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  • Fair Trade Chocolate Milk During Fair Trade Fortnight

    Published 26/04/19

    In geography, we had an especially fun lesson, learning about Fair Trade and trying some Fair Trade chocolate milk. We made some posters and bunting to promote the sale. During Tuesday and Wednesday break times, Mrs Donnelly and her helpers sold Fair Trade chocolate milk, for only 30p- bargain, if you ask me!

    The profit will go towards buying recycling bins for the school, thanks to Mrs Donnelly’s efforts! Not only this, but the Fair Trade additional cost ensures that farmers get a fair price for their produce. The extra money will help them support their families and have enough money to afford the basics that we often take for granted.  A FANTASTIC cause, a FANTASTIC price and a FANTASTIC effect for our school. A win, win, Win!

     By Charlotte 8HC 

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  • Junior Maths Team Challenge

    Published 26/04/19

    On the 25th of March, two Year 8s, Katie and Charlie, took part in a maths competition at Heddon-on-the-Wall. They were joined by two former GEMS pupils, who are currently in year 9 at Gosforth Academy. The two year 8s had practised problem solving during their Friday maths lessons with two other people in Year 8 top set.

    They spent the whole day solving problems in four rounds. The rounds were a crossnumber (similar to a crossword), a relay (a combination of maths and racing), shuttle (teams work in pairs to solve 4 questions) and the group round (teams work together to solve 10 questions). They managed to get second place, behind Gosforth Central Middle School while RGS was third.  

     

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  • The Lit and Phil Writing Competition

    Published 25/04/19

    At the beginning of the academic year, Mrs Leahy announced to a select group of keen writers that there was going to be a writing competition which is sponsored by the Lit and Phil.

     However, there was a twist. The participants had to write their story with the theme of courage in mind as well as writing either a fictional story, a non-fiction piece or a poem. The limit of words for  the fiction and non-fiction was 1,500  whereas the limit for the poem was 50 lines.

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