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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.
‘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!
Morpeth Amateur Swimming Club is a competitive swimming club based in Morpeth. The club has grown considerably in membership over the last few years and is one of the fastest improving clubs in the region. Over the last 12 months swimmers have won medals at both County and Regional level as well as qualifying for National Championships.
The club is close to capacity but some spaces are available. We are looking for swimmers born 2009-2012 to join our younger squads.
We will be holding trials on the following dates at Morpeth Riverside Leisure Centre NE61 1PR (swimmers need only attend one trial date).
Sunday 18th November 2018 4:00pm
Friday 23rd November 2018 6:30pm
The trial is suitable for swimmers who have completed Stage 6/7 of NPTS and can confidently swim 100m continuously.
Please email Head Coach Becki McGuire to book your place – [email protected]
Any swimmer who was born before 2009 and/or has previous ‘club experience’ should state this when booking as a different trial date may be more appropriate.
Becki McGuire
Morpeth ASC – Head Coach
On Friday 19th October, Local Councillors were invited into school, as part of ‘Local Democracy Week 2018’ to offer Year Seven Students the opportunity to pose questions to a panel of County Councillors.
Councillor Beynon, Councillor Towns, Councillor Byard and Councillor Tebbbutt were keen to engage with our students and offer an insight into their own roles as well as tackling local issues. This project was delivered in collaboration with the Northumberland Youth Service.
On Friday 5th October, Year 8 students entered the world of work and for the first time ever, the annual Careers Conference took place at Linden Hall.
The core purpose of the day was to provide students with the opportunity to engage with employers from a range of different sectors. The day is a central part of the careers programme for Year 8 students as they will soon embark on their journey towards high school education and be required to make GCSE choices very early on. We hope that this day. along with various other planned events in Year 8 will help prepare the students to make informed career choices for the future. The event highlighted alternative careers pathways such as apprenticeships as well as the more traditional routes into employment.
The careers speed dating session involved students grilling employers and Business Ambassadors from a range of local employment sectors to get a flavour of career pathways and typical working days.
The afternoon workshops were delivered by Northumberland Fire and Rescue, Police, RAF and the Navy. The workshops highlighted all of the different roles in various organisations as well as key skills needed to be successful and addressed common misconceptions.
Liz Kinninment, Headteacher at Newminster Middle School, gave a keynote speech to launch the day’s activities.
“At Newminster we are committed to encouraging students to think about their future careers from a very early stage. Being able to offer students the opportunity to experience a live working environment like this is invaluable. The experience certainly opens their eyes to the possibilities available and will hopefully help inspire their future career choices.”
The conference day was delivered in partnership with Northumberland Business and Education Partnership and we would like to thank all of the businesses that made the day a success.
Contributors for the speed dating activity included
Here is what the students had to say:
“There are a lot more job opportunities in some jobs that you wouldn’t expect”
“It was an inspiring day”
” I have a new understanding of my future career”
Congratulations to all of our Big Bang Fair Competition Entrants – on Thursday 4th October they presented their CREST STEM projects to judges at the Regional Fair, which was part of the ‘Bring It On’ exhibition at the Beacon of Light in Sunderland. Pupils spoke confidently about their work, the judges were extremely impressed and two projects were awarded with prizes. One of our projects will be representing the North East at the Big Bang Fair National Finals 2019 at the NEC in Birmingham, and these pupils have also been invited to a special event at Parliament next month. Well done everyone, we are very proud of you.
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