On Monday 5th June, Chris Cook came into school for our second Inspire Day.
We started the day with an inspiring assembly about reaching for your dreams and setting goals but not being disheartened if you do not achieve them.
Chris then did a workshop with each class about ‘mindfulness’.
We look forward to Chris coming back into school for our final Inspire Day on our Sports Day, Monday 10th July.
[Slideshow "inspire-day-two" not found]Miss Mawson and Mrs Jackson took some of our children to Wolsingham School for a Eurovision Song Competition on Friday 19th May.
The children performed The Proclaimers ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)’. They were dressed in tartan and had Scottish flags painted on their faces.
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The children enjoyed the performance so much that they wanted to perform it during our celebrations assembly.
On Thursday 26th May, our whole school, from Reception to Year 6, visited Preston Park. It was a very hot, sunny day and the children enjoyed their time in the outdoors in this wonderful park.
Each class took part in a Victorian history workshop and then had free time to explore. They explored the Victorian street, woodland areas and, of course, the playground!
We all had a fantastic day at our whole school trip.
[Slideshow "preston-park" not found]Our KS1 children in Class 4 had a fantastic afternoon at Wolsingham School for an athletics festival with our cluster schools.
They took part in activities involving; jumping, throwing, javelin and running.
The cluster schools beat the target set for them by David by scoring thousands of points when they were all added together!
[Slideshow "athletics-festival" not found]The Early Years team welcomed some new members to school this week. Their four Ginger Nut Ranger Hens were purchased from Durham Hens. They settled really well into their new coop, that had been sourced from The feed Warehouse, Delves Lane. In fact they have settled in so well that they started laying eggs on the second day.in school.
The children held an election in their classes to give the new arrivals their names. They can easily be told apart because the girls, each have a fashionable ankle bracelet in their own individual colour:
Mrs McClucky, named by Class 3, has yellow,
Pecker, named by Class 4 , has blue,
Smidge, named by Reception, has green,
and Flower, named by Nursery, has red.
They are currently in their new run, but this is going to be extended in the near future so they have more space to run around in. They are fed with chicken pellets, which they can access 24 hours and have fresh water available in their hen house.
[Slideshow "chickens" not found]The week before May half term, our children across school enjoyed a variety of activities linked to British Values.
Each teacher in school taught a lesson to each class related to a British Value:
Miss Dobson taught a ‘democracy’ lesson,
Miss Thompson taught an ‘individual liberty’ lesson,
Miss Mawson taught a ‘rule of law’ lesson,
Mrs McCluskey taught a ‘mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith’ lesson.
Our reception children learnt about British Values linked to Mr Men.
The children really enjoyed learning about aspects of British parliament and life in modern day British society.
[Slideshow "british-values-2" not found]We celebrated May Day in school as a special British Values celebration day. All classes spent time learning about May Day traditions. Everyone learnt the song ‘May Day Dance’ and performed it to parents together.
[Slideshow "may-day" not found]Please see below details of our class organisation for 2017/18 sent to parents on 22nd May 2017.
We have very exciting news to share about our Early Years Foundation Stage this summer term. Please see our two information leaflets below for more details.
Invitation for official opening of WSCC
