Primary Music Concert

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As part of Kepier's ongoing work with all our feeder primary schools, John Hall, our Head of Music, regularly invites the schools learners in to receive tuition from him, Hannah Rudge of our music department and several of the peripatetic music teachers who come into Kepier to work with us.

We hosted the latest such event on Friday 12th April, when around 70 learners from our feeder primaries, plus 30 of Kepier's own school orchestra, came in and had a fantastic time receiving tuition, learning new songs, and performing them. Our principal Nicky Cooper, a former professional violinist herself, also worked with the children.

Mr. Hall said "Everyone involved had a fantastic time, and the children were a real credit to their schools, full of enthusiasm for the day. Getting the chance to work with them is a real highlight for myself and Miss Rudge, and all the staff and Kepier's own learners who are involved".

Kepier Academy Dance Show

'Everybody Dance Now' was this year's title for Kepier's annual dance show…and they certainly did.  There were 58 learners involved in the show, from every year group, and they all performed in a variety of styles ranging from contemporary to break dancing.  The choreography begins in September with the organisation of the show being brought together in January.  Learners rehearse each week and even give up their Sunday for a dress rehearsal.  Many staff gives up their time to help out; Mrs Ward and Miss Bell kept the learners quiet and calm whilst waiting to perform, Mrs Parker and Mrs Large organised refreshments, and Mr Dixon and Mr Telfer did an outstanding job with the technical requirements of the show.  The learners were all fantastic and Miss Farnie, our Head of Dance within our PE Department, who puts an immense amount of her own time into getting this night arranged, was incredibly proud of them all.

The show was performed in front of an audience of 270 parents/carers and families between 7pm - 9pm on Tuesday April 16th. Those who took part received some fantastic comments about their performances.

Kepier Elite Football Academy are now recruiting

Kepier are now recruiting current Year 6 boys in primary schools from across the north east to join our highly successful Elite Football Academy from September 2013. To register your interest for this fantastic opportunity, please contact  martin@improtechsoccer.com or info@kepier.com. The photograph above shows our current Year 7 Academy players, who have now made it through to the semi finals of The Danone FA National Cup, a competition which had over 600 schools entered at the start, demonstrating the success of our structured coaching programme, headed up by former Sunderland defender Martin Scott.

Jay J Boxing

Jay-J, one of our Year 7 learners, was part of a delegation from Houghton Boxing Club, with whom Kepier have formed excellent links, to be invited down to meet various celebrities, including Simon Cowell and former world super middleweight boxing champion Chris Eubank, at an awards ceremony in London to celebrate The Health Lottery.

Jay-J had a fantastic day, and Kepier wish him well with his boxing in the future.

Comic Relief 2013

Red Nose Day at Kepier has been a great success a small selection of what has happened today is shared below.

Seven Year 11 Girls and seven members of staff including our Principal Mrs Cooper took part in a Bushtucker Trial in which they enjoyed a gourmet lunch of Mole Crickets, Flying Grasshoppers, Pupae and grubs. The girls have been sponsored by friends and family and staff and learners have been charged £1 to come along and watch the event organised by Mrs Cleugh. In total the girls have raised £183 for Comic Relief.

Mr Forsyth's year 7 tutor group donated their pocket money to make a 'human coin' raising over £100.

Learners and their families baked cakes and biscuits to be sold at break time on Friday to learners and staff. The total raised was over £200.

As part of Comic Relief Miss Large's Year 11 Tutor group have organised a cake auction.  The Mum of Jabez Straughan made the cakes, which show the dinosaur red noses from this year.  Coaching groups and Staff departments were asked to donate as much as possible into the envelopes, with the 3 who donate the most, getting the cake to share on Friday 15th March. This raised £280!

Learners were allowed to 'wear something red' for school on the day, providing they made a donation to Comic Relief. With all the other events that have  been happening, we would expect the total amount raised today to be well in excess of £1000.

Literature Festival 2013

Friday 8th March marks the end of another successful Literature Festival at Kepier. This is our 4th ‘Lit Fest’ and we are hoping that 'Lit fest 2014' will be bigger and better than ever! This year activities have included:

• Workshops by the author and poet Terry Caffrey who worked with learners in Years 7 and 8.
• Art Heroes-Graphic novel workshop where learners in years 7, 8 and 9 looked at the creation of comics and characterisation.
• We had ‘The Big Read’ to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 7th March and the English department dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland.
• We also ran a book review competition where prizes are still available for all those who enter!

What can we do next year? If you have any ideas or suggestions for 'Lit Fest 2014' please see your English teacher.
Don’t forget entries for the book review competition are open until Friday 22nd March. You can enter on Moodle or by handing your book review to your English teacher.

Kingswood Trip

"IMPORTANT NOTICE:  On March 22nd 2013 Kepier school are taking 46 year 7 and 8 learners to the Kingswood Centre in Hexham.  Mr Mayer released an information sheet stating that learners should be in school be 14:40 on Friday 22nd March.  There has been an adjustment in the timings and the coach will now leave Kepier at 14:00, therefore learners must be at school be 13:30.  Sorry if this has caused any inconvenience".