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Guidepost Middle School: Key Stage 2 (2009)

West Sleekburn Middle School: Key Stage 2 (2009)

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Hundreds of youngsters are being challenged to make money grow as part of a drive to foster a new spirit of enterprise.

About 1,500 school pupils in Wansbeck are joining forces with local companies of all sizes, who are investing thousands of pounds in the project.

Make £5 Grow is the brainchild of the Wansbeck Education Enterprise Network (WEEN).

Youngsters at West Sleekburn Middle School have raised £120 for Breast Cancer Care by getting in the pink.

Years five and six pupils at the school raised the case in a non-uniform day when they were all asked to wear something pink.

Students and staff at two partnership schools in Northumberland are celebrating after winning an accolade for their enterprising spirit.

Bedlingtonshire Community High School and West Sleekburn Middle School, which are joined together in a formal federation, are the winners of the Wansbeck Enterprising Schools award for secondary schools.

Ross Thain and Sonia Burdis from West Sleekburn Middle School with the Wansbeck Enterprise Trophy

Presenting the award, Robin Casson, director of children's services for the county council, said the schools had "embedded an enterprising culture" and had shared the leadership role across staff and students alike.

A campaign to promote enterprise and new business start-ups in part of Northumberland has been boosted by the opening of two new learning centres.

The enterprise centres have been developed at Bedlingtonshire Community High School and Guide Post Middle School.

They are part of the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI) running in Wansbeck - a Government-backed scheme aimed tackling the district's poor record in new business development.

Pupils and staff at a Northumberland school are celebrating after scooping three national awards in recent weeks.

Guide Post Middle has been awarded an Anti-bullying Accreditation and a Healthy Schools national certificate, as well as achieving Specialist School status.

Working with Bedlingtonshire Community High School and the town's Meadowdale Middle, Guide Post is a member of the first partnership in Northumberland to achieve Specialist School status in mathematics and computing.

Bedlingtonshire Community High School held a multi activity festival last week.

The event was attended by 189 pupils from first schools in the area, including St. Bede's, Bedlington Station, Stead Lane, Stakeford, Whitley Memorial and Choppington.

Some 35 leadership students from the high school volunteered their time.They were a mixture of Year 7 and 8 students who have completed their Sports Leaders UK Young Leaders Certificate, Sports Council members and Year 10 BTEC Young Apprenticeship course members, who have just completed their Sports Leaders UK Level 1 Award in Sports Leadership.

Activities included football, rugby, tennis, cricket, parachute, multi-skills and playground games.

A Northumberland nursery, forced to move premises to Choppington in last autumn's floods, finally has something worth celebrating.

Goosehill Nursery of Morpeth has achieved the highest rating possible from government Ofsted inspectors, who declared it "outstanding in all areas".

Children from Goosehill Nursery do a spot of gardening at their allotment to celebrate their latest Ofsted report

The nursery is delighted with the accolade as it follows a difficult time for both the staff and children.

Chandeliers made from lollipops and Mad Hatter-style tea parties could breathe new life into a historic castle. The unusual ideas are just some of the weird and wonderful creations concocted by talented young designers as part of a project to revamp Berwick's Ford Castle.

Pupils from Guidepost Ringway First School at Ford Castle: L-R: Matthew Drysdale (9), Caitlin Shepard (9) and Cameron Thompson (8)

Students from four Northumberland schools - Ringway First School, Guidepost Middle School, Ashington High School and Northumberland College - have been working with multimedia designers to come up with new ideas for the 14th Century castle, which is used as an outdoor centre.