Bronze Arts Award pupils from Newminster Middle School in Morpeth have been given the opportunity to work with a local graffiti artist called Andy Morley (Creative Ginger) to create a set backdrop for their musical, Fame.

Andy is well known in Morpeth as he created a piece of beautiful street art on the side of the shop ‘Bella Boos’ in the centre of the town. Pupils at Newminster Middle School love the mural and after finding out they were doing the musical Fame, thought it would be great to use this as inspiration. Andy kindly agreed to help the pupils with this project and together they are planning, designing and creating the backdrop for the joint musical with Chantry Middle School which will be performed in June 2024.

On Friday 13th October Andy came into school and gave a graffiti workshop to the year 8 Arts Award pupils to start the project off. He will be coming in to work with the pupils at various points this year culminating in helping them use spray paint and outline the finished piece of mural art.

What an exciting project!

Students at Newminster Middle School were tasked with decorating a shopping trolley to encourage more people to donate to the Wansbeck Valley Food Bank. The trolley is now located in the Iceland food shop in Morpeth and is attracting much attention from customers.

Year 8 students, who are doing their Bronze Arts Award, coordinated the efforts which saw many pupils, from all year groups, drawing and painting pictures of food items with faces. These were laminated and tied to the sides of the trolley along with the written names of items which are good to donate such as jars, tins, long life milk, custard, pasta and rice.

We hope the efforts increase donations!