We would like to thank all of the students, staff and parents that have donated to the Wansbeck Food Bank this year. Food poverty continues to be a significant challenge for so many in our community and these donations will help to support those that need it most this Christmas.
Year 9 student, Emily has the privilege and responsibility of being elected to the UK Youth Parliament.
In October, Emily attended Warwick University to participate in the annual conference where there were lots of debates. The MYPs were updating their manifesto as part of the conference. As part of the conference, Emily got to meet MYPs from all over the country, sharing their experiences and ideas.
Emily, and her peer peer James, MYP at RGS Sixth Form, have been supported by Ben, the participation lead at Northumberland County Council. Emily will be able to visit the Houses of Commons in February 2025 to debate and discuss the motions they passed in the manifesto that they created at the annual conference in October.
Year 11 student Helen and her younger brother Arthur who is in Year 9 both love the water and are keen sailors and are raising money again this year for the RNLI.
Over the years they have raised over £10,000 for the R.N.L.I., by busking and in the last 4 years by their musical advent calendars.
Last year it raised over £2700 for the RNLI, and they would love to smash their record this year. In return, each day they will be uploading a musical performance, and hopefully spread some Christmas Cheer. Please see their Just Giving page if you wish to donate.
Headteacher Clare Savage commented “It is great to see this pair in musical action again. We are so proud of these hugely talented students. They have set their target to £2000 which would take their total fundraising for the RNLI to £12,000 ”
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Join our Music students for a evening of fun and festivities with the annual KEVI Christmas Cracker on Friday 13 December.
The annual Carol Service will take place on Tuesday 17 December 2024 7.00pm to 8.30pm at St James Church, Morpeth
KEVI students supported the Morpeth Rotary Club at the Morpeth Christmas Light Switch On during Saturday 16 November. The students volunteered their time to dress up in the Rotary Club mascot costumes. The money raised will go towards the Mayor’s Charity, which this year is the Oswin Project. The Rotarians who escorted them around the crowds in their costumes were very impressed with their conduct.
Several sttudents also supported the event playing in the Ellington Colliery Band.
Committed to working with our community partners we are delighted to welcome Morpeth Rotary Club into assemblies in the coming weeks. The Rotary Club has supported a number of students with their own fundraising for projects like M10, providing opportunities for Post 16 students to develop their own leadership skills via the RYLA programme and made charitable donations to a number of organisations our students are affiliated with.
To support our mission to develop Accomplished Students, Rotary Club have spoken to students about their Young Writer, Young Photography and Young Artist competitions.
The theme of the competition this year is ‘Wonderful Water’ and this has many links to a number of curricula in school. The prizes for the winning entrants are workshops with local experts; great for supporting students early career development.
Information packs are available from [email protected] or applications form and privacy notices can be found here.
We are also supporting the Wrap Up campaign where preloved winter coats can be donated in school between 15 – 24 October.
Two professional opera singers from Samling Academy, which trains young singers from age 14 to 25 in classical singing delivered a masterclass to our students this week.
Over 40 students were involved in the sessions which ended in a performance. It was the performance of Summertime by Gershwin by Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan which absolutely blew the students away due to the power of her voice. They will not forget this in a long time!
As a result of this, four of our 6th Form students are all going to see a production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at Newcastle University next week, completely inspired by the masterclass.
We are planning on becoming a Samling Singing School from September which means that we will get 6 weeks of choral / vocal tuition from Samling.
