On Friday 21st October, the last day of Autumn 1st Half Term, we had our celebrations assembly. The children received behaviour certificates for outstanding behaviour across the half term and they sang a selection of Harvest songs to the parents. Well done to our pupils for an excellent first half term of 2016 – 2017!
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On Friday 14th October ten children from Years 5 and 6 went to a tag rugby competition at Parkside School. The games were 7 a side and we played 8 games in total. Tow Law Millennium children tried their hardest and had a great day with Kieran Barclay scoring three tries in one game.
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Class 4 had a brilliant afternoon out at the Community Centre on Tuesday 4th October to see the performance of ‘Hey, Presto!’ as part of Durham Book Festival.
It was a theatre production with music for children under 7 and their families. Our children from years 1 and 2 attended the performance.
Guide Dog Puppies
At the end of Summer term 2016, the School Councillors and the Buddies completed a sponsored walk to raise money for the Guide Dogs. They raised an amazing total of £389.07. Wow!
This money was sent to the Guide Dogs charity and is being used to sponsor three real guide dog puppies. We will get “Pupdates” on their progress and with each “Pupdate” we will receive teaching resources and class activity sheets covering a range of topics: from how guide dogs train to what it’s like to be visually impaired, along with take home freebies for every child.
The new School Councillors for 2016 – 2017 continued the previous work and have spread the message about the puppies across the school. The School Councillors were very excited to receive information about the puppies they are sponsoring. The names of the puppies are: Lexi, Zac and Una.
If you would like to find out more information please visit Guide Dog Puppies School Sponsorship or view the leaflet below.
Year 6 WSCC Orienteering and DT
For the first half of the Autumn term the children in Class 1 have been visiting Wolsingham Comprehensive School on a Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon for orienteering and DT work. They have received a free lunch on both of these days, courtesy of Wolsingham. The children have had a fantastic time and have learnt lots of new skills.
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On Friday 14th October, our whole school went to St Philip’s and St James’ Church for our Harvest Festival.
The children had really enjoyed learning new Harvest songs and sang them beautifully in church.
The speakers said their words really clearly and spread the message well about Harvest.
Thank you to everyone who helped us to walk down to church and who attended our Harvest Festival Service.
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Years 1 to 6 enjoyed our first multi-cultural celebration day of the year. They learnt about the birthday of Lord Ganesh (Ganesh Chaturthi) and how Hindus celebrate it all over the world.
In some places the festival is celebrated for ten days and is a joyous event and regarded as a public occasion. In other places it is simply celebrated at home and hymns are sung and offerings made to Ganesh. Sweets are also distributed because in Hindu legend Ganesh liked them.
Class 4 created artwork related to the birthday of Lord Ganesh with coloured sand and Class 2 created a statue model of Lord Ganesh himself out of clay. Class 3 learnt about the Hindu Gods and Class 1 made postcards celebrating the festival.
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The whole school joined in with celebrations for what would have been Roald Dahl’s 100th Birthday. Children (and staff!) across the school dressed up as characters from Roald Dahl books and enjoyed a day of Roald Dahl related activities.
[Slideshow "roald-dahl-celebration-day" not found]KS1 and KS2 Addition and Subtraction Parents Meetings September 2016
We held meetings on Tuesday 20th September (KS1) and Wednesday 21st September (KS2) to share addition and subtraction objectives and methods with parents. You will find the information which was prepared for the meetings below.
KS1 addition and subtraction methods
KS2 addition and subtraction methods
Please remember that we have a homework club on a Thursday 3.15 – 4.15pm for parents and their children to get support with homework. Members of staff are present in homework club and are available to help.
Local artist works with Year 6
Artist Alison Diamond made a series of visits to our school over the Summer term 2016. She worked with pupils to develop designs inspired by themes representing the history, ecology and diversity of their local community in and around Tow Law. Alison helped the children develop their ideas to create motifs which the children could screen print on to canvas with Alison’s guidance. The colourful and innovative banners will take pride of place in our school hall for all to enjoy.
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