Over the last two weeks, groups of students from Years 7 and 8 have had the opportunity to take part in two Northumbrian Dialect workshops with James Tait, a local musician and poet who works with The Morpeth Gathering.
Students have learnt about the roots of words that feature in our local dialect and have started to embed them in their own pieces of creative writing. Today, the groups finished off their final pieces of poetry, prose and narrative writing to enter into a local competition.
Here are some short videos of Ciaran, Izzy, Katie, Amrit and Owen reading their finished products!
Getting and keeping, young people reading’.
Wow! What a night was had on Saturday 11th February for the second ever Morpeth Partnership Ceilidh. King Edward VI High School, Dr Thomlinson’s, Newminster and Chantry Middle Schools Ceilidh Bands came together to perform in a wonderful evening of music and dance which was led by a caller. Families enjoyed an evening of superb entertainment, fun, laughter and even a pie and pea supper.
On Thursday 9th February, NMS and CMS Bronze Arts Awards students went to work with the Laing Learning team and a professional artist, as part of the ARTiculate Project, to develop their ability to interpret the work on display in the exhibition Modern Visionaries: Van Dyck & the Artists’ Eye. They learnt about how artists communicate stories and ideas through their work. 
hank you to those parents who attended the Year 6 Literacy Parents Lunch. It was lovely to see you all.
Congratulations to Rachael who represented the Newcastle and Northumberland in the Regional Final of this year’s Future Chef competition at York College.
The pupils of Newminster and Chantry Middle Schools learnt songs to sing and sign for their Sign2Sing event which took place on Tuesday 7th February 2017. This was be done as whole schools and took place in the Chantry School hall during the school day.
We are committed to road safety outside of our schools.