Category: News for Parents

Woodhorn Museum - Photo © Christine Westerback (cc-by-sa/2.0)

Changed Lives

Our year 7 students took part in a powerful drama performance at the Northumberland Miners’ Picnic at Woodhorn recently. The group had been involved in a major creative writing project looking at the devastating impact of the First World War on a small mining community in Ashington. The project was organised in conjunction with the… Read more »

GCSE Success

We are delighted with our GCSE results this year with 69% of all students achieving the benchmark pass grade in both English and Maths, up two percent on last year’s figure.  81% of students achieved a grade 4 or above in English and 75% achieved this standard in Maths.  In English almost one quarter of… Read more »

CLV students visit Google

Some of our students recently had the amazing opportunity to visit Google Offices in London. The winners of our ‘Make a Difference’ project from year 8 last year got to present their idea to a team at Google. Our digital leaders also had the chance to present the work that they do on a weekly… Read more »

Year 7 Settling In Day

Year 7 parents are invited to our settling in day on Friday 27th January from 9am-3pm.  The day gives parents the opportunity to meet their child’s Learning Guide, discuss progress and look at their child’s workbook. Parents will have received an email/letter regarding booking a place. If you have not yet booked a place please… Read more »

Grease is the Word

Join us this 15th, 16th and 17th March at 6:30pm as our students perform in an amazing production of Grease. Students have worked tirelessly over the past few months preparing the sets, auditioning and attending rehearsals for the production and we are extremely proud of the hard work they have put into the show.  Come along to show your… Read more »