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During the Year 8 Prom last Friday we took photographs of each child attending, both at the School and at the Golf Club. Over the weekend I have edited all the photos and should parents wish to order prints or just view the photos of the night, all the details are available here.

Northumberland County Council is carrying out its annual audit of registered childcare providers and parents across the county in order that:

* The Families Information Service can provide accurate and up to date information on your behalf about your childcare provision to enquirers;
* Gain a detailed understanding of the overall childcare market in Northumberland which supports strategic funding decisions;
* Enable parents and childcare providers to have an opportunity to give their views about childcare in the County.

This audit fits within the County Council’s statutory obligations requiring a meaningful assessment of the demand and supply of childcare provision, taking into account the views of childcare providers and parents.

Please go to www.northumberland.gov.uk/childcare2010 to complete your survey.
All requested questionnaires will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 worth of shopping vouchers so please complete the relevant questionnaire by July 23rd 2010 to be in with a chance of winning!
If you have any queries relating to this survey please contact
infonet@northumberland.gov.uk or telephone 01670 534757

Once again this year we are offering you the opportunity to purchase traditional portraits of your child.

Further details can be found here.

We'd also like to remind you that we will be taking further photos of Year 8 on their prom night in July. Details will follow on the last week before we break up for the summer holidays. Hopefully we'll get some decent weather for once!

All the children took part in the World Maths Day activity which made a world record of 572,753,084 correct mathematical calculations in a day.

The school had 11,608 correct answers.

The total number of questions answered was 13,569.

James A answered 866 correct answers.

Andrew W was the most improved mathematician.

Following the problems of last week we are relieved to say that the school is open once more again.

We'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to all parents for any inconvenience throughout the past week due to the poor weather. As I'm sure you are aware, closing the school is something we very, very rarely do.

Unfortunately once more the weather has forced our school to remain closed.

We fully expect to be back to normal on Monday.

Unfortunately, once more the school will remain closed today.

We will post a further update tomorrow morning.

We are sorry to say that due to the ongoing wintry weather, we are closed again today.

We will update the site tomorrow with another update.

Due to snow in the surrounding area we have been forced to close the school today.

We plan to be back to normal tomorrow.

The start of the new school year is always an exciting time as we look forward to working with our pupils to ensure they reach their potential and feel good about themselves. We continue to work hard to ensure that children of all abilities get a wide range of opportunities in all aspects of the curriculum.

School is certainly out for summer!

We're closed until Monday 7th September when we have two teacher training days. Little people aren't due to return until Wednesday 9th September.

Until then, have a great summer!

As part of the Seahouses Middle School Community Week, Year 6 wanted to improve the bridleway next to the school, ‘The Lonnen’. They surveyed the area, took many photographs to show the problems they were faced with and thought about ways they could improve it. Councillor Pat Scott along with Ian Robson who works for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty were invited to the school.



The visitors watched a PowerPoint presentation (available here) showing the children’s proposals and the visitors shared some of the children’s concerns. The visitors then accompanied the children on a short tour of the pathway, during which Ian highlighted the range of animals and plants in the area, and so discussed with the children, the importance of maintaining the natural habitat.

After much discussion, the children decided they wanted to tidy the area up but also did not want to spoil any habitats for the wild animals and flowers.

After studying the area, Year 6 also asked Ian and Mrs Scott if it would be possible for the council to provide litter and dog waste bins for the area. To help decide where to locate these bins, local dog owners were asked where they would like these to be placed.



In groups, the children then went ahead with work on widening the path, collecting and clearing litter, branches and stones. Walls were also repaired and a border for the path was built. It was hoped that the planting of wild flower seeds would encourage more wild life visit and live down The Lonnen.

After completing their work in The Lonnen, the children then designed posters which will be erected by the council, to help make the walkway a more beautiful place to use, and to hopefully keep it this way!

Year 7’s recent project challenge was based on Heroes. When someone mentions heroes, you usually think of people like Superman, X man and people with special powers. We then set about looking to see if we could find any local heroes.

We spent a morning at the fire station in Seahouses, where a special unit brought a chip pan, set it on fire and showed us how you should put it out and what could happen if you did the wrong thing and put water on it – it exploded! They also showed us how firemen enter a burning building and get people out.

Once the person was out of the burning building, the First responders showed us what you should do to help someone until an ambulance arrives – we practised doing CPR and resuscitation on a dummy.

We also visited the lifeboat station where Mr Hanvey showed us around the lifeboat, let us try on their outfits and told us stories of disasters which have happened locally prompting heroic deeds by ordinary local people.

We designed our own heroes, giving them special powers for various reasons. We really enjoyed our project and by the end of the 2 days we realised that there are lots of local people who are special heroes – people with ordinary jobs who have put themselves at risk for the sake of others.

Our Year 8 Young Sports Leaders took part in a skipping workshop run by a Leeds based company, Skipping School, on Thursday 23rd April.

Chris, the course teacher, was impressed by the groups' enthusiasm, determination, good humour and positive attitude.

The Sports Leaders were able to improve their own skipping skills learning lots of new tricks and they are now out on the yard with new skipping robes we have bought, teaching our younger pupils.

Please click on picture below see the Sports Leaders in action.

Click 'read more' for some websites that you may find helpful in the preparation your child is doing towards the SATs.

We reopen for the pupils' return on Tuesday 9th September. We will be open on Friday 5th September and Monday 8th September for teacher training if you wish to contact us.

The end of another busy term has culminated in our annual pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Once again it has proved to be a showcase for the many and varied talents of our pupils, of which we are extremely proud.

On behalf of everyone at Seahouses Middle School I would like to thank you for your continued support and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Click each picture for the full size.

Would you like to be part of raising funds for the school without any effort?

Seahouses Middle School have registered with

easyfundraising.org.uk

which provides a FREE fund-raising service where you can raise funds for any charity, trust, school, club, good cause or community group you support when you shop online.

Click 'read more' to view details and instructions detailing how you can help.

Over the last few months, our school catering committee have been working with staff to think of ways of improving our surroundings when we eat at lunchtime in school. The building work and new furniture is all in place now and the walls are decorated with some very tasteful pictures!

Each year we will have two pictures from pupils in each year group and this year the theme is “Landmarks of the North-east of England”. Entrants had to think carefully, not only about which landmark but also which materials they wanted to use and the composition of their work.

The winning entries are framed and displayed in the dining room, but also in the corridor are a selection of pictures which we thought were worthy of being seen by everyone – well done!

The winners in our 2007 competition were: Chris Maynard and Isobelle Cooper in year 8, Anna Darcy and Emily Hanvey in year 7, Josh Robertson and Yasmin Williams in year 6 and Matilda Cornall and Romney Gwynn in year 5.

Click 'read more' to view the winning entries

Over the last few months, our school catering committee have been working with staff to think of ways of improving our surroundings when we eat at lunchtime in school. The building work and new furniture is nearly all in place now and it just remains for us to decorate the walls with some tasteful pictures!

Click on 'read more' to view an article featured in the Berwick Advertiser.

Seahouses Middle School is delighted to announce the launch of their new website. We have been lucky to enlist the skills of a Web Consultant to develop an information site for parents and local users to stay informed about the school's activities and events. We hope the new website will be a useful source of information to keep parents up-to-date on the latest "Happenings".

Seahouses Middle School Pupils win the North Pole Challenge

Just before the Easter holidays all Northumberland Middle Schools were contacted by Brian Foulds, a local explorer who was planning a trip to the Artic to ski to the North Pole to raise awareness of the changes of climate change.
He challenged all pupils in Northumberland to invent a Superhero who had special powers which would combat climate change.

Many of our pupils took part in the competition and we were delighted to learn that Sarah Wright in Year 7 has been awarded third prize winning £25 whilst Joe Carruthers, a Year 5, pupil won first prize of £100! Congratulations to them both.

We have been given the opportunity to let a small number of children talk to Brian on a satellite phone when he is actually at the North Pole. When he returns from the expedition he has also promised to come in to school to tell us about his experiences.
Brian set off on his expedition on the 14th April and you can follow his progress at
http://www.iceaxe.tv/interactive.shtml

Dear Parents,

I am delighted to be able to send you a copy of the summary of our recent Ofsted Inspection. A copy of the full report is available on the Ofsted website, http://www.ofsted.gov.uk or from school.

One of the most pleasing aspects of the report is the unequivocal recognition that our school is at the heart of the community it serves and that everyone involved, children, parents, governors and staff are committed to its development.

Over the next few months we will be drawing up an action plan in line with the inspector’s recommendations which ensures that our Very good school continues to develop.

If you want to discuss any aspect of the report in further detail please let us know.

Yours sincerely,

J. Harris

Northumberland County Council is carrying out its annual audit of registered childcare providers and parents across the county in order that:

* The Families Information Service can provide accurate and up to date information on your behalf about your childcare provision to enquirers;
* Gain a detailed understanding of the overall childcare market in Northumberland which supports strategic funding decisions;
* Enable parents and childcare providers to have an opportunity to give their views about childcare in the County.

This audit fits within the County Council’s statutory obligations requiring a meaningful assessment of the demand and supply of childcare provision, taking into account the views of childcare providers and parents.

Please go to www.northumberland.gov.uk/childcare2010 to complete your survey.
All requested questionnaires will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 worth of shopping vouchers so please complete the relevant questionnaire by July 23rd 2010 to be in with a chance of winning!
If you have any queries relating to this survey please contact
infonet@northumberland.gov.uk or telephone 01670 534757