X29 Crew Breakfast 🎄🎅

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This morning Crew Caldwell, Crew Lovelace, Crew Nightingale, and Crew Kelly got together to celebrate the festive season with a Crew Christmas breakfast. It was a lovely way to approach the end of term together.

The crew session was filled with laughter as we played games, chatted with one another, and enjoyed spending time as a whole year group. We enjoyed pastries and cakes alongside hot chocolate topped with squirty cream — these were a great hit!

It was really lovely to have all four crews together, celebrating and enjoying each other’s company.

It was an enjoyable crew session, thank you to everyone involved.

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas,

Miss Fielding, Miss Ibbotson, Mrs Mawby, and Miss Warwick 🎄

Year 8 C31 HPV vaccine – 20/01/26

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The School Immunisation Nursing Team will be visiting XP School on 20 January 2026 to administer the HPV vaccination to Year 8 students. Emails were sent this morning for parents consent or non-consent. It is very important that all parents/carers complete the form, even if you choose not to give consent, so that a response is received by the School Immunisation Team.

We kindly ask that this is completed by the end of this week. I appreciate your cooperation.

Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This week in PE W/C 15th Dec

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Monday- Netball match for year 8 and 9 away. return at 5.30pm. No other after school clubs on Monday.

Thursday- Cheerleading practice 3.3-4.30.

No girls football, badminton or netball practice this week due to POL’s

Have a lovely Christmas from Team PE.

Crew White’s bumper festive week

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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!

BTEC – Fitness testing experts

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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

Sharing our Stories: 12/12/2025

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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!

Activism: Y11 Prom Fundraising!

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To ensure our wonderful C28 students have a great send off, our awesome parents are organising a formal prom in July.

But… we need your help! To make the evening as memorable as possible, we have a couple of fundraising opportunities.

On December 18th, we’ll be having a Christmas PJ day – long PJs, be as festive as possible – £1 donation towards C28’s prom – along with a breakfast goodies sale during crew.

We’re also currently selling Raffle tickets – some great prizes available (and donations welcomed!) – £1 per strip, run by Y11 crews.

Please see the attached information posters – and if you’re able, get involved!

Silver DofE – Extended Deadline for Expressions of Interest

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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.

C29 New Silver DofE 25_26 – Dec UpdateDownload

DofE Team