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May 2017

  • Red Day after Half-term

    Published 26/05/17

    After half term children and staff will be visiting us from Dandi Experimental School in Shenzhen, China. To welcome them all, we'd like everyone to wear red on the first day back after half-term (Monday, June 5th). It will be non-uniform, but there won't be a charge this time.

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  • GEMS Disco June 7th

    Published 25/05/17

    GEMS are having a disco on Wednesday June 7th. Tickets are available on ParentPay and from Mrs Skelton.

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  • Robin Wood

    Published 24/05/17

    From Wednesday 8th March to Friday 10th March, over thirty Year 5 children went to Robinwood Activity Centre. The weather was dry and sunny and we all had loads of fun.

    Some activities that Year 5 did were Dungeon of Doom, Piranha Pool, Trapeze, Giant Swing and many, many more.

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  • Taking on The Team Maths Challenge

    Published 23/05/17

    The UKMT (the UK Maths Trust) is an organisation that puts on several different challenges to do with maths each year. Matthew and I went to Heaton Manor to compete in the Junior Team Maths Challenge. We teamed up with Finlay and Jonathan from the high school. They joined us because each team needs two members from Year 8 and two from Year 9

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  • Peter J Murray Visits

    Published 23/05/17

    On the 7th of March Peter J Murray came to GEMS to talk to the year 5s and 6s. He talked a bit about the two books he had brought with him they were ‘BONEBRAKER’ and ‘MOONWHAILER.’ He read out an extract of both books to everyone and some children got dressed up and acted the scenes. The next day he brought both books in and children bought them and got bookmarks for free. Peter signed the books people bought and wrote a little message in them.

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  • Healthy School Award

    Published 22/05/17

    Once again, we have had our healthy school award renewed for a further 2 years, thanks to all the hard work put in by everyone at GEMS. We have a dedication to keeping our students fit and healthy, and the team who run Healthy Schools Newcastle spoke very highly of the programmes we have in place. These include the sports and fitness clubs, the various residentials, the focus on positive attitudes and self-esteem, our peer mentors training programme, our school nurse provision and our relationships education, to name but a few. 

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  • Sports Leaders Tennis Event

    Published 22/05/17

    At the beginning of this school year, a group of students applied to be Sports Leaders. For this role, pupils were required to organise, run and hold sporting events both inside and out of school. Recently, Steph and Ben, who run the school’s Kick Serve club, gave us a lesson in how to umpire and successfully run a tennis tournament. On Thursday 16th March and Thursday 23rd March, the Sports Leaders went to The Northumberland Club to judge and help out at a Tony Blair Tennis Foundation with pupils from local schools.

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  • Testing the Scales of Justice

    Published 19/05/17

    On the 4th March some Year 8 students were involved in a mock trial which is where we went to a court room and role played a case. Those involved included Ben, Jonathan and Taibah as our magistrates, Amiee-Jayne, Noor as defence lawyers, Isabelle and Freya as prosecution lawyers, Tim as defendant, Ruth as defence witness 2, Katie as prosecution witness 1, Emily as prosecution witness 2 and James as legal adviser and usher. We all had a good time and worked really hard and we now know how the court and law system works in more detail. We look forward to similar opportunities in the future. 

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  • Maths Brain Workout

    Published 19/05/17

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  • Heaven Eyes

    Published 19/05/17

    In March a lucky group of Year 6 pupils got to go to the People’s Theatre to see an adaption of the book ‘Heaven Eyes’ by David Almond. It was performed by Théâtre Sans Frontières. The trip was to inspire us for a story writing competition with the title ‘The Journey’.

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  • National Bird Box Week

    Published 19/05/17

    National Bird Box Week has been running for over 20 years. It takes place every year between 14th and 21st of February. St Valentine’s Day was chosen this year for the start of National Bird Box week as this is traditionally the time when birds find their mate and pair up for the new breeding season. The aim of Bird Box Week is to encourage people to put up bird  boxes to help the breeding birds and so promote the conservation and diversity of wildlife. Did you know it is estimated that there are about 6 million nest boxes in UK gardens?

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  • Newcastle City Council Schools: Achievement Awards

    Published 19/05/17

    Two of our pupils were nominated for special awards...read our article to find out why.

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May 2017