by helendobson
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.
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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.
by helendobson
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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In the Summer term 2016 the year 6 pupils enjoyed the chance to work with historians from Durham’s Oriental Museum.
The workshop started with a hands on practical mathematics lesson inspired by ancient Islamic tiles which required a good deal of cooperation, organisation and negotiation for each group to design and complete their own set of tiles. This was followed by a literacy lesson of creative writing inspired by themes from Arabic poetry. Finally, the children had great fun developing their technology skills by working out how to program robot trucks to navigate a course around obstacles in the classroom – without causing too much mayhem!
All thanks to the ancient Chinese whose mathematical principles helped evolve the binary code behind today’s computer programming.
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What a lovely afternoon we had for Reception Graduation. We are very proud of the children’s achievements in the EYFS. We are sure the children will continue to work hard in the next chapter of their school career!
by helendobson
We had a wonderful time on our visits to Hall Hill Farm to round off our Summer Topic. The children were very caring with all the animals and it was lovely to see them transfer their knowledge from our learning in school. We look forward to continue this learning further, with the arrival of chickens in the Autumn Term!
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by helendobson
Once again, X Factor was a fantastic night enjoyed by all involved! This year 15 acts were due to take part but unfortunately as one child was ill we had 14 acts. They were accompanied by an array of amazing dancers. Children were involved from year 1 up to year 6 and all displayed a wonderful attitude. The children were joined by three judges; Mr Bell (our Chair of Governors); Mr Elliott ( Head of Wolsingham Comprehensive School ) and Miss Kacey Blenkinsop, a previous pupil who continues to come and support the school both on X Factor night and throughout the rehearsals.
The show was a sell out and the audience were thrilled with all acts. We were treated to a performance by Kacey ( a previous winner of X Factor ) while the votes were counted and verified. Then the announcement was made – Lewis Davis had won, singing his interpretation of Livin’ On a Prayer by Bon Jovi. He had thrilled the audience with his whole performance. The night need with thanks to all the helpers and staff who supported the event and then Lewis performed his winning song again surrounded by all the other acts and dancers, who cheered him on. It had been a long few months with rehearsals starting back in February but when the night finally arrived in June everyone was raring to go. Thanks to everyone ( including staff and other pupils who helped with the refreshments ) and it has once again been a pleasure to work with the talented and enthusiastic children at Tow Law Millennium Primary.
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Our Celebrations Trophy Assembly was, once again, a fantastic celebration to end the school year!
Well done to everyone who was presented with a trophy this year and thank you to parents for attending to share in the celebration.
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