On the 3rd February, five year seven children and Mrs Leahy went to see the Scottish Ballet’s performance of a childhood classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel.

On Friday 27th January 2017, students from the maths sets 8.1, 8.2 and 7.11 attended a maths fair at the Centre for Life in Newcastle. There was a range of activities and puzzles to immerse ourselves in, such as making sausage dogs out of balloons and using maths in stargazing.

On different days of the week, Year 6 went to the Creative Writing Centre at Live Theatre to take part in a Live Tales Writing Workshop. We started with a warm-up game where we walked around the area and when the leader called out a command (go, stop, clap and jump), we had to follow the order.

The Key is a student independent project which encourages students to work together and develop skills that they will later use in life.  Through providing funding, it lets groups of girls and boys organise a variety of fun and community based activities and develop some important skills in the process.  Groups need to organise an activity and pitch it to the Key Committee in the hope that they will be given a grant of £250.

We need pupils to create designs for our new birdboxes to go in the GEMS pond area.

In Year 8 during PSHCE lessons we have been raising money for a charity called ‘Cash for Kids’. The aim of the charity is to buy presents for children who would not be getting anything for Christmas.