This week our Year 10 Performing Arts and Music students were treated to a Theatre in Education Performance presented by second year students from the Sage Performing Arts Academy. Students then took part in a workshop led by the Academy’s Principal, Lucy Sage.
Our Year 10 and 11 students participated in a singing workshop with several other schools, at St Mary’s Catholic School, Longbenton. They did Burnside proud singing ; ‘Melodies from Heaven , O Fortuna and Royal by Lorde’ for the Year 7 students at St Mary’s.
Thank you to the Music Hub for organising this and thank you to St Mary’s for hosting!
This week Year 8 Boys have participated in two Tyne and Wear School Games events.
On Tuesday Nathan Gray, Nathan Emson, Michael Bradley and Alex Baxter took part in the North Tyneside Indoor Rowing Championship. All four students improved their personal bests and Nathan Gray was Burnside’s best performer placing 9th overall by rowing 697m in 3 minutes.
On Thursday night Year 8 boys played their first handball matches. Despite only having one training session behind them, they managed to win their first match but unfortunately lost their next two to Wellfield Middle School and Churchill High School.
After qualifying from the North Tyneside Championships in December, Millie Fenton (Y8) and Peter McGillan (Y7) competed in the Northumberland Cross Country Championships at Temple Park, South Shields last Tuesday
The quality of the competition was high and unfortunately neither student was able to qualify for English Championships. |However both students were able to run personal bests though and enjoyed the experience . Well done Peter and Millie.
On Monday 22nd January Burnside hosted an U15 Netball friendly against Walker.
Burnside started strongly and scored a number of unanswered goals in the first two quarters. With an improved defence after half time Walker closed the gap in the score. Both teams then put on excellent attacking and defensive displays with Burnside holding out for a well-deserved victory! Well done to all the players involved the game was played in a great spirit with a lovely sense of fair play!
Netball Club is on for all years on a Monday night 3-4pm. Please attend if interested!
Our A level students will have the amazing opportunity to perform at the O2 Academy in Newcastle, February 6th, as part of the Rock School Festival. Burnside School will take to the stage at 7.40pm until 8pm.
Doors open at 6.30pm each night and the gigs themselves will run from 7.00-10.00pm. Tickets are now available from the o2 website, priced at £5 each: https://academymusicgroup.com/o2academynewcastle/events/all
The second round of guidance interviews for Year 11 begins today and will run for the next 2 weeks.
All students are given appointment cards with their time to attend. Year 11 parents; you will receive an email shortly to confirm this time.
They will discuss their current plans for next year and this gives us the opportunity to offer any information, advice or guidance on their next steps.
If you would like to attend your son/daughter’s appointment or would like further information about what was discussed, or any aspect of their progression for next year, please email Mr Hedley on w.hedley@burnsidecollege.org.
Year 7,8 and 9 students visited the Apple Store last week to learn how to code using the latest Apple devices and software.
Yesterday our fantastic Sixth Form gave 145 local Senior Citizens a free Christmas Party here at Burnside. This year’s party was the 25th and so to celebrate we had more guests than ever, more hamper prizes than ever, and more Elves than ever!
The whole school joined in by collecting food for the hamper prizes and they were entertained by, the fantastic Music Students organised by Miss O’Neill.
The party gives our Sixth Formers the chance to show how much they care about others and help them develop vital skills for life after Sixth Form. We are very proud that our Sixth Form regularly go on to achieve some of the best results for any school in the whole country.
We are looking forward to the 26th!
Well done to all staff and students involved today!
Sixth Formers studying Health and Social Care and Travel and Tourism had a great few days away at Kielder last week. Health and Social care students helped to run Christmas crafts at the Kielder First School and visited the Calvert Trust with the Travel students. Calvert Trust is a holiday centre for people with disabilities. Travel students also investigated tourism and customer service in the area and had a go at many of the adventurous activities on offer. Everyone got fully involved with the team building activities and they were all a credit to Burnside. Thank you to all the staff who gave up their time to come and help.
