Even with a wet and blustery start to term, Key stage 2 pupils responded enthusiastically to their core value of the week, ‘Aspirations’, during assembly. Karun aptly described aspirations as ‘Reaching for the Stars’.

Pupils then shared some fantastic ideas about how to get there, including ‘work hard’, ‘set goals and think of ways to get there’,  ‘be confident and think positively’ and ‘start small and grow bigger’.

Other suggestions were ‘believe in yourself’ and ‘find different ways to achieve your goal as there isn’t just one way’. What a really positive start and good luck for the New Year.

Congratulations to the winners of the Autumn term STEM Photography Competition.

We had 6 winners overall due to the vast array of talent that came in.

To see the winners and other entries click ‘continue reading’.

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Dear Parents and friends of the school,

We are kick starting British Science Week on Friday 11th March 2016. The purpose of the day is to raise the profile of STEM subjects.   Every student in the school benefits from STEM enrichment activities which are often supported by parents and other external organisations. Whilst we already have several bookings in place, we still require support.

If you feel that you can deliver a session to help support the day please contact Mrs Razzaqi via sumeena.razzaqi@newminster.the3rivers.net for further information.

Last month Newminster students headed to Sports Central and took part in the Northumberland Hoops4Health basketball games. There are lots of great photos of the day, taken by a professional photographer! Flick through the images on the gallery link below.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gridiron/albums/72157661961096496/with/23497754716/

Many congratulations to the following students who took part in the Christmas Bake Off Competition:

1st Place:

FRAN MULLEN 8R

2nd Place:

FERGUS EVANS 8A 

3rd Place:

DANIELLE DOLDER 7U

Also taking part were:

DAVID JENKINSON 7C, ROBBIE BROWN 8B, VICTORIA SMYTH 8A, CARMEN CROZIER 7C, CHARLOTTE URWIN 8R, JULIA SWINGLEHURST 8R, LAURA WILSON 8A, CHARLOTTE LAYTON 8A, MADDY STEWART 8R, ERIN CARR 8A, CHARLIE HALLIFORD 7U

The cakes created were absolutely spectacular and represent the phenomenal talents of our students. Very well-done to all contestants! Click ‘continue reading’ to see a gallery of all of the students’ Christmas cakes.

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Pupils in Year 7 and 8 got up and active in our first ‘Health and Wellbeing ‘day. They enjoyed a series of workshops investigating how they can stay healthy and happy. A team of professionals, including Olympic volleyball players, Nutritionists from the Life Factory, an Afromix dancer from Dance City and a professional drummer led a varied programme including street dance, healthy breakfasts, Samba playing and team volley ball games. Pupils also looked into peer massage and the effects of smoking and alcohol.

During the day, students gathered ideas and facts about the positive or negative effects on their social, emotional and physical health. They worked on this at the end to produce a fantastic range of posters, booklets and mind maps.

Well done and a big thank you to everyone involved in the day.
J Woolley

• Termly photography competition- the first deadline is Friday December 11 with 3 prizes of £5 WH Smith tokens
• Art and Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) theme
• First term’s themes are either:
  • Colour and Light
  • Plants and Trees
  • Food- healthy/unhealthy

Please email with your name and class to: creativearts3rivers@outlook.com

The boys were in high spirits off the back of a good performance in the Rugby League Sky Try Tournament held at Kingston Park the previous month.

However, having entered the competition in the second round we had some fixtures to make up. On a windy day the boys played seven, twelve minute games of Rugby League. Battling through the conditions and some tough opposition to finish with 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. The most pleasing thing from my point of view with the enjoyment the boys seems to get from the tournament and the improvements they made in their performances. As most of the boys have never played the game before this year, this was the most pleasing aspect of the day.

We can now look forward to another tournament closer to Christmas.

Well done boys. Mr Twentyman

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