Chantry Middle School

How many schools are participating worldwide?

887 schools are participating altogether, three of which – Czech Republic, Gibraltar and Slovenia – are outside of the UK!

How many schools are participating in Northumberland?

Nine. Alnwick The Duke’s Middle School, Bedlingtonshire Community High School, Collingwood School and Media Arts College, Highfield Middle School, Morpeth Chantry Middle School, Northumberland Church of England Academy, Ovingham Middle School, St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy and Walbottle Campus.

How many Chantry articles have been published as this article gets uploaded?

So far, 17 articles have been published (not including this one). I’ll have another article at the end of the day to tell you how many articles have been published today! Link to uploaded article

Alex, Year 7

Jessica and I decided to write about Red Nose Day 2017, as we are both big fans of the day (and the noses!). We interviewed Mrs Jones and asked her some questions about what our school would be doing on the day.

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Ed Sheeran has released a new album called ‘Divide’, which has sold over 56 million copies so far. On the first day it sold 232,000 copies! This new album includes the hits: ‘Castle on the Hill’, ‘Shape of you’ and ‘Galway Girl’.Everyone is going mad for this album, these songs either make you cry or want to get up and dance.

Our favourite songs from the album are ‘Castle on the Hill’ and ‘Galway Girl’; the reason my Andrea likes ‘Galway Girl’ because she likes the Irish folk included in it.

By Jessica and Andrea, Year 8.

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On 20th January 2017, the Year 8 girls took part in the first round of Sportshall Athletics. Unfortunately, the competition was cut short and they didn’t find out the results until a week later…

Finally, the results had came in: they won the first round! Then, on 3rd March they won their place to the finals. They went to the same competition last year and got placed 3rd overall. This year, they were hoping to do better.

It was a long walk to the leisure centre but they made it in one piece. When they went inside there were already lots of team warming up. In their age category there were six teams.

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The Royal Mail runs a national Christmas art competition and the theme is ‘What does the Christmas season mean to you?’This event is a prestigious competition that any person would love to win! The best two designs will see their design made into the 1st and 2nd class Christmas stamps.

Lots of schools have entered this competition and are all hoping to win. The amazing prize is that your design will be shown to Her Majesty, The Queen, and will be put on millions of Christmas cards during the festive season.

Last year there were over 240,000 entries. The deadline was  the 17th February and the age limit was 4-11 years old. Only two winners will win and their design will be published and that will be a great opportunity!

Our school have entered this competition  because it has been a long time since this competition has taken place and so we thought that it would be good fun and a fantastic opportunity. Twelve classes from our school have entered and we think that one of them might win (fingers crossed) because there has been some really good designs!

By Gemma and Chloe, Year 7.

Irom Sharmila has finally ended her sixteen year long hunger strike, which was due to the fact that 10 civilians were killed in India. She was 29 when she started and is now 45 years old.

Her campaign, the world’s longest hunger strike, has lead her to be force fed through a tube for over a decade. She was under a law that makes trying to commit suicide a crime.

A court in North-Eastern Manipur State said that she could go on bail but asked her to return weeks later. She spent most of the 16 years in judicial custody in a hospital in Imphal (Manipur’s capital). Whilst she was there, she was force fed a cocktail of medicines and baby formulas. Her protest had won her world-wide recognition.

By Abigail and Amber, Year 7.

On 1st  March a group of Year 5 skippers went down to the Morpeth Leisure Centre to compete in the 10th annual Skipping Competition. The competition consisted of lots of different categories for the Year 5s to compete in. First, there was a big group warm up when all the skippers got on the floor and had to skip along to a song using only a particular type of skipping technique that had been demonstrated.

After this, the category competitions began. The first competition was ‘Keep the kettle boiling’. This was very fast paced and a lot of fun. The other events included:

• ‘Criss cross’
• ‘Butterfly’
• ‘Face to face’
• ‘Double bounce’
• ‘Speed bounce’
• ‘Side swing’
• ‘Hop step’
• ‘The pretzel’

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