Please find below this week’s Newsletter.
Wellbeing
Y5 and 6 Visit SafetyWorks
Year 5 and 6 visited SafteyWorks this term to find out about keeping safe in their local environment. Pupils took part in a number of safety workshops including RNLI safety, fire safety, road and metro safety and keeping safe around dogs. Continue Reading
Y5 Visit High Heaton Library
Year 5 enjoyed their visit to High Heaton Library this term. All children borrowed a book, listened to some poems and found out about the library system. Continue Reading
Y5 Kingsway
Year 5 enjoyed their residential trip to Kingsway in March. They participated in lots of adventurous activities including gorge walking, tree climbing and raft building. It was a great opportunity for pupils to challenge themselves and try out new activities, as well as showing excellent team building skills and encouragement for one another. We all… Continue Reading
Y5 Primary Engineering
As part of the Primary Engineering Project, Y5 had two visits this week aimed at finding out more about engineering and careers. Firstly, a parent from our school came in to talk to the children about the medical profession and becoming a brain surgeon. The children asked lots of interesting questions and were fascinated when… Continue Reading
Children’s Mental Health Week
Each class received a lovely new story to read during Children’s Mental Health Week. They shared the book in story time with their teacher and discussed how the story encourages us to ‘grow together.’ Continue Reading
Year 5 Anti-Bullying Week
Year 5 took part in a range of activities to raise awareness of anti-bullying this week. They watched an online anti-bullying assembly, wore odd socks to school on Monday and learned about the negative impact that unkind words can have. Continue Reading
Year 3 – Willy the Wimp
For anti-bullying week, Year 3 children participated in a number of activities – one for each day of the week. On Friday, children read Willy the Wimp by Anthony Browne. The story is about Willy, a diminutive chimp, who wouldn’t hurt a fly. It’s no wonder the suburban gorillas call him Willy the Wimp… until… Continue Reading
Friday 5 Minute Friendships
Wellbeing Ambassador Blog During Mr Turner’s Friday Assembly on 1 October, our Y4 and Y5 Wellbeing Ambassadors introduced us to CONNECT which is part of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. They set us a challenge to connect with each other on the yard and they introduced Friday 5 Minute Friendships. The first conversations took place… Continue Reading
Year 6 and Reception Buddies
Pupils from Year 6 and Reception enjoyed spending some time with their buddies. They exchanged cards and gifts they had made for each other and enjoyed getting to know each other a bit better, through playing games and chatting to one another. Our buddy programme is central to the settling in process of our new… Continue Reading
