Well, what a fabulous time we have all had in school during our Sleep-Over in Aid for Crisis Support. We sampled structure building using cardboard boxes – fabulous teamwork and resilience shown by all, especially Mrs. Aspinall whilst she was testing how water-tight each shelter was! We experienced food and drink from a soup kitchen, as well as hosting our very own fashion catwalk wearing cloths we made by ourselves using black plastic bag. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Today the whole school took part in a fun filled afternoon of Maths activities – they really enjoyed being taught by different teachers for different sessions and it was great for all of the adults to see the progression of skills in Maths as the children move from EYFS right the way to Year 6!

Mrs Morton had lots of fun working with Class 2 and Class 3 – they were looking at  place value and subitising with different foods before solving some challenging conceptual problems in differentiated groups 🙂

Mrs Aspinall enjoyed working with Class 1 and Class 4. Class 1 worked hard on counting out objects and discussing which group had more or less. They were very good at using the mathematical vocabulary. Class 4 worked on multiplication skills and played different games to show off all that they know. Mrs Aspinall was super impressed with their fast mental maths skills. Well done!

Miss Grimes enjoyed working with class 5 and class 1. Class 5 worked hard to solve tricky word problems in their pairs, using lots of different methods. They worked as a team to solve them and then checked their answers. Class 1 counted to 3 using chocolate to help them and then sang a lovely number nursery rhyme.

Mr Graham enjoyed working with Class 2 and 3 with their Maths; we looked at calculations to 50 using a variation of ways to solve conceptual problems. We really enhanced our application skills by explaining our mathematical thinking to our friends by showing them how we solved our problems. Well done everyone – Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 38 – war and armed conflicts

“Lest we Forget”

Across the week all of the children in school have been learning about the importance of Remembrance Day. Today we held our annual Remembrance Day Service in the school hall, we talked about the importance of the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month and why we wear poppies on this day to remember those that gave their lives to make the world a better place for us before holding a minutes silence to pay our respect.

Class 2

In class 2 we discussed how we all have family ties to experiences during war times. We all shared our thoughts about our families in the past. We then used a range of materials to create a Flanders field poppy painting. We have proudly displayed them at the front of the school. We have also enjoyed joining in with the whole school by buying our poppy merchandise, helping raise money for the poppy appeal.

Class 3

Class 3 had lots of fun creating their water-colour poppy paintings. We discussed each part of the poppy and why it is meaningful and talked about why it is important to wear them. We reflected on the importance of Remembrance Day and thought about the soldiers who fought for our country. We enjoyed participating in the whole school remembrance service putting our change on the poppy.

Class 4

For Remembrance Day, Class 4 made their own origami poppies to display at the front of our school and even made some poppies during Forest School using natural resources. We also donated our spare change to the giant poppy in our Remembrance Assembly led by Mrs Lee and were able to look at photographs and medals that Joel from Class 1’s dad had been rewarded with for defending our country. A massive thank you to Joel and his dad for letting us see part of our history!

Class 5

Class 5 created a beautiful landscape using intricate colour-mixing, charcoal and silhouettes  to produce a poppy field showing a lone soldier standing alongside a grave, remembering fallen soldiers who gave their lives for the freedom of mankind. We linked our artwork to John McCrae’s famous poem – Flander’s Fields. Lest We Forget.

Some of our children took part in a cooking session based around the familiar story ‘Supertato’. They had lots of fun listening to the story and creating a jam-packed veggie pasta of their own to take home 🙂

It is fair to say the school corridors smelt DELICIOUS – We certainly have some chefs in the making!

Class 5 enjoyed their visit from PCSO Dean. He told us all about Anti-Social Behaviour, being safe online and how we, as a right respecting school, can ensure that everyone feels respected and valued within our community as well as our school.

Thank you for your visit.

Today we represented school in the Durham and Chester le Street KS2 Cross Country Races. We entered teams from year 3,4,5 and 6.

To warm us up Amelia, our sports leader, delivered stretches and even a bit of brain gym. Thank you Amelia.

The children were amazing and showed determination throughout. We are so proud of all of you and how much you pushed yourselves to achieve. The most outstanding behaviour from all of our children throughout.

UNCRC Article 29 – develop talents.

Fairachievers Re-accreditation

We are very proud to be the holders of the Fairachievers School Award.  We use Fairtrade products where and when we possibly can including at our Breakfast club. We liaise with local supermarkets such as Sainsburys in order to widen the links with we have with the local community and business.

Have a look at our Fairtrade policy which was actually written by the children themselves expressing their aims for Fairtrade and our school.  Please view our Fairtrade Policy by selecting the link below.

Fairtrade Policy

A massive well done to this weeks Headteachers Award. You have all worked super hard and impress us all.