Class 4 had a lovely time at a Tri-Golf festival at Maiden Castle. Mrs Shaw joined us too!

UNCRC article 31 – Children should have the right to join in a range of activities.

UNCRC Article 29 – every child has the right to develop their education and talents.

Durham Music service are offering violin lessons in school for year 4 and then year 3.

Mr Stokoe teaches the violin and your child may get the chance to perform in school concerts.

If you are interested, please find out more at durhammusic.org.uk.

Huge well done to Sam for being our school artist of the month!

Our famous artist we are celebrating, is the wonderful Liz Million who is an illustrator from Darlington.

In class 3 we all had a heroes and villains party to celebrate the retirement of Mrs Shaw and the end of our Cornerstones topic. We played games, had a costume parade, a heroes versus villains quiz and ate delicious party food that Mrs Shaw treated us to.

Our school artist of the month is the talented Amelia Lee in Class 3. Amelia created an amazing Cruella De Vil clay sculpture, it had so much detail. Well done Amelia.

We are also celebrating the work of Andy Goldsworthy.

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, renowned in his field, that creates temporary landscape art installations out of sticks and stones, and anything and everything else that he finds outside. The son of a mathematician, Goldsworthy grew up working on farms before eventually getting his BA from what is now the University of Central Lancashire.

Well done to Kian in Class 1; who has been doing some tremendous Speaking and Listening when out visiting our Forest School – not only that it was his 6th Birthday too! How exciting 🙂

In Class 2 we have all worked so hard that choosing Head Teachers Award was super tricky. We decided on two ….. Well done to our little BIG WRITE super stars!

Well done Linzi in Class 3 for doing a lovely Big Write and producing beautiful pieces of work in all your books. Great job Linzi!

Amazing work from Scarlett during our WOW cooking day – it tasted delicious 🙂

A massive well done to Mya in class 2. She impressed Mr B with her fantastic buddy training work!

A huge well done to Sam in Class 3, for lovely joined up handwriting and a good attitude to learning.

A massive well done to Kayden for your perseverance in all your writing this week. I loved that you continued to work hard on the laptop after hurting your hand. Keep up the hard work.

Amazing work Evie for trying super hard in all of your school work 🙂

Well done to Ben in class 2, super phonics word. We were all impressed!

Well done to Jake in Class 3, for an excellent attitude to learning!

Well done to Millie in Class 4 who has persevered with her Computing Skills this week in every lesson.

UNCRC Article 31 – All children have a right to relax and play and join in with a wide range of activities. 

Class 3 really enjoyed their first football session with the coaches. Everyone worked super hard but we had lots of refreshment breaks to cool down from the sun!

In June, we are celebrating the work of our school artist of the month Connie from Class 2! She has created a beautiful Monet inspired painting. Well done Connie!

We’re also looking at the work of Banksy. Banksy has painted on walls all over the country. He is the most controversial street artist in the World.