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Chantry Y6 did Bench ball for house matches Monday 9th November, here are the results:
 B |
 D |
 G |
 M |
|
A team scores: |
 16 |
 32 |
 26 |
 26 |
B team scores: |
 39 |
 21 |
 31 |
 35 |
Totals: |
 55 |
 53 |
 57 |
 61 |
For pictures of the house matches click ‘continue reading’.
From left to right: Sam Tate Y6, Josh Williams Y8, Miriam Cummins Y8, Megan Bell Y8
On Tuesday, two teams from Chantry travelled to Gosforth to compete against nineteen other schools from around the North East in our regional heat of the Kidsâ Lit Quiz.
This is a national competition with similar regional heats taking place in Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England throughout autumn. The UK final – which decides the British
team that competes in the World Final in Auckland – will be held in December.
Click continue reading for more about the event.
Two Chantry Year 8 students, Mathew Eltringham-Davison and Callum Woodcock, recently attended the prestigious Big Bang @ Parliament Science showcase event at the Palace of Westminster.
Only nine projects from the whole of the UK were selected to attend the event, which was hosted by the Chairman of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, Stephen Metcalfe MP.
The boys’ work, which had previously featured at the regional Big Bang North East Science Fair, was an investigation into the best ingredients for making colourful fireworks. The Schools Minister, Nick Gibb MP, made a special mention of the project during his speech at the event.
After the event Mathew, Callum and Dr Jackson went for a quick tour of the capital’s key tourist attractions, including The Tower of London, The Shard, St Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.
Very well done to Mathew and Callum for being such good ambassadors for Chantry on the national stage.
School Minister Nick Gibb MP’s address at the Big Bang @ Parliament event:Â https://www.gov.uk/
For more pictures from the trip click continue reading.Many thanks to the parents who took the time to complete our online Year Five questionnaire. Your feedback is always very important as it enables us to improve the transition process year on year.
See below the results.
Congratulations to George Ayliffe who won our school heat of this year’s Future Chef competition with his amazing salmon teriyaki with jasmine rice and an Asian salad.
George will represent Chantry at the Regional Final at Gateshead College on 9 December where he will cook a main course and dessert for two people.
Good luck George!
For more than 80 years Woodhorn was a coal mine.
Work to sink the first shaft began in late Victorian times and at its peak was producing 600,000 tons of coal each year!
Pupils in Year 6 spent the day investigating the original colliery buildings, emotive displays and solving a mining mystery!
They even got a final glimpse of the iconic poppies sculpture, the ‘Weeping Window’, which was being dismantled to be taken to Liverpool for its next exhibition.
Rugby at the Cheviot, which is a joint Newminster and Chantry team, is flourishing and this is evident through the number of Year 7 and 8 boys turning up to training on a weekly basis. I am sure everyone has been inspired and are buzzing from the Rugby World Cup.
Over the last few years we have had great success in growing the rugby reputation of the school and now with over 40 boys training some weeks. Mr Shaw is optimistic this reputation will continue to grow over the next year.
So far this season we have had fixtures against some top independent schools such as Newcastle School for Boys and Dame Allanâs, together with playing in some local RFU tournaments.
Over this next half of term Mr Shaw has been busy organising more fixtures to allow for as many pupils as possible to become involved.
To see the fixtures list click continue reading
Many thanks to all of the parents and carers that attended our Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Changes event on Thursday the 22nd of October.
The feedback from parents has been excellent and a number of parents that were unable to attend have been in touch to see if they can access some of the resources shared on the evening.
The folder linked below contains a copy of the presentation to parents and resources used in the changes to the Maths & English curriculum workshops. Additionally, more materials can be found on the National Curriculum Assessments website.
More information on the changes to Assessment and Reporting, plus Assessment Frameworks can be found here.
Our new Student Newspaper is now online! Click here to see the first stories from our reporters.
Check back each week to see what they’ve been up to. The page is in the Student menu.
Chantry were delighted to be able to welcome Joe Slater, Dhillan Bhardwaj and Hussain Manawer for a careers talk this week to Years 7 & 8.
Joe Slater is an English singer-songwriter originally from Liverpool. Since 2013, Joe has appeared as character Lenny Brown on the BBC Drama âWaterloo Roadâ With musical inspirations hailing from The Beatles to Oasis, Joe confidently plays five  instruments including the piano,
guitar, bass, drums and ukulele. Here is a YouTube link of him below;
Joe was accompanied by 18 year old entrepreneur and designer Dhillan Bhardwaj. Dhillan has had an interesting journey which has taken him from designing t-shirts in his garage, to Number 10 Downing Street. From clothing Miley Cyrus to drinking tea with the Prime Minister, Dhillan Bhardwaj, is living his dream. In the last two years he has opened his own store, employed 30 people, and has a turnover of over ÂŁ1million. His determination has helped him to succeed in his market, and his story is quite remarkable. Check out the press links below;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-26607825
Finally we were fortunate enough to have Hussain in school who is most well known for his You Tube channel called âHussainâs Houseâ. In his short videos he is often seen interviewing celebrities such as Kevin Hart and Joey Essex as well as appearing on an episode of Eastenders. Hussain has also won the chance to be one of three young ambassadors to go into space in 2018, due to his hard work and commitment to inspiring young people around the world.
Our students found the message simply inspiring as the visitors shared their own personal stories about their education and how they have been gained success in such a short amount of time.
The students at Chantry said;
âIt was inspirational and fascinating because we could easily relate to them allâ
âIt was really interesting and everyone was keen to listen, it was great that they showed interest in us and our thoughts.â
   
