Don’t worry there really wasn’t a real fire in school! Our Key Stage 1 children had a fabulous afternoon with our local firemen who taught them lots of fire safety tips. The children were taken outside to see a real fire engine and all had the opportunity to use the fire engine water hose!  Thank you Durham Fire Service for making time in your busy schedule to spend time with our children. It will surely be a visit they won’t forget!

Ragnor the Viking invaded school today and turned our Year 4 children into scary Vikings! The children learned lots of information about Viking life and made some real Viking jewellery and crafts. The day certainly brought the topic of ‘The Vikings’ to life.

To recognise the importance of World Food Day the children celebrated a ‘Food for Thought’ day in school today and enjoyed thinking and learning all about where our food comes from, what food is healthy and where hunger exists around the world. Thank you to all the children and parents for the many donations of food cans we received into school during our ‘Food for Thought’ day. You certainly excelled, once again, with your generosity and support. All the cans of food will be donated to local food banks which will be a great help to those in our community who need a little help.

Thank you to Year 5 who did a fabulous job presenting their class assembly on the topic of WW2. It was lovely to learn about many interesting facts about WW2 and to see what the children have been covering in their curriculum topic work this term. Thank you also to parents who were able to attend – I hope you enjoyed the assembly as much as we did.

Work cabins have arrived on site ready for the construction of our two new classrooms and sports hall. Preparatory work will be carried out this week and building work will commence on Monday – fingers crossed! New pick up and drop off arrangements will start next week and all parents will receive information regarding this. This is an exciting chapter in our school’s life and all the children, staff and parents will certainly enjoy seeing how the project progresses.

Well done to all the children who did a fantastic job writing out their own poems during our Poetry Day. It was lovely to share some of these poems during assembly and to listen to the certificate winners reading out their pieces of written work. All winners received their very own ‘book of poems’.

We received a very important letter this week from no other than her Majesty the Queen! Following our ‘Queen’s Tea Party’ in school last summer, our children wrote to the Queen to wish her a ‘Happy Birthday’. The children also included pieces of art work and special drawings too. It was lovely to receive a personal message from Buckingham Palace to thank all of our children for their kind words and pictures.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Macmillan Coffee Morning today. It was lovely to see so many parents, volunteers and members of the community  enjoying a cake and coffee over a friendly chat! Thank you to all who donated the fabulous cakes to sell – the school hall looked like an episode from the Great British Bake Off!  Well done to our very own ‘Mini Vinnie’s’ group for helping to organise and run the event and a special thank you to the staff at St Cuthbert’s Primary for selling some of our cakes too!

Congratulations to our parent Mrs Slater on winning the ‘Guess How Many 100’s and 1000’s are on the Cake’ competition. £48 was raised – with 1/2 going to the winner and 1/2 going to Macmillan.

Although we have more donations to come into school the current total we have raise so far is a fantastic £782.30. Thank you to you all for helping such a fantastic cause.

 

Thank you to all parents who attended our Reception, KS1 and KS2 Curriculum Evenings – it was lovely to meet with you all on the presentation evenings. I hope the time you spent with your child’s class teacher was informative and gave you a clear picture of what learning is planned for this academic year. Copies of class booklets will be forwarded to those parents who were unable to attend. If you need any further information or would like to ask any questions, which you may have forgotten to ask on the night, please don’t hesitate to contact school.

Mr L Duncan (Headteacher)