And the winner is...

Rubik's Cube - the final!

Luke and Matt faced off against each other on the last day of term. Mr Hall made the best of 5 final series as tricky as possible by making Matt and Luke use brand new Cubes AND by scrambling the two cubes in the same way! The next post will reveal the winner!

Rubik's Cube tournament - the semi final!

Here's a little clip of what happened when 2 Rubik's Cube geniuses were pitted against each other in the tournament semi-final!

Christmas crafts in the PLLC

If you fancy having a go at making something Christmassy why not pop into the PLLC this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday lunch times?

Christmas cards for sale - 20p each!

Don't forget that you can buy Christmas cards in the PLLC until next Wednesday. They're a bargain at 20p each!

Rubik's Cube - Round 1 Match 2

At lunch time Mr Hall took on Beth from year 11. The winner was...

...Beth.

2 - 0 to the students!!

Rubik's Cube Tournament - Match 1 Round 1

...Matt!!

Winner of match 1 round 1.

Ding Ding - Round 1! Rubik's Cube tournament

Today saw the start of our first Rubik's Cube tournament which has been organised by Mr Hall (who's also a competitor).

The first match up saw Mr Wilson taking on Matthew from year 8. And the winner was...

Anti-Bullying Week displays

The peer supporters have been busy putting together a display of anti-bullying posters and bunting that have been designed and painted by the PLLC's art and craft club and in PD lessons.

Lunch time in the PLLC - magazines and Rubik's Cube!

Here's what was in the cauldron! Congratulations Callie Robson (Y7)

More tasty snacks!

Who would like to try my yummy banquet? Ghoulish grub in the PLLC on Halloween.

Megan and Rebecca write some scary stories on Halloween!

Hmm, what's this? Students try to figure out what's in Miss Horth's cauldron on Halloween!

Art & Craft Club get spooky for Halloween

Rubik's Cube - Are you up to the challenge?

It's become apparent that there's a new craze in town...or in school, at least! The Rubik's cube made its first appearance over 30 years ago (!) and its massively popular here at Moorside right now.

In my previous post I asked who would win the 'Cube Off' between Luke (Y7) and Mr Hall...well, I can tell you that the winner was...


...Luke! By quite a long way (sorry Mr Hall).

Anyway, this lunch time Luke gave Mr Hall and a few other students some tips on how they could complete the Rubik's Cube quickly so I guess we'll have to wait and see how they all get on.

It's a 'Cube Off!' - who will win?

PLLC pet, Sid Stickenstein, gets even bigger!

Craft club-Embroidery!

Practice makes perfect

Using iPads to learn new stitches

Practising embroidery stitches at art club

Arts and Crafts Club

After school on Wednesdays means only 1 thing in the PLLC - Arts and Crafts Club!

Club members have been finishing off a project that involved them researching an artist and creating a piece of work based on that artist's style. We'll be displaying the finished pieces soon - so keep your eyes peeled.

Next up club members will be helping to transform the PLLC into a wild west saloon for USA Day on the last day of term. They've come up with some fab ideas (including making 'Wanted' posters, cow hides and 3D cacti!). Can't wait to get cracking on with that.

PLLC Reward trip

We'd be trying to think of a cool way to reward our star PLLC library users for a while and then it came to us...why not take them on a trip to Seven Stories Centre for Children's Books and the fab new library in Newcastle City Centre?

So off we went last Friday. What a fab day! At Seven Stories we had a great time talking about books that we enjoyed, trying on all sorts of different costumes and hats and the students even got to choose a book from the book shop!



We got an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour at Newcastle's brand new city library - as well as getting to see all of the public areas we even got treated to a sneaky peek around the staff areas that people don't normally see.