Our year 9 Music students have recently had the opportunity to work with Helix Arts on a project called Real Voice. Visiting artist Becky Owen worked with our year 9 music classes to create a collaborative song. From this we selected to of our students; Verity and Billie, who showed a talent for song writing.… Read more »
March the 21st saw the opening night to a 3 show stint of this year’s Music & Theatre Productions annual production and what a show it was! It was liberating for our cast to break free and feel under pressure as they tackled the updated musical which has now been touring worldwide for over 21yrs… Read more »
Recently we held our annual “CLV careers fair” in school and it was a much welcomed return to an in person event following 2 years of virtual engagements due to Covid-19. Students in years 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 were all in attendance at various points throughout the day where a range of organisations… Read more »
Y7 students celebrated Big Read Week with an author event with the prize-winning Irish author, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald who visited us to promote her latest book, The Shark and the Scar. Sarah’s new book is a dark and gripping thriller with a twist that even the sharpest reader just won’t see coming. It’s a big-hearted… Read more »
We are delighted to share good news surrounding our A Level and BTEC results this year. The performance has been exceptional, especially considering the disruption surrounding the pandemic. In a year where the press have reported a decline in the number of top grades at a national level we have seen many of our students… Read more »
The Gateshead-based book, Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. has been going down a storm with some of our y9 and y10 students recently, with some declaring it the best book they’ve ever read! We were delighted then that the author, Malcolm Duffy, agreed to meet our avid readers and share the story behind the book… Read more »
At CLV, we are celebrating National Careers Week (March 7th-12th). Throughout the week, we will be focussing on jobs and careers in lessons across all year groups. We have created displays highlighting careers and jobs linked to subjects that our students study, our digital screens are showing ‘job of the day’ profiles which highlight the… Read more »
