Young school pupils enjoyed some stargazing at an event helped by astronomy experts.

Pupils, parents and staff from Seaton Sluice Middle School held their star party which was organised by the school's science department. It was attended by more than 80 enthusiastic young astronomers It is the third year the school has held the event.

Although adverse weather conditions confined the activities to indoors, everybody had the opportunity to explore a range of equipment provided by members of Newcastle and Sunderland Astronomical Societies and by the children themselves.

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Generous pupils at a Northumberland school have donated some of their hard-earned fundraising money to other charities.

Children at Seaton Sluice Middle School decided to give £400 of the money they raised to their favourite charities, rather than keeping it all for the school to carry out improvements.

It was entirely their own idea and class representatives on the school council voted to give £400 of the money raised from their sponsored fun run to charity.

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A new reward system has been introduced for pupils at a Northumberland Middle School.

Seaton Sluice Middle School is celebrating the success of its most hardworking pupils by giving students house points.

House points are earned in a variety of ways, including quality work, a positive attitude in lessons, quality homework returned on time, correct uniform and equipment and a week of full attendance.

Seaton Sluice Middle School is very proud of its excellent Ofsted reports after ensuring each child at the school has a very rounded education.

With higher than average maths and English results, the school also operates many extracurricular activities, and helps children to attend by providing taxis home where necessary. It has also secured extra funding for maths and ICT through Specialist School Status, which also helps other subjects too.

Almost 30 pupils from Seaton Delaval First School showed off their vocal skills in a special festive concert for retired employees of the town's Procter & Gamble factory.

The youngsters entertained about 70 former P&G workers with favourite carols at an annual Christmas reunion.

Headteacher Linda Nicholls, pictured, said: "We've had links with P&G for more than 20 years. Parents and grandparents of our children work for the company so we were delighted to provide some festive entertainment.''

Pupils at Seaton Sluice Middle School in Northumberland have donated £400 to their favourite charities.

Class representatives on the School Council voted to give £400 of the money raised from their sponsored fun run to charity, instead of keeping it all for school improvements. Head of the School Council, Lauren Hindmarsh, 12, said: "We felt it unfair to keep all the money for ourselves."

Students at a Seaton Delaval school have launched a campaign to improve local amenities, make bus travel more accessible for young people and boost equality across the local community.

The Youth Intelligence campaign is being run by students at Astley Community High School.

Budding entrepreneurs from 12 Northumberland schools are preparing to pitch their ideas to judges in a contest which combines Dragons' Den with The Apprentice.

The high school students will be competing at the Alnwick Garden Pavilion tomorrow evening in the final of the Northumberland Enterprise Learning Network challenge for school-based companies.

The teams will champion their individual business ventures in a range of categories to a judging panel including Garden managing director Mike Dukes and County Durham estate agent and recent Apprentice contestant, Philip Taylor.