Enterprising students are hoping they have the business flair to match their creative talents when they head to a trade competition.
Tower & Co, the student business formed by pupils at Longridge Towers School, is busy preparing for an important trade fair at the Gateshead Metrocentre on February 7. Part of the Young Enterprise Scheme, the pupils are hoping that their unique range of hand crafted canvas prints will win them a place in the Northern finals of the competition.
The Young Enterprise Scheme is designed to give secondary school pupils a taste of how it feels to work in a business.
Young badminton players proved top of the form when they took to the court for a tournament at Ashington Leisure Centre.
Teams from Berwick, Allendale, Alnwick and Prudhoe took part in the Key Stage Three and Four Northumberland Schools Badminton County Final organised by Badminton England and the School Sports Partnership..
Northumberland Schools Badminton County Final Key Stage Four winners (back) and the stage three victors (front) receive their trophies at Ashington Leisure Centre
For the first time, all six School Sports Partnerships in Northumberland - Ashington, Blyth and Bedlington, Cramlington and Seaton Valley, Morpeth and Ponteland, North Northumberland and Tynedale - were involved in the competition.
A Northumberland independent boarding school is to hold a taster morning.
Longridge Towers near Berwick is opening its doors to parents and prospective pupils on Sunday, February 7 from 9.15am to 1.15pm.
To find out more or reserve a place, phone Shelagh Phillips on 01289 307584 or email sphillips@lts.org.uk
Click on the links below to view most recent exam results for Berwick schools:
Berwick Community High School - GCSE (2009), Post-16 (2009)
Berwick Middle School - Key Stage 2 (2009)
Tweedmouth Community Middle School - Key Stage 2 (2009)
The Grove Special School - Key Stage 2 (2009), GCSE (2009)
Longridge Towers School - GCSE (2009), Post-16
Comparative tables for Northumberland schools:
Key Stage 2, GCSE, Post-16
The following schools around Berwick are closed today due to the winter weather:
Cornhill First School
Norham St Ceolwulfs C of E VC First School
St Mary's First School, Berwick
The Grove Special School
Tweedmouth Prior Park Nursery (closed until Monday 18th)
There are ongoing problems with Northumberland school transport services from very rural areas and parents are advised contact the transport provider to check collection is possible and, if not, whether an alternative collection point can be arranged. Click the council link below for more information.
Road safety sessions for young drivers have been held in Berwick.
Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service and Northumbria Police held events for groups of 17- to 25-year-olds on November 16 and 23.
The sessions were attended by students from local schools and colleges as well as drivers who have just passed their test.
Goegraphy jumped off the page and came to life for a group of Northumberland students when they experienced volcanoes, glaciers and waterfalls.
The 16 pupils and two teachers from Longridge Towers School near Berwick travelled to Iceland on an amazing field trip where they got to see real-life examples in the landscape of the geographical formations they had read about in the classroom.
The GSCE and A-Level pupils got to learn about hot springs, waterfalls and glaciers as well as visiting Reykjavík, Iceland's capital city.
Teams of entrepreneurial students have impressed the experts with their ideas and enthusiasm in the first round of an enterprise challenge scheme in north Northumberland.
From left: Rachel Bullen, Matthew Lloyd, Abbie Cockburn, Nathan Thompson and Megan Currah
Year 13 pupils from Berwick High School are taking part in the joint initiative with the town's WorkSpace business centre, where the six teams met the panel of mentors which will be following their progress for the first time.
Children's imaginations literally went wild when they produced amazing woodland creatures from recycled materials.
The children, from Seahouses Middle School, Branton First School, Alnwick South First School and Longridge Towers, made the wildlife models when they took part in the Children's Countryside Day run by the Glendale Agricultural Society.
They include a cardboard red kite, an egg box hedgehog, an orange squirrel, a lemonade bottle salmon and a badger made from boxes.
The impressive creations will now go on display during the half-term holidays in the National Park Visitor Centre, Ingram.
A school in Berwick is expected to re-open this morning following a brief closure caused by a gas leak.
Prior Park First School at Tweedmouth closed to nursery children on Tuesday lunchtime after the leak was discovered, and to first school children yesterday.
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