Pupils in 7S have been putting their French writing skills into action. Thanks to local historian Bridget Gubbins, Chantry has been linked with a partner school ‘École Ernest Millet’. The school is in Nonant-le-Pin, a small village in the north-west of France and our pupils are making first contact with their new French pen friends.
To read what students think of their pen pals click ‘continue reading’.
It was a fantastic show. Lots of amazing effects and magical moments. All your favourite songs were sung and it was lovely to see the Chantry students all joining in singing and clapping along. Everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
Other theatre goers commented how well the Chantry students behaved throughout the performance and how they were a credit to the school.
Opening evening this year in the languages department had a new flavour to it. Our young Germanists and Hispanophones offered up a tasty selection of continental treats to anyone who passed through our doors. However, there was a catch involved – they had to have a conversation in German or Spanish first!
“I am really enjoying learning Spanish in Year 7 as it is a completely new language for me. I spoke to so many children and adults on the night – all in Spanish! I loved trying out the foods myself too.” Ebony, Y7
To read more of our students’ thoughts click ‘continue reading’.
In last week’s Citizenship lessons, Year 7s took a look at democracy focusing on the work of The Suffragettes. Kitty in 7S was really inspired by the struggle of those who fought for ‘Votes for Women’ and over the weekend produced her own fact file.
“Emily Wilding Davison is a local heroine and that is one of the reasons I am so interested in the Suffragette’s story. However, I didn’t know until last week that there is a lot of debate as to whether she purposefully threw herself under the King’s horse to draw attention to the campaign or whether she was simply trying to pin a rosette to it. My sister helped me make the fact file and my favourite page is the one with the rosette on – I used the three colours of the Suffragette movement, purple, white and 
green.”
Well done to Kitty for such an amazing piece of work.
We are delighted to announce that Chantry Middle School has been awarded the Gold School Games Sports Mark for 2015-16.
The School Games Sports Mark is a Government led awards scheme launched in June 2012. The aim is to reward schools for their commitment to sport and the development of competition across their school, and into the community.
In the past two years, Chantry Middle was awarded the Silver School Games Sports Mark which was a great achievement, acknowledging our commitment to the School Games, and the huge range and quality of sporting opportunities on offer to our pupils.
To read more click ‘continue reading’.
Year 6 got creative during their last week of French. They have been studying how to make colours agree depending on whether what you are describing is masculine, feminine or plural – something we don’t have to think about in English!
For homework, they had to create an item in the most imaginative way possible (and label it in French of course). Amrit made ‘Un Poisson Multicolore’ using a variety of beautiful feathers, Corie made ‘Une Chaussure Noire’ by plaster casting, Chloe used a never-ending amount of tissue paper to make ‘Une Pastèque Rouge et Noire’, Jay got handy with an electric jigsaw to produce ‘Un Homme Marron’ and Cole created a whole McDonald’s Happy Meal for his ‘Le Fastfood Rouge and Jaune’.
Félicitations to all of our winners. We had some amazing entries across the year group and a display of their work will go up in September. Bonnes vacances tout le monde!
Year 8’s Harry and Lucas, seeded 3 and 8 respectively, faced one another in this year’s championship match. The tournament this year was over-subscribed and both boys had to fight off some talented competitors on their way to the final.
The sun was out on what was the hottest day of the year so far and passing clouds provided the occasional much needed relief.
Harry’s opening service game was by far the longest of the tournament lasting nearly 15 minutes with many deuces. Lucas broke in that opener but Harry’s serve proved too powerful in the games that followed. Lucas’ shots became more accurate as the match progressed but Harry was the stronger player on the day and went on to have a 6-2 victory.
We also had a special Champions game with last year’s finalists Emma and Rebecca. Click ‘continue reading’ to find out the result from that match.
Chantry were invited along to Newcastle University last week to attend the final steering group meeting of Routes into Languages. As you may be aware, the funding for Routes has unfortunately come to an end despite a well-signed petition to the Government.
Chantry’s languages department has been involved in many Routes events over the years, such as the Spelling Bee and Festival of International Culture. Their regular newsletters have also drawn our attention to other projects which we have participated in, including last summer’s Chinese immersion trip where Year 5s spent a week at Frensham Heights in Surrey.
To read more click ‘continue reading’.
| Bertram | DeMerlay | Greystoke | Middleton | ||||
| Y5&6 Track | 156 | 152 | 146 | 164 | |||
| Y5&6 Field | 152 | 153 | 164 | 142 | |||
| Y7&8 Track | 177 | 175 | 174 | 161 | |||
| Y7&8 Field | 184 | 170 | 164 | 140 | |||
| Totals | 669 | 650 | 648 | 607 |
Chantry Year 8 students Miriam and Stephanie, who recently won the Royal Society of Chemistry prize at the National Science and Engineering Competition, have just taken part in a special visit to York as part of their prize. They were accompanied by Dr Jackson and Lucy Tetley of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The girls began their day in York by visiting the Nestlé Product Technology Centre for Confectionary, where the company’s global confectionary products are created and tested. Nestlé’s other facility in York is the main producer of Kit Kat for the UK market.
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