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All children who have been adopted or placed under special guardianship are now eligible for the Pupil Premium worth £1,900.
In order for schools to receive this funding, children need to be recorded as eligible by Thursday 15th January 2015.
If your child is eligible could you please contact our Home School Link Worker Sharon Patterson to let us know on 01670 513621. Please be assured that this information will be held in the strictest confidence.
Year 7 pupils will be visiting the Centre for Life on Monday 15th December.
They will visit the ‘Body Worlds Vital’ exhibition – the first exhibition of its kind to inform visitors about anatomy, physiology and health by viewing real human bodies.
The specimens on display were preserved through Plastination, the preservation process invented by Dr. Gunther von Hagens.
As part of this visit, the 98 pupils will visit the Science Centre exhibitions, take part in a DNA discovery workshop, where they will extract DNA from a kiwi fruit, and take part in a session on the outdoor ice rink.
Congratulations to Fergus Evans in 7A who won this years Great Newminster Bake Off Christmas Special 2014, with his extraordinary chequered, passion fruit flavoured snowman cake.
Well-done to Maddy Stewart (Year 7) and Zoe Jones (Year 8) who secured second and third place, with their wonderful Christmas inspired pieces.
Thank you to all of those who took part; you did an amazing job and all of the cakes produced were incredible. Mrs Ayres would also like to thank those at home for the support and encouragement. Bring on Summer Bake Off 2015!
Click to see more pictures of the cakes that were made.
Please could children be in school for 8.30am to ensure we can leave before 9am.
Children may have a bag of sweets and will need a packed lunch for the day.
They can wear non-uniform bottoms but must wear their polo shirts and jumpers.
Our Newminster Year 8 boys football team successfully progressed to the 5th round of the National Cup this week after a pulsating cup tie away at Seaton Burn.
After going behind twice, Newminster showed great character and team spirit to fight back to draw level at 2-2 with goals from Jamie Barry and Joe Briddon.
Extra time could not separate the teams but Newminster came out eventual winners 7-6 on penalties,
Robert Eadington making the crucial saves and Ben Michelson scoring the winning penalty. Our Year 8 boys now face a tricky away tie against Carnforth High School from Lancaster in round 5.
Year 5 will be holding a Christmas performance of ‘Mr Humbug Sees the Light’ on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th December.
Times for the performances are outlined in the table below:
| Date | 5B & 5J | 5D & 5S |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 8th December | 2:00pm | 6:00pm |
| Tuesday 9th December | 6:00pm | 2:00pm |
A copy of the letter to parents can be found here.
Christmas lunch is being served in school on Thursday 18th December.
The menu is:
In Year 8 we have been looking at ‘The Origins of Code’ this term.
The students have been learning about the Enigma Machine and the cracking of the Enigma Code by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park.
Earlier this month students had the opportunity to work with the outreach worker from Bletchley Park, who brought along an original WW2 Enigma machine.
This exact Enigma machine was used in the film The Imitation Game,starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The outreach worker who visited us, worked on the set of the film as an Enigma Machine expert informing the cast and crew.
As a grand finale to our topic forty Year 8 students all be visiting Vue cinema Cramlington on Wednesday 26th November to see The Imitation Game.
We are all over the moon to announce that Julia Swinglehurst secured first place in this year’s FutureChef Regional Finals at Newcastle College.![IMG_0365[1]](https://cdn.realsmart.co.uk/d423429fd47538037ae3579dee481afc/uploads/2014/11/IMG_03651.jpg)
She produced an excellent main meal and dessert, which, according to the chefs’ judging, was ‘made to perfection’. She worked well under pressure and managed to beat off competition from other schools taking part; many of whom were students from high school.
We are all very proud of you and wish you all the very best of luck for the National Finals on the 25th February!
Congratulations Julia!
Congratulations to Liam Day, 7R, for winning Into Film’s Review of the Week competition.
As part of the National Youth Film Festival, a group of Year 7s went to see the stop motion animation film ‘The Boxtrolls’ at the Vue Cinema in Cramlington as part of their DLE.
Back at school the students were involved in a range of activities related to the film which included writing a review of the film via the Into Film website.
Into Film have awarded Liam with a Review of the Week for his review. He will be sent some goodies from Into Film which will be presented to him during a KS3 assembly.
You can read Laim’s review on the Into Film website here.
