Chantry are very proud of the following pupils who qualified to represent East Northumberland at the area athletics at Monkton Stadium in the county athletics. The event was held at Hexham Stadium on Saturday 25th June.

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Chantry took 60 pupils to the Area Athletics at Monkton Stadium. Luckily the rain stayed off and all our pupils performed really well with lots qualifying for track finals and the county finals in Hexham on 25th June.

We represented our area in the School Games Finals in Y7 boys Football and Y8 girls Netball on Tuesday 21st June. The boys won bronze medals and the girls won silver medals. The Games included a 1500m race.

On Wednesday 22nd June, 12 Chantry pupils who had trained as Quad Kids Sports Leaders helped to run the athletics competition on day two of the school games finals.

Sky Mentor, Keith Cook – Scottish and GB fencing champion – visited Chantry today to work with our Sports Leaders. The leaders had a fantastic day working on lots of team building games and even having a go fencing.

Keith also did a whole school assembly where he gave a very inspirational talk about his journey to becoming a fencing champion.

Pupils were very impressed when he did keepy ups with a table tennis ball and a sword.

The whole school took part in the County Orienteering Championships at Wallington Hall on Friday 17th June. Well done to everyone involved.

On the 13 and 14 June, over 200 pupils from Newminster and Chantry Middle Schools put on a spectacular Summer Showcase.

With some help from the staff, the students created magical evenings full of singing, music, dance and even a spot of drama. Most of the smaller acts had been put through a series of auditions to get a place in the Summer Showcase.

In addition to all of the student performances the sound and lighting was manned by a crew of year 7 and 8 pupils. They were overseen by Mr Hughes and Mr Holmes and did a wonderful job making the showcase look fabulous and run so smoothly.

The set had been created by the Bronze Arts Award students and was designed in the style of murals by Dzine and Beatriz Milhazes. Art work was produced by year 7 and 8 students and used for the tickets and posters.

Some of the acts included dancing in various forms (jazz and modern, street and Irish), piano duets, solos, the joint schools choir and a hilarious drama sketch performed by a group of year 8 boys. The show exuded diversity, inclusivity and variety.

The last number in the showcase was a whole cast rendition of Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ which gave the pupils a final chance to shine.

Truly memorable and inspiring performances – well done.

Review written by
Milena Y8, Newminster

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Not long now until Year 8 go to London! Here is all the information you will need

About 70 students from Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools in Morpeth, part of The Three Rivers Learning Trust, performed at Wyevale’s Heighley Gate Garden Centre on Saturday 11th June. They were helping the Garden Centre’s fundraising activities in aid of the Henry Dancer Days charity which provides support to children and young people 18 years and under diagnosed with Primary Bone Cancer (http://henrydancerdays.co.uk/).

In total, both groups raised £255.

To read more, including a special email we received from Heighley Gate click ‘continue reading’.

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