Today we had our Harvest Festival down at Church. Rev. Caroline led the service and it was great to see so many parents and carers turn up for the wonderful readings, singing, blessings and stories all linking to the theme of Harvest. Special thanks to all of you who donated food for our Harvest collection, this will be donated to The Durham Foodbank and help many people who are not as fortunate as ourselves.

Article 24: Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must work to provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food and clean water so that children can stay healthy. 

‘The Lord Calls to Samuel’

Today we had our first ‘Open the Book’ assembly of the year. The children were excited to join in with this half term’s Bible story learning all about when God spoke to Samuel whilst he was asleep during the night. Big thank you to Cranley who took on the role of Eli and Jenson who played the part of Samuel.

Well Done to Connor, who has won many awards again for his contribution and effort in football.

well Done to Amelia, who has passed her stage 2 swimming award and is now working towards stage 3.

The Headteacher’s Award recognises good work and behaviour, positive attitudes to learning, kindness and consideration towards others and improvements in all areas of learning. Class teachers choose children to be presented with the award in our ‘Celebration Assembly’.

Congratulations to Oscar Turnbull(1), Jayden Clark(2), Charley Dryden(3) and  Alex Pallister(4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done! 🙂

Today Class 1 visited Fyndoune Farm to see the animals and learn about how to look after the properly. It was fantastic to see and hold so many different types of animals; from snakes to rabbits. We all fell in love with the Farm dog Charlie too!

This week our mini farmers in Class 1 have been working hard to Harvest our home-grown pumpkins before the Winter Season sets in. We were shocked to discover that pumpkins are green before turning orange! 🙂

This week we had an interesting assembly showing us what to put in our rubbish bins and where it goes once it has been emptied into the bin wagon! We have also taken on a home challenge that we will recycle all of our plastic or tin bottles in the correct colour bin and that if we have any plastic that can be re-used then we will re-use it (lunch bags, shopping bags etc.)

One of our youngest members of the school brought in their amazing Judo trophy after being awarded ‘

The Young Samuri Black belt of the month!’

This was awarded due to Jacob always trying his best and for being brave when injuring himself in class, his resilient attitude helped him power through and he never gave up practising his Judo skills! Well done Jacob we are so Proud 🙂

This week we have had the travelling Book Fair at our school. It has been great having the opportunity to go and look at the different books and make note of the ones that we would like to buy. Each class has also had the opportunity to go up to the book fair and read a story of their choice! What a lovely week shared with our friends and parents who could make it. 🙂