J’adore les langues!

10th November 2015L Dickinson

20151104_120939Some of our Year 8s attended an MFL careers day at Newcastle University last week.  They got the chance to try their hand at Italian and interview a selection of people whose jobs revolve around languages, including Rich.

Rich wasn’t allowed to give us his surname and we’re not sure that was his real name!  He works for GCHQ which is a British intelligence and security agency that monitors communications between ‘people of interest’.

Rich passes on vital information to MI5 and MI6 so we actually met a real life spy. He studied French at school but decided to step out on a limb and learn a brand new language for his degree – Korean!  Having had no experience or knowledge of the language before starting university, he is now fluent and uses it every day.

It is amazing to think where your current or future languages might just take you.

Y6 Chantry House Matches Nov 2015

10th November 2015L Dickinson

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’.

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Kids’ Lit Quiz (UK) Competition

9th November 2015L Dickinson

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 Kids’ 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.

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Chantry Students Present Science Project at Houses of Parliament

9th November 2015L Dickinson

IMG_2539Two 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: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/big-bang-parliament-the-importance-of-stem

For more pictures from the trip click continue reading.

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Year 5 Parental Questionnaire

5th November 2015L Dickinson

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.

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Future Chef 2015

3rd November 2015Mrs K Shutler

IMG_1723 (1)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!

Year 6 at Woodhorn Colliery

3rd November 2015Mrs K Shutler

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 going from strength to strength

2nd November 2015L Dickinson

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 Allan’s, 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

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Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting

2nd November 2015L Dickinson

changeseventMany 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.

Student Newspaper

22nd October 2015Mrs K Shutler
Chantry Chat logo

Young reporters meet weekly to write to stories for the Chantry Chat about exciting things that that have been happening in and around school.

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.