Fire Safety with Woody!
Today we took part in a Fire Safety Workshop virtually with Woody the dog!
We enjoyed learning all about fire safety within our homes and what to do in an emergency.
Today we took part in a Fire Safety Workshop virtually with Woody the dog!
We enjoyed learning all about fire safety within our homes and what to do in an emergency.
Hazel class were super excited this morning to see if their bean plants had grown any more over the weekend.
We have lovely green leaves and some buds starting to blossom.
Hazel pupils are amazed at how tall their plants now are.
We will update you when we have some beans!
This week, we were lucky enough to have Nicola Minichiello (an Olympic Bobsleigh athlete) come into school and work alongside a group of Mentors who are working with Miss Herkes to use sport as a way of increasing physical activity, promoting positive mental health and well-being and running sessions for a group of mentees. They were absolutely amazing and a credit to our school. Watch this space for updates on our 6 week programme with the mentees and a celebration event at the end!
We celebrated Childhood Day today and helped raise awareness of the work of the NSPCC by wearing green and looking at the the important work done by the NSPCC to protect children’s rights
On a Friday afternoon Mrs Convery runs a cookery enrichment group.
In these groups pupils learn a number of different skills, some being turn taking, weighing of ingredients, following instructions and communication and listening.
Pupils learn to use different equipment and try to complete the task independently.
This week the group made chocolate crispies.
Today in Hazel class we have been talking about forces and how different forces can move objects.
Today we focused on the push and pull force and experimented using a balloon and cup shooter and marshmallows.
The class had to predict which marshmallow would go the furthest the big marshmallow or the little one.
Some pupils measured the distance using their feet.
Pupils loved watching the marshmallows fly through the air.
Next week we are going to talk about whether or not the experiment was a fair one and what changes we could make.
Is anyone else excited for Euros 2020?
Hazel class are and have been doing some football dances to get in the spirit of things.
Enjoy the first match tonight!
Today we have all worn Green clothing and brought in donations in support of the NSPCC!
Great news, we are now officially registered as an eco-school, which is a step forward in empowering our pupils to help the environment. Since we began our paper recycling programme approximately one month ago we have more than doubled our weekly output. The last collection was 8 1/2 bin liners of scrap paper. We have also collected 76 plastic bread bags from breakfast club and these will be going to a specialist recycling centre. Just imagine if every school in County Durham did this every week ? Then if every child from those schools also did this at home ? We would be saving tonnes of waste from land fill and helping them build life long habits for a better future.