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This week in art club we have been making our own Poppy.

Our Little Library Club was lots of fun after school today. We shared a great story, Room On The Broom, and completed some design and colouring activities. The children were then able to explore the books in the library and choose one to take and enjoy at home. They can change their book next week or keep the same book …

We are so proud to say we have recently achieved our gold rights respecting award. This has been an ongoing journey for both staff and children in school since receiving our silver award in 2018. This is the highest accolade awarded by UNICEF UK. We will continue to teach our children about their rights and continue campaigning.   If you …

At the start of the year our JRSO’s Katy, Lydia and Ella met with two firemen who wanted to speak to children and parents at the end of the school day to educate them on keeping safe on the roads. The project was called ‘EDWARD’ (Every day without a road death). The children took part in Road Safety Week and …

Naomi from the D.L.I came to visit year 6 to help them learn more about how people were affected by WW1. The first part of the workshop explored the lives of the soldiers. The children used both primary and secondary sources of evidence to learn more about them and their experience of WW1, all of which were very different to …

We have been outside this week looking at the different colours we can see. We found lots of different coloured leaves. We collected them into different colored groups. Back in class we made some leaf pictures after reading the story , “Leaf Man ” by Louis Ehlert.

In our first art club session we have made our own firework pictures.

In Year 1, we have been reading The Gingerbread Man. Yesterday the children were shown footage of the Gingerbread Man in our classroom with his friends. We really want to find him, so we are making our very own missing posters.

A super start to our club on Monday. We practised different shapes and how to jump safely. Well done to all the children who came.  

Dear Parent/Guardian, Protecting Children Against Influenza (Flu) and Complications The nasal influenza vaccination is being offered to all children in Reception-Year 11. Our team is scheduled to visit St Cuthberts SEAHAM this Autumn as part of this programme. If you would like your child to receive this immunisation in school, please ensure your consent form has been submitted within one …

Take a look at the shoebox trenches year 6 made over half term.

Our local community garden donated some pumpkins Bouncy Castle to us and we had great fun designing and making a lanterns with them. We tried to pull a face just like the lanterns we had created.

Today some of our children attended the Hi-5 netball festival. There were seven schools in total and the girls showed excellent communication and team-work on their way to a third place finish overall. Well done girls!

The Year 1 children had a visit from the firefighters on Tuesday to learn about fire safety. The children had a look around their fire engine and all had a turn at using their hose.

Both of our teams were playing in a league fixture tonight against Ryhope Juniors. The A-Team took an early lead but Ryhope quickly levelled the score and scored another to make the score 2-1 to them. In the second half, we didn’t give up and kept at them. There were goals galore in the second half and the score finished …

We have been learning the seven continents in Year 2 and have enjoyed learning a song to help us to remember them. In small groups, we have made messy maps to show our continents.  

For some of our younger children, it has been such a long time since they have visited church. Our children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed a visit to our church on Monday morning. We were all welcomed by Fr Marc and the children enjoyed listening to Fr Marc explaining about all of the different things we can …

Year 6 enjoyed writing some 12 word stories based on the animation, Alma. To help create the spooky atmosphere we used torches, a darkened room and thought about how we would read the story aloud.  

COP26 Since returning to school in September, our year six children have been looking at the effects of global warming. We took part in a virtual conference with other schools both in the UK and overseas. As part of this, our children (and staff) all made a pledge to show what they are willing to do combat climate change.

The children in Year 1 had a special book delivery. They loved spending time reading the new books in our classroom.