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Students from Year 8 and Year 9 performed last night in the North Tyneside Dance Festival at The Parks Sport Centre as part of our Dance Group 7LQ. Students performed a piece based on the music of The Lion King that they have been working with Dance City to create. Students performance was superb and all students should be congratulated on all of their hard work and effort in working towards a fantastic final performance!

Since January two ex Burnside students, Joe McIntyre and Sophie Carlson have been coming into school to work with a class of Year 9 Drama and Year 10 Performing Arts students. Sophie and Joe are currently in their 3rd year of BA (Hons) Performing Arts and Drama degrees at Sunderland University. They have assisted Year 9 students in preparing for their Blood Brothers assessments. With year 10 Sophie and Joe have led various acting skills and character development workshops, as well as directing students during rehearsals.

Eight of our Year 8 students were selected to be Ball Girls and represent Burnside at Team Northumbria’s first Netball Super League home game of the season against Surrey Storm.   Students were selected due to their outstanding effort in PE and also their excellent attendance at Netball Club.   Students were on duty for half the match and had the opportunity to watch the other half. All the girls were fantastic, they conducted themselves incredibly well and really represented Burnside fantastically, they were a credit to the school. Well done to all girls that represented Burnside! ( Tilly Henderson, Rebecca Hutchinson, Gracie-Mae Fish, Erin Ging, Natasha Toward, Hollie Christie, Grace Jaundiekars, Kayleigh Patterson)

On Friday 3rd March 2017 two guest speakers from Sage will be in school to talk to Year 12 BTEC IT students about how Sage use Social Media to promote their business, communicate with customers etc. This is to support students completing the Using Social Media in Business unit however, the opportunity is open to all sixth form students.

Damian Robinson – Regional Capability Lead and Andrew Mcfetrich ‘€“ Senior Recruiter for the Sage Technology Team will be in 3F14 from 9:10-10am should you wish to attend the session.

Mrs Morris

Today Burnside have celebrated World Book Day in their usual spectacular fashion. Staff have dressed up as a variety of literary characters from The Twits, Miss Havisham, The Mad Hatter and Eeyore from Winne the Pooh. Year 7 students will have World Book Day themed lessons all day. Cicero once said, “A room without books is like a body without a soul”. There’s certainly plenty of literary soul in Burnside today. Grab a book and start reading!

Our Sixth Form charity group are collecting glasses for Vision Aid Overseas. If you have any spare glasses (perhaps from an old prescription) lying around at home – please could you send them in so they can be used by this fantastic charity. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far – as you can see we have collected quite a few. There are collection boxes in school or please bring them to 1F08.