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.

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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

School Gateway is now being used for all payment – replacing ParentPay.

More information on School Gateway can be found on the School Gateway page, and via the logo on the sidebar on the right-side of the webpage.

We are putting a Jazz Band concert with three bands playing at KEVI this coming Friday 20th November in our Lower School Hall at 7.30 pm (finishing about 9.30 pm).

Students aged 12 and under are free and adult tickets cost just £5. There will be a bar with soft drinks and alcohol (for adults) available and supplied by VIP Brewery.

The concert will be very informal with cafe style set up (chairs around tables) so people can move around and each band will only play for about 20 – 25 mins each then there will be a short breaks.

Tickets can be bought from the KEVI General Office (01670 – 515415) or on the door.

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Well done to both Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools who donated £2000 to the Great North Air Ambulance after a very successful fun run earlier in the term.

The charity was chosen after the Mayor of Morpeth, Alison Byard, visited the schools to talk to the children about her work as Mayor and why she had chosen this charity for her year in office. She has aimed to raise £5000 so she is two fifths there! Rose Akenclose & Patricia Ford from the GNAA accepted the cheque on behalf of the charity and thanked the students for their amazing hard work.

Please visit www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk for further information about the charity.

The whole school was involved in remembrance day activities on Armistice day. The purpose of the day was to remember all the service men and women who have lost their lives through war.

Activities included: Training with a drill sergeant (Mr Jensen); Poppy making; Visit to Eden Camp; Ceremony at the Cenotaph with Val Cowan from the Mustard tree trust; Make do and mend sessions with Linda Jensen from the Women’s Institute; VE party; Trench Art; Wartime singing; Enigma machine workshop; Making Apple sauce; and Letter writing.