The whole of Year 5 and 6 went to the Theatre Royal to see Michael Rosen perform. Mrs Collister’s class had the good fortune of being in the boxes in the Grand and Upper Circles. Two of the poems he performed were “No Breathing “and “Chocolate Cake”. The event took place on Friday 22nd of September in the Theatre Royal in Newcastle.
On Thursday 5th October, we were greeted into the hall with a lovely song about harvest.
We celebrated that day by exploring the meaning of ‘harvest.’ Harvest obviously refers to the harvesting of crops in autumn but we were encouraged to think more broadly about the EARTH that produces our food, the need to SHARE what we have with the people who have less and to think about and feel compassion from our HEART for the people in other countries and at home who know what it is to STARVE.
On the 21st September, GEMS had very special visitors that came all the way from Uganda, The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir. In the morning, the phenomenal Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir gave our whole school a taste of Uganda as they performed a stunning singing, dancing and drumming show. During the rest of the day they ran exclusive workshops for sixty lucky pupils. The activities were, singing, dancing and drumming.
In June, the GEMS creator contest in Geometry Dash was launched by a group of Year 7s through The Key. The aims of the contest were:
To test the creativity of the contestants; to help some pupils improve their creator skills; to promote the use of computer skills in school.
On the 23rd of June, 6 Year 8s and 9 Year 6s went on a trip to Heworth Leisure Centre and Better Extreme in Benwell as part of The Key project (which has been explained in previous newsletters).
They left at 9:15, the Key group and the friends they had invited along, and travelled by minibus to Heworth Leisure Centre to go swimming and surfing. The swimming pool was almost completely deserted and the group thoroughly enough the surfing machine-or the Flowrider. The Flowrider is a thrilling surfing simulator that brings all of the fun of surfing without the fear of drowning! No-one stayed on the board for very long, apart from Maizy.
We had lots of fun watching different movies on the 7th of July. Everyone who was in school chose a movie to watch and went to the classroom it was in or went to the hall. For the whole afternoon we watched one movie eating our popcorn and crisps… Some of the movies we got to watch were: Tangled, The secret life of pets, Moana, Lego Batman, Goodnight Mister Tom, Jungle book and Matilda.
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On the 12th - 16th of June, a group of year 7 pupils visited Newlands Adventure Centre in Keswick. The trip started with a 2-hour bus drive to the Lake District. When we eventually got there, our first activity was a team building exercise. This involved a lot of different tasks like, getting a ball to travel through a series of tubes, getting untied from some ropes and making a bridge to cross some stones.
Nexus have cancelled the afternoon 158 service due to lack of uptake. (Often there are less than 10 children.) The 158 service in the morning is still running.
This change starts on Monday 2nd October.
If you any concerns about this, please contact Nexus directly on 0191 20 20 747 as school have no control over this decision.
Please enter some contThe school 500 Games took place at Benfield School. It consisted of very popular sports that schools can compete in and was a very fun way to interact with new people, keep healthy and have fun. Our school participated in many differed events including Netball.
Our Netball team consisted of 9 fabulous girls, all of whom contributed towards winning bronze and should feel, masses of pride: Us (Charlotte and Leila), Freya , Grace, Charlotte, Sophie, Faye, Sophie and Ella. Brilliant job girls!
The Pyramid choir concert, made up of pupils from GEMS, Gosforth Central, Gosforth Junior High and Gosforth Academy, took place on July 4th. We had spent a few months learning some new songs; Country Roads by John Denver, Another Day of Sun from La La Land, Viva La Vida by Coldplay and Let Love Shine Through (which was mainly sung by Gosforth Voices). On some days, after school, we had rehearsals and we worked hard to perfect our numbers!
