Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-10-29,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-Y

Morning Everybody.
Just a quick blog to let you know that on Tuesday night myself and Michelle (Chairperson of the PTA) undertook a firewalk in order to raise funds for the school. If you would like to make any sort of contribution or donation towards this it would be greatly appreciated.  This could be done via the school office or by sending money in with your children.
Thanks again for all your support and a kind of huge thanks to Freddie’s mum Sam for organising it all.

P5 are enjoying learning how to play tennis in PE. We have been practising our forehand techniques. We look forward to learning more skills and playing games.

What an amazing start to our new topic in P5. We watched a clip from Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions and thought about the amazing inventions we use everyday. We were then inspired to think of our own ideas for new inventions. We had some great suggestions such as flying police cars, robots which could make ice cream and even a money making machine!  After we designed our inventions, we then thought about the resources we needed and started building. We needed to make some improvements along the way, but when we were finished we were given the chance to present our new inventions in the Dragon’s Den. Some of the dragons were quite scary, especially Patchy the dog! In English, we wrote explanations as to how our inventions worked. We all agreed it was a brilliant start to the new term. Well done P5!

P2 have had an amazing time this week. We have researched different types of puppet then made our own. In small groups, children have written and produced their own puppet shows.

Video footage to follow.

Again, a group of Y10 students walked down to the local care home to volunteer and help the residents and staff with activities. We are so very proud of our students. The manager of the care home made them all certificates to thank them and even invited them to stay for lunch. She told me on the phone that they are the most polite and well mannered children she has ever come across and a credit to the school. They will hopefully be volunteering here each week, I think the care home would love them to come every day, they have even been invited to one of the residents birthday parties!

P 10 visited Consett Police Station and Custody Suite today. They were given a tour and had opportunities to use the breathalyser machine, experience a stay in the cells, experience booking in and take a look around a police van.