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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The 21 year 6 children gathered together and presented their leaver’s speeches. There were witty anecdotes and happy memories which the packed audience thoroughly enjoyed. It was a joy to listen to them and watch their faces as their own individual awards were announced. These awards, presented by Miss Mawson focused on different aspects of the children’s skills. It was a joyful afternoon enjoyed by all!

Class 4 enjoyed a brilliant day of sports at WSCC on Monday 18th July 2016. During the morning, they took part in Orienteering activities where they solved problems and searched for clues. They had their lunch in the hall and then enjoyed an afternoon of multi-skills activities and games.

Thank you to the PE teachers at WSCC who gave Class 4 an extremely fun day!

As part of our geography work in the Summer term Class 3 visited Waskerley Station where they met Dave, a former Countryside ranger.

The children visited St Matthew’s church and enjoyed hearing about the history of the church and village before walking along the Waskerley Way , previously a railway line between Consett and Darlington, to Burnhill Nature reserve. The children found out about how the railway was used as the main way to transport freight between the main towns of the area. They especially enjoyed finding out about the Dingy Skipper butterfly and of the work that Mr Bell, the rangers and the local schools have completed to ensure they have a habitat to live.

When they arrived at Burnhill, the children enjoyed their packed lunches, provided by the school kitchen, before pond dipping. They gained a new school record for finding 16 newts in the pond, however the current record is finding 21 newts in one visit. We shall have to visit again to see if we can break the record.

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Our termly Sports Assembly took place on Friday 8th July. There were a variety of certificates presented including: KS2 basketball and KS1 athletics festival. Children who passed their swimming also received their certificate. Finally, everyone in school received a certificate to celebrate a successful sports day.

The children who attended the different festivals and competitions spoke about the events. They even gave out the certificates, no need for our PE co-ordinator, Miss Mawson, to do that!

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Children in Year 6 had a brilliant afternoon tree planting with Mr Hill and Mr Bell at Tow Law Millennium Primary School. The photos below tell the story!

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Our sports day was a fantastic success and everyone had a brilliant time!

Children from KS1 and KS2 took part in a carousel of activities before the races began. Children from Year 6 planned and ran the carousel of activities with activities ranging from throwing skills, football skills, javelin, shotput to an obstacle course.  The children then had the option to join in with races. There were a selection of races: sprint, long distance, hurdles and relay. Also, of course, there was the toddlers race and parents race!

We were very lucky with the weather, it started raining five minutes after the final race had finished!

Thank you to everyone who came along to support their children and the teams.

A final, massive well done to ‘Jessica Ennis’ team who won sports day overall.

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EYFS took part in a separate sports day. Our nursery children took part in a carousel style sports day with a variety of activities located on their yard. Children in reception completed races on the field.

On Wednesday 22nd June, Class 3 and Class 4 went on a trip to Newcastle. Class 3 visited the Hindu Temple and Class 4 visited the Sikh Temple (Gurdwara).

Class 3 visited the ISKON Hindu temple, on Westgate Road in Newcastle. During the visit the children found out about the history of Hinduism and the main beliefs. Kirtida, the temple leader, was impressed with the children’s knowledge of Hinduism. The children were allowed to dress up in traditional costumes and were told about the traditions of festivals and weddings, as well as having a drumming workshop. Part if the visit was learning about meditation, the class really enjoyed this experience.

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Class 4 visited the Gurdwara on Westgate Road in Newcastle. The children were welcomed into the temple and enjoyed some snacks in the Langar Hall. They they got to experience the main hall in the temple and enjoyed listening to a member of the Gurdwara singing Guru. Following this, they explored the remaining rooms in the temple and enjoyed asking Cloud lots of interesting questions.

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At lunchtime, the two classes joined together again and went to Saltwell Park. Here, they had a picnic lunch and then completed a geography map reading skills activity.