Well done to Class 2, who took part in a Gymnastic Festival at Sherburn Leisure Centre. Amelia Lee was also asked by GB Gymnastic Coach to join their club as he could see a potential talent.

This week in Miss Grant’s safeguarding workshop we were looking at current news stories in media to explain and discuss extremism and radicalisation. We split into classes for our age appropriate discussions and it was brilliant to see so many children being involved and thinking of ways we can keep ourselves safe on the internet and what to do if we thought someone was trying to change our views and opinions on different topics. The video below from Impact all about Preventing Radicalisation was very useful and the children enjoyed helping ‘Daniel’ get the help he needed in such situations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l_Fp2GjCNk 

UNCRC Link: Article 17

Well done to Eryna, who competed in a Christmas Swimming Gala for Chester-le-Street swimming club and came second in her race. A future olympian!

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 Olivia Burnip (1), Jenson Aspinall (2), Poppy Shotton (3) and  Alfie Bates (4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done!

Today, Class 1 and 2 had so much fun observing the effects of winter on the yard and field today! They made a special KS1 snowman, explored different footprints, made snow patterns and angels and had lots of fun with their friends from different year groups. 🙂

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 George Corrigan (1), Matthew Boden (2), Stacey Dowding (3) and  Matthew Bettany (4). They have been chosen for demonstrating creativity and persistence in their learning across the whole curriculum. Well done!

The children enjoyed taking part in this assembly with Rev. Caroline and Maude, learning about one of the stories from the Old Testament. We had some wonderful actors to be part and the whole school joined in with key words from the story.

The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Bible in which King Solomon of Israel ruled between two women both claiming to be the mother of a child. Solomon revealed their true feelings and relationship to the child by suggesting to cut the baby in two, with each woman to receive half.

It is wonderful to share with you the outcomes of the Paw Patrol poetry competition that the  children in cl;ass 1 and 2 have recently entered. With over 17,000 entries the children have done fantastic to even be runners up in this country-wide competition, not to mention many having their poems chose to be published in a book!

Well done this is an excellent achievement for children of such a young age! 🙂

The children are very excited to be up and running on TTS Rockstars, our new times tables software. The children have enjoyed working together to create their own personalised  avatars and are keen to get playing the times times games to earn points for their characters!

We have started the term off with wonderful news; hearing that some of our KS2 children have been chosen to have their poem published in a book alongside other successful candidates from schools across the country. Out of 20,000 entries it is a great achievement to see so many from our school!

Big well done to the runners up from our school too who have received their prizes and who also did an amazing job!