Chantry Middle School

Last week many of our children took part in a fundraising event to help raise money for Frankie Sherwood, a 2 year old boy who suffers with cancer. Frankie is the mascot for Newcastle United Ladies Team.

Players from Newcastle United Ladies Team spent the morning playing football with groups of children from both Chantry and Newminster. Frankie joined in with various groups and enjoyed a kick around with players and children. Many of our children and the adults involved said how much they’d enjoyed the session and being able to meet Frankie. Voluntary donations were very generous and will be put to good use.

Newcastle United players and development manager were very impressed with the attitudes of all children and their level of skill.

Poppy Pritchard (Year 5) was spotted by Newcastle’s development manager and will be asked to attend Newcastle academy. Well done Poppy! A fantastic achievement.

Well done to all children who participated and a very big Thank you to NUWFC for a brilliant morning.

Read more about Frankie here.

To see an image gallery from the day click ‘continue reading’.

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Chantry & Newminster and King Edward VI School Ceilidh Bands present an evening of folk music for dancing and listening. Our local Irish dancing group will also be performing.

• 7.00pm till 9.30pm, Lower School Hall, King Edward VI School, Morpeth
• Tickets include a pie and pea supper (a vegetarian option can be requested). Please bring your own drinks (alcohol for over 18’s only).
• Pricing as follows: £8 per adult, £5 per child, £24 family ticket (2 adults plus 2 children)
• Order Tickets at King Edward VI School Office ([email protected])
• Cheques made payable to ‘The Parents And Friends Of King Edward VI School Association’

Just a reminder that our annual Book Fair will be held in the school library: Monday to Friday, January 25^th to January 29^th

All children will have the opportunity of visiting the Fair where they can purchase from an exciting range of books and stationery items. We strongly recommend a visit to the following website: www.travellingbooks.co.uk which describes in detail all the books on sale.

Children can pay for items with: cash, cheques made payable to The Cheviot Learning Trust Ltd and prepaid discount vouchers purchased on-line from the Travelling Books website which entitles them to at least 20% more book buying power at the Fair.

(Please note – “change” is not payable on these vouchers)

(go to  ‘Parents’  then   ‘Buy vouchers’)

Any time up to a week before the Fair arrives, you can also order directly from the website any titles you’ve spotted and they’ll be delivered with the Fair.

The Travelling Books free helpline is 0800 731 5758

On Tuesday, January 26^th, the Fair will stay open until 4:30pm to let those of you who collect your children from school to view the books, if you’d like to.  It would be lovely to see you!

Commission earned from Fair sales is used to purchase class sets of novels for all Key Stages to enliven English lessons and promote a lifelong love of reading!

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The first round of the French Spelling Bee took place this week.  Pupils in 7C and 7H learnt a bank of 50 words off by heart and had to spell many as they could using the French alphabet in 1 minute.

Congratulations to Izzy Walsh, Jac Caygill, Laurence Marley, Aidlih Dick, Finley Camille, Kirsten Woodfine-Rendles, Olivia Taylor and Josh Steele who all go through the second round in February.

A special mention to Aidlih who succeeded in spelling ten words correctly – this is the highest ever score in the first round!  Well done Aidlih on setting a new school record, or should we say, très bien!

Friday 18^th December is a non-school uniform day to celebrate the form class in each year group that have the best attendance and the form class that have gained the most class points ONLY.

Well done to the following classes:

• Attendance      –     5I, 6S, 7S, 8J

• Class Points      –     5B, 6C, 7O, 8S

Chantry would like to congratulate staff and students for a wonderful Christmas fair in which a massive £1030.64 was raised. It was great to see so many parents and carers coming along and getting involved in the event, the students had a great day!

We also still have some unclaimed raffle prizes, so if any of these tickets are yours, let us know!

Orange – 35,    Pink – 459,     White – 151,     Green – 188

William Ayliffe in 6C was chosen to play Oliver in an amateur Pantomime Group from Ponteland. The production had a cast of nearly 40, all around the same age group. The performance was a huge community effort, and you can read all about it below. The link is to a newspaper write up with pictures.

Read about it here in the Morpeth Herald.