Archive for the ‘Staff’ Category

New Staff interview date

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

We have had so many staff application forms that we have decided to have a 4th interview this year to cope with the increased interest. The new date is Saturday 19th March and will give more people the opportunity to meet our team and go for one of our coveted jobs.

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Are Shorter Holidays the Answer to Improving the Prospects of our Children?

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

As you may have read in the papers recently, the Government’s poverty adviser is proposing that the school summer holiday should be shortened in a bid to improve the prospects of poorer pupils.  Frank Field, who is heading an independent review into UK poverty that will report to the government said disadvantaged children fall further behind during long summer holidays because they are not being read to and tutored and as such, called for the school year to be broken into four or five terms with shorter holidays to help poorer pupils who do not receive support at home. (more…)

2011 Summer holiday residential camp

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

In 2011 XUK will be running for 6 weeks! The dates for 2011 are:

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Choosing the Right ‘Summer Camp’ for your child

Friday, September 24th, 2010

You’re thinking of booking your child or teen onto a summer residential camp. You’ve seen the ads, brochures and websites. The pictures look lovely. It’s hard to distinguish between pages of smiling, sunny photos. (more…)

Staff summer videos

Monday, September 13th, 2010

We have uploaded two staff videos available on http://www.xkeys.co.uk/staff.html and we’d love you to see them and let us know what you think.

Our You Tube favourites page can be found on http://www.youtube.com/user/XUKSummer#p/f

XUK residential 2010 end of week show themes

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Our end of week show themes this year are:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Hollywood Movie

Haunted House

Pirates and Sailors

Jungle

Crazy Circus

So, get thinking about your outfits and props! We can’t wait to see them all!

In a months time from now our summer camp will be up and running. All the fun activities, sports, adventure, arts and Drama. Most of all we are looking forward to the friendly faces and social scene we enjoy every year!