As part of our first topic of the year, ‘Marvellous Me’ we had a visit from Nurse Louise who works in a big hospital in Newcastle. We listened as she told us how nurses help people all around the world and showed us how to use some of her important equipment. She needed help from a team of Doctors, Nurses and Healthcare Assistants and we stepped into the role very well! Using stethoscopes, checking blood pressure and even watching Nurse Louise do Retinal examinations (ophthalmoscopy).

 

Our favourite part was getting a bandage of our own when stepping into the role of poorly patients in the hospital waiting room! Thank you so much for a great morning Nurse Louise 🙂

 

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Simply sports October Half Term

UNCRC Article 2 (Non-Discrimination) & 30 (Children from minority or indigenous groups).

October is Black History Month in the UK, an event that has been celebrated nationwide for more than 30 years. The month was originally founded to recognise the contributions that people of African and Caribbean backgrounds have made to the UK over many generations. Now, Black History Month has expanded to include the history of not just African and Caribbean people but black people in general.

For more info: Black History Month 2021: What is it? – CBBC Newsround

Class 1 have celebrated Black History Month by reading the story of Elmer and talking about how Elmer didn’t feel that he wanted to be the same as the other elephants. We talked about how differences should be celebrated and how each and every one of us are special and important!

 

 

This week we had a Halloween theme for our Science club experiment. We made spooky gloop using cornflour and water. We mixed the ingredients to make sure that the mixture resembled slime. We were fascinated with the material that looked like a liquid, felt like a sold but acted like a liquid. SPOOKY!

Community funday on Saturday 29^th October, a fun day out where the local community can come and see some of the great opportunities Durham has to offer. From theatre groups and sports clubs to volunteering opportunities and Kid’s clubs there’s a range of things to come and discover. Entry will be free and people of all ages and backgrounds are welcome.

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UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Fantastic efforts by all our children who caught the eyes of their teachers with some excellent rights respecting gold pieces of work. We are immensely proud of all your efforts.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A fabulous well done to all our children who have been working very hard to achieve their TT Rockstars certificates this week. Superb Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all of you.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who achieved their next certificates on Lexia; we are all very proud of you.

Today 10 year 6’s attended the Bring it On STEM event at the Beacon of Light in Sunderland.

Bring It On, The North East Exhibition for Future Engineers, is targeted at young people aged 9-14. It aims to raise the aspirations of North East youngsters and contribute to closing the engineering skills gap in the region. They aim to do this by Educating young people about the engineering in their region, inspiring them to want to be part of it and informing them about what they need to do to become so.

We had so much fun finding out all about careers within Stem. We learnt lots of exciting facts and we were amazed at how much STEM is all around us every day!

A big thank you to Papi for coming along to help us out too.