One week before the summer fair the school had a non-uniform day on the 23rd of June but instead of bringing in money the Year 5s and 6s had to bring in chocolate and year 7s and 8s had to bring in a bottle. All of these contributions were going to raffles and tombolas at the annual school fair. Some of the great stalls on the day were: Sticky Surprise by 5SL, Tin Can Alley by 6NS, Summer Selfies by 6NG, Nail Bar by 7HC and a lemonade stand.
After all of the hard work of designing, sketching and painting the bird boxes were finished and it was time for the official opening ceremony. The winning designers, accompanied by their friends, were also joined by Mr Stout, Mrs Jefferson and governor Mrs Simon. Samaha from Year 6 had the honour of cutting the ribbon since her bird box had been judged the overall winner. As she cut the ribbon she explained her reaction by saying ‘I felt flabbergasted.’
On ‘Daft Day’, we did lots of interesting activities, one of them was dressing in non-uniform but with a twist...we had to dress daft! All at GEMS became VERY daft on ‘Daft Day because of the things that we were wearing (the daft side to everyone’s personality was allowed to break free and some people’s daft side was ridiculously daft! Even though the majority of the children made a fantastic effort, some children had not quite transformed into ‘Dafties’ so extra clothing accessories were provided and soon ‘Daftness’ spread across the entire school. Everybody looked very funny, especially the teachers. Mr Stout dressed to impress but made an incredibly unattractive lady.
In June approximately 20 year 8 students visited one of the world’s leading tech companies, Accenture for a week. Accenture is a very big tech company that works with many other leading companies and organizations such as Argos (they created their website), Met Police and Google (they help fix any problems when Google cannot solve it by themselves!) They are very important and have a turnover of over £3 billion!
On Monday 12th of June, 6NS travelled to Nissan in Sunderland (the other classes went on later dates) by bus supplied by Nissan themselves- no complicated metro journeys. We started off by getting into 5 teams of 6; red, orange, yellow, green and blue (first 5 colours of the rainbow!) Our 1st task was to create our own car with our partners using the LEGO set they supplied us with, no instructions. Then, we had to show everyone our cars and tell them the name. TOO MUCH PRESSURE!
Unfortunately due to popular demand there will be no bike club for Keystage 2 until further notice.
Girls Football Club for Years 5 and 6 will be after school on Wednesday (3:30 to 4:15pm), starting on September 27th. The club is open to all girls in those years, and will be run by Mrs Hadfield.
Our open evening for Year 4 pupils and their parents who are thinking about applying to GEMS for 2018 is on Wednesday October 11th from 6 to 7:30pm.
Come to GEMS and see everything we have to offer.
First Act Drama clubs for KS2 and KS3 begin again the week beginning 18th September.
The Pearl of Africa Children's Choir are coming to GEMS. Not only will you be able to come along and hear some excellent singing, the choir will be working with GEMS pupils during the day, and you'll be giving children the chance to go to school.
Thursday September 21st, 6:30pm.
Tickets are £4 adults, £2 children and concessions.
As dawn rose over Newcastle railway station at 8 o’clock in the morning, a group of Year 8 students gathered haphazardly, all waiting for the train to London. Even though there was a three-hour train ride to endure, we were all more hyper than a toddler on Haribo. Some bags were more sizeable than others and some had rather strange items inside! Having eventually arrived in London, we all traipsed into the London Underground station then emerged blinking in the sunlight and into the hot, humid air of the capital. However, we had barely arrived at the hotel when it was time to get moving again. Another short journey on the tube and we arrived at the Natural History Museum.
The penultimate week at GEMS is traditionally Curriculum Week when the timetable is collapsed and the year groups mixed so that a theme can be explored in a cross curricular and more flexible, and often more practical, way. This year’s theme was Community. After the tragic events in London and Manchester, it seemed particularly appropriate that we should be thinking about our own community and remembering what makes it so special, so strong and so precious.
