World Book Day

10th March 2020E Heaton

We celebrated World Book Day in Nursery by dressing up as our favorite characters. We love to share stories when we are at Nursery and so we completed a sponsored walk around our school yard to help raise money to buy new and exciting books to further our enjoyment of reading.

Wonderful World Book Day!

6th March 2020F Frazer

What a wonderful end to our reading week in school culminating with our sponsored walk.

 

The children and staff looked fabulous in their costumes today thank you for all of the effort. Take a look at the gallery below to see if you can guess which stories have inspired our staff team.

 

We would like to say a massive thank you to all families in our school community who have collected so many sponsors for our walk. Watch this space to find out how much money we have raised so that we can buy new books for our school.

Look out for your child in their brilliant costumes in the gallery below.

We’re Going On a Bear Hunt

3rd March 2020E Heaton

Our Talk for Writing text this term has been ”We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” By Micheal Rosen

The nursery children traveled to Boldon lodge for their own bear hunt. We walked through the forest ‘stumble trip stumble trip’ following the bears footprints. We walked through a real snow storm ‘hooo whoo’ and found a bear on the train.

We went back to the lodge and warmed ourselves up with marshmallows around the log burner. We made a bear decoration and were visited by Boldon Bear. We learnt a new song that Boldon Bear taught up ”Teddy bear Teddy bear turn around”

 

 

 

 

 

Computing and Internet Safety Week

12th February 2020F Frazer

Yesterday, 11th February was Safer Internet Day in the UK. It was celebrated globally with the theme of: together for a better internet.

Please click here to follow the link to the safer internet day website.

Last week was computing week in school where lots of activities were happening in and outside of school. Children in the Early Years had a visit from Mrs Hayward from the OpenZone with some sphero programmable robots. Children used ipads to control their sphero to paint!

Children in year 1 learned a song about staying safe online

Children in year 2 visited the OpenZone where they got to practice coding ‘blue bots’ and making robots out of LEGO. Children also made pic collages of the things we like to do on the internet. They talked about playing games that are good for children our age. Children also learned about how to stay SMART online we know:

 

There is lots of information for parents and carers about how to keep your child safe online on the childnet website. Click here to find out more.

If you are unsure of the age restrictions on apps, games, movies or TV shows search for them using common sense media to find out if the content is age appropriate for your child. Click here to be taken to the website.

 

Important Information – Public Health Advice for Schools

27th January 2020Gemma Newton

Increase in suspected mumps cases in North East – advice for schools and colleges from Public Health England North East

 

The number of suspected cases of mumps across the North East (and other areas of England) has increased since autumn 2019. Most cases have been reported in young people aged 15-24 years, especially those attending universities or colleges. Increases in reported cases of mumps are seen every few years, however we are aware that there have been media reports about this current increase so would like to provide advice to schools and colleges.

 

Advice for pupils or staff with mumps:

  • Seek medical care in the usual way via NHS 111 or your GP – there is no specific treatment for mumps
  • Stay away from work / school / university / college for five daysfrom the onset of swelling to reduce transmission to others
  • Wash your hands regularly using soap and don’t share used cups or drinking glasses without washing them
  • Always use a tissue to cover your mouth and nose when you cough and sneeze, and throw the tissue in a bin immediately afterwards
  • If you have not already had 2 doses of MMR vaccine, when you feel better, please contact your GP to arrange to be vaccinated to protect yourself against measles and rubella

 

For schools/colleges

  • Please ask pupils and staff who report with suspected mumps to follow the advice above
  • You do notneed to contact the Public Health England Health Protection Team about mumps cases if you follow the advice above. If you have specific queries or concerns you can contact the Health Protection Team for advice
  • There are no additional specific outbreak measures required within a school/college/university setting when a number of cases of mumps have been reported
  • Children and young adults should have routinely received two doses of measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine – if they haven’t it is important to encourage MMR uptake to prevent these important infections.
  • Pregnancy – pregnant women do not need to be excluded from schools/colleges when mumps cases are reported – most women will be immune but also if there are mumps cases at school there will also be mumps cases in the wider community that they will be exposed to
  • Mumps can still occur in people who have had two doses of MMR but the symptoms are usually less severe
  • Further information is available on NHS Choices https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mumps/

Beamish

14th January 2020F Frazer

Last Thursday our year 2 classes had a great visit to Beamish. We went there as part of history week where we were learning about changes in transport over time and influential people such as the ‘Wright brothers’ who invented the motorised plane. It flew for the first time on December 17th 1903. Without inventors like the ‘wright brothers’ we wouldn’t be able to travel as far or as fast as we do today.

Beamish houses a variety of different types of transport form the early 1900s and beyond. We has a brilliant time finding out about the ‘Penny Farthing’ bike. We learned that it got its name as the large ‘front wheel’ resembled the size of a 1900s ‘penny’ while smaller back wheel resembled the 1900s ‘farthing’. It was very tall and would have been difficult and uncomfortable to ride.

We rode the tram around the museum, they’re very beautiful inside, though the seats were wooden and rather hard. Children even got the chance to be ‘conductor’ ringing the bell to signal we were ready for the off!

We were fascinated by the large ‘limousine’ style car, the horn was really hard to press and made a funny noise. We could fit lots of people in the back!

Children took a ride on an old bus. The seats went down the sides of the bus rather than one in front of the other like we have today. We even stopped off to visit the horses who pulled carriages, another interesting form of early transport.

We visited the 1900s school and found the teacher very strict! She told us to sit up straight and write on slate boards. We also couldn’t resist picking up a little treat from the sweet shop in the 1900s town. What a great day had by all!