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World Challenge team members celebrate their GCSE results

From Argentina and Peru to A* grades

Four girls came back from their World Challenge expedition to all A*A grades in their GCSEs.

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Students celebrating 17 straight As at A level

Full marks for Patrick

Patrick Dixon from Harton, South Shields, has achieved the remarkable feat of scoring full marks in his A Level English Literature exams this year.

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Members of the World Challenge team with a teacher

Sleepover in school - wake up in Peru

28 pupils from a Tyneside school began the biggest adventure of their lives with a sleepover – in their own school.

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3 members of Swing wing and 2 pupils

RAF Swing wing drop in

The Band of the RAF College is used to being on parade or on operations throughout the world, but for one morning they were on stage in the Newsom Hall.

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Rambert success

Adam Park has won a place at the Rambert Dance School, one of the premiere dance schools in the world.

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Hockey champions with their trophies

Quartet of hockey titles

Dame Allan’s Girls School is celebrating a resounding quartet of victories.

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Sixth formers studying for TEFL certificate

Language first

Dame Allan’s is one of the first schools in the north east to offer a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) qualification.

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National swimming champions

Girls are national champions

DAGS are the new national Junior Girls’ Freestyle team swimming champions.

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Dame Allan's Girls School Junior Swimming Team

National swimming finalists

Five girls have won their way through to the National Finals of the English Schools Swimming Championships next month.

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Nusery pupils in Springfield Park

Pupils decorate Springfield Park

Nursery pupils have been helping decorate a tree for Christmas in Springfield Park, Forest Hall.

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Girl choristers with Director of Newcastle Cathedral Girls' Choir

Cathedral Choristers firsts

Anjali Joseph is preparing for a busy run up to Christmas in her role of Head Chorister of the groundbreaking new girls’ choir at Newcastle Cathedral.

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Two Sixth Formers with US flag

And the next President of the United States is......

Just two weeks before the elections for the 44th President of the United States take place, there was an equally intense and intriguing debate at Dame Allan’s.

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Dame Allan's Girls' School pupils who achieved nine A* GCSE passes

A* stars all round for girls

Four pupils at Dame Allan’s Girls’ School are celebrating straight A* GCSE passes today.

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Dame Allan's Boys' School pupils who achieved nine A* GCSE passes

A* stars all round for boys

Five pupils at Dame Allan’s Boys’ School are celebrating nine A* GCSE passes today.

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GCSE lift off

Dame Allan’s Girls’ School pupil Aine O’Brien’s ambition for a career in space had a perfect launch today with a superb set of GCSE results.

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Straight As for Ponteland girl

Mel Xu from Darras Hall is celebrating achieving straight As in her A levels.

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Straight As for Tyne Valley girl

Katie Cochrane from Stocksfield is celebrating achieving straight As in her A levels.

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Top marks for her birthday

A Newcastle schoolgirl celebrated her 18th birthday today with top marks in her A Level exams.

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Viz a vis dance company rehearsing

National accolade for dancers

Pupils from the Schools’ Vizavis Dance Company have been selected to dance at Youth Dance England's National Dance Festival to be held on London’s South Bank.

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Eleanor takes up umpiring challenge

A Dame Allan’s schoolgirl’s talent for hockey has achieved national recognition – as an umpire.

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David Almond with Dame Allan’s Schools Head Girl and Head Boy

Award winning author David Almond inspires pupils

Award winning author David Almond inspired a new generation of writers when he held two workshops for pupils at a Newcastle school this week.

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BBC weatherman Paul Mooney with pupils from Dame Allan's Juniors

Paul Mooney opens garden good enough to eat!

BBC weatherman Paul Mooney literally enjoyed the fruits of the pupils’ labours when he officially opened the garden at Dame Allan’s Junior School at Forest Hall.

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National responsibility for Katie

Katie Strong has been appointed to a leading role with human rights organisation Amnesty International.

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Cricket champions
 The Under 15 cricket team are the County champions, beating Morpeth in the Final.  They will have to wait until September to see if they can achieve the double.  This season's Tyneside Cup final will now be played in September after it was abandoned due to rain in July.


Cricket winners
The Under 12 team beat Newcastle School for Boys in the final of the Kings Cricket Festival, to win the trophy for the second year in a row.


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