subject Leads will talk to you about what their individual subject entails exam wise, what revision strategies your son/daughter could be using and the number of hours of revision students should be doing each week.

From this evening we hope that parents will have greater understanding about the exams and what students need to do in the coming months.  This will build on what students would have reflected on in their forthcoming SLC’s (weeks commencing 9th and 16th September).

We look forward to seeing you on the 26th September.

As part of our continued support and fund raising for Cancer Research UK, Crew Bronte have been trying to raise awareness of the Breast Cancer charity in particular. Since February, we have received donations of pre – loved bras, in ay condition, and have around 150 so far. Due to this huge support, we now have a bra bank in school, and would like to continue to receive donations in order to help Against Breast Cancer with their vital funding of research into breast cancer.

Please find a link here, with a short video, explaining all about this scheme, and start collecting! To our knowledge, there are no other bra banks in the Doncaster area. The bank is located in XP School, in the library area. Thank you for your support.

Bra Recycling