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January 2019

  • The Joys of Japan: Mary and the Witch’s Flower

    Published 09/01/19

    On 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.

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  • The Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

    Published 09/01/19

    The 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.

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  • WW1 Battlefields Tour

    Published 09/01/19

    From 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).

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  • The Young Writers visit to the Lit and Phil

    Published 08/01/19

    Earlier 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…

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  • Young People’s Inclusion Conference

    Published 08/01/19

    Lucy, 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.

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  • Night at the Museum– the sequel

    Published 08/01/19

    Last 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.

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  • Martial Arts Fun at Japanese Club

    Published 08/01/19

    The 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.

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  • Year 5 trip to Vue Gateshead Cinema

    Published 08/01/19

    On 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.

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  • Children in GEMS Sponsored Walk

    Published 07/01/19

    Thursday 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.

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  • Clubs Restarting after Christmas

    Published 07/01/19

    Japanese and Film Club will be on the first week of term - all other before and after school clubs will start in week two.

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  • World War I - a Hundred Years

    Published 07/01/19

    On 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.   

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January 2019