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 »
Year 7 Art & year 12 Media students were lucky enough to have a live Q & A session with Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker (and former schoolmate of Mr Paterson) James Reed. This was an amazing opportunity for our students to find out about the filmmaking process, from the initial idea, planning, and production through to… Read more »
We were delighted to welcome the author Sibeal Pounder to the JLV to talk to students about her exciting new novel, Beyond Platform 13. This is a very special book for lots of reasons – not least because it is believed to be the inspiration behind the Harry Potter novels by J K Rowling. It… Read more »
We recently invited the Marine Society to CLV to deliver an interactive workshop about buoyancy. Our students gained an insight into the basic principles of marine engineering and were given the challenge to produce a boat to hold as many marbles as possible, using only the resources of paper, wire, foil and sellotape! The winning… Read more »
We would like to say a huge well done to Katie-Jane H and Josh M for being accepted onto the Royal Institute of Mathematics Masterclass Program. They have been nominated for their hard work in Year 8 and now have an excellent opportunity to complete project work based around exciting and innovative areas of Maths,… Read more »
Huge congratulations to the year 7 boys football team, who rounded off an exceptional season by winning the Northumberland School Games 7 a side tournament, held at CLV last Thursday. The team performed admirably and the team, Jonny G, Nathan S, Liam R, Matty S, Harry L, Alex H, Harvey W and Nico N ended… Read more »
CLV students have been extremely successful competing in the prestigious Wansbeck Music Festival this week. We had around 40 students throughout the week performing in various categories against students from schools around Northumberland and picked up the following awards: Sophie Butler and Jake Landreth- Vocal Duet Under 18 Years- 1st Place Molly Howes- Self Accompaniment… Read more »