Musical Advent 2025

1st December 2025Leanne Johnston

Students Helen and her younger brother Arthur are raising money for the sixth year in a row in support of the RNLI.

The are doing a “musical advent calendar” (posting a video of them playing a Christmas song each day).  The duo have already raised in excess of £13000 over the past few years and aim to raise another £2000 this year.

To support Helen and Arthur you can follow and donate, if you can, across a number of channels:

NCC COP30 Meeting

24th November 2025Leanne Johnston
Ten schools from across Northumberland attended the event on Friday 21 November. Each of them made a brief presentation about a particular country from around the world and the climate change issues that the country faced.  Phoebe and Anya from Year 12 gave a very professional speech about the climate issues affecting Nigeria and what was happening to try and address these. Each country then looked at ways that they could support and learn from each other and the financial costs they would incur to secure the future of their people and their country.
We are the delegation representing Nigeria, a country in West Africa.
Nigeria is one of the emerging nations on this planet, and we are the largest African economy. Climate change has an extremely heavy impact on us, as drought and desertification increases in the north, and major flooding worsens in the south. We
also have prolonged heatwaves, with temperatures sometimes exceeding 40 degrees. This is of course having a tremendous impact on us, with our agriculture, livestock and quality of lives heavily affected.
Currently, we are determined to reach Net Zero by 2060, and we aim to be 47% below ‘Business As Usual’ by 2030 (provided we have international support). Following 2030, we are committed to shifting towards renewable energy.
Already we have been extending areas of conservation, and in our megacity Lagos, we have a $40 billion dollar railway expansion, reducing carbon emissions and improving public transport. We are also a part of the African Union's ‘Great Green Wall’, where we combat desertification. To do more for our country, and this planet, financial support from other, wealthy countries is critical in our collective fight against climate change.
Although it may seem like we are behind other countries, we are as determined as we could possibly be. We must focus on opportunity, and our potential to make planet Earth a better place.
Thank you.
Chair of NCC Glen Sanderson gave a speech about all the things already happening in Northumberland to alleviate climate issues eg, recycling, transport etc. All schools also discussed things happening in their own schools and plans going forwards too.

Youth Parliament

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We are very proud of our Year 10 student Emily who continues to be an active member of the UK Youth Parliament representing Northumberland. On 6 November, Emily travelled to London to take her seat in the House of Commons alongside fellow MYPs from across the UK, Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. Here the MYPs debated issues that matter to them and their communities.

Service of Remembrance 11.11.25

11th November 2025Leanne Johnston

Reverend Canon Simon White led our Remembrance Service on Tuesday 11 November. Year 9 form representatives and cadets were in attendance and our Senior Students laid wreaths on behalf of the school, and our Foundation Governors in remembrance and tribute to all who suffered or died in war.

In World War One, 58 Old Boys and one member of staff paid the supreme sacrifice. Most of them found their last place of rest far from home: in Belgium, in France, in Gallipoli, in Poland, at sea; many of them have no known graves.

In the Second World War, by a strange coincidence, yet another 58 Old Boys perished in War – this time together with two members of staff. Only a few of them are buried in the UK. The remainder lie in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany, in Iceland and Italy, in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, in Burma and in Singapore. Again, many have no known grave but the sea.

In the Korean War of 1953, one Old Boy was killed while fighting for the United Nations in the cause of world peace.

In gratitude for the service and sacrifice of all these young men – their average age was only 24 – Nathan Mercel took the reading and Mr Clark – Deputy Headteacher read The Pride of the Poppy.

The service ended with the Last Post played on trumpet by Will Straughan, Arthur Graham and Luke Miller supported by Ms Waterhouse.

Full Circle Food Project

13th October 2025Leanne Johnston

Our Yesr 10 King’s Trust classes had a great day at the Full circle Food Project as part of their Community Impact module.

The students had a great day and really challenged themselves to try new things and learn new skills.

 

KEVI’s Got Talent

18th July 2025Leanne Johnston

Our Senior Students organised an end of term talent show where our staff entertained students to raise money for MacMillan Nurses.

Showcasing their talents were:

  • Ms Tyley:  ‘Me and Mr Jones’ (Amy Winehouse)
  • Dr Fox: magicican
  • Mrs Anderson: comedic monologue
  • Ms Povey and Ms Ludbrook: ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ (Journey)
Other KEVI colleagues made up the judging panel and attributed scores.
In true KEVI style we raised over £200! A great way to end the term.

Eco Day 2025

11th July 2025Leanne Johnston

Our Year 9 Councillors have been a particularly active group this year, organising charity events and contributing to the school community; embracing their role as advocates and custodians of King Edward’s. With that in mind and supporting the values of Cheviot Learning Trust the Y9 Council, supported by our Senior Students, took part in an activity filled day of citizen science, learning about what we can do locally to improve our environment. This event was supported by NCC, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, and Morpeth Lions, as well as KEVI staff and past students!

Feedback from Mayor, Rachel Hogg was excellent. She really enjoyed being with the students, hearing their views. She was very impressed with their insights into youth provision in the town and is very keen to come back and have future sessions with them to let them have their say on the town. Deputy Mayor, long-time KEVI supporter and alumnus, Wendy thought this was the best event that we’d ever run; high praise indeed.
Our popular and active School Council is run by Sheila Clark, without whom none of these opportunities would be possible. The students really benefit from the experience, enthusiasm and wisdom Sheila brings – thank you.

Northumberland School’s County Golf Champions

12th May 2025Leanne Johnston
Two of KEVI’s golfers became Northumberland school’s county champions yesterday at Longhirst Hall Golf Club. Max Paterson (left) and Alan Young (right) both play competitively at Morpeth Golf Club for the junior team. Yesterday they challenged themselves against the finest young golfers the county has to offer and both came out on-top. Max won the Under 16 title scoring the lowest score of the day across all male golfers and Alan won the Under 18 title.
In the Under 16 category, Max progresses onto national level where he competes next weekend in the 33rd English Schools National Final at Wilmslow Golf Club, Cheshire and later in May down at Stoke Rochford Golf Club in the Northen Schools Regional Final. Both players have also been selected today to represent Northumberland Under 18 against Yorkshire County at Dunstanburgh Golf Club on Tuesday 27th May. Another KEVI sixth form student, Charlie Thompson has also been selected for this fixture. Well done and congratulations to all players involved.

King’s Trust Litter Pick

11th May 2025Leanne Johnston

Once each term our Year 10 King’s Trust students link up with Dai Richards, Morpeth’s Keep Britain Tidy Ambassador, to complete a litter pick. Back in April, the group were back in action in much nicer weather helping to keep the school site looking good; they are excellent role models. The group were participating in the Great Big School Clean and pledged to fill at least eight bags of litter.

The activity is important as it works with local community groups and is part of the Cheviot Learning Trust’s wider objectives relating to the environment and climate action. It is important for students to develop community spirit and a social consciousness.