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Cadet Amy Earns RAF Accolade

Cadet Amy Earns RAF Accolade

28.03.2023 // Uncategorized

A Year 13 NSSFC student has been awarded a most prestigious honour bestowed by the Royal Air Force. Amy P, 18 from Northallerton, has been selected from a range of candidates to be chosen as the RAF Leeming Station Commander’s Cadet. To achieve this accolade, Amy had to write a lengthy submission letter outlining her...

Legally Blonde – The Musical

Legally Blonde – The Musical

28.03.2023 // Uncategorized

Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 March saw Arbor Hall transformed into a theatrical venue for the annual Northallerton School Production. This year’s show, ‘Legally Blonde – The Musical’ followed the story of Elle Woods, the titular blonde, who follows her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School and learns to trust in herself and find her own...

World Book Day Thoroughly Celebrated!

World Book Day Thoroughly Celebrated!

21.03.2023 // Uncategorized

Northallerton School staff and students celebrated the important literary milestone of World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March by competing in the ‘Guess the Reader’ quiz where staff used their favourite book to obscure their faces for a picture quiz, and the whole school came together to enjoy a short story in a day, with...

National Careers Week – 6th to 10th March 2023

National Careers Week – 6th to 10th March 2023

21.03.2023 // Uncategorized

National Careers Week got off to an exciting start on Monday 6th March when we were fortunate enough to welcome the first of a series of guests to celebrate this important week and to give all of our students in each of the Year groups the opportunity to learn about the variety of careers that...

Sixth Form Biology Trip to the LIFE Centre

Sixth Form Biology Trip to the LIFE Centre

16.03.2023 // Uncategorized

On Wednesday 8 March, Mr Stephenson and Miss Hunter ran a Sixth Form Biology trip to the LIFE Centre in Newcastle for their lab session “PTC: A Question of Taste”.  Students were taught industry-standard genetics techniques and used them to extract, multiply and separate DNA to find out whether their genetic makeup matched their ability...

Year 12 Visit to Middlesbrough Football Club

Year 12 Visit to Middlesbrough Football Club

08.03.2023 // Uncategorized

Year 12 Business students recently enjoyed a visit to MFC as part of their course. They had a tour of the stadium which included sitting in the directors’ seats, the dugout and walking down the tunnel onto the Riverside pitch. They then had a talk about the types of customers who come to MFC and...

U14 Girls Football Team Reach Final

U14 Girls Football Team Reach Final

08.03.2023 // Uncategorized

The U14 girls stormed into the final after beating Bedale in the semi finals 7-5 in horrible, wet and windy conditions. The girls put in a brilliant performance full of grit, determination and some sumptuous football. Bedale actually took the lead, scoring from a rebound after Abbie H made a save. Lucy L soon got...

Hard Hitting Drama Comes to Northallerton School

Hard Hitting Drama Comes to Northallerton School

07.03.2023 // Uncategorized

Year 9 students were given the opportunity to experience an incredibly moving and powerful piece of theatre as the professional drama group, Tie It Up Theatre, visited on March 2nd. The four-strong team of actors performed Mark Wheeller’s play, ‘I Love You Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’, to the whole year group. The...

International Day of the Mother Language

International Day of the Mother Language

03.03.2023 // Uncategorized

Monday 20th to Friday 24th February, 11 students from different years delivered the assemblies to celebrate the International Day of the Mother Language. The 6th Form Council picked up the suggestion to celebrate International Day of the Mother Language as the number of students who don’t speak  English as their first language, in our school,...

Year 10s Make a Visit to the Inspector

Year 10s Make a Visit to the Inspector

03.03.2023 // Uncategorized

On the evening of Wednesday February 8th, a group of more than 70 students from Years 10 and 11 enjoyed a trip to the theatre in York to see ‘An Inspector Calls’ at The Grand Opera House. The play is a core text for GCSE English Literature so it was an opportunity for the students...

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