We hope you’ve all had a lovely break. School starts back on Tuesday 5 Sept at 8:50am
All summer activities will be posted here as we find out about them, so be sure to keep checking back for more activities.
Summer Tennis Camp
Newcastle Thunder free Girls’ Development Days
Find out more.
Register your interest.
Girls Cricket Open Days
There are a number of open days through the summer with Northumberland Cricket Board Limited.
On Friday 14th July, 44 pupils’ creative work from across Chantry and Newminster was moderated and all successfully passed.
Jane Grey, the Arts Award Assessor, commented, “A beautifully presented set of very creative portfolios, showcasing the range of creative arts the young people have done. They had clearly gained a great deal through doing the award.”
Eve Haines said ‘ I loved the personal challenge as you could choose what you wanted to create’.
All pupils said they loved seeing their photography work exhibited at the Laing and enjoyed working together to create the Rocky Monster Show backdrop.
We are asking all students at Newminster and Chantry Middle Schools if they would like to design a logo for the CMS and NMS Steel Pan Band. This logo will be used on various banners and pieces of clothing for the steel pan band next year.
Designs need to be on A4 paper and handed to Mrs Wilson, Ms Jones or Mrs Woolley by Friday 8th September 2017, clearly named along with detailing the student’s school and class.
There will be prizes for the best designs and the winning design will be used as the band logo.
Good luck everyone!
We offer music tuition for instruments and voice at Newminster and Chantry Middle Schools which is provided by Music Partnership North.
Enrolling for this tuition is simple…
If you are wanting to start or carry on with instrumental or vocal lessons in September you need to register online by visiting – https://live.paritor.com/p/
This link will become live on 17th July.
Parents and carers will need to create an account and then register the child for lessons. Once the registration is received by Music Partnership North a place will be confirmed. All pupils wishing to take lessons will need to have registered online by 12th September.
Happy music making 
Almost six months of hard (but pleasurable) work came to an end on June 19th when nineteen Chantry and Newminster students and their parents gathered at the Centre for Life to meet the authors whose work they had come to regard almost as ‘old friends.’
A small group of us has been reading and discussing possible contenders for North East Book Award 2017 since Christmas and gradually whittling down a long list to five strong candidates. In March, younger students – many still in Y5 – came on board, eager to read and review the shortlist and vote for their favourites.
This year, we were privileged to be asked to present two of the five authors and – by far the youngest participants – our Year 5s rose to the challenge. Ellen (Y7), Talullah, Lilly and Rachel (Y5) introduced debut author Lucy Strange, who was so overwhelmed she was moved to tears.
Not to be outdone, Simone (Y6,) Izzy, Finlay and Chloe (Y5) overcame the inconvenience of being unable to see over the lectern by sharing a script and rotating rapidly around it, managing not to collide and receiving an enormous ovation from the audience for their completely unrehearsed choreography!
Debut author, Peter Buzl is a TV animator by day and he animated the front covers of his steampunk series for our entertainment.
He also decided that demonstrating deportment was better than explaining it – spot our Chantry volunteers!
You never know quite what to expect at a NEBA ceremony!
As usual, a lot of our comments are selected for the posters:Most of us thought that Lucy Strange, debut author of The Secret of Nightingale Wood, should have won NEBA 2017 and we were delighted to meet her.
As usual, a lot of our comments are selected for the posters:
Most of us thought that Lucy Strange, debut author of The Secret of Nightingale Wood, should have won NEBA 2017 and we were delighted to meet her.
In light of the recent Grenfell Tower incident the Learning Trust has carried out a review of both fire safety in its broadest terms as well as narrower concerns on cladding and tower block evacuations.
All of the Learning Trust school buildings have a fire risk assessment in place and all have been reviewed within the last six months, including a discussion with a fire officer. Regular checks of fire safety equipment are undertaken and fire evacuation procedures are practiced termly. Any recommended actions from these systems have been minor improvements and have been implemented quickly.
In April 2017 the Education funding Agency approved an application for capital funding for Newminster Middle School and Chantry Middle School to update elements of fire safety equipment; upgrading alarms, detection and fire doors to the latest building standards. This work will be completed by 31/08/17. The fire risk assessments carried out for this purpose indicated a good level of fire safety existed and that a timely upgrade of equipment would continue to ensure these standards were maintained.
The fire escape procedures for our tower blocks are approved by the fire officer and regularly tested. The blocks are all evacuated in a few minutes.
The cladding on each building has been reviewed and it meets the highest class of fire safety rating. In addition no tower block is higher than four storeys or 18 metres and they are not residential which fire regulations class as a much lower risk situation than Grenfell Tower.
This review has been supported by fire safety professionals, building specialists and the Local Authority Health and Safety Team. The results have been provided to the Department for Education who are satisfied that each school has a low fire risk.
The drop in time for the transition evening tonight is between 4.30 pm – 6.30 pm.
Year 5 had a full day dedicated to thinking about their future careers and study pathways during the ‘Hopes and Dreams Day’ on 30th June 2017. The purpose of the day was to raise an awareness of a range of different careers.
This is the first year that we have trialled a full day of CEIAG (Careers education information and guidance) for our year 5 students and the day proved to be popular with the students.
Here are some quotes from the students…
“It was a fun way to think about what you want in your future.” Lily
“Amazing day and it really helped me to think about what I could do in the future.” Anna
“I enjoyed the police workshop and looking at all of their equipment.” Elliot
The event was supported by a range of organisations as outlined below.
- NERAP (North East Raising Aspiration Partnership) – An organisation that works in partnership and on behalf of all of the North-East Universities – they facilitated a fun, interactive activity that outlined the benefits of higher education, focusing on the careers it can open up
- British Army – a variety of army equipment was brought in for the students to see / touch and try on. This included clothing / webbing / power suits / headsets etc. They also brought along a Land rover vehicle so that students could take a look inside
- Northumbria Police – A hands on and interactive session. The session explored separate roles within Northumbria Police
- Accenture (IT and technology company) – The team from Accenture outlined who they are and what they do as a business. They will be brought mini robots for students to programme and test.
Morpeth Town Football Club are holiding a recruitment day on Saturday 8th July.
