UNCRC Article 29 – Goals of education

Well done to all of the children this week who have worked extremely hard to earn their Headteacher Award, keep up the good work!

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, we celebrated all week long by creating some beautiful pieces of art within our classes, which we shared outside the front of the school for the whole community to enjoy. On Wednesday, the History Ambassadors helped Mrs Edwards in presenting personal WWII artefacts to the whole school, explaining what each item meant and how the soldiers would have lived during the war. Then, on VE Day afternoon, we had our very own school field party! We listened to some 1940s music, had some juice, had cupcakes and discussed how happy the country would have felt 80 years ago.

UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to take part in a wide range of cultural activities.

UNCRC Article 29 – Develop our talents.

Well done to Bobby in class 1, who won an amazing trophy at his football session! Bobby demonstrated excellent tackling skills, which won him player of the week!

Well done Bobby, keep up the good work!

Well done to the children who have earnt a TT Rockstar certificate this week for the highest amount of correct answers! Keep up the hard work.

UNCRC Article 24 – Right to the best possible health.

Well done to our first aiders, who have completed their first aid course with Mrs Hill.

UNCRC Article 29 – Goals of education

Well done to all of the children this week who have worked extremely hard to earn their Headteacher Award, keep up the good work!

Class 1

Class 1 went right back to the stone ages and the children learned about how people used to live many, many years ago. We looked at mark making and places people would love – it was very different to our life today! We created fire torches to compliment our wonderful costumes 🐆

Class 2

Class 2’s theme was Kings and Queens, learning about the current British Monarchy.

Class 3

Class 3’s theme were the Romans and learnt about the way of life, what happened when Pompeii erupted and the differences between the regions of the Roman Empire.

Class 4

Class 4 dressed up as Vikings! We read a Viking story about a young girl named Tilda, uncovered Viking equivalent fractions using longship sails, discussed the Pagan gods and goddess the Vikings worshipped, created Viking shields and loved showing off our costumes.

Class 5

Class 5 learnt about the significant figures of history who sought out new countries and ventures of the world.

UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to take part in artistic activities.

We were incredibly lucky to have a visit from the Mayor of Durham this afternoon, along with her bodyguards.

The children in Class 1 were fascinated at the jewels and clothing worn by the Mayor and were excited to perform her an action song using makaton signs. Class 2 performed a song in French that they have been practising this half term and Classes 3 and 4, performed; Three Little Birds using sign language. The children in class 5 ended the afternoon by sharing their work they have been doing with Durham Business Enterprise – she was blown away by the designs and detail put in and said she will pop by their market stall selling their products this weekend in Durham city. ✨

UNCRC Article 12 – every child has the right to be heard.

UNCRC Article 29 – Develop our talents

Class 3 and 4 have been working so hard over the past few months to learn how to play the ukulele. They have learnt so many new chords and songs and have been building their confidence every week. Today we performed to the rest of the school, playing and singing all of the songs we have learnt so far. They played so well and should be very proud of themselves! The year 4’s and 5’s have also been continuing to learn more songs on the violin and performed solos to everyone! They played amazingly and it is lovely to see the progress they have made.

UNCRC Article 29 – Develop our talents.

Today we announced our new artists of the half term, who both worked so hard at home to create some artwork, linking to our current artist ‘Piet Mondrian’. We could see the effort that Karen and Luke had put in to create this amazing artwork.

Well done Karen and Luke!