Thank you to all children and parents who were involved in the fund raising for NSPCC. The children learnt lots about keeping themselves safe and had a great week completing the challenges of the dance-a-thon. A fantastic £1839.30 was raised through sponsorship – Featherbed class raising the most. I’m sure the money raised will increase awareness for all children in the area about keeping themselves safe.
Our new school cross is complete
The new school cross our children have been working on with our local artist Helen Pickard is now finished. We hope to have it up and in place on our new school building over the half term holiday. Please see our ‘Whole School Events’ page for more.
Well done to our children who took part in our Durham local cross country event this morning. The children did a fantastic job and thoroughly enjoyed competing against other schools and did fantastically well.
Our Food for Thought Day was a great success. The children learnt lots about the importance of food, both locally and nationally. Thank you to our Year 6 children who held the whole school morning Liturgy and thank you to all who donated cans of food for our local Durham food bank.
Our school will be adopting a new Diocesan approved RSE policy (Relationship and Sex Education). Before the school fully adopts this policy we would like staff, governors and parents to be consulted and to review any comments regarding the draft policy. The consultation period will end on 30th January 2018. A copy of the draft policy can be found on our school website within the ‘school policy’ section. If you have any comments you wish to pass on to school please do so via the school office. Thank you.
Mr L J Duncan
The school cross for our new school building has started. The children are helping a local artist to create a colourful mosaic image of Christ. Hannah from Year4 laid the first piece of tile and what a great job she did! The cross is expected to be completed by half term and hopefully in place by the time the children return from their half term holiday.
Thank you to all who joined us this morning for a coffee and cake. It was lovely to catch up with some parents at our McMillan Coffee morning. We raised a very impressive £626 for the McMillan charity. If you didn’t get a chance to buy a cake then there will be an opportunity to do so when you pick up your child from school this afternoon. Cakes will be offered for sale outside Reception class and at the front of school.
Winner of tallest Cake Competition: A. Lamb (91cm) – please collect your school winnings from the school office.
Winning raffle tickets from this morning were:
Vicky Dobson Baily Riddell (Yr3)
Fraser Wright (Redacre) Jack Barrow (Y5)
Jill Spence Millie Mai Thompson (Yr3)
Jacob Mellenthin (Rec) L. Hare (Rec)
Could winners please select a winning raffle prize from the school office.
Thank you
Mr L J Duncan
The Mayor of Seaham visited the children to talk about all the fabulous things that Seaham has to offer. Councillor Sonia Foster answered lots of pupil questions and even allowed some lucky children to wear the Mayor’s gold chains. It was a lovely afternoon and who knows – we might even have a future mayor in school!
The children had a great day learning all about different European countries. There were lots of different languages being spoken, exotic foods being tasted and even Year 1 Turkish belly dancing in the school hall! The children showcased what they had learnt throughout the day in a fun filled whole school assembly. Well done boys and girls from Vatican City, Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Croatia.
We have had a number of cases of head lice in school. Could I ask parents to be extra vigilant when combing or brushing your child’s hair. A letter will go out today with information on how to spot and treat Head Lice (a copy is available in our ‘Parent Letters’ section of our school website.) A head lice comb is best for catching head lice.
Because head lice are passed on through hair to hair contact, could I also remind parents that pupils with long hair should have their hair tied back with a bobble or clip.
If you require any further information please check out the NHS website,
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Head-lice/Pages/Treatment.aspx
Mr L J Duncan
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