Friday 6th May
We have had a fantastic time in school today learning some new skills with Robert Proud. He has been teaching us fencing skills with foam swords.
by admin
Friday 6th May
We have had a fantastic time in school today learning some new skills with Robert Proud. He has been teaching us fencing skills with foam swords.
by admin
We had an exciting afternoon on Wednesday 27th April. Claire Hubbard visited our school from Durham County Council and gave a talk and read a story about Tidy Ted. The message was about dropping litter and how this is not what we should do. She talked about how we should always use bins and if there are no bins we should take our litter home. At the moment there is a problem with people throwing rubbish out of car windows when they have visited McDonald’s or KFC. She talked about the dangers for litter pickers on busy main roads and how we can avoid this.
Next the children participated in a big clean up. The clean up was linked to the ‘Clean for the Queen’ campaign and our eco work. Everyone was keen to tidy the school grounds, even the staff! The big shed even got a spring clean. It was a really useful day and the children received a very important message about being good citizen.
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The children at Cockton Hill Infants’ School are learning about the rights of children all around the world and are enthusiastically letting everyone know about them. For example, Article 19 says that children should be safe from harm and Article 29 encourages them to care for their environment.
Following assemblies and discussions about traffic and other issues when coming to and from school, the Rights Respecting School Council made up of children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, had the idea of making signs to put up outside of the school. these are to remind everyone of children’s rights and how to become involved.
The children are very proud of their posters which include “Please drive slowly past our school”, “Thank you for not smoking near the school” and “Thank you for helping us to keep the school environment clean”.
Next week we are having our Clean for the Queen week when all members of the school community will be working together to tidy the school grounds.
Anne Graham
Headteacher
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As part of our Eco Work and commitment to promoting green issues we have worked hard to develop our new eco code. The Year 2 children came up with the ideas and wanted their favourite tune – Uptown Funk. We hope you enjoy watching our video and that our message is clear.
“Believe in us and just watch!”
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Fairtrade Fortnight (29th February – 13th March 2016). Thank you very much to the Co-op store in Spennymoor and Starbucks in Bishop Auckland for kindly donating products for the children to use in their “Fairtrade snacks” on Friday 4th March.
School had an assembly led by Mrs Harnaman where the children found out about the principles of fairtrade – a fair deal for farmers in deprived countries ensuring that these people are able to feed their own children. Our pupils understand that it is a right of all children to “nutritious food and rich countries should help poorer countries achieve this.” Article 24.
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New buddies have been recruited for this half term. From listening to parent feedback and suggestions we have created a ‘Buddy Stop’. The children have setup their base with large cushions, a book box and painted signs. They have many more ideas and are looking forward to seeing this up and running over the coming weeks.
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On Wednesday 10th February, Michael visited Year 1 to show us a Chinese Lion Dance and to share the story of the Chinese Lion with us. Everybody enjoyed hearing about how the Chinese villagers made the Lion to scare away a Ghost Lion and answered lots of questions about the story. Michael let everybody have a turn of playing an instrument or being part of the Chinese Lion! We had a fantastic time and made lots of noise to scare the Ghost Lion away!
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On Tuesday 9th February the whole school took part in Safer Internet Day. Mrs Harnaman gave an assembly on how to use the internet safely with a fantastic interactive quiz at the end. For the rest of the day the children have all been completing different activities in their classes to help them to stay safe on the internet. We all know that if we have any problems on the internet we should tell an adult.
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Chinese New Year is fun! We have been looking at video clips of the parade around the world and listened to the story of ‘The Great Race’ and how the Zodiac began. We have written poems about the celebrations and enjoyed eating some Chinese food. We have practiced our ribbon dancing and looking forward to seeing the Lion Dance.
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Once again we are participating in the Febfest Exhibition and have been so excited about our piece which links to the theme –
The Battle of the Somme, this was one of the bloodies military battles in history. By the end of the battle, the British Army had suffered 420,000 casualties including nearly 60,000 on the first day alone. Our piece of work focuses on the family and friends left behind. Wives and children carried out their mundane daily duties amid a time of emotional turmoil. Each shirt representing an element of the war, the countries who fought, the letters that were sent, the symbolism of the poppy, the grieving and each individual hero who will never be forgotten. The brutal truth being that these men never came home to wear their shirts again and have become – Our Angels on the Washing Line.