This is a copy of the presentation , leaflet and SV5 form distributed to parents attending our recent Year 5 Hawkhirst Parents’ Evening.
All the schools in the Morpeth Partnership are coming together for Morpeth’s One Big Performance on Tuesday 31st March 2020 at Morpeth’s Riverside Leisure Centre from 10.00 am – 2.00 pm.
This event will highlight all the outstanding musical activities that are taking place every week across the partnership from first access musical experiences through to middle and high school ensembles and will involve over 500 pupils.
Music and the arts are so important in a young person’s educational journey and the day will provide an opportunity to share the love of music, enthuse and inspire the young people, create musical role models and strengthen both school and community partnerships.
Throughout the day students will be involved in a range of musical activities including body percussion workshops, singing and a musical quiz. They will also be involved in ceilidh dancing supported by The Cheviot Ceilidh Band at around 11.30 am.
Newminster and Chantry Middle Schools will be taking the Jazz, Ceilidh and Percussion Bands along with some drummers!
Year 7 Geographers have been studying the unit of work ‘Living in the Global World’ where they have had the opportunity to investigate the world of work. As part of the unit they have investigated the concept of globalisation and the collapse of a building called the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Pupils have had the opportunity to investigate what it would be like to work in a sweatshop and as part of this had to complete a clothing order and see how much money they could make.
Earlier this term all of Year 8 were given the opportunity to work go ‘speed dating’ with some local businesses. The focus of this event was to interview a range of employers about the industry that they work in and the journey that they took to do the job that they do.
Pupils found this an invaluable experience as they were able to speak to a high number of business ambassadors in a very short amount of time.
Earlier this year all of Year 7 were given the opportunity to work with some local business ambassadors to participate in a careers event. The focus of this event was to work as a team, develop their communications skills and experience life within a work environment. Pupils were given the task to complete an order for paper ducks at the same time as managing their own budget.
Wednesday, October 2nd.
Author Tamsin Winter promoted her latest book by talking to Years 7 and 8 about the themes it embraces: body positivity, bullying, body image, and the double-edged power of social media.
She described her journey to becoming an author, which began at age eight, and introduced her character – big, bold Jemima Small – who definitely struck a chord with her audience.
Tamsin is an experienced high school teacher and her confident, engaging manner kept everyone interested – even the most reluctant readers, who asked to have copies of her book with their Pupil Premium.
Afterwards, Tamsin signed copies of her book and chatted informally to students.
Chantry student council were pleased to be invited to take part in a local democracy event at County Hall during Local Democracy week, which ran from 14th-18th October 2019.
This year, all 34 Student council members were able to attend a specially prepared workshop for schools in the local area. The students had an exciting day exploring the council chambers and sat alongside a panel of local councillors, which included ex Chantry pupil and Deputy Mayor David Bawn, John Beyon, David Towns, Richard Wearmouth, Nic Nesbitt, Jack Gebhard and Andrew Tebutt.
The morning’s presentation gave the children an excellent insight into what democracy looks like and how we live within democratic society. They learned about why it is important to vote and for young people to be involved and have a say.
In the afternoon session, students took part in Q&A time with the councillors.They asked many interesting questions about any developments for Morpeth town centre including the new leisure centre development which is expected to be completed by 2022 and plans for Morpeth park – which will see the redevelopment of the bowling green, the installation of a cafe within the park and even outdoor movie screen.
Children were very keen to know how Northumberland County Council were involved in tackling climate change. The councillors happily reported they are leading the way with their refurbishment at County Hall being one of the first in the country to use a solar panelled car park to power not only the building but electric cars as well.
Some KS3 pupils from Chantry recently visited the Centre of Life in Newcastle to be part of the 2020 Festival Maths. It was a whole day event where specialists from Durham University shared their enthusiasm for Maths with our students. This involved lots of hand-on activities including designing, making and launching rockets, creating a Mobius strip from a bagel, and investigating modular numbers through the medium of card tricks. The pupils also learned how to navigate using the stars during the planetarium show, and they comleted a maths trail in the Life’s newly opened space zone.
More than 600 Morpeth school children improved their understanding of the night sky when the Kielder Observatory mobile planetarium visited Chantry in mid-November 2019. Children from Chantry and several feeder first schools took part.
Each child took part in an interactive session in the planetarium dome, where they could view fascinating constellations in dark sky conditions. They also learnt how technology has evolved to allow deeper exploration of the universe. Kielder Observatory astronomers delivered an interactive walk-through of the Solar System using planet models and used digital microscope imagery to explain the structure of meteorites.
The week-long planetarium visit was funded by the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
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Last half term, a group of 25 Year 6 boys took a trip to the Quayside to visit the Live Theatre to take part in a writing workshop to improve their creativity and writing ability. During the session the boys took part in drama activities and as a group created a wonderfully comedic narrative based on a Pig and his ostrich friend. Their natural talent shone through as they picked apart what a story needs to be successful. They carefully chose characters, settings and the plot. Together with the writing directors, they carefully and methodically created a fantastic narrative. The boys also had the wonderful opportunity of working alongside a professional artist who drew their characters and brought their story to life. The boys were overjoyed to be given a copy of their story and illustrations as they left. On leaving one said, “I had a brilliant time, can we go again?”
