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This week was Anti-Bullying week. The theme this year was United Against Bullying. Please take a look on how we became united during the week. DISCLAIMER: No bubbles were burst in our pursuit to unite against bullying 🙂

Year 5 have begun to learn a Bollywood style dance. This week we created group tableaus thinking about hand gestures and symmetry. We added them on to our whole class sequence.

We thought about the things we would find in an Anglo Saxon village and worked in teams to make strong structures using triangle supports and slots to secure the card. A lovely (if slightly messy) afternoon! Great to see our home learners who are isolating also joining in.  

This week is anti-bullying week. A week used to raise awareness of bullying. When we are bullied, we are denied of our rights. Article 2 which is about discrimination and how we have this right regardless of our age, gender, religion, language, abilities, family background but often bullies recognise our differences and use this to be unkind to us. Article …

We’re developing our sequences in the gymnastics lesson. Balances are definitely improving!

Reception Class were amazing this week and impressed us all with their hooping skills. They had a fantastic session with Tracey from Hoopstarz. We were so proud of the children especially since some children had never used a hoop before. Well done Reception Class.

This week’s reader of the week is Isabelle. Isabelle has been trying really hard this week to read at home as well as at school. Well done Isabelle, we are really proud of you!      

Year 6 visited Seaham Park Cenotaph to pay their respects today. They read the poem by John Mcrae, “In Flanders Field’ followed by bidding prayers and a final poem dedicated to the unknown soldier. We will remember them …  

Year 6 together as a class have finally reached over 1 million words in 9 weeks with a total of 369 combos! This is a fantastic effort! Check out our recent leaderboard: Since coming back after half term Year 6 have read 156683 words in total and collected 42 combos! Keep it up 🙂

Year 6 showed a great knowledge and understanding of fire safety and now understand the risks of fire and how to check their house is safe. They also looked at fire safety from the point of view of the firefighters who risk their lives to save others and how they might feel as November 5th approaches. They wrote some of …

This week’s reader of the week in Year 2 is Sonny. He has been trying super hard with his reading and we are very proud of him. Well done Sonny.  

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As part of our Fire Safety Day Reception Class had to look at the difference between hot and cold. We also had to find out how and why it is important to be careful around fire. Mrs Groark lit lots of candles in class so we could see how fire can give us light and heat. We also had a …

What is Get a Jab, Give a Jab? Get a Jab, Give a Jab was created by staff in the NHS and other health organisations. The campaign encourages staff to take up a free flu vaccine and in turn, NHS trusts will make a donation to Unicef UK for the equivalent number of vaccines for children around the world. Durham …

Reception Class have had lots of Halloween fun this week. Some pumpkins were kindly donated to us so we sketched them using pastels. We then split into teams to design and carve our pumpkins. Once we finished we tried to make our faces look the same as the pumpkin! We dressed up in Halloween costumes and our writing was to …

We enjoyed writing some amazing transmogrification descriptions where a person turns into something spooky. The part where we read them by torchlight was most fun!  

We have had a super couple of days pumpkin carving and completing some spooky maths and story writing. I was very impressed with the stories. We have some very spooky imaginations. The children looked fantastic in their costumes and have had lots of halloween fun. A lovely end to our first half term and I must say how brilliant all …

What a terrifying day we’ve had in Year 1! We have written some fantastic spooky acrostic poems, crafted our own pumpkins and bobbed for apples! Everyone looked extremely scary in their costumes too!           

We enjoyed a spooky and socially distanced buddy time to see what our buddies were dressed as on our spooky day. We all agreed they looked great! We did some socially distanced halloween dancing before saying goodbye!  

Year 6 looked fantastic today in their halloween costumes. A day filled with spooky activities from art in the local graveyard, to finishing off our spooky Alma stories, re-creating famous halloween songs on the boomwhackers and learning about the history of halloween.