Our year five pupils have had a brilliant time becoming scientists in the Chemistry laboratory at Wolsingham School and Community College. The programme of activities ran for half a term, with the children enjoying lunch at the school then an afternoon in the science laboratory. All the children earned their Bunsen burner certificates allowing them to observe changes when they applied heat during their experiments. They have had lots of fun investigating acid and alkali solutions, exploring chromatography and the magical powers of static electricity – not to mention the fantastic properties of slime! Each child was presented with a certificate as a memento of the experience.

Our Christingle Service took place on Friday 1st December and it definitely began our Christmas festivities well!

Unfortunately, the heavy snow from the previous day meant that the service was held in school rather than our local church, St Philip and St James’. Parents, family and friends showed fantastic support to the children and our hall was almost overflowing with people!

We heard the story about the first Christingle, the work that the Children’s Society does and the significance of the different parts of the Christingle.

The children sang beautifully and some children even took on the mighty task of a solo/duet performance during ‘Sing Christingle’.

The service was a lovely start to our Christmas celebrations in school.

The Mini Police scheme arrived at Tow Law Millennium Primary School on Monday 27 November. The children eagerly awaited the arrival of the Police Youth Development workers. The children are taking part in a 7 week programme where they will learn about a variety of skills as well as being ambassadors of the school in their “mini police uniform”. Part of the programme will include the children sharing their experiences with the rest of the school when they present an assembly in the new year. More information will be available as the scheme progresses.

The School Council requested an art club for KS2 due to many suggestions in our suggestion box. This was provided as an option during Autumn 2nd half term and from the images above, you can see that the children are thoroughly enjoying this experience.

Tow Law Millennium Primary School took part in UK Parliament week. The children enjoyed learning about the Houses of Parliament, our Prime Minister Theresa May and taking part in democratic voting.

They thoroughly enjoyed using the publications from the Parliament Education Service.

Tow Law Millennium’s year 5 pupils have taken part in the first of a 3 day Multi-skills programme, running throughout the year, at Parkside Academy.

The children enjoyed trampolining and fun challenges on the rock climbing wall. They also showed off their debating, reasoning and team working skills when they were challenged to come up with a plan to survive on a deserted island.

A carousel of science activities allowed the children hands on experience of carrying out experiments – finding out how to survey habitats, investigating the periodic table and how fireworks get their colours as well as producing a rainbow filled test tube of colours by mixing liquids with different densities.

The children had a fantastic time and were most impressed by the young leaders, Cain and Niamh, who looked after them throughout the day. Several children were awarded certificates and will be invited to join Parkside academy’s award ceremony. All are eagerly looking forward to their next visit.

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On Wednesday 1st November, our whole school enjoyed a fantastic pantomime of the fairytale ‘Cinderella’. The children laughed, sang and joined in throughout the performance and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.