Category: Early Years and Juniors
St. George and the Dragon
Year 1 have impressed with some exceptional writing about St. George and the Dragon. Here is one example was written by Anish D
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Colour-mixing
The Reception class have been colour mixing this week. Using just the primary colours and mixing combinations of them to make enough different colours to decorate a Queen’s quilt.
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School service
Service is one of the key development themes of Newcastle School for Boys’ ten-year vision announced last year. The boys and young men of excellent character that we develop should recognise the privileges and benefits they enjoy. They should also recognise the positive difference they can make to the lives of others and their responsibility […]
Read MorePrimary Inspiration through Enterprise
Year 6 enjoyed an amazing morning as part of the PIE (Primary Inspiration through Enterprise) project. This is one of the largest simultaneous STEM and Enterprise based activities taking place across a number of primary and middle schools. Firstly, boys spent time reflecting on what enterprise is and then took part in a number […]
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Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s award practice expedition
On the final weekend before the Easter break, ten boys from Year 11 took part in their silver Duke of Edinburgh’s award practice expedition. As well as two nights camping at Akenshawburn in the heart of Kielder forest, the boys spent Saturday paddling on Kielder improving their canoeing and navigation skills. On the Sunday, they […]
Read MoreMaths team challenge
At the end of the spring term, a total of 33 teams packed into the hall at Durham Johnston School. To paraphrase JFK: “there hasn’t been this much intellect assembled in a single room since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” This was the regional final of the Mathematics Team Challenge. Our team of Cameron B, Saiem H, George […]
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House music
The senior school house music competition 2017 was held on Tuesday 4th April and was attended by approximately 80 parents in the main hall. It was a fantastic event which demonstrated the strength of the community spirit in each house. We were fortunate to have Claire Delamore as the judge who is the lead singer […]
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Record Breakers!
It’s official, NSB are world record holders. On Wednesday, boys from across the school, with a little help from Alan Shearer, broke the record for the most selfies taken in three minutes. It wasn’t an easy challenge and we were still yet to break the record when we reached our third and final attempt. It was with […]
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Under 13 and 12 county rugby sevens
Both sets of boys performed extremely well at the county rugby sevens tournaments before the Easter break, held at Bede Academy and Dame Allan’s. The boys played some excellent sevens with the emphasis being on ball movement, support and creativity. Both sides scored a great number of tries in a variety of ways. Star men […]
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Rosslyn Park sevens 2017
NSB made their second visit to the world’s largest schoolboy rugby tournament last week, this time entering the Under 14s tournament. The boys joined 146 other teams from around the UK and beyond in trying to qualify for the finals day as one of the group winners or best two runners up. Our base was […]
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