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  • Celebrate XP… support a charity!

    Announcing Our New Publication: ‘Celebrating Ten Years of Expeditions at XP’ A new publication, ‘Celebrating Ten Years of Learning Expeditions at XP’, written by our co-founder, Andy Sprakes, is now available. The book highlights an extensive and broad selection of the beautiful work created by our young people and staff from across our Trust. It…

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  • Better World Day

    On the 6th May, primary school students from across the XP Trust took part in Better World Day. This is an event to raise awareness about the ways that we can all make our world a better place to live. Students participated in Expeditions to learn about the importance of protecting our Earth and what…

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  • Small class sizes making a real difference at Green Top!

    A new and innovative approach to the way year groups, also known as phases, are run is underway in the XP Trust. Where schools would normally have two teachers per year group and classes of around 30, at Green Top School this has been replaced by five teachers per phase.  Having three teachers in a…

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  • Sharing our Stories: 06/05/2022

    Beautiful Work This Week In our Schools Staff stories Our amazing Trust Business Manager Caroline Greening competed at HYROX – a fitness competition for all levels held at the Excel Centre in Central London with over 4000 competitors! The event itself is an incredibly tough mixture of long distance running and functional fitness movements – sled…

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  • You Give Me Fever

    GQ: How can the eyes of the past help us to respond to public health issues in the future? Expedition lead: Jamie PortmanCurriculum: HUMAN/ArtsPhase/Year group: Year 9Delivery date: Spring 2022 In January 2022, students in Year 9 studied a joint HUMAN and STEAM expedition called ‘You give me fever’. This expedition followed a thematic study…

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