Today we had a wonderful visit to Hamsterley Forest and took part in a day of exciting activities led by OAESES.

Class 1 & 2 followed the Zog trail and made magical wands with woodland materials.

Class 3 had a day of OAA and followed many different maps to solve the mystery 🙂

 

To raise money for the Booktrust, we took part in a Pyjamarama Day at Nettlesworth!

We came  to school in our pyjamas and then took part in some fun reading activities throughout the day. We had lots of fun activities planned throughout the day and celebrated the importance of every child having a bedtime story to read 🙂

Together we raised £55.00

 

 

 

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming back the amazing author and story teller Adam Bushnell into our school. It was a fabulous to spark imaginations and get the creative writing flowing as we launched our new topics across the school – very inspiring for all of our children.

Class 1

We had lots of fun creating our own characters for fairy tales such as; ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. We used lots of adjectives to describe our characters and added detail to the paper plate characters using natural resources that we found on the field floor.

 

Class 2 – Rio De Vida

 

 

Class 3 – Pirates

 

 

Class 4 – Heroes and Villains

 

 

Class 5 – Firedamp and Davy Lamps

The weather wasn’t on our side this year but we didn’t let that stop us holding our annual Sports Day. We set up camp in the hall and cheered on our teams. We all had a fantastic time and showed off all of the Sainsburys Values whilst taking part. It was lovely to see the outstanding rights respecting behaviour from all of our children.

A massive thank you to our Sports Leaders and Mr Beveridge who ensured that Sports Day was well planned and resourced, as always.

And finally ….. 2023 Sports Day Winners are …. YELLOW TEAM!

Congratulations

Article of the Week Article 31

Hello, Article 31, which we explore in this week’s Article of the Week, covers a wide range of cultural and artistic activities beyond what we might typically think of as ‘play’. It also includes relaxation and rest, as well as sport and physical activity. This week’s pack take a holistic approach to this article and includes activities that will appeal to children and young people across a broad scope of their interests. After the summer break we will no longer deliver new Article of the Week packs every week by email. All packs will continue to be available online. In the next academic year we will launch a new monthly resource called Spotlight. Spotlight will be a themed continuing professional development resource which helps you embed children’s rights practice and the outcomes of the Award with staff in your school. This new teacher training resource will be sent out in a monthly email which will highlight other resources that we recommend exploring that month.

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UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Another fabulous effort by all our children who have worked very hard to complete their next level on Lexia.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have accessed their TT Rockstars this week and achieved their certificates.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have worked very hard and achieved their Head Teacher Award.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Today we had a very special visit from Jo, from LTA, she told us all about what she has achieved over the years. We thanked her for helping us to update our tennis equipment in school as well as putting on a tennis demonstration of skills. She was very impressed!

Thank you to Mr Beveridge for organising the visit and teaching us all the amazing skills!

A massive well done to the 8 children who represented our school at the Durham Dash on Wednesday. They all ran a race around Beamish Museum, competing against 28 other schools from around County Durham.

We are all so proud of them and their determination to run even though the temperatures were warm!

Well done!