Mr Beveridge is impressed with our new playground buddies who are nearly finished their training. They are working hard to learn how they can best support our sports leaders and SSOCs in all things sport!

We are very lucky to be continuing our work with Alexa at the British Ecological Society. Today we put the bird feeders in our school grounds so that we can help the birds over the coming colder months as well as enjoy spotting the different birds in our local area. Thank you to Mr Straughan for helping us!

Please see details of holiday camp activities taking place at Durham University this half term

We had so much fun in this weeks Science club! We looked at circuits and how we can light up a bulb. We were all so very careful when making our complete circuits. Look at our bulbs glow!

Today we had a lovely visit to Church. Reverend Michael and June showed us around and pointed out all of the objects you might find in a Christian Church. We now know lots of the objects names and can talk about what they are used for.

UNCRC Article 14 – Right to a religion

We have amazing news to share with you all …. our hard work in PE was recognised over the summer with us being awarded PLANTINUM School Games Mark for 2021-23. This is the highest award possible and we are so proud of the hard work all of our pupils and staff do in terms of PE and Sports. They demonstrate all of the Sainsburys values in PE lessons and this shines through into all subjects they do. We love that our leaders are amazing and always spoken so highly of by visitors in and out of school.

A massive well done to our first School Games Values Star of the Week …. Marcus.

This year in Multi Skills we are looking out for the children who display all of the Sainsburys values in the session. They will then been given a certificate and trophy to share with their friends and family at home.

Good luck everyone!

Today was our first Forest School Session with Alice from OASES. We had lots of fun taking part in different activities. We joined in looking for the colours of the rainbow, hide and seek, giant art work and fabric pressing. We were fantastic using the tools, we all did so very safely. Our favourite task was hide and seek and we learnt lots about the colours of the seasons.

UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to join in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

Today we had lots of fun visiting the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. We learnt all about the fossils and how Scientists can learn about animals from the past by studying them. We were lucky (or unlucky) enough to hold dinosaur poo!! We have had such a lovely day learning all about our topic : Dinosaur Planet.

A massive thank you to Mrs Lofthouse, our governor, for her help today.

UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to join in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

Today we paid our respect to our Queen. In school Mrs Lee held a special assembly to remember how the Queen served us all over her 70 year reign. We enjoyed discussing how we had recently celebrated her jubilee in school as well as at home with our friends and family.

As a mark of respect all adults in school wore black and pinned a white rose.

Mr Straughan hung our Union Jack flag half mast outside our school as a sign of respect.

Each class have contributed to our very own book of condolences to share our thoughts at this very sad time.

Rest in peace your Majesty.