Recent News Stories
Gateshead Together Week
Gateshead Together Week will run from Tuesday 25th May - Tuesday 1st June 2010. People in Gateshead strongly identify with their local area - and that's what Gateshead Together Week is all about. The week-long celebration is designed to build on this sense of identity and encourage people to become ...
Hungary for lunch
Europe Day was celebrated at Kingsmeadow on the 14th May this year. We received a small grant to cover the cost of ingredients for dishes from around the European Union. A group of Year 9 students had created a recipe book, containing a recipe from each member state, which they had passe ...
Blast Off! Rocket Challenge
The Y9 candidates for YA Science took part in the Water Rocket Challenge sponsored by TDR. The regional heats took place on the 15th March and one of our teams won through to the Grand Regional Final on Friday 18th March. The Rocket Challenge involved the students building and launching a water ro ...
Rowing Competition
Amy McCarthy wins second place in the National Junior Indoor Rowing Competition Amy travelled to Battersea with the North East Team to take part in this prestigious National Competition which was held on the 11th March 2010. Her performance was fantastic and she won her way to second place wining ...
Rowing into the record books
At the recent Gateshead Rowing Competition, Kingsmeadow students achieved considerable success. Nine secondary schools entered the event. Amy McCarthy won the year 8 individual competition, achieving not only her personal best score but also a place on the National League Tables fo ...
Nissan Engineering Event
On Monday 18th January 2010 we took the Stemnet Club plus a group of Year 7 students to a fantastic annual event at the Nissan production plant in Sunderland. The aim of this event is to encourage students to see the importance of all kinds of engineering jobs needed to make any industry succe ...
Steel Band
Our fantastic Steel Band were invited to take part in a prestigious event hosted by Rotary North East. The local Rotary Clubs staged a Youth musical Spectacular called Children Helping Children at Sunderland Empire on Saturday 16th January. Fourteen acts were invited to take part in this musical ext ...
Engineering Discovery Event
Stemnet students visit to Nissan School’s Engineering Discovery Event 12.00-3.45pm ...
Work Experience 7th -11th December 2009
We have just had a fantastic work experience week; 90% of our students had placements, 60% used their enterprise skills and showed great initiative by finding their own contact. What the employers said about our students “The student from Kingsmeadow School was a delight to have he was very ...
Sports Hall Athletics Sunday 13th December 09
Nicole Lane, Carly Dixon and Jack Greenwell were chosen to represent Gateshead in the Under 15 teams in the Tyne and Wear County athletics championships. We were delighted that three of our students were selected to be members of the Gateshead male and female teams of six. Both teams won a Gold med ...
