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• Planting for Daft as a Brush

  Mon 16 May 2016 Shirley Rutter
  On Monday 16th May a group of 6 children and Miss Angus went to the Daft as a Brush Head Quarters in Gosforth to plant out our dedicated planter that is on the front of their building. We had juice and biscuits before we started and then put lots of plants in. They will look lovely when they grow and flower.

  

• Year 1 & 2 Visit to Bamburgh

  Wed 04 May 2016 Shirley Rutter
  Year 1 & 2 Visited Bamburgh as part of their lessons looking at Local Life and History. We first visited the Grace Darling Museum, where we heard all about Grace Darling's rescue and we dressed up and pretended we were doing the rescue. We then went across to the church and saw where Grace is buried and had a look inside the church. We had our lunch on the green, then walked around the dunes to Bamburgh Castle. We were very high up and we could see right out to sea. We went inside and saw the dungeons and old weapons that were used to fight with. We all had a turn at the stocks and looked at the canons. We had a lovely day.

  

• Year 3&4 visit to Kelso Races

  Wed 04 May 2016
  Year 3 & 4 were invited by Rosie Barber to join her on a visit to Kelso Races on Wednesday 4th May 2016. We travelled up to Kelso by coach and arrived just before lunch time. We were shown the weigh room, the parade ring and the children ran the final furlong. There was so much to be learnt there, we measured the fences and saw how the jockey's are weighed and their handicaps worked out and much more. We also had our own private box where we watched the horses race it was very exciting. We would like to thank Rosie very much for hosting our visit.

  

• Easter Egg Competition

  Thu 24 Mar 2016
  We invited all of our children to bring a decorated egg into school on the morning of Thursday 24th March and we invited one of our Governors to come along a judge the best in each year group. We had some fabulous decorated eggs brought in and finding a winner was very difficult. The winner from each year group won a chocolate egg. these are some pictures of the eggs and the winners.

  

• Goodbye to our chicks

  Fri 18 Mar 2016
  Today we said goodbye to our 10 healthy chicks that we have hatched and encouraged to grow over the past two weeks. They are off to a farm in Durham where they will live into their adulthood.

  

• Living Eggs

  Mon 07 Mar 2016

  Our Living Eggs have arrived today! We have 10 eggs in our special incubator, they are nice and warm and waiting to hatch out.

  At 2.45pm on Tuesday 8th March we had our first chick hatch out. Overnight on Tuesday another chick hatched just before school on Wednesday and we managed to video our third chicks arrival. No 4 arrived just after lunch on Wednesday 9th March.

  When we arrived into school on Thursday morning a further 4 chicks had hatched. During Thursday morning the last two chicks arrived.

  We are so happy that all 10 chicks have hatched and are now living together under a lamp in our small hall.

  They are going home with Mrs Smith over the weekend so she can look after them and will be back with us on Monday morning.

  

• World Book Day 2016

  Thu 03 Mar 2016

  It was World Book Day on 3rd March 2016. The children were invited to come to school dressed up as a character from a favourite book. The children also brought in their books and a shoebox with clues for others in their class to try and guess which book it was.

  Staff also dressed up as book characters. It was a very exciting day which the children will remember.

  

• Come Dine With Me and Read

  Wed 02 Dec 2015
  We had almost a 100% turn out for our Come Dine with Me and Read event on Wednesday 2nd December 2015. We invited our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 parents to have lunch with their child then go into the classrooms and read. Parents were greeted by the Head Boy and Head Girl and their deputies and taken into the hall where their children were waiting. Year 4 served their lunches and cleared away afterwards. Everyone said lunch was lovely and especially liked the sticky toffee pudding. Everyone then went to the classrooms and read with their children.

  

• Operation Christmas Child

  Thu 12 Nov 2015

  Operation Christmas Child - Christmas Shoe Boxes – distributed by the charity Samaritan’s Purse

  Every year parents donate a Christmas Shoe box to the charity Samaritan’s Purse, who run Operation Christmas Child. They make a present for a boy or girl and fill a shoe box with gifts. These boxes are then collected by our local representative Mr Jimmy Turnbull and taken to the distribution point, where they will be sent on to children abroad who would not otherwise receive anything at Christmas.

  

• Remembrance Day 2015

  Thu 12 Nov 2015

  Remembrance Day Wednesday 11^th November 2015

  The children from Years 3 and 4 have been selling poppies in school on behalf of the Royal British Legion since we returned from half term. We have learned about the wars and conflicts that have happened and how millions of men and women have lost their lives fighting in them. The children have spent time thinking about their sacrifice and what it means to the people they leave behind.

  On Wednesday 11^th November at 11.00am the whole school and staff assembled in the small hall in school. We listened to the chimes of Big Ben at 11.00am and observed the two minutes silence in remembrance of those who had died, in conflict, all around the world.

  We lit a candle and listened to the Last Post played for us by our trumpet tutor Mr Ron Creasey after the two minute silence.