Thank you so much for all your donations we received on Wear Red Day last week. Together we have raised £105.00 which will go towards educating young children to be aware of and to challenge all forms of racism. A very worthy cause – WELL DONE!!
In Year 2 we read Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o. We also learned all about Rosa Parkes and how she helped stand up for Black rights in America. If you log into Espresso with your child and search Black History Month, then click on videos, choose the Rosa Parkes one. Or even better, ask your child to tell you how she made a difference to people’s lives. Thank you to all of you who sent in a donation or donated online – this will go towards raising awareness of racism in schools across the country!
As part of our commitment to equality in our school community, we have embarked upon a Bronze Award with Equaliteach. This is a respected award that recognises all the good work our school does to promote equality and diversity. This is being lead by Mrs Dixon, but will be a collective effort with all teaching staff contributing to this achievement. This award takes a while to achieve, but will be worth the wait! Keep checking the website for further updates.
Here is the link for more information on Equaliteach:
On Friday 16th October we will be supporting the Stand Up to Racism Movement by wearing red in school. All classes will be exploring age-appropriate books that deal with racism in way that young children can understand. Here is the link to the Wear Red Day website if you would like some more information:
https://www.theredcard.org/news/2020/6/2/wear-red-day-2020
Some of us will be listening to the following bedtime story on BBC iplayer, here is the link if you would like to watch it with your child:
Here are just some of the diverse books we will be reading:
Please try and take time to ask your child what they have been learning about during Wear Red Day. Conversations at home are so important to help embed the learning they have done in school. Thank you for your support!
UPDATE – a huge thank you to all of you who donated to help fund the further education of children around the issue of racism. Together you all raised £105.00 that is fantastic and very generous!
A few of our Year 2 children and their parents were chosen to attend the annual Northumbria Police Christmas Party. There were important people there including the Chief Constable, The Lord and Lady Mayoress and of course Santa and Mrs Claus too! It was a lovely celebration of Christmas and your wonderful children. They sang a Christmas carol on the stage and looked fabulous in the spotlights wearing their party outfits. Thank you for braving the awful weather to attend. We were all proud of the children.
On Wednesday, we were lucky enough to have Gail from skipping school. We learned skipping skills, stepping, galloping, jumping and hopping. Some of us could even skip backwards! Gail said Violet class were so polite and listened very well. She was very impressed with their skipping skills too. Mrs Dixon was very proud.
In both year 2 classes we have been learning all about the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We have built 3D shapes using cocktail sticks and blue tac, this was quite tricky. Some of us made large scale 3D shapes to help us. We have been talking about edges and vertices too! ‘Look I’ve made a 3D shape…it’s a cube”.
On Monday Violet Class visited The Word. The children were all fantastic role models and displayed positive behaviours throughout the day. We learned how to use 2Create a Superstory, including animations and special effects. The children were also filmed against a green screen. They created a super film all about World War 2, our History topic. Watch out for it being posted on here!
Today we performed our leaver’s concert for family and friends. The children thought of their own speaking parts and chose the songs they love to sing. We have such talented children in our school and all the teachers and teaching assistants would like to congratulate the children on their fantastic performance! We hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you to all of you who have supported your child in attending the Primary Engineers Programme, which was run as an after school club. At the competition your children were an absolute credit to yourselves and to the school. They spoke with such enthusiasm, confidence and politeness to the judges about their vehicles. They answered some really tricky questions too. Then they stood up in front of everyone and tested their vehicles on ramp. We were so proud when one of our pairs was voted runner up overall in the Apprentice Level 1! Well done all of you! The vehicles were made in pairs and at the moment are on display in school but will be available to come home soon!
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- We are all winners!
