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Hadrian Leisure Survey

Are you interested in attending an adult trampolining session at Hadrian leisure centre.  Below is a link to a 2 minute survey, please complete this to have your say, thank you in advance from the team at Hadrian leisure centre:
 
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P67WQZS

Hadrian disability swimming session

Don’t forget Hadrian have their disability swimming session on Saturday 6th June 5-6pm. There will be a swimming teacher on hand to provide hints and tips on swimming.  £2 for children and £3.80 for adults, up to 2 carers go for free.  For more details please contact Hadrian on 0191 643 2025.

There is currently one staff vacancy for a Teacher of Science (1 year temporary for the first instance)

For more information please visit the Vancancies section on the school website:

http://www.burnside.n-tyneside.sch.uk/vacancies/list/teacher-vacancies

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Burnside First Aid Competition on Tuesday evening. All students who took part passed and the following students gained the highest scores:

1. Laurie Roff
2. Jay Roberts/Lia Ellis
3. Erin HendersonFull results are available on Miss Wallis’s door.

Many thanks also to Mrs Ellis and Ms Selkirk who assessed the competition.

Due to unforseen circumstances the planned charity event on 10th July has been postponed until October.  For all interested parties please pencil in 9th October!  More information will be provided closer to the date.

Burnside Gold Stage TICE Fashion students were invited to a ‘Fashion Futures’ talk on 14th May, at The Baltic centre of Arts at Gateshead. This was part of Northumbria Universities fashion Week. Normally we are invited to the fashion show produced and performed by the designers in the final year of their 4 year degree. However this visit was slightly different in the fact it was more focussed on IAG opportunities and routes within the fashion industry. The students probably would have never realised that there were so many different jobs related to the fashion industry and of course future routes for them to follow for a career choice.  Once we arrived at the Baltic we took our seats and listened to 3 fashion Industry talks:

1pm – The students listened to an informal discussion; focussing on how they got to the position within their ‘job roles’.

The panel featured successful Northumbria University Alumni; Michelle Taylor founder of luxury lingerie brand, Tallulah Love; Charis Younger, designer at hi-end fashion brand All Saints; Kate Ablett, designer at Berghaus, alongside Darren Spurling, Managing Director of international footwear designer Terry De Havilland.  The conversation was inspiring and very interesting that the key word from this panel was ‘resilience’.

2pm – The students listened to an informal interview led by Laura Weir, an eminent fashion and style journalist for Vogue with one of the UK’s leading fashion designers Henry Holland. This was more off the cuff; but was intriguing that he completed a journalism degree then out of fun designed a range of T shirts with some friends and that was the start of his passion for following through his dream of being a designer.

3pm – The students had the opportunity to listen to an inspiring, real life journey of the career so far, of Alexandra Shulman OBE, Editor in Chief of British Vogue. This lady is one of the most influential figures in fashion and she highlighted how she was responsible for increasing Vogue’s readership to over one million.

I hope when the students returned from this IAG outing, they had time to reflect upon the messages given to them by people already working within the ‘career field of fashion’. I found this afternoon inspiring and thought provoking.

Mrs T Goodwin

Burnside and Beacon Hill are organising a Ceilidh to support BBG Funding School improvements in Kenya.  The event is on Friday 10th July from 7pm to 11pm at the Lindisfarne Club, West Street, Wallsend.  There will be a live Ceilidh band, as weel as food, a licenced bar, raffles and a tombola.  Tickets cost £5.  Please see a member of Burnside or Beacon Hill staff for more details.

All proceeds go toward the BBG Building Futures. Registered Charity No 11562.

Friday 24th April saw a group of 30 students and staff take part in a school’s performance of ‘The Last Ship’ with Sting and his band at the Sage, Gateshead. Around 700 students from across the region were involved in the performance, which included four songs from Sting’s show. This was a really special event, and students really gained a lot from the experience and the opportunity. Being a Wallsend school, we were even more proud to see ‘one of our own superstars’ come back to the region.

We took part in the regional Foreign Language Spelling Bee competition on Wednesday 29th April. The four students, Cole Besford 7R, Jenny Tosh 7E, Grace Kwok 7S and Jacob Walker 7D came top of their class competition, and also beat 16 other students in the school competition to get through to the regional final. They had one minute each to stand in front of representatives from many other schools in the North East, and a panel of French judges, to spell as many words as possible, using the French alphabet. They had learned 150 words in preparation for this, using lunch-time as a revision session as well as practicing at home. Unfortunately none of the students came in the top 4 of the 50 or so students who were in the regional final and so will not be going to the national final in Cambridge but they gave it a very good shot!

Year 11 students are planning and performing their own music concert for Staff and Students. The concert will be held in the lecture theatre on the 1st of May, at lunch time!

The event will be fund raising for 2 charities: the Little Princess trust and teenage cancer trust. The little princess trust provides wigs for children who have gone through cancer treatment, giving them the confidence to return to being a child.

The teenage cancer trust is helps young people deal with cancer and helps their recovery time speed up by providing fun activities for them to take part in.

Food and drink will be available to be purchased at the event. Tickets are not needed just turn up and enjoy .Donations will be helpful if you can as they go to both little princess trust and teenage cancer trust.