On Friday 20th April, our Year 8 students visited AIS Connect’s 20-acre industrial training village on North Tyneside to take part in the annual careers conference.
The purpose of the day is to prepare our students to make informed career choices for the future. The event highlights alternative careers pathways such as apprenticeships as well as the more traditional routes into employment.
The careers speed dating session involved the 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 the Police, RAF and the Navy. The workshops highlighted all the different roles in various organisations as well as key skills needed to be successful and addressed common misconceptions.
Head of School at Newminster Middle School, Liz Kinninment said: “It is fantastic to be given the opportunity by AIS to bring our Year 8 students to an off-site career conference.
“At Newminster we’re committed to getting students to think about what they might want to do for a job in the future from a very early stage. Being able to offer our students the opportunity to experience a live working environment like this is invaluable. The experience certainly opened their eyes to the possibilities available and will hopefully help inspire their future career choices.”
Charlie Guthrie, marketing manager at AIS said: “We were delighted to welcome everyone to this Careers Conference. Inspiring people and helping them progress in their careers is something we do day-in, day-out so it was great to give pupils from Newminster School the chance to learn more about what’s available to them in the future if they work hard. We hope they went away believing the world is their oyster and anything is possible.”
The conference day was delivered in partnership with Northumberland Business and Education Partnership and AIS connect.
Morpeth Cricket Club’s Soft Ball Cricket for Women and Girls starts on 22 April.
KEVI, Chantry and Newminster bands will e playing in a fundraising concert on
Saturday 21 April.
U13s County Cup Final at Newcastle Uni Sports Ground, Longbenton, 26th April 5:30pm KO
Admission £2 (£1 for concessions)
Squad will be (barring injuries!):
- Josh A, 8B
- Josh G, 8B
- Joe, 8B
- Tom, 8B
- Lucy, 8J
- Matty, 8J
- Ollie, 8R
- Orla, 8R
- Harbey, 8R
- James, 8R
- Roan, 8R
- Finlay, 8W
- Louie, 8W
- Giorgio, 8W
- Dan, 8W
Our ensemble evening is on Tuesday 24 April at 6:30pm.
Chantry School Hall
Tickets £4 Adult, £3 Child
Ensembles involved are:
- Jazz Band
- Ceilidh Band
- Samba Band
- Steel Pans groups A,B,C,D, & E Chantry
- Steel Pans Groups A, B, E & F Newminster
Free session on Friday 27 April.
Please click here to see a letter from Paul Carvin, Chair The Board of Directors about the appointment of Headteachers at Chantry, Newminster and KEVI.
T
hanks to your tremendous support and generosity, our annual Book Fair was a great success – despite the enforced holiday in the middle!
We took £1,953 which raised a magnificent £1,172 in commission to spend on books for prizes and to support English lessons.
Once again, a big “THANK YOU”!
Everyone is involved in making our Fairs a success: our customers (of course!) but also our student Fair Makers.
A BIG BIG “THANK YOU” to Ellen Davison, Iona Lane and Anna Jakubovics who gave up lots of lunchtimes to staple together more than 500 letters and Fair fliers publicising our Fair;
Will Cottiss, Ellen, Iona and Anna who provided lots of support at break times during Fair Week and Ellen and Anna who helped distribute orders and tidy up on the last day.
There was a lot to do and we couldn’t have done it without you!
Celebrating World Book Day
We collected £221.07 to support the work of Book Aid International in getting books to children in parts of the world that have none. Thank you to all those who supported this worthwhile charity which makes it possible for children in desperate need to learn to read, the first step towards helping themselves out of poverty.
The number of students spending the day in character this World Book Day was truly staggering and a real pleasure to witness! The costumes were tremendous – do take a look at the pictures the news story.
If you don’t have time, here are just a few of the 20 prize-winners:
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- Dizzy
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- Peter Pan and his shadow
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- Darquesse aka Valkyrie Cain
Thank you to everyone who dressed up, whether or not you made your own costume. Your efforts contributed to making World Book Day special – and that’s what it’s all about!
Enormous thanks to Iona, Anna, Will in Y7 and Ellen in Y8 for patiently naming more than 500 World Book Day tokens so everyone could be sure of getting one in time for our Book Fair. You really are heroes!
