We wanted to give our pupils in KS2 some bunny and egg fun this year so we have turned the quad into an Easter Activity Space for the week!
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
This year, at Newminster Middle School, we supported Comic Relief by creating and selling a book of limericks in aid of the charity – ‘Lockdown Limericks by NMS’. We encouraged all of our students and staff to write a humorous limerick to be included in the book and got hundreds!
The book was printed by Book Printing UKÂ and has been sold with all profits being donated to Comic Relief. As an Artsmark Platinum school we wanted to create something to make everyone smile at this difficult time and pull together as a full school community. Doing this through poetry has also supported the pupils literacy and reading skills and they were delighted to read the finished book. I have attached some photos of the school community reading our book!
The pupils also came dressed in a splash of red for a non uniform day on Friday 19th March 2021.
Do you have the time to help musicians in our region?
Understanding a Childâs Digital World â Event, Tuesday 16th 2021, 1800
FREE Online safety event open to parents, professionals -anyone who wants to learn more about the digital world
Counter Terrorism Policing East Midlands are hosting a free online event to encourage parents and professionals to talk to children about online safety.
This session serves as an introduction to understanding the digital world and what risks are present for children.
The event will be interactive, open to everyone with questions encouraged â please join and circulate to anyone else who may be interested.
The event is supported by guest speakers from the East Midlands Cyber Engagement Team and Warning Zone. It will be opened by DCC Gibson from Counter Terrorism Policing East Midlands
ACT Early more info here:Â https://youtu.be/N8DPPQUem9A
As we prepare to welcome back all our pupils, Newminster is ready to â hit the road runningâ with a National  Poetry Performance Competition. All pupils will have the opportunity to choose from a selection of poetry, then learn and deliver it in their own unique way, embracing the musicality of language and the power of the voice.
In the first week back, our students will engage with specially commissioned, live âPoetry by Heart, Â lessons, focussing on poetry delivery and the tricks for committing poetry to memory. Over the final two weeks of this term, pupils will be able to video their performances, ready to submit into the competition.
Please be assured that if your child does not have permission to be videoed, this will be respected.
Entries can be individual, pairs or small groups of up to five pupils. A âFreestyle â category is also available, for pupils to perform self-penned material or any poem of their choice.
Exciting times! We look forward to having lots of fun and producing some fabulous performances.
All of this week we will be celebrating our love of reading through some World Book Day activities. These will include classes watching videos of different members of staff reading extracts from the book entitled ‘Hope’, pupils sharing their artistic creations with us of their favourite book characters and scenes and writing riddles for a special fairy door hunt for the students returning to school next Monday.
Watch Mrs Foot’s special World Book Day Assembly here –
Happy reading everyone!!
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This year, as with most things, we are doing the Sign2Sing Event a little differently. We would like all Newminster pupils and their families, if possible, to learn our Sign2Sing song and perform it on Tuesday 9th February 2021.
The song we have chosen to sing and sign this year is aptly named, âFight Songâ. You can find the tutorial video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?
On Tuesday 9th February, we are simply asking pupils and families to perform and either record themselves or take photos and post to Twitter (NMS) or Facebook (CMS and NMS Creative Arts page) and email them to Ms Jones (charlotte.jones@the3rivers.
We think this is a terrific initiative which teaches the children a new and valuable skill as well as raising awareness of Deaf issues and we look forward to seeing your performances.
For more information about sign2sing, please visit www.sign2sing.org.uk
Newminster Middle School Sign to Sing Video
Thank you for supporting this exciting challenge and helping to âinspire a generation to signâ.
This year at Newminster Middle School we are hoping to support Comic Relief by
creating and selling a book of limericks in aid of the charity. We are therefore
encouraging all of our students to write and illustrate (if possible) a humorous limerick
and the funniest examples will be included in the book.
A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines
must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm.
The third and fourth lines should only have five to seven syllables; they too must
rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.
Edward Lear, a famous British poet, and writer of literary nonsense, is widely
considered the father of the limerick. He didn’t write the first limerick â the first
limericks came about in the early 1700s and are often preserved in folk songs â but
he popularised the form.
There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, “It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
This link will take you to the google doc to help students write their limerick. Students
also have access to this through their Google Classroom.
Students can send a typed limerick or a photo of their written and illustrated limerick
to either their class teacher or Ms Jones ([email protected]) before
Friday 12th March for a chance to have their work appear in the book.
If you would be interested in purchasing a copy/copies of the NMS Limerick Book in
aid of Comic Relief please complete the response form by clicking here no later than
9am on Friday 5th March 2021. The price to pre order this book is ÂŁ5.50 however the
actual cost of producing the book is ÂŁ4 (if we receive 200 plus orders or more) and all proceeds will go to Comic Relief. We can only proceed with producing the book if we
receive enough pre-orders. Once this has been confirmed payment can be made via
the School Gateway (www.schoolgateway.com) .
Many thanks for your support and we look forward to reading the studentsâ limericks
and producing a book containing work from our school community to make us all smile.
It is Children’s Mental Health week, starting this Monday 1st February until 7th February and is supported by place2be.org.uk. The theme is ‘Express Yourself’ and it looks at how we can make ourselves feel better by creating something new, either through art, poetry, dance, drama, a story, etc. Follow the slides and the youtube clips for ideas.
If you would like to share anything you create for us, please email it in to [email protected]. Watch out on Newminster twitter and the NMS and CMS CA facebook page for students’ work.
