Keelman's Way School

Another fantastic turn out for our School Fair this morning. A bonus the sun was shining too!

Pupil and staff have worked hard making fabulous items to sell from sweet kebabs to planters for the garden.

Lot’s of great games going on too which involved some staff getting very wet!

We even had a visitor called Marley who gave everyone a ride in the sunshine.

A huge queue for our raffle and tombola stall as usual with some excellent prizes up for grabs!

Well done to everyone

What a fantastic morning pupils, parents and mentors  had celebrating KS4 and Post 16 Work Experience Awards.

The hall was decorated with blue and white balloons, a read carpet was even laid out for the special occasion.

Mrs French and staff prepared a lovely buffet for us all to enjoy.

What a way to celebrate our pupils fantastic achievements during their work placements this year.

It was great to see so many mentors who proudly presented pupils their certificates.

Mr Mac was a great compere and entertained the audience throughout the morning

Well done to everyone

As part of our topic on Transport, Green Class 1 visited Stephenson Museum today.  We really enjoyed looking at all the different trains and even managed to dress up in some of the old clothing.

Indigo and Blue 2 enjoyed lunch out today at My Shanghai Chinese Restaurant in North Shields.

Pupils put a bid into The Key to go out for a Chinese meal as part of their topic about Asian Culture.

All pupils had the opportunity to try a variety of different Chinese dishes.

It was delicious!

Last night we were invited to The Key award ceremony at Newcastle Civic Centre. 6 pupils, 3 staff and one parent enjoyed a night of celebrating young peoples achievements from across the North East. We had a lovely meal, danced to music and enjoyed social time together.

Groups of pupils from Keelman’s Way School were nominated for a range of categories, including ‘Key Inspirational Group of 2018’ and ‘Key Community Champions of 2018’. We are so proud of them for all the hard work they have put in this year to help the school and local community.

Toni Waugh, our Blue 2 teacher, won ‘Key Facilitator of 2018’, which is an amazing achievement, as she was selected out of all the Key Facilitators across the North East.

We also had other staff nominated for ‘Key Facilitator of 2018’ and ‘Key Volunteers of 2018’.

Well done everyone

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Blue 2 had a lovely morning on Thursday preparing for their parents coming into school that afternoon. Transport is this half terms topic so it was only right that we used this when making our healthy snacks and food. We made two different types of fruit rockets: Strawberry, grape and blueberry and Strawberry, banana and mango. Parents enjoyed their healthy treats and also took part in some healthy activities with children.

Blue 1 invited parents in today for our healthy schools event.

The pupils prepared a healthy afternoon tea and then they were able to enjoy the bikes with their parents, as well as having an opportunity to look through work from this year.

Some pupils from across the school visited the Gurdwara in South Shields, to explore the Sikhism religion. To show respect we removed our shoes and washed our hands before entering the Gurdwara.

We met Kirpan, who showed us different rooms and discussed with us the Sikh uniform, the 5K’s and how they believe 1 God. We also listened whilst he read from the Guru Granth Sahib and showed us the room that this was kept in. We all sat on the floor to show no one is better or worse than anyone else and then enjoyed a snack together.