Annual Awards 2012

Monkwearmouth Schools Annual Awards evening took place on the evening of Thursday 12th January 2012 in front of an audience of almost 700 people at the magnificent surroundings of the Sunderland Empire Theatre.Parents, families and friends, staff and guests, celebrated the many academic, sporting and personal success and achievements of students. Guest speaker JJ Jegede and Director of Children’s Services Keith Moore delivered two inspiring speeches, encouraging students to seize the ...

Look At Life

About Us

Welcome to the website of Monkwearmouth School, a high attaining Specialist Arts College catering for around 1200 students aged between 11 and 16. We are fortunate to be based in the attractive, coastal community of Seaburn, north of the River Wear in Sunderland, North East England.  Monkwearmouth School Torver Crescent Seaburn Dene Sunderland Tyne and Wear SR6 8LG Telephone: 0191 553 5555 Fax: 0191 553 5558 Email: monkwearmouth@schools.sunderland.gov.uk Web: www.monkwearmouth.sunderland.sch.uk

Welcome

Welcome to the website of Monkwearmouth School, a high attaining Specialist Arts College catering for around 1200 students aged between 11 and 16. We are fortunate to be based in the attractive, coastal community of Seaburn, north of the River Wear in Sunderland, North East England. We are designated a Specialist Arts college centred around three interlinked strands of Literacy, Performance and Creativity, offering a broad and balanced curriculum within a fully inclusive ethos. We enjoy excellent support from parents/carers and the wider community where the reputation of our students is well deserved. We have strong links with St Peter’s Sixth Form ...

Grease

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50 Years at Monkwearmouth School

We're delighted to share with you our celebration of 50 years of Monkwearmouth School! Monkwearmouth as a school goes back around 70 years but 50 years ago on 6 February 1962 the “new” school opened at Torver Crescent, Seaburn Dene. This is worth celebrating and has led us to plan a series of activities this year which we invite anybody and everybody who has been involved with the school over the last 50 years to join in. Over the coming months, leading up to our prestigious Awards Evening in September, there will be numerous events and a growing wealth ...

World Challenge Croatia

We Will Rock You – And They Did!

Lauren Waine and Adam Hunter as the Killer Queen and Khashoggi in We Will Rock You. What a show! Three nights and three sell outs, we can't ask more than that. Over fifty students celebrated the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen performing to over a thousand audience members who sang and cheered all night long. So many hits were performed such as Radio Ga Ga and Somebody to Love with great skill, professionalism and energy. Our thanks and congratulations to everyone involved! This year we are hoping to stage 'Grease' in March, so please watch this space for further ...

Spottee Rap

Following the success of The Cauld Lad of Hylton the summer project in 2009, we were delighted to be given the opportunity to work with Drama Direct Ltd. and screed Direct Ltd., again this summer. We successfully secured funding from Sunderland Council and Seaside Towns, to deliver a two week site specific, multimedia performance, with students from Monkwearmouth and our cluster of six Primary Schools. We commissioned TV Writer Colin Swash, who writes for Horrible Histories, Mock the Week and Have I got News for you, to write a brand new piece, exclusively for our students! The final performance ...

Leavers Ball 2011

US Exchange Programme

The US exchange programme continues to prosper. US students have joined our school sharing their lives and learning with our students. Whilst here the American students and staff immersed themselves in North East culture visiting many sites. American and British students alike went on excursions to York, Alnwick, Bamburgh, Lindisfarne, Durham as well as those places closer to home such as St Peter’s church, the National Glass Centre and the Stadium of Light. When not travelling around the area students stayed with homestay families and joined in normal lessons. The return visit for our students is also ...

Inspired Learning

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Transition Space Project

We were delighted this month to welcome the year 6 students from our cluster primary schools to engage in a Transition Space Project. The children were faced with a scenario of having to plan an evacuation from the planet earth due to a (fictitious) global disaster. Working in mixed groups they were faced initially with the challenge of using their mathematical skills to design pods to transport people, animals and water. The pods were assembled into a prototype spacecraft and calculations were made to work out the capacity of each craft. Some very innovative spacecrafts were created! Science was the focus ...

GIG

Monkwearmouth School recently hosted a GIG event which featured 4 acts from our school. There were 58 tickets sold which for a first event with minimal publicity was deemed acceptable. The consensus was that the performers were great and that this was the sort of event that the audience would be likely to attend again. The performers themselves enjoyed the experience of actually playing in a realistic setting to an audience that wasn’t part of a ‘school concert’ type event. The GIG event was a pilot event instigated by Eric Lewis who apart ...

Sam Learning

To login to SAM Learning go to the following website: SAM Learning Centre ID: SR6MS User ID: Your child’s DOB plus initials (Example 220698sn) Password: Your child’s DOB plus initials (Example 220698sn)

Legend Of Spottee

UPDATE:We are in the final 3 for a Journal Culture Award for Best Event in Sunderland. We were also nominated and shortlisted for the following awards. The Royal Television Society Award 2011 for best Commercial / Promotional Film, The Journal Culture Awards 2011 in the following categories; Arts Council Awards, Best Arts and Business Partnership and Best event in Sunderland. The award ceremonies were held at the Sage Gateshead in February and The Gala Theatre in Durham in March. In other news; poems and prose that students wrote as part of the Spottee project have been published in a ...