We love to publicise the great work that our students do inside and outside of school. This week:

Music Performance

William in Year 7 took part in the Spring Concert with the Music Hub, and has enjoyed putting work into learning new notes on his trombone. Fantastic work William.

Football

Connor and Lewis in Year 7 are through to the cup final on Saturday and on top of that they’re currently 2nd in their league. So we could have both cup and league winners on our hand! In their match last Saturday, Connor scored from the halfway line and defended against another boy who had a football scout watching him, so he was really proud of himself! Great work Connor and Lewis.

Tap

Mia in Year 7 achieved 2nd place in her tap this weekend and has another competition ahead next weekend. We know that Mia works so hard, we see it every day in school too. Beautiful work Mia!

Karate

Also this weekend Harry in Year 7 achieved his brown stripe in karate, which was a big surprise to Harry as he had been hoping for a blue belt. Having just started in July 2021 this is fantastic progress. Great work Harry!

Charity Climb

And finally some wonderful activist work from Oliver in Year 8. Oliver did an absolutely fantastic job at the sponsored climb for NeuroActiveUK. The aim was for all climbers to collectively climb 1085 metres: the height of Snowdon, but collectively they managed to exceed that target and achieved the height of Ben Nevis at 1345m. Oliver and his family have managed to raise almost £2000 so far. Absolutely smashing work Oliver!

Scarlett represented XP Gateshead in the British Schools National Judo Championships at the weekend.

This is a national championship so the standard is incredibly high, and Scarlett won the bronze medal at the event which is a fantastic achievement.

Beautiful work Scarlett, or should we say 美しい作品 .

Mia has recently performed at Disneyland Paris with her dance group Happy Feet Dance.

Mia and her friends danced professionally with a polished performance. We’re so proud that Mia shone bright on that stage. Mia has danced with this group since she was just 3 years old! What a great opportunity.

Beautiful work Mia!

Ms Donlan went to see a performance at The Little Theatre with The Progressive Players this weekend and look who turned up: The Elf Who Saved Santa.

Ms Donlan was really impressed : “Ben’s performance was wonderful – he’s a natural on the stage”.

Great workshop work Ben!

During their fieldwork this week, G29 students were interviewing members of the mining community. Here are Winnie’s beautiful notes from the session. These notes are really impressive and show how mindfully Winnie has participated in the preparatory lessons and fieldwork.

Winnie has pre-prepared questions, condensed what has been said into short points, colour coded the types of information she heard and also identified gaps in what she knows about her expert Darren. Absolutely fantastic!

This week students in nature club were scheduled to meet an expert, but after a change in plans students chose to spend the session making our local environment better by doing a litter pick in the community near to the school site. Here is Penny, delighted with her work and a full bin bag!

Arlo and William took part in a brass event on Friday last week ahead of the Brass In Concert competition – a world renowned event.

Arlo and William had a great day, and enjoyed playing some brilliant repertoire including Bryan Ferry, James Brown and Queen at Sage Gateshead.

Great work boys!

Harry has produced a wonderful draft detailing the growth and decline of Whitburn Colliery using the research that he carried out during our fieldwork and his additional reading in school.

Not only is this writing strong in terms of accuracy and a coherent structure, but there is an academic tone to the writing that is very impressive too.

Beautiful writing Harry!

Olivia has ben experimenting with the apps on her iPad to create digital art which is very much reminiscent of the manga style. What a fantastic piece!

Meanwhile Lucy in Year 8 has been creating art inspired by Paloma Faith. What is very impressive about this is that Lucy is developing a style of her own inspired by the art that she sees around her.

Beautiful work Olivia and Lucy!