National School Sports Week & Race For Life 2015
The last week of June saw our students take part in a number of different sporting activities. Each community in school competed against one another in an effort to win points towards being crowned the...
View ArticleSouth Tyneside Schools Girls Cricket Champions!
Miss Shakespeare was delighted that the Year 8 girls cricket team she coached came first in the recent inter school tournament. The girls will now go on to represent South Tyneside in the Regional...
View ArticleLittle Shop of Horrors!
Our annual school production this year saw students hanging out on Skid Row whilst performing Little Shop of Horrors. Students and staff led by director Mr Brown assisted ably by Mr Stephenson, Miss...
View ArticleFrance and Belgium Trip – July 2015
The Humanities departments annual France/Belgium trip is currently taking place with students visiting the Somme battlefields, experiencing life in the trenches of the 1st World War at Ypres Salient...
View ArticleNational Language Day – Tuesday 6th October
To celebrate foreign languages and instil enthusiasm in learning a foreign language here at Mortimer, our year 7 students took place in a fun filled day of various activities linked to a different...
View ArticleNew ‘NOODLE BAR’
Members of our student council lead by our head students recently met with Elizabeth Lukes South Tyneside schools Catering Services Manager after canvasing the student voice for their opinions on the...
View ArticleDeputy Head Student – Promotional Campaign
Campaigns are currently underway in school for the position of Deputy Head Student. Five students are in the running for the position with voting taking place next week, with the winning candidates to...
View ArticleOctober – Secret Post Card Sale
We have just launched in school our secret postcard sale project. Inspired by the gift of a beautiful bird print from artist Anna Tosney through Access Art, Students and staff will be creating...
View ArticleBEAT THE RAT RACE – G&T LANGUAGES EVENT
Some of our eager linguists attended an event held by Routes into Languages North East at Newcastle University on 04/11/15. This involved us being able to talk to and ask questions to a variety of...
View ArticleInter School Cross Country Competition
Several of our students competed against other schools from within South Tyneside at the annual Cross Country competition held once again at Temple Park. The event saw students compete around a 1mile...
View ArticleMP Question Time
Our local member of parliament Emma Lewell-Buck recently attended school to hold a question and answer session with our year 8 students. However before under going a grilling from our year 8 students...
View ArticleChristmas Card Competition
Congratulations to Connor Clark on creating the winning design for this years e-Christmas card. Well done Connor! The post Christmas Card Competition appeared first on Mortimer Community College.
View ArticleYear 7 Boys – Regional Rugby League Finalists
A huge congratulations to Mr Helsop and the Year 7 boys rugby league team for making it to the regional rugby league finals. The team came 3rd overall and Mr Heslop said “This is an outstanding...
View Article‘Bags of Joy’– #notbyyourselfie Campaign
A big thank you to Miss Rule for organising students and form classes to take part in the #notbyyourselfie campaign. The campaign saw Miss Rule amongst other staff and students visiting local elderly...
View ArticlePostcard Sale
We will be launching our postcard exhibition in school on Tuesday 19th January at 3.00pm to raise funds for the RSPB. Framed work will be part of our postcard auction and work will be available to...
View ArticleRSPB – Postcard Auction
Our postcard exhibition is currently happening in school to raise funds for the RSPB. Framed artwork will be up for auction and work will be available to view and bid upon until the end of February....
View ArticleSKELETON SUMMER EXAM SCHEDULE
The skeleton exam timetable for summer 2016 exams has been released and can be viewed below: [pdfviewer width=”600px” height=”849px”...
View ArticleGirls Active! Sky Sports Mentor Visit
Our year 8 and 9 girls met with ex England womens rugby prop and current Sky Sports Living for Sports athlete mentor Katie Storie yesterday. During Katie’s visit organised by PE teachers Miss...
View ArticleHealthy Schools Award
We have recently been awarded a Healthy School Award for the good practise we demonstrate towards promoting the core values of Healthy Schools to our students. Congratulations to all the staff and...
View ArticleSports Leaders visit to Stadium of Light
Seven young leaders will be embarking on an exciting new project in partnership with Sunderland FC over the coming weeks. They attended there first workshop last week at the Stadium of Light where they...
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