Category: Early Years and Juniors
Year 3 trip to Great North Museum
Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the Great North Museum this week. Starting with an exciting journey on the Metro into town – some of the boys’ first time! Unperturbed by the rain-swept conditions, the boys spent the morning working as young Howard Carters in exploring the Ancient Egyptian exhibition during the morning session. The […]
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Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme
Old boys Daniel A (2012 to 2017, Newlands) and Cameron B (2005 to 2017, Ascham) visited St James’ Palace on Thursday 9 November to collect their Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme gold awards. The event was attended by HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Wessex, who chatted to the boys during their visit and they were presented with their […]
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Year 2 Remembrance day
Year 2’s Remembrance day took place on Thursday 9th November. All of the boys dressed in wartime clothing and wore gas mask boxes which they had made for the day. The boys prepared their own lunch of mince and dumplings with mashed potatoes, followed by apple crumble and custard. Activities included making bunting, flags, aeroplanes and sugar […]
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A visit to Jesmond Dene
Mrs Beck’s class went on a visit to Jesmond Dene last Thursday on a lovely bright Autumn day. As they set off on the minibus, the boys were excited to be going out on their first trip of the year. When the boys arrived at Jesmond Dene, they had snack time at the picnic tables before going […]
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Our new sixth form centre helps to add values
Newcastle School for Boys has been delighted to open the doors this term to 1 Moor Road South as our new sixth form centre. It was a real pleasure to show off the centre to visitors at our very well attended Senior School open day before half term. They were clearly just as impressed as […]
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Ziggy the pumpkin
Nursery have had a magical time this week. On Tuesday they carved a pumpkin which they named Ziggy and then they used him for a science experiment. The boys also made chocolate witches hats and pumpkin soup and enjoyed lots of Halloween stories. Their Bat Cave has been well used and visited by ghosts, wizards […]
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Year 6 into Sixth Form
Year 6 enjoyed a tour of the new sixth form centre just before half term. They were met by Mr Caulfield and several members of Year 12 in the common room and then shown around the building. They tried their hand at solving some A level Mathematics, discussing philosophy as well as the new Star Wars […]
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Year 11 GCSE Geography field trip to the Lake District
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, Year 11 Geography students visited Bowness-on-Windermere and the Newlands Valley to practice their fieldwork skills, as required for their GCSE examination. Boys used a range of quantitative techniques to measure river features and characteristics; such as velocity, depth and sediment shape. The boys showed fantastic geographical inquiry skills and […]
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Ninth annual sports presentation evening
Last Wednesday we welcomed boys, staff, parents and guests to the Gosforth Park Marriott for our ninth annual Sports Presentation Evening. The event was once again kindly sponsored by the OddBalls Foundation. The evening was a celebration of our boys’ learning, achievement and development in sport, PE and Games. The evening also featured a sports quiz […]
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Cambridge Chemistry Challenge
In May of this year, our Year 12 Chemistry A level students entered the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge organised by St Catherine’s and Corpus Christi Colleges at the University of Cambridge. Over 7,000 students from 500 schools nationwide entered this challenging competition which consisted of a combination of familiar and new material designed to fully extend […]
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