As part of our British Values work we celebrated St George’s day. The children across the school enjoyed learning about St George and sharing their knowledge in an assembly for parents on April 28th. They were intrigued to find out that St George never actually came to England and yet he is our patron saint.

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On Thursday 6th April, we welcomed parents, family and friends to our assembly – Celebrations. The assembly included handing out our half termly behaviour certificates, our 100% attendance vouchers and singing a selection of songs from our Easter service.

The highlight of the assembly for the children was finding out the results of the Easter egg decorating competition. On Wednesday 5th April, all children in school decorated an egg and these were then judged choosing a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize for each class.

Well done to everyone, there were some fantastic ideas and designs this year!

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Happy Easter to everyone!

In March, our Reception children went to St Philip’s and St James’ Church in Tow Law to learn about christenings. They all took part in the pretend service and really engaged in the sequence of events. Thank you to Rev Whalley for supporting us and making it possible for this activity to take place.

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Our children were visited by Dwaine Pipe once again in the performance ‘You’ve been flushed’ by Gibber Productions, in association with Northumbrian Water. They were reminded that ′only toilet paper, pee and poo go down the loo′ throughout the performance. Everything else makes Dwaine “sick”, so should be binned, or disposed of in other ways. The children learnt this through the acting, singing and dancing.

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Children can also play ‘Dwaine Dash’, a free downloaded app.

 

 

Parents and Rev Lowes joined staff and pupils at St Philip’s and St James’ church on 31st March 2017 to celebrate the Easter Service. Children gave readings and sang lovely songs to tell the Easter Story. Everyone enjoyed the service with the children speaking clearly and confidently. Rev Lowes told staff at the end of the service how lovely the children sang ‘Lord of the Dance’, including all the verses.

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On Monday 27th March, we had a fantastic production in school called ‘Super Splash Heroes’. The production was by Gibber Productions, in association with Northumbrian Water, and the aim was to help our children become “water wise”. They visited school to let the children know all about the importance of water conservation and how they can be Super Splash Heroes and save more water at home.

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We had lots of fun singing, listening and watching this very important message.  If you want to get some fantastic free water saving resources to help you conserve more water please use the Northumbria Water link below:

https://www.nwl.co.uk/your-home/learn-about-water/water-efficiency.aspx

 

On Wednesday 29th March, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 went to Parkside Academy for a multi-skills festival with five other schools from our local area. The children took part in a variety of activities including: throwing and catching, rolling, jumping and running. Everyone had a fantastic time!

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Class 2 have been learning about Ancient Greece. They shared their Greek vase designs and artwork with us.

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Class 3 presented their assembly on World War 1. The children have been learning all about what life would be like in the trenches of World War 1. The children particularly liked learning about the gruesome trench foot and Maconochie stew. They created their own images of what they thought the trenches would be like.

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Class 4 have been learning about significant people in history with a focus on explorers. The children have been very interested in space explorers and so chose Neil Armstrong to be the focus of their assembly. They told the story of the first man to walk on the moon. Everyone enjoyed having lines in the play and dressing up.

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Class 5 then came onto stage and showed their Mother’s Day artwork and sang a Mother’s Day song.

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Class 4 and 5 then went on stage together to finish the assembly with a Mother’s Day song: ‘My Mum’s One in a Million’.

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