North Eastern Christian Schools - The Tynedale Christian School
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Welcome to
A Christian School:
You don't have to call yourself a Christian to educate a son or daughter at Tynedale Christian School provided you're willing to be supportive of our basic aims. We welcome those of other faiths, or none, but everyone should be clear that we take the Christian world view in the education that we provide and that our daily assembly programme and our Divinity (Religious Education) courses will be Christian in content and nature. Our aim will always be to edify and not to indoctrinate.
The school day and the school week...
The school day will commence at 8.30am (Monday to Friday) and children will be ready for collection at 4.30 to 5.00pm. The school will not teach on Saturdays.
Each week we aim to do a restricted number of things really well. The table below summarises what your son or daughter might expect in a typical week:
Divinity
1½ hours per week
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* Christian and biblical…
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English Language and Literature
4 hours per week
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* Vocabulary, spelling, grammar, punctuation, comprehension, creative writing
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Mathematics
4 hours per week
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* Core skills - multiplication tables, arithmetic, algebra, etc
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Science
3 hours per week
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* Real Science - Chemistry, Physics, Biology
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French
2 hours per week
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* Vocabulaire, grammaire, dictée, etc
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History
1½ hours per week
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* An enjoyable narrative approach to History - facts, dates and chronology
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Geography
1½ hours per week
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* A strongly regional, knowledge - based approach to Geography
* A termly 'field day'
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Technology
1 hour per week
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* Information Technology and one other technology
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Art
1½ hours per week
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* Line, shape and form, colour, texture, construction
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Games
5 hours, 20 minutes per week
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* Our name for PE - an emphasis on enthusiastic participation
* Cheerfully competitive
* Less talk about childhood obesity and more actual running around
* Rugby, Hockey, Netball, Athletics, Cricket, Rounders
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Activities
1 hour, 40 minutes per week
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* All or most of the following:
* Swimming
* Choir
*Instrumental Music
* Outdoor activities
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Lunchtimes
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* A cooked lunch provided by the school at a modest extra cost
* Table manners taught and the art of conversation developed
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Rest
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* Up to ½ hour after lunch for quiet reading or resting
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Homework
2 Hours, 40 minutes per week
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* Known as 'Prep' at Tynedale Christian School, most of this will be done during the school day
* Usually nothing more to be done at home
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Tynedale Christian School
Affordable, rigorous, knowledge - based
