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The Bronze Arts Award students were invited to take part in an illustration workshop with Newcastle- based illustrator, Bethan Laker, as part of the “Big Draw” Event on 13th November 2018.
Bethan began by showing examples of her work and then explained that the students would be making a drawn environment depicting an “Alice in Wonderland” tea party.
Bethan encouraged the students to be experimental and brave, using pens to make quick drawings of tea party objects and then to design characters from the story. These were then enlarged onto card and coloured using chalk markers.
The work will be completed in the Arts Award sessions and then displayed in school.
The students really enjoyed the project and particularly valued having the time to develop their ideas and techniques during the session.
The activity was sponsored by Northumberland Arts Development. (NAD) is a partnership between Hexham Book Festival, Berwick Visual Arts – Maltings, Queens Hall Arts, Museum and Archives Northumberland (Woodhorn), Alnwick Playhouse and is funded by Northumberland County Council and Arts Council England.
NAD provides support and advice to arts initiatives and organisations within the county in order to strengthen the sector and improve opportunities for anyone to access excellent art and culture.
This year’s regional heat of the annual literary competition proved to be the hardest yet. With rounds as obscure as Ducks and Drakes and Rocks and Stones, not to mention Squirrels and lastly, Unicorns, we were seriously challenged.
Expecting to be quizzed on books, we soon discovered that the word book would be interpreted very loosely. Manga, popular merchandising, film and TV were not off-limits in this very gruelling quiz! Questions skipped from The Last of the Mohicans – surely not a children’s book – to My Little Pony via the classics, comics, fairy tales and Disney. It was a real mixed bag!
We are so proud of our mixed teams of students from Years 6, 7 and 8 who maintained their concentration and enthusiasm throughout and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Chloe, you really deserved to win that tie-break!
Newminster A: Iona, Chloe, Michael and Will
Newminster B: Tallula, Ann, Tom and William
Newminster and Chantry Christmas Performances of Nativity Nightmares – St James Church, Wednesday 19th December 2018, 1.45 pm and 6.00 pm. Tickets will go on sale for these performances from break times (only) at the school offices on Monday 19th November 2018. £2.00 per child and £3.00 per adult.
Thank you to the students who have designed the tickets – wonderful work!!
‘In celebration of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week
Stephen Metcalfe MP
On behalf of The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee with Engineering UK
invites you to attend
The Big Bang @ Parliament
Monday 5 November, 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm’
On Monday 5th November, five Year 8 pupils travelled to London to showcase their Big Bang Competition project, ‘The Secret Life of Plastic’, to MP’s, engineering employers and fellow competitors.
The group represented themselves and the school extremely well. They were able to present
their work, discuss ideas fluently with their audience and speak with such passion that they have engaged interest and support from others at the fair. They met Ian Lavery MP who was very impressed with the group’s enthusiasm and is keen to work with the group moving forward on their project.
The next step for them is the The Big Bang Competition Finals in Birmingham in March 2019. The pupils will compete for over £20,000 worth of amazing prizes, including top and runner-up prizes in the Junior category for science and engineering, as well as the coveted titles of UK Young Engineer of the Year and GSK UK Young Scientist of the Year.
Everyone at Newminster is extremely proud of the group and we all have our fingers crossed for the finals in March!
