Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Lenten Challenge

  Wed 14 Feb 2024 J MacDonald

  Can you help us with our Lenten Challenge? We are raising money this year for Lymphoma Action, St Oswald’s Hospice and SVP as well as supporting a local homeless charity. As well as our weekly cake sales we are inviting you to ‘Fill it Up!’ and send your loose change to school. 

  

• Public Speaking Success

  Fri 09 Feb 2024

  Each year the Catenian’s run a Public Speaking Competition and Bishop Bewick Trust encourages all 33 primary schools within the trust to enter a Y6 representative.  Over the Autumn termY6 classes in the trust schools have been working to identify a speaker to represent their school.  These children submitted a video of themselves making their speech and a panel of judges selected the top 6.  These were invited to deliver their speeches to a live audience in order to select a winner to go forward to the next round and represent our Trust.  Darcey was our school representative and was amongst the six who made their speeches today.  

  Mrs Bath, Bishop Bewick;s CEO, reminded the audience that Public Speaking is something that many people fear, it is something which to do well, requires a broad range of skills to be carefully blended and it is wonderful to see so many pupils from our Trust schools able to successfully harness their skills to deliver a speech to a group of strangers.  

  Darcey chose Poverty as the subject for her speech and she put together a wonderful speech that included facts and questions on the subject.  She spoke confidently and with excellent expression and passion, really engaging her listeners very well.  

  The judges had a very difficult task to identify a runner up and winner given the high quality of the participants.   Darcey was awarded the runner up prize.  

  Well done Darcey, what a wonderful achievement!

  

• Yoga in Children’s Mental Health Week

  Wed 07 Feb 2024 J MacDonald

  Year 4 loved their yoga session with Children Inspired by Yoga this morning as part of Children’s Mental Health Week

  

• Year 5 Dance Lessons

  Mon 29 Jan 2024 J MacDonald

  A fantastic first dance session for Year 5 with Micheal from Hit the Ground Running.

  

• Christmas Events

  Fri 22 Dec 2023

  We have had some wonderful Christmas performances over the last couple of weeks.  Children in Nursery and Reception told the Nativity story using the play Away in a Manger, and Year 1 and 2 used the Innkeepers Breakfast.  Our children in Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 told the Christmas story through Scripture and Song.  Each performance was wonderful, the children remembered their lines and delivered them with confidence and sang beautifully.  As a staff we were extremely proud of them.  

  We invited parents and family members to show their appreciation for the children’s efforts by contributing to our collection for North Shields Salvation Army to help them ensure that all homeless people in our locality had a home cooked dinner and somewhere warm to spend Christmas Day.

  Our collection raised £570.58p and when the officer came to collect it he explained to the children how it would help and expressed his deep gratitude for their efforts. 

  

• Christmas Singing

  Tue 12 Dec 2023 J MacDonald

  Our Mini Vinnies visited our neighbours at Rothley Grange to sing some Christmas songs and deliver Christmas cards

  

• A visit to Durham University

  Mon 11 Dec 2023 J MacDonald

  Year 4 had a fantastic Ancient Greek Day provided by Durham University Museum of Archaeology.
  They handled 2500 year old artefacts, acted out the tragedy ‘Medea’ and created votive sculptures from clay!

  

• Musical Assembly

  Mon 11 Dec 2023

  This morning our children who have instrumental tuition in school provided a wonderful concert during which they entertained us with their wonderful performances.  

  We had children playing piano, keyboard, violin, cello, recorder, flute and for the first time trombone.  

  It takes great courage to perform for an audience and each of these children showed wonderful composure and confidence as they played for an audience of their peers, parents and wider family members.

  I would like to say thank you to all our peripatetic teachers who visit school weekly to teach these children and a huge ‘well done’ to all our performers who are working so hard to learn their instruments. 

  

• Parent Mental Health Group

  Fri 08 Dec 2023 J MacDonald

  A group of Year 6 parents took part in the ‘Strong not Tough’ group with the Connect Mental Health Team to support themselves and their children to support their mental health and well-being. The parents group ran alongside the children’s Friends Resilience group.

  

• A visitor from Beamish

  Fri 08 Dec 2023 J MacDonald

  Year 1 enjoyed their visit from Hannah from Beamish Museum today, learning about toys from the past