Pyramid Grand Ceilidh
Published 11/02/19
Everyone is invited to the annual Grand Ceilidh hosted this year at GEMS on Thursday February 14th, 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
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Read MoreThe Joys of Japan: Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Published 09/01/19On Tuesday 13th November the lucky children of the Japanese Club were taken by Mr Dowman, Mrs Bhatt, and Mr Douglas to the Vue Cinema Gateshead, to watch a brand-new Japanese film: Mary and the Witch’s Flower. The film was meant to be in Japanese with English subtitles but it turned out just to be in standard English with no subtitles.
Read MoreThe Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Published 09/01/19The Inconvenient Truth is a film about climate change and how it is affecting us. Ten years after the Inconvenient Truth was released, the sequel has been released. This documentary follows Al Gore, 45th American Vice President, around as he gives environmental speeches.
Read MoreWW1 Battlefields Tour
Published 09/01/19From Friday 2nd November to Monday 5th November, Joshua and Luke went on a battlefields tour programme to France and Belgium, in order to learn more about what happened in the Great War, one hundred years ago. During this visit, they studied the battles in Ypres (Belgium) and Somme (France).
Read MoreThe Young Writers visit to the Lit and Phil
Published 08/01/19Earlier this year, Mrs Leahy chose a small group of year 7s to participate in the young writers awards 2019. As a part of this, she took us to the Literary and Philosophical (the Lit and Phil) society in town. This is what happened…
Read MoreYoung People’s Inclusion Conference
Published 08/01/19Lucy, Olivia, Lee and Jack joined other pupils from around the city for a conference. This is what they told Charlotte and Leilah about the day...
On Monday the 17th of December, several people from different schools across the city went the Civic Centre to learn that your life can get better and you can achieve a lot even if life seems difficult at times.
Read MoreNight at the Museum– the sequel
Published 08/01/19Last year some lucky pupils got to stay the night at the Great North Museum. This year it was the turn of three pupils from Year 8 Amelia, Luke and Rhianna. This is what Amelia had to write about her experience:
On the 11th December, I got the chance to stay over for one night at the Great North Museum which was amazing! The other pupils who had this great experience were Luke, Josh, and Rianna.
Read MoreMartial Arts Fun at Japanese Club
Published 08/01/19The Japanese Club were delighted to receive a visit from a local Aikido club on the evening of Wednesday 21st November. Three men came to GEMS to teach Japanese club some Aikido techniques. We learnt how to do a forward roll and a backward roll and how to break people’s balance, and also how to repel someone if they try to grab your wrist.
Read MoreYear 5 trip to Vue Gateshead Cinema
Published 08/01/19On Thursday 14th November, Year 5 had a wonderful time when they went to the Vue Gateshead cinema to watch Goosebumps 2 (Haunted Halloween). They all agreed that it was quite scary but very enjoyable.
Read MoreChildren in GEMS Sponsored Walk
Published 07/01/19Thursday 25th in Gems was a very important day as everyone took part in a sponsored walk for children in need. As always, Gems contributed to the phenomenal charity raising a massive total of £673. Each year group started the walk at a different time to each other so year 5 went first then year 6 and so on.
Read MoreClubs Restarting after Christmas
Published 07/01/19Japanese and Film Club will be on the first week of term - all other before and after school clubs will start in week two.
Read MoreWorld War I - a Hundred Years
Published 07/01/19On the 8th and 9th of November GEMS had two World War 1 days to celebrate the end of the war, a hundred years ago. We did lots of activities to do with the war. Things like writing war poems, war drama, learning about special people from the war and we even made tissue paper poppies. Every one enjoyed the two days.