Well done to all year 7 girls that took part in the ‘Girls Go Digital’ event at Sage Gateshead.

All girls got the chance to work with industry experts and got hands on experience with a diverse range of digital technologies. It was a great opportunity to develop their skills and be inspired by ground-breaking women from this exciting sector.

Interactive sessions covered; Minecraft, Raspberry Pi,& Forensic workshops

All girls got an Accenture goody bag at the end of the event.

On Friday 3rd February, Chantry hosted our annual careers fair for the entire school. We attracted 18 visitors to run workshops for all year groups. We were delighted that a significant proportion of our visitors were parents. Thank you to all of the parents & volunteers that took part.

Year 5 the student workshops were led by:

• Mr Nainby from Northumbria Police
• Mr Latimer a Personal Trainer
• Mr Cunningham a Mechanical Engineer
• Mrs Moody form the NHS

Year 6 student workshops were led by:

• Dr McFetrich from the NHS
• Mrs Hindhaugh from Lotus Fitness
• Mrs Taylor from  NHS
• Mr Brannen from the NHS
• Mr Lough from the offshore sector

Year 7 student workshops were led by:

• Mr Shutler from the Apple Store
• Mr Thompson from DWP
• Mr Thompson from the Fire Service
• Mrs Buckland from P&G

Year 8 student workshops were led by:

• Mr Lockwood from Heart FM
• Mr Manning from Cenelec
• Ms Harwood from NHS
• Mr Simpson from Hewlett Packard
• Mr Mein a Tree Surgeon

7M and 7J took part in an enterprise workshop on Friday morning. Students had the opportunity to work with Carole Richards, Business Ambassador for Northumberland County Council. The students also worked with eight other Business Ambassadors that volunteered to take part in the session.

Students found out about the skills and attributes of a variety of roles within a company and calculated the profit for their group using their own records of expenditure and revenue of their own company. The students quickly realised the need for quality control in terms of their production and developed their negotiating skills when buying and selling stock.

Three of our Year 8 students took part in Night At The Museum at the Great North Museum which was organised by Newcastle University Outreach.

Summer in 8H said: My favourite part of Night At The Museum was how we met lots of people from different parts of England and became friends with them. I also liked the Animal Zoo because you got to hold lots of different animals like cockroaches, snakes and African land snails

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We are grateful to the medical students for coming along to run the workshop, particularly as they had just finished their exams.

5I & 5R have been taking part in an enterprise activity led by Business Ambassador, Carole Richards. Four Business Ambassadors supported the session.

Students worked in teams of 6 to design and manufacture products and agreed their roles within each company group. Students experienced being a Sales Executive, General Manager, Buyer, Production Worker, Accountant or Quality Controller.

All students developed their leadership, decision-making, negotiating, teamwork and listening skills during the session as well as learning about the world of work and employability.

Well done to the winning team from 5I!

5B & 5C have been taking part in an enterprise activity led by Business Ambassador, Carole Richards. Four Business Ambassadors supported the session.

Students worked in teams of 6 to design and manufacture products and agreed their roles within each company group. Students experienced being a Sales Executive, General Manager, Buyer, Production Worker, Accountant or Quality Controller.

All students developed their leadership, decision-making, negotiating, teamwork and listening skills during the session as well as learning about the world of work and employability.

5I and 5R will take part in Clowning Around next Friday.

6W & 6G took part in a Tetrahedron workshop led by Business Ambassador for Northumberland County Council, Carole Richards. Five Business Ambassadors supported the workshop.

The workshop is part of our Carers Education, Information and Guidance (CEIAG) and Enterprise programme of study. The experience aims to develop the students understanding of the world of work and develop their teamwork, organisation and entrepreneurial skills.

Congratulations to 6W for winning the competition after creating and testing an impressive structure.

Year 7 students visited the Apple store in Newcastle to do two workshops as part of a field trip. The students used iPads in the workshops and got the chance to use Tynker and Sphero. Tynker is a free app that allows children to learn how to code. Students used visual blocks and saw how they could progress to text-based coding if they revisited the app after the workshop. Sphero is a robot that the children were able to program. They calibrated the Sphero first and were able to control the Sphero around the store, have races, change the colour and even make them jump! All students had a great time and got a free memory stick. Apple are also going to send them a t-shirt as they were out of stock at the time we visited the store.