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Our Advent calendar is nearing it's end and we have loved hearing a different Christmassy themed story each day, it really has helped to spread a little joy and helped to continue to build our love of reading.

City residential to Edinburgh is underway. Sightseeing on day one. 
 

As part of our study of Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’, we have been exploring the idea of charity and what that means, particularly around Christmas time. The year 8s have produced some splendid charity leaflets using their best persuasive skills. Well done year 8, Mrs Hinkley is very proud of…

This week we had two inter house competitions held in the ICT room, where students from KS3 and KS4 competed against each other on the website Blooket. It's always been a favourite for language learning (currently used for KS3 German homework) but there so many more quizzes on every topic you can…

KS4 pupils were using their problem-solving and teamwork skills in Maths this week to break codes as part of a GCHQ session. 

What a fantastic morning we have had at Hexham! We really enjoyed watching the pantomime Red Riding Hood and loved our snack bags in the interval. A huge thankyou to everyone on the PTA and Alston and Garrigill charity for their kind donations to make our trip happen and Ms Reed who organised…

Today our choir performed Christmas carols and songs at the local Day Centre. They put a smile on everyone’s faces and even received some chocolate treats as a thank you. Well done singers and thank you to the Day Centre for having us.

We've been waiting for this with bated breath.

And it was worth the wait, and outstanding piece of work from my year 9 history group.

Computing

Wow, we can alter photographs!

Children independently changed their photograph to black and white.

We discussed that images that we see in different places can be altered as well.

Forest School Friday! Today Anna talked to us about campfire safety in our session before we toasted marshmallows. We got to eat them with biscuits. We also got to meet our two new resident chickens!

Human Rights day takes place on 10th December each year. To mark this event, our two Year 8 Anne Frank Trust Ambassadors delivered an informative and interactive presentation in assembly. They spoke about Anne Frank's life, her legacy, and gave definitions of the different forms of discrimination…

Flinty have almost finished their Tiki display. They have been looking at Mayan Design to produce these sculptures.