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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Director Recruitment
We are looking to recruit new directors onto The Three Rivers Learning Trust.
Girls Football Week at Morpeth Town Juniors
Home Fire
This week, Ms Savage recommend ‘
Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie.
This book is definitely a thought-provoking one about the ties of family and the immigrant experience. What is stronger, blood or love? Can we ever overcome the obligations of family in order to move on with our lives, and if we can, should we?
Kamila Shamsie attempts to answer those questions, as two families deal with the questions of love and loyalty, and how slippery the slope is when we start choosing enemies based on cultural generalisations. This is a powerful, timely book with really interesting characters and one which I wholeheartedly recommend.
Immunisation Programme Information
The Immunisation Team for Northumberland Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust now have a link to their services which provides information to schools and parents regarding their vaccination programmes and further information regarding the vaccines that are given to children.
Rising Star Sports Award
Well done to Alex in Year 11 who won the Rising Star Sports Award at the North East Sports Awards at Newcastle Civic Centre.
Carmina Burana
On Saturday 17 March 2018, the King Edward VI School Choir were joined by the Mid Northumberland Chorus to perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at The Kings Hall, Newcastle University.
In this sold out concert, the combined choir of nearly 150 singers performed alongside professional singers Alex Jones (Baritone), Isolde Roxby (Soprano) and Robert Chavner (Counter Tenor), concert pianists David Murray and Sarah Gordon Robinson and a team of six professional percussionists.
The first half of the evening heard The KEVI Community Orchestra performing exciting symphonic music such as Gabriel’s Oboe from the film ‘The Mission’, the main theme from ‘Game of Thrones’ and music from the soundtrack to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ with the Newgate Brass Quintet giving their first public performance with a jazzy rendition of ‘Just A Closer Walk’.
The second half of the evening saw the KEVI Choir and Mid Northumberland Chorus sing the musical masterpiece, Carmina Burana, which is probably the most frequently performed choral work of the 21st century. The name has Latin roots as “Carmina” means “songs”, while “Burana” is the Latinised form of Beuren, the name of the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuren in Bavaria. The work is very challenging to sing not only because of its complex rhythms and wide vocal range but because the texts in the songs use a diverse mix of Latin, Middle High German, and medieval French!
It was a great achievement for all who were involved and the audience gave all the performers a standing ovation at the end to show their appreciation.
Conductor for the evening was Mr Forbes, our Head of Music.
KEVI STEM Champions
Thirty Year 9 Girls took part in an amazing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) event hosted by ACCENTURE at St James Park. A total of 400 girls attended the event representing 40 schools across the North East. The event was also replicated in London and Manchester, and various cities across the world.
Activities included a workshop to design and build a wind turbine and an “ideation” event where the girls had to come up with innovative ways to reduce food waste. The girls also had time at an Innovation Fair where they had the opportunity to experience many different STEM projects including experiencing virtual reality, electronic workshops, robot racing and much more.
The highlight of the day was the awarding of prizes for the most efficient wind turbine – KEVI designs won 1st and 4th position with Chantry 3rd place – a fantastic achievement for the Three Rivers Learning Trust!
Making Workshop
The next Making Workshop is on Tuesday 20 March.
World Book Day Quiz
Well done to 9X for winning the World Book Day 2018 quiz.
This morning they enjoyed delicious vanilla and chocolate birthday cakes to celebrate Book Day’s milestone 21st birthday.
The group scored the most points on the quiz of all form groups in school and won the tiebreaker question with their guess that the LRC contains 5000 books – most forms were around 3000 under in their estimations!
Well done to all for taking part.