Sixth Form Community Stars

18th July 2024Jump Marketing

A group of sixth form students have successfully completed voluntary work with Greater Morpeth Development Trust to develop the first of the town’s new history displays.  The team have spent the last nine months researching and designing five new local history display boards for the town. 

King Edward’s students are encouraged to look outside school for voluntary activities in order to help prepare them for life beyond school. This project provided the perfect opportunity to get involved in something new, different and challenging that would create a difference in our town.

With the help of experts from various heritage groups in Morpeth, this project has presented our students with the opportunity to learn a great deal about people and places. They travelled to Newcastle to meet students doing History degrees at Newcastle University and explore common grounds for research. They worked with staff at County Hall to discuss ideas and plans for developing a new history website which now works alongside the displays at St Mary’s Church. 

As part of their research stage, they not only visited places, but also hosted guests in school and met with Nigel Collingwood and Paul MacDonald from the Collingwood society, Mike Booth, a local volunteer with the Commonwealth War Graves Commision. Andrew Tebbutt on behalf of the Emily Davison family; Frances Povey from NCC Green spaces and Dr Marie Addyman, a specialist in the history of William Turner and the Carlisle Park Tudor and Physic garden dedicated to Turner. 

On Wednesday afternoon, 17th July 2024, their research and design work came to fruition as the first three of the town’s new history displays were unveiled. The first display highlights the history of the church itself. The second display is about some of the Notable Morpethians buried in the churchyard with information about various people including the Epsom races winner jockey Ralph Bullock and the suffragette Emily Davison. The final display in the churchyard is about the many different types of war graves, WW1, WW2, Polish war graves, the RAF at Tranwell Woods and other background stories. The next two displays dedicated to Admiral Lord Collingwood and William Turner are due to be launched between September and October this year. 

Our thanks to Dai and the GMDT for offering this opportunity to the students in our school. Thanks also go to all the people behind the scenes from the town’s Heritage network that helped to advise and check the displays for any mistakes.  Special thanks to our guests representing the Collingwood society, the Friends of William Turner, the  Emily Davison family and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for all their personal insights and stories. Thanks must also go to the staff at County Hall for all of their support and to Darren Turner from cbsworld for his design advice and guidance. 

Together, we’ve helped to bring our town’s history alive. 

Year 10 Can Save a Life

10th July 2024Jump Marketing
Over this week, as part of the health education element of our PSHE curriculum, all of our Year 10 students have completed Basic First Aid training. Students engagement and conduct within these sessions were excellent. The external instructors from ‘I Can Save a Life’ have been really impressed and we are really proud that our students have developed these essential skills.

County Golf

10th July 2024Jump Marketing

Congratulations to the following students who were selected to represent The Northumberland U16 County Golf Team against Durham County.

Year 11 – Alan Young
Year 10 – George Ovenden
Year 9 – Max Paterson

The event took place on Monday 8th July at Tyneside Golf Club over an entire day. The format consisted of two rounds, foursomes in the morning and singles in the afternoon.

Well done boys!!!!

School Games Gold Award

9th July 2024Jump Marketing

The PE Department is delighted to announce that we, The King Edward VI School, have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year.

This award is to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active. We are delighted to have been recognised at this level for our success.

We are extremely proud of our students for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are dedicated to ensuring our students have the opportunity to compete in sport across all levels of performance and are also committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school. We want to ensure that all of our students have a positive experience and try out new activities beyond school, within our community. We strongly believe in the power of physical activity and school sport and will continue to provide opportunities for all of our students.

Thank you to all staff and SLT who have supported us with extra curricular provision including our highly successful Sports Tour during this academic year. Collaboratively, we have once again strived for and achieved the Gold Mark Award.

KEVI Student Wins Northumberland County Golf Championship

8th July 2024Jump Marketing

Huge congratulations to Year 12 Sports Student Cameron Twynholm who has become the youngest ever Men’s Northumberland County Golf Champion. The first junior to follow in his father’s footsteps in Northumberland Golf History! The victory came after a week of matches at Matfen Hall. Well done Cameron from us all at KEVI!