News September 1997 - July 1998
Hair Raising Demonstration
Ex-pupil
Ashleigh Watson has been named "Student of the Year" on her hairdressing
course at New College in Durham. To celebrate her success she came into
school for an afternoon to give a demonstration to pupils from years five
and six. The girls had a great time experimenting with rollers and plaits
and many of them left school with a whole new look.
Learning and Leading
Launch
On
the 10th of July children from our school and our Intersect partner schools
(Bullion Lane Primary, Newker Junior and The Hermitage School) were invited
to County Hall to demonstrate their I.C.T. skills to headteachers, governors,
councillors, M.P.s and other guests as part of the launch of the Learning
and Leading I.C.T. project in County Durham. We demonstrated the use of
palm tops, digital photography and web surfing. There was also a live video
conferencing link with children from Newker Junior School.
Korean
VIPs Visit our School
On
the 19th May our school played host to the Korean Education Minister (Hai
Chan Lee) and other VIPs who were on a four day visit to Britain. The visitors
had asked to see a rural school during their time in the country and Nettlesworth
was chosen for this purpose. They were given a tour of the school and met
with children and staff. This picture is taken from "The Journal" newspaper
which covered the visit along with reporters from a number of other local
papers.
The
Easter Egg Competition
Every Easter the school holds a decorated
egg competition. Each child brings in a hard, boiled egg from home
which they decorate in a style of their choice. There are first second
and third prizes for each class and every child in the school wins an easter
gift (all donated by The School Community Group).
Here are this year's winners with their
prizes.
Pupils
meet Stephen Byers (M.P.)
On Monday 9th February we visited The
Hermitage School in Chester-le-Street to take part in their official
launch as a "Technology College". Pupils from our school were given the
opportunity to "video-conference" with staff from Prudhoe School and also
demonstrated the use of digital cameras and desktop publishing to a variety
of visitors and friends of the school.
Stephen Byers (Minister for School Standards) unveiled
a plaque as part of the opening ceremony.
Metro
Centre Exhibition
On Friday and Saturday we were showing people how
to work on the internet at the Metro Centre. There were a lot of people
who wanted to find out about computers.
We have a digital camera which we use to take photos
these are used to make calendars with.
There are 5 other schools in the Exhibition their
names are Hermitage, Seaham Comprehensive ,Hill View Junior ,Prudhoe Highschool
and Kenton School.
UK
NetYear Launch Day
The day started when we arrived
at the ScITech
Centre in Durham City.
Daniel and Robert set up the
camera and began to interview people.
The press and other important
visitors piled in and the room became crammed with people.
We were interviewed by radio
and TV journalists,this made us feel nervous and embarrassed but excited.
In the Chat
Room we talked to different schools from all over the country. It
was most enjoyable because we found out what people's favourite things
were in certain parts of the country. It was exciting but hard work.
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