To begin 2019, we have been celebrating our students with a 100% attendance record.

Since September, our teachers have been trying out an exciting new system in school which will make monitoring achievement, rewards, homework, behaviour and attendance easy for teachers, students and their parents. The initiative, which is called "Class Charts', has now gone live.

Plans are currently underway for Prize Evening 2019, which celebrates the talent and achievement of our students across all year groups.

A group of 31 GCSE Religious Studies students in Years 10 and 11 have visited the Centre for Life in Newcastle to take part in a thought-provoking workshop, which considered the point at which life truly begins.

This month, all of our Year 7 students have been visiting local churches to compare the diversity within faith traditions.

This month, we were joined in school by around 80 local primary school pupils in Years 5 and 6 for an exciting three-part STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) Challenge.

Last term, 16 members of our Rock and Pop Institute (RPI), who are in Years 9-11, visited the Garage Studio in South Shields to experience recording and filming in a professional setting.

Sixth Form students in Year 13 have been making movies as part of their BTEC Level 3 qualification in Creative Media Production.

A group of 15 students in Years 7-10 have been rewarded for their positive attitude and hard work with a trip to Bishop Auckland Town Hall to see Sleeping Beauty.

Accompanied by Mrs Cross, Director of Learning for Religious Studies, two of our A'Level students have recently flown to Poland to take part in a one-day visit to Berkenau and Auschwitz One camps to learn more about the Holocaust.