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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On Tuesday 14^th March 2017, a new member arrived in Class 3 when they adopted a six month old hamster. The male hamster had no name so it was decided that the only fair way to give him a name was for the children to hold an election to choose it. The class put forward suggestions for his name, these were Mr Hopper, Ginger Snap, Fluff, Ginger, Popcorn, Garfield, George, Tatty Ted, Henry and Harry. Each child was allowed to choose two names from the list for the first election to decide which were the most popular four names to choose from. Votes were cast and the wining names were Ginger Snap, Ginger, Popcorn and George. Each child then had one vote to cast to choose the name.

Ginger Snap 7

Ginger 2

George 4

Popcorn 5

The hamster was therefore named Ginger Snap, Ginger for short.

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When artist Alison Diamond visited our school recently the children were pleased to show her the newly hung community banners in our school hall. The children had worked with Alison previously to design and screen print the banners which were inspired by their community, local history and ecology. Everyone agreed they are a colourful and exciting addition to our school.

This Easter the children from Tow Law’s two primary schools are getting together to restore the Millennium Green’s Peacock seat which (over the years) has been left in a sorry state. Artist Alison Diamond came in to school to work with pupils on designs inspired by nature from the local countryside. She will be returning to school to help the children create features in wood which will adorn the seat.

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Class 1 is taking part in a Junior Education Programme with Durham Police, this is a six week programme. The children have so far learnt about Crime in the Countryside and about safety; this included a visit from Jet and Ben. The children have thoroughly enjoyed both sessions.

For the first time ever Wolsingham Comprehensive School held a Spelling Bee Competition, in which 9 primary schools took part. To decide who was to represent our school we held a mini competition. We then took a team of four girls to the competition.  The girls rose to the challenge, completing 3 rounds and scoring 30 points. This enabled them to make it to the final.

The girls came joint fourth as a result of their hard work and proudly received a certificate and a pen to congratulate them on their achievement. Well done, from everyone at TLMPS!