National Women in Engineering Day

24th June 2015Mrs K Shutler

Sixty-thIMG_6365ree Year 7 girls were involved in a day dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering.

The launch of the day included a speech from Shiva Dowlatshahi from the Women’s Engineering Society. Shiva talked about engineering in our day to day lives as well as her own job. Dr Roger Vaugn, a Director at The Three Rivers Learning Trust also attended the launch event.

Here is a flavour of the challenges of the day….

  • Product analysis challenge
  • Archimedes screw activity
  • Building towers and bridges
  • Egg drop!
  • Routes into Engineering workshop from Professor Rob Davidson, Institute of mechanical
  • Engineering, Newcastle University

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Upcoming sporting events

22nd June 2015Mrs K Shutler

There are lots of sporting events coming up in the next few weeks. Why not come along and support us?

  • 23 June – Northumberland School Games for our Y5/6 Girls’ football team and Y8 Girls’ Netball team
  • 24 June – Northumberland School Games for our Y5/6 Quadkids team, Y8 Leaders and Samba band
  • 25 June – Sports Day Field Events Lesson 1 – Y6, Lesson 2 – Y7, Lesson 3 – Y5, Lesson 4 – Y8. Although it’s not usual for parents to attend these events, they are welcome to.
  • 26 June – Sports Day Track Events – 1pm start. Spectators most welcome!
  • 27 June – County Athletics event at Gateshead Stadium for all our Y6 / Y7 / Y8 qualifiers.
  • 3 July – KS2 Swimming Gala – 1pm start. Spectators most welcome!
  • 10 July – KS3 Swimming Gala – 1pm start. Spectators most welcome!

Summer Bake Off

22nd June 2015Mrs K Shutler
1st Place - Caitlin Johnstone

1st Place – Caitlin Johnstone

Many congratulations to the following students who took part in the Summer Bake Off 2015:

  • Caitlin Johnstone (1st Place)
  • James Seabrook (2nd Place)
  • Maddy Stewart (3rd Place)
  • Fran Mullen
  • Julia Swinglehurst
  • Lewis Creighton
  • Erin Carr
  • Jess Gagie
  • Robbie Brown
  • Charlotte Urwin
  • Josh Gair
  • Charlotte Layton
  • Laura Wilson

The cakes were absolutely superb and demonstrated the students exceptional talents and skills. A big thank you to all the parents/carers of those who took part in the competition for their continued support. Well-done!

Click below to see all of the entries.

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Year 6 Visit to Windermere

19th June 2015Mrs K Shutler

YCHSbN1wWwAA8L6dear 6 spent a fantastic week in the Lake District, staying at the YHA in Troutbeck.

Everyday we awoke to glorious weather and magnificent scenery.  As we ate our cooked breakfasts each day we wondered what we had done to be so lucky.

Over the week, we took part in kayaking, ghyll scrambling, searching through spooky tunnels, building rafts and seeing which of us had the makings of a new Bear Grylls!!  Turns out all of us did.

We had a fantastic week and would happily go back.

Click below to see more photos from the week.

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Y5/6 Quadkids Athletics Event

15th June 2015Mrs K Shutler
QuadkidsIn the blistering heat on 12 June, we entered 3 teams into this fantastic event in which every team member had to:
  • run a 75m sprint
  • a 600m run
  • a howler throw
  • a standing long jump.

Each member’s score for each event was added together to give a team score. All participants competed exceptionally well, and huge congratulations go to Team 1 who won the event and will now represent our partnership in the Summer Games on 24 June. A massive thank you and well done also goes to our Y8 Young Leaders who did a superb job officiating the entire event.

A massive thank you and well done also goes to our Y8 Young Leaders who did a superb job officiating the entire event

The results of the day can be found here.

Teams and helpers:

Tom Wales 5J Fran Takher 5B
Charlie Lane 6F Orla Callaghan 5S
Ben Waterfield 6M Emma Gerrard 5S
David Jenkinson 6P Elise Havery 6F
James Herron 6P Ellie Scrowther 6M
Matty Walton 5B Lucy McConnell 5B
Daniel O’Shea 5B Eadie Barakat 5S
Ollie Bruce 5S Marley Swinhoe 6M
Tom Mckenna 5S Rhianna Brennan-Davies 6S
Harvey Gillie 5S Libby Romaines 6S
Josh Armsworth 5S Louise Hardy 5B
Geogio Allison 5S Emma McCourt 5J
Aidan McInally 6M Libby Collis 5J
Dan Lloyd 6M Molly Athey 6M
Dylan Gooding 6S
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Haxell Luke McCormack Izzy Watts Jack Barker Carla
Tait Luke Love Caitlin Urwin Lewis Callaghan Ciara
Darroch Patrick Roberts Eve Lewis Vicky
O’Brien Hugh
Rhodes Dillon 8S
Charlton Ross
8C Bradley Sam
Watson Jake Nealon Kodi Booth Mark
Henderson Jonny Railton Anna

June Sports Update

9th June 2015Mrs K Shutler

U11s Girls’ Football tournament on 5 June

Well done to our girls football team who played in this playoff tournament at Ponteland. As Newminster, Cragside and Ponteland all finished on equal points at the top of the league this season, the winning team would be decided after a mini playoff.

Despite losing both games by the odd goal, the girls played exceptionally well with constant determination and effort. See Twitter for the ‘end of season’ celebratory photos!

I must also add that the season does actually still go on for these girls as they will be representing our Partnership in the Summer Games at Cramlington on 23 June.

Forthcoming sporting events:

  • 12 June – Y5/6 Quadkids athletics event at KEVI, 9:30 – 11:30am. Including our Y8 Sports Leaders.
  • 16 June – Area Athletics event at Monkton Stadium, Jarrow for Y6/7/8s. 10am – 3pm.
  • 23 June – Northumberland School Games for our U11s Girls Football and U13s Girls Netball teams.
  • 24 June – Northumberland School Games for our Y8 Sports Leaders.
  • 25 June – All years Field Events Sports day.
  • 26 June – All years Track Events Sports day.
  • 27 June – County Athletics event at Gateshead Stadium.
  • 3 July – KS2 Swim Gala at Morpeth Leisure Centre
  • 6 July – U13s Girls Beach Rugby event at Tynemouth
  • 10 July – KS3 Swim Gala at Morpeth Leisure Centre

 

Accelerated Reader

5th June 2015Mrs K Shutler

Accelerated Reader smallYear 5 have now completed their third half-term of Accelerated Reader.

At the end of the half term, it was 5S who had passed the most quizzes and they were rewarded with a special breakfast of croissants and juice.

There were also some individual prizes for children who had achieved 100% in a quiz and were entered into a raffle.  These were the winners:

  • Tom Wales, 5J
  • Keira Cowan, 5J
  • Joseph Nicholson, 5J
  • Tom Robson, 5S
  • Alastair Pearse, 5S
  • Bronwen Rees, 5S
  • Sam Parker, 5B
  • Hannah Bishop, 5B
  • Mathew Walton, 5B
  • Kacy Conroy, 5D
  • Jacob Buxton, 5D
  • Alice Dalgleish, 5D
We have also had more ‘Word Millionaires’ who have read over a million words since we started our Accelerated Reader programme in January!  Huge congratulations go to Keira Cowan in 5J, Matthew Walton in 5B, Tom Wales in 5J and Amraj Thindal in 5D who have reached this fantastic achievement and will be receiving a special prize soon.
Congratulations to all of Year 5 who have been reading very hard.  There are more prizes to be won at the end of the year!

5th Annual Mini Literary Quiz

5th June 2015Mrs K Shutler

Lit QuizOur 5th Annual Mini Lit Quiz will be held at Chantry on the afternoon of Friday June 26 finishing at 4pm.  This literary competition gives children who’ve always loved to read a chance to display their knowledge and win prizes for it!

Topics will be very wide-ranging and teams can expect questions on every type of fiction, including comic strips, picture books and the classics as well as current popular novels.  There will be a Pictionary round and, as knowledge is acquired from reading, there may be a little general knowledge thrown in as well!

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