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INSIDE: May 2019 Page 2 RIP Canon Sue Hart Page 3 Welcome our Environment Advisor Page 3 Bishop’s letter Page 4 A second chance for ex-offenders Page 8 Maundy honours Celebrating monstrous and outstanding innovation! Children proudly display their exhibitions OUNG creative and engineering tal- has really captured the children’s imagina- were just one school on its own.” ple of sprinkles to make it colourful. They’re ent from Lynemouth, Newbiggin and tions. We wanted to raise the profile of subjects Isla and Brooke from Bishop’s William Leech really nice. It makes you feel happy because Ashington came together for a special that sometimes get overlooked because there’s Campus said: “We were studying trolls and loads of people are seeing them.” two-day STEM exhibition called: such a heavy focus on English and Maths – it bridges and our teacher thought we’d learn Kayla Morton Chisholm, from Bishop’s MythsY and Monsters! helps bring the curriculum alive and teaches about a bridge called a suspension bridge, so James Knott Campus, loves these joint events They were primary school pupils from the the pupils practical skills they perhaps don’t everyone had a go at making it and everyone with the other campuses. “It’s a big communi- five campuses of Bishop’s Primary, part of have. liked it. The strings were the hardest bit because ty, so it’s not like we’re all stuffed together in Northumberland Church of England Acade- “It’s also a great opportunity for the pupils to you had to tie them into little knots and meas- one big school. But then when you’re all my, showing off their innovate flair. come together to celebrate as a whole school. ure them to make sure the strings were the together at big events like this, it helps you All creations had a mythical or monstrous Especially for our smaller campuses, being right length.” meet new people.” theme: such as a model suspension bridge, part of wider school is good preparation for Speaking about her beasty chocolates, Chel- Bishop’s Primary is one of the Northumber- under which lived a troll, home-made choco- them when they come to move to the larger sey Mclelland from Bishop’s Grace Darling land’s highest performing primary schools at lates called Beasty Bites, and Marvellous secondary school. They have the opportunity Campus, said: “The bottom of the sweet is milk Key Stage 2 in Northumberland and is proud to Mechanical Monsters! to visit other campuses and Dukes Secondary chocolate, and then brownie in the middle and have results above the national average in all Headteacher Melanie Hinson said: “This more often and make new friends, and they are an extra layer of chocolate on the top, and then key measures in EYFS and Key Stage 1. exhibition has been great fun and the project able to access things that they wouldn’t if they Nutella and mini marshmallows and then cou- 2 generous engaged open Bishops’ Diaries May CANON SUE HART This is not a full list of the Bishop’s engagements, but includes the items we think remembered by Gloria Cadman might be of particular interest to you. “LET’S have a gin and tonic while we work on BISHOP OF NEWCASTLE this.” These words preceded the writing of the 1st 11.30am Meeting with Church of England Pensions Board mission statement for Readers in the Diocese of Newcastle in the autumn of 2010. They sum up 2nd 10.30am Church Commissioners Board of Governors a woman who rejoiced in working for Readers 2.00pm Meeting in connection with and who died far too soon on Palm Sunday this Pastoral Advisory Group, Westminster year. Sue was licensed as a Reader in 2001 and became Secretary of the Executive Committee 7th 8.30am Meeting of Bishops and Archdeacons of the Readers’ Board in 2008. As Secretary, she 6.00pm Bishop’s Council worked tirelessly to raise the profile of Readers, 8th 9.30am Bishop’s Senior Staff Meeting and at the same time she encouraged them to 7.30pm Clergy Supper work collaboratively with each other and with their incumbents. As one who cared deeply 10th 10.30am Newcastle University Court about young people, her aim was to make 2.00pm Embleton Church of England First School Reader ministry more attractive to the younger 11th 10.00am Diocesan Synod generation through training that focused on the 12th 10.30am Confirmation Kirkwhelpington visual and creative as much as the academic. She also believed that in an age of declining Group of Parishes – St. Andrew’s Hartburn church attendance Readers had a vital role to 7.00pm Peace and Unity Iftar, Newcastle Central Mosque play in evangelism, as much by ministering to 13th Bamburgh and Glendale Deanery Walk their community as to the congregation from which they sprang. So, in spite of a very heavy 6.30pm Lindisfarne College of Theology workload, she ‘put her money where her mouth 15th – 17th House of Bishops – Bishopthorpe, York was’ and became a chaplain at Kings Priory 18th 10.30am Cramlington – Dedication of School in Tynemouth and also played a leading “Hope Centre for Social Ministries” part in community activities within the parish of St Mary’s, Monkseaton. As Secretary, and later, she 4.00pm Confirmation, Newcastle Central Deanery influenced in the Newcastle Diocese every Reader 20th - 26th St Oswald’s Way Pilgrimage initiative of recent times, including the new-style 27th Northumberland County Show Newcastle Reader magazine, the Readers’ website, 28th – 31st Pathways visit to Israel recruitment and selection strategies, and so on. Sue’s activity was not confined, however, to this Diocese. She became National Adviser for BISHOP OF BERWICK Reader Education and Ministry, and for many discipleship resource for many churches and is a years travelled to London to work at the Ministry reminder of all that Sue had to offer the church. In 1st 1.30pm Wellbeing and Pastoral Services meeting Division on ways in which to standardise the the aftermath of her death, one Reader described 7.00pm Clergy Dinner recruitment and training of Readers nationwide. Sue as ‘a force of nature’, which certainly sums up 2nd 3.30pm Resource Church Steering Group meeting She travelled to a number of dioceses to promote her energy and vibrancy, but she was also loyal, Reader Ministry at meetings and conferences caring and compassionate, and could be relied 7th 8.30am Bishops and Archdeacons meeting upon ‘to say it as she saw it’, often in the most 2.00pm Curates Book Group and served on Central Readers’ Council. Sue will be widely missed, though almost certainly colourful of language. May her husband Richard 6.00pm Bishop’s Council most missed in her own parish, which she and all her family and friends be comforted by the 8th 9.30am Senior Staff Meeting served with vigour, humour and creativity. knowledge that Sue lived such a rich and fulfilling Being God’s People, a book which Sue wrote life in the service of others. 7.00pm Clergy Dinner May she rest in peace. 11th 10.00am Diocesan Synod, Dr Thomlinson, with the Reverend Robin Greenwood, remains a Church of England Middle School 12th 9.30am Confirmation, St Mark’s, Shiremoor 13th – 14th Windsor Leadership Programme, Windsor Gospel Readings 15th – 17th House of Bishops, Bishopthorpe, York 21st Ministry Division, London Philip and James, Apostles John 13.16-20 14.1-14 Friday John 22nd – 23rd Ministry Council, London Athanasius, Bishop, 14.1-6 25th 9.00am Reader Selection Day, Church House teacher of the faith, 373 John 3.31-end Saturday John 26th 9.30am Confirmation, St Peter, Cowgate Friday John 14.7-14 6.1-15 5th Sunday of Easter John 27th Beating the Bounds, Lowick Saturday John 13.31-35 28th 8.30am Impact Strand Meeting 12.20-26 Monday John 3rd Sunday of Easter John 14.21-26 10.30am Deanery Conversations 21.1-19 Tuesday John 7.00pm Clergy Dinner Monday John 14.27-end 29th 10.30am Resource Church Steering Group Meeting 6.22-29 Wednesday John Tuesday John 15.1-8 2.00pm Evangelism Task Group 6.30-35 Thursday John Wednesday John 15.9-11 6.35-40 Friday John Thursday John 15.12-17 6.44-51 Saturday John Friday John 15.18-21 CONTACT US 6.52-59 6th Sunday of Easter John 14.23-29 Saturday John or John 5.1-9 The Link, Church House, St John’s Terrace, 6.60-69 Monday John North Shields. 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