Please click here to see a letter from Paul Carvin, Chair The Board of Directors about the appointment of Headteachers at Chantry, Newminster and KEVI.
We are looking to recruit new directors onto The Three Rivers Learning Trust.
Our Breakfast Club runs each morning before school from 8.20am to 8.45am.
We serve toast, bagels, cocoa and fruit juice with all items costing 20p.
You do need to buy something to eat to come to breakfast club but we offer breakfast free of charge to students entitled to Pupil Premium funding.
This is a copy of the Hawkhirst presentation, information sheet and SV5 form given to parents attending the information evening on Wednesday 21 March.
Do you have a high ZPD for your age?
Are you an enthusiastic and mature reader?
Do you enjoy talking about what you are reading?
Are you interested in meeting authors and getting your books autographed?
If so, would you like to help select this year’s winner of The North East Book Award?
We have about 10 weeks to read and discuss all 5 shortlisted books before voting! Obviously, there’s more to say – and disagree about – as the weeks progress and more people have read more of the books! As we read, we post reviews and comments on the NEBA website, which is closely monitored by the shortlisted authors. Extracts are used for giant promotional posters that the authors like to take home as souvenirs. (You can see some outside Chantry library.)
When all participating schools have voted, we attend an evening prize giving at The Centre for Life. We talk to the authors, get our books signed and generally have a good time. The ceremony will be held in June.
Visit the NEBA website for more information – http://northeastbookaward.wordpress.com/
If you think you’d like to give this a go – and don’t forget that you need to write a bit about the books as well as reading them – find out more from Mrs Inverarity by Thursday, March 29th.
Meetings are as follows:
Tuesdays after school until 4:30pm in Newminster library – this group includes KEVI members and is limited to 15 students.
Thursday lunchtimes in Chantry library at 12:30pm
The books involved are:
- The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club – Alex Bell
- Sky Chasers – Emma Carroll
- Kick – Mitch Johnson
- A Place Called Perfect – Helena Duggan
- 1,000 Year-Old-Boy – Ross Welford
and we’re looking forward to seeing you!
Mrs Inverarity
Students worked with Business Ambassadors from HMRC, DWP, Turn Coach, RAF, University of Sunderland & Crown Prosecution Service. All classes completed a variety of tasks in teams to help them recognise and develop their employability and enterprise skills, including:
- Creative thinking
- Innovation
- Decision making
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Time management
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving
- People skills
What a fantastic time 15 of our Year 7 pupils had at this year’s Girls in STEM event at St. James’ Park! We were greeted on our arrival by our host Michael who took us into the Bamburgh Suite which was filled with purple and green tables and the most wonderful balloons we had ever seen!
Firstly, we were given a talk by some really inspiring STEM ambassadors before we were taken to the Innovation Lounge. The girls had to complete 6 challenges from the different areas to be entered into a prize draw where 4 of our pupils won their own drone!
We then were challenged to build a wind turbine that would generate electricity. All of our pupils made successful wind turbines but one of our groups managed to generate 0.68 volts, which was the 3rd highest reading out of the 39 groups taking part in the workshop! Elise, Elspeth, Fiona and Ava were given an Amazon Echo Dot each for their reward!
After that we were treated to a Q&A panel of inspiring women in STEM careers before a design skills workshop. All of the girls who took part had a brilliant day and worked extremely well on all the tasks they were challenged at! Well done girls!
We are taking part in BBC School Report Day.
Visit our BBC School Report page to see what we’ve been up to today.
British Science Week takes place between the 9th and 18th of March 2018. The majority of the events at Chantry took place on Friday 9th of March. We had the entire day devoted to enrichment activities relating to the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). The aim of all of the activities was to:
- Engage every student in a range of STEM enrichment activities
- Raise the profile of STEM subjects at Chantry
- Help the students see the fun side of STEM
Year 5 students went to the Life Science Centre in Newcastle to see the current exhibition and take part in a Fossils or Rubbish Rockets workshop.
Year 6 students took part in a carousel of activities that included:
- Technology Tom
- Creepy Crawlies Roadshow
- Dove Marine Lab
- Printing using the heat press
- Challenging perceptions about STEM careers
- Cockle Park Farm workshop
Year 7 students went to Newcastle University to take part in STEM day. All students had a tour of the campus and took part in some workshops linked to Science & Engineering.
Year 8 students took part in a carousel of activities that were run by STEM Ambassadors, KEVI students & Chantry staff:
- STEM Ambassador Tina Scrafton form PDSA
- Fingerprinting workshop
- Magnets and Electromagnets workshop
- Fibre analysis using optical microscopes with KEVI Science Ambassadors
- Testing leaves for starch workshop
Many thanks to all of the parents and visitors that supported the event.
