Walk to school week 7th – 11th October 2019

1st October 2019Sarah Hall

Monday 7th October to Friday 11th October

To help support the International Walk to School October campaign, Newminster are encouraging classes to take part in a one week competition. Every child in their form class will receive one point if they have walked, biked, or scootered to school that morning. Class reps will add up the total score each morning and at the end of the week, we will see which form class has received the most points by Friday 11th October. 

The winning form class per year group will win a ÂŁ25 Amazon Voucher to spend on wet break resources for their class.

Good luck and get walking…..

Walk to School Matters Because….

  • It’s been proven that if children do some form of exercise, especially a walk before school, do better in class because they arrived refreshed and ready to learn
  • During morning peak traffic times, one in five cars are taking children to school – these are contributing to congestion, air pollution and carbon emissions
  • The school run alone is responsible for generating two million tonnes of CO2 per year

 

The King Edward VI School Open Evening

25th September 2019Sarah Hall

KEVI would like to invite all prospective Year 8 parents and students to their annual Open Evening on Thursday 10 October from 4.30 pm to 7.00 pm.

There will be a short presentation in the lower school hall at 5.00 pm and 6.00 pm as well as opportunities to meet with staff and students throughout the evening.

Car parking will be at the rear of the school – please turn left as you enter the school gates.

 

The Book Bus – 26th and 27th September 2019

25th September 2019Sarah Hall

We are delighted to announce that the Book Bus will be visiting our school for the very first time.

Books will be sold at a massive 70% reduction on normal retail prices so this is a great opportunity to purchase books, gifts and stationery ready for Christmas.

The bus will park outside the Key Stage 2 classrooms and students will be invited in small groups to browse the books and make purchases if they wish. Students will be told when their class will visit the bus, for your information details of these times can be seen below.   If you would like to view the books for yourselves, the bus will be open before and after school, from 8.00 am to 4.00 pm. It would be lovely to see you. 

Payment can be made by cash, cheque or debit card. Cheques must be made payable to “The Three Rivers Learning Trust Ltd.” and written in black ink.

Our annual school Book Fair, which showcases an exciting range of new authors and recently published books as well as old favourites, will be held in March as usual. 

Times for student visits are as follows:
Thursday 26th September 2019
Lesson 1 – 5M
Lesson 3 – 5B
Lesson 4 – 6N
Lesson 5 – 6F
Friday 27th September 2019
Lesson 1 – 5J
Lesson 2 – 5G
Lesson 5 – 6P
Lesson 6 – 6S

Advent Market – Church of St James

24th September 2019Sarah Hall

Morpeth Parish is looking for student volunteers to perform at their Advent Market at St James Church, Morpeth on Saturday 30th November 2019 from 11.00 am – 3.00 pm.

If you play an instrument or in an ensemble this would be perfect for you to fill a spot with music at a beautiful local venue.

If you are interested in this opportunity please contact Kathryn – [email protected]

The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir

20th September 2019Sarah Hall

The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir spent a fabulously energetic day at Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools on Tuesday 17th September as part of their tour of the North East for 2 weeks.

Their visit comprised of an assembly performance for both schools, workshops for classes and an afternoon workshop for the joint schools choir. The visit culminated in the most amazing evening performance in the Chantry hall. The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir performed music, singing and dancing along with some joint pieces with the Newminster and Chantry school choir. The audience of young and old loved the cultural exchange and Newminster and Chantry would like to thank the choir for visiting and providing us with amazing musical memories.

To coincide with the visit and raise money for the charity Pearl of Africa Child Care Ltd, the pupils at both schools wore non uniform in the colours of the Ugandan flag – black, red, yellow and white. The choir brought African crafts which were on sale all day. We hope to have raised a good total for the  Pearl of Africa Child Care Ltd charity.

The charity Pearl of Africa Child Care Ltd, which organises the tour, is a registered charity in England and Wales and all the money is sent to the charity which sends it to Uganda to help the schools educate, house and feed orphans and destitute children in six schools in Kampala and Masaka District in S.W. Uganda.  Molly Wasswa, co-founder of the schools, will be travelling with the choir once again on their eighth visit to the North

East.www.pearlofafrica.org.uk

 

Creative Arts Whole School Eco-Greenhouse Project with our local Rotary

19th September 2019Sarah Hall
This week we are launching an exciting project in the Creative Arts Department with our local Rotary to create an eco-greenhouse from plastic bottles. As a school community we need to collect 1300 2 litre plastic bottles.  We are therefore asking students at Newminster to bring 2 empty clean bottles in to school next week, the correct size and with the label removed. The students will then decorate these in their Art lessons over the coming weeks and they will be turned into a greenhouse with the help from Rotary members towards the end of this term. This project will link to the issue of global warming and climate change. 
Students sing to Save the PlanetÂ