Christmas Fayre

Morning Everyone Just a reminder to come along to the Christmas Fayre tomorrow. Doors open at 1.30 and it would be great to see as many of you as possible. There will be numerous stalls open and there will be lots of products available to buy made by our students as well as stalls ran…

Feeding families

Please can all donations for feeding families come into school by tomorrow as some staff and students are going to drop the food at the packing centre. Please if you’d like to donate, send anything off the list below (not veg and meat) and it will make such a difference.

Year 11 College Visits

Today year 11 students visited New College Durham to hear a presentation from Project Choice about supported internships within the NHS. Some Year 11 students went on to Newcastle College for a tour of the campus and sixth form centre. Here students had a chance to speak with the teachers and support as well as…

My favourite film

My favourite film is Sully because it can teach you that if you do become a pilot or any job you do, you can be right. If somebody says you have done wrong and you have done right and it puts you down, don’t let it, you have done your best and that is all…

Blogging

Today year 8 have been learning about Blogging. They were asked to produce a review for the school blog. Here is Finley’s review of his favourite game: BMG drive is a crash test game where you could do driving tests, crash and free play. You can modify cars so it has Supercharger, turbo and all…

Emotions in Art

During P3’s art lesson today we looked at famous paintings by a variety of artists. We discussed how we thought the people felt in each painting, for some of the pictures we got a mixed response.       Kinder im Fenster, by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1853 “Happy” “Exploring” “Mean” “Little bit worried”    …