House honours were the icing on the cake for sweet- toothed students as they went head-to-head in a bake-off.
Culinary students from Bede Academy in Blyth turned up the heat in an inter-house cookery competition to create a sweet treat to be served to principal Gwyneth Evans and guests.
Judged by academy cooks Mary Davis and Carol Hartshorne, the 12 finalists from Years 8 and 9, representing Bede's houses of Aiden, Cuthbert and Oswald, had just one hour to make, bake and serve their gastronomic delights.
Young badminton players proved top of the form when they took to the court for a tournament at Ashington Leisure Centre.
Teams from Berwick, Allendale, Alnwick and Prudhoe took part in the Key Stage Three and Four Northumberland Schools Badminton County Final organised by Badminton England and the School Sports Partnership..
Northumberland Schools Badminton County Final Key Stage Four winners (back) and the stage three victors (front) receive their trophies at Ashington Leisure Centre
For the first time, all six School Sports Partnerships in Northumberland - Ashington, Blyth and Bedlington, Cramlington and Seaton Valley, Morpeth and Ponteland, North Northumberland and Tynedale - were involved in the competition.
The Bede Primary Academy in Blyth is closed today as there is no water supply.
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Staff at a school kicked off a sporting challenge with police.
Captained by science teacher Ben Dewhurst, staff from Blyth's Bede Academy lined up alongside a Northumbria Police Force team for a friendly football match designed to help forge links within the community.
Despite an early lead from Year 6 teacher Rob Harker, the teachers were unable to hold off the long arm of the law, with the police team netting a 2-1 victory in the final minute of play.
Young children highlighted the true meaning of the festive season as their school staged its first Christmas productions.
Dozens of pupils from the Bede Academy in Blyth, Northumberland, took to the stage in four separate shows for different age groups.
The academy, which opened in September, is the region's first all-age school with the youngest being only three and the eldest 18.
Pupils, teachers and guests were in fine voice for a Northumberland school's first Christmas carol service.
More than 1,000 people attended the festive event at Bede Academy Secondary Years building in Sixth Avenue, Blyth.
Bede Voices, a new choir comprising students and staff, performed and there were also appearances from the Academy Junior Choir and the Primary Choir, made up of children from the academy's other site at South Beach.
A controversial threat to ban students from a school if their parents flouted parking restrictions is looking increasingly unlikely to ever be carried out.
Bosses at the £30m Bede Primary Academy in South Beach, Blyth, wrote to parents recently warning that their youngsters could be excluded if they fail to comply with controls brought in to protect nearby residents from illegal and nuisance parking near the school.
The Emmanuel Schools Foundation which runs the 630-pupil school, said it was bringing in a 'three strikes and you're out' policy on indiscriminate parking - with pupil expulsion being used as an ultimate sanction.
There's no one quite like grandma... That's why they are being invited back into the classroom to pass on traditional skills to their grandchildren.
Grandmas are joining girls and boys at Bede Academy, in Blyth, each week to create festive treats.
The five-week project is the idea of Mary Burnett, head of food and nutrition at the school.
She said: "We have a wonderful resource here and we want to involve the community as much as possible.
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