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 »
Let me introduce your new co-heads for September 2021. As you know I am due to retire as of 31st August after 35 years here at Cramlington. I am delighted to announce that Ms. Kim Irving and Mr. Jon Bird will begin a period of co-headship from September 2021 to August 2022. Both Kim and… 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 »
Over the coming weeks students in the JLV have been set 12 challenges ranging from reading to sports, attendance and community support. Students will be working together as a Home Group team to meet the challenges as we head toward the end of term. The challenges are time limited starting on Monday 30th November and… Read more »
