Just a reminder that school will be closed Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd September for Teacher Training. We look forward to welcoming students back into school on Wednesday 4th September at 9.00 am.
It’s been another busy term full of festivals, competitions, curriculum
delivery and sports days.
Please click here read the Summer newsletter
We would like to offer students the opportunity to take part in instrumental / vocal music lessons in school starting in the autumn term.
INSTRUMENTAL TUITION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Keyboard
Accordion
Northumbrian pipes
Percussion (drum kit)
Voice
Guitar (Electric, Acoustic, Bass)
Clarinet
Flute
Saxophone
Brass (trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba, horn, baritone)
Violin
Cello
Please note that other instruments may be available if viable group sizes can be achieved. If your child wishes to learn an instrument not listed above, then please contact Music Partnership North to discuss further.
Lessons take place weekly, during the school day, either individually or in groups of up to 4 and are of 30 minutes duration. We deliver up to 33 lessons over the academic year.
The cost of tuition equates to £6.25 per lesson for a shared lesson or £17.50 for an individual lesson. We have a limited number of instruments for hire, although we do not hire percussion or keyboards. The cost of instrument hire is £23.00 per term unless your child qualifies for free school meals or is a looked after child in which case hire is free. Additional costs will need to be considered such as the purchase of a tutor book, valve oil for a brass instrument and replacement strings for violins. Please visit our website at http://music.northumberland.gov.uk, for full terms and conditions and additional information on instrument hire.
Parents wishing to purchase an instrument can do so through us without paying VAT. This is called an Assisted Purchase Scheme and details of this can be found on our website together with links to various organisations who may be able to offer financial assistance.
If you would like to register your child for lessons then please visit https://live.paritor.com/p/2302. Once you have completed the registration process we will allocate your child to a lesson and forward details of the day and time and how lessons can be paid for. This information will be sent out at the start of the autumn term. Registration must be completed before 7th September 2019.
If you have any questions concerning tuition or registration, please contact Lesley Scott at the office on 01670 624045.
Please note the steel pan lessons are provided by a different supplier and you need to sign up for them separately. Please see Ms Jones if you need further details about this.
Many congratulations to all of the students who participated in the recent Newminster Bake Off. As always the quality of the cakes produced were to an exceptional standard, well done to everyone who took part.
Please click on the following links for further information.
Gaming; what parents and carers need to know
Sharing pictures of your child online
Keeping your under 5’s safe online
Live streaming; responding to the risks
Sports Coaching Courses – please click here for further information.
We are delighted to be able to share with you our KS2 results for 2019. The students and staff have worked incredibly hard to achieve some fantastic results. 95% of our students reached the expected standard for maths; 88% in writing and in SPaG and 85% in reading. These are some of our best results ever and we are incredibly proud of our students. Well done to everyone involved!
Northumberland County Councils digital skills programme we are hosting a number of events across the Summer holidays for young people. Please click here for further information
Picnic in the Park – Sunday 14th July, Carlisle Park, Morpeth
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Four months of hard (but pleasurable) work came to an end on June 10th when thirty-nine Chantry and Newminster students and fifteen parents gathered at the Centre for Life to meet the authors whose work they had come to regard almost as ‘old friends.’
A small group of us started reading and discussing possible contenders for the North East Book Award 2019 at Christmas, but the process was tricky as the books we liked best were less challenging than usual. For this reason, and because some of them were also quite short, we settled on six strong candidates instead of the usual five. In April, younger students came on board, eager to read and review the shortlist:
Boy 87 Girl in the Window The Closest Thing to Flying A Darkness of Dragons She Wolf Seaglass
vote for their favourites and meet the authors.
This year, we were privileged to be asked to present two of the four authors who were able to attend and our Year 6 students did us proud!
We warmed immediately to debut author, Ele Fountain. She is an articulate and engaging speaker who moved with her young family to Addis Ababa at the height of the refugee crisis. She felt a moral obligation to expose the impossible choices refugees have to face by helping readers see the situation through their eyes. To find out why we thought her book was so good, read our reviews on http://www.nebookawards.org.uk/ Use the links to navigate to the shortlist.
Year 6 students: Eleanor and Lucy of Chantry and Maisie and Eva of Newminster were thrilled to be asked to present her and she was quite overwhelmed by what they had to say about her book.
We first met author, Gill Lewis three years ago when she donned a gorilla suit to promote her book and shared the stage with a bemused Ross Welford and a hyper active teacher. This time, she’d brought some flamboyant headgear – a tropical rainforest in a hat – and our students were very keen to try it on! To understand the connections between a hat and modern slavery; global extinctions and the origins of the RSPB, you’ll just have to read the book. It covers a lot of ground!
Well done to Gill’s presenters, Year 6 students Amelia and Lily of Chantry and Lauren and Chloe of Newminster. Gill was obviously thrilled by what you had to say – and you said it beautifully!
Sadly, this year’s winner was unable to attend the ceremony for health reasons. She suffers from the same chronic fatigue syndrome as her central character and this prevents her from getting out and about. Everyone was very sad that she was unable to collect her well-deserved award.
Although we all thought Penny Joelson’s, A Girl in the Window was a deserving winner, we would have been quite satisfied if any of the first four had won, they were so good!
Click here to see our presenters in action
Click here to see Ele responding to one of our questions
Click here to once again see our presenters in action
Click here to see Gill’s thanks
Click here to see Gill responding to a question from Pippa in Year 5
