XP School

What a busy and brilliant week it’s been for Crew White — they have truly sparkled and shined! Between POL, our Santa Dash, Christmas Jumper Day, and enjoying Christmas dinner together, the festive spirit has been everywhere.

A huge highlight was hosting our annual bake sale for The Eve Merton Trust. Thanks to everyone who purchased hot chocolate and our home-baked festive treats, we raised an incredible £178! Your generosity and support are greatly appreciated.

Wishing all our Crew White families a wonderful and restful two-week break. Enjoy the festivities, relax, and we can’t wait to see you in the new year!

Our Year 10 BTEC Sport students enjoyed an inspiring week working with the Lead Sports Scientist from Doncaster Rovers Academy.
Throughout the sessions, students were introduced to a range of cutting-edge technologies used to track academy football players and support their performance development. It was fantastic to see many of them getting hands-on with the equipment, gaining a real understanding of how these tools are used in professional sport.

In addition, students had the opportunity to discuss the wide variety of career pathways within the sports industry and the qualifications needed to pursue them. We hope the experience has sparked curiosity and ambition, inspiring the next generation of Sports Scientists.

The year 10’s have made an incredible start to their BTEC course and it was been lovely to read their work this term. Please keep up all the hard work.

Miss O’Grady

Beautiful work this week

Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust!

To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit xptrust.org.

Top of the Blogs

Reception Christmas Performance @ Green Top

KS1 Pride of Plover @ Plover

Year 4 Carols at ASDA @ Carcroft School

Crew Pasteur catch up @ XP

3SG Christmas art @ Norton Juniors

Enrichment Superstars @ XP East

Weekly update @ XP Gateshead

A Twinkly Nativity to Remember @ Norton Infants

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 comms@xptrust.org –  we want to hear about it, write about it and celebrate it!

We’re excited to share that the deadline for submitting Expressions of Interest for the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award has been extended to Wednesday 17th December.

If your child is hoping to take part in this year’s Silver programme, please make sure the form is completed by the new deadline so we can begin the next steps and secure their place.

We’ve also attached the Information Slides, which include everything you need to know about what the Silver Award involves, expectations for each section, and how to get started.

This is a fantastic opportunity for students to challenge themselves, build new skills and enjoy unique experiences — we’re really looking forward to supporting them on their Silver DofE journey.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

DofE Team

Find out more and apply here to #JoinOurCrew

https://xptrust.org/were-looking-for-a-cleaner-at-xp-doncaster/

Crew Pasteur have been busy since we came back from after half term, preparing for mocks, sitting them, and waiting for the results to come out. Mrs Earp and I would like to appreciate Crew for their preparation, in particular their work on History every week in Crew, which has supported them in their sessions and mock exams. It was an exciting morning last Thursday when results were issued, with plenty of success. This is a great experience and grounding for the next set of mocks, keep working hard Crew!

Last week was full of amazing after school fixtures.

Year 7 and 9 netball teams hosted Ridgewood, all students were excellent representatives from XP and XP East. Year 9 produced some amazing netball and won their match, unfortunately year 7 were not as lucky and just missed out. Well done to our sports leaders for supporting umpiring the matches. We had two outstanding players of the match from attack and defence. Well done , keep it up.

On the same night we also hosted the year 7 and 8 girls central venue football tournament. Huge well done to the Year 7/8 football team on winning all 3 of their matches. Absolute superstars.

We are excited to announce that X31 will be presenting their learning on Monday 15th December from 4:00–5:00pm. This special event will celebrate the incredible work students have completed throughout their Being Human learning expedition.

Over the past term, X31 learners have explored what it means to be human, investigating identity, empathy, relationships, challenges, and the shared experiences that connect us all. Guided by their guiding question, “What does it mean to be human?”, students have engaged in deep thinking, thoughtful discussion, and creative expression.

This will be a meaningful and inspiring event, and we would love to see our community there to support and celebrate the hard work of X31.

We look forward to welcoming you on 15th December!

Thanks Year 8 Team