Our Year 5 and 6 football team have had a very successful team so far this year, we are half way through the season so I wanted to share the league table with you. 
The second half of the season will start on Thursday 2nd March.
I know you will join me in wishing them luck and look forward to hearing the end of season result.
I just wanted to let you know our GRAND TOTAL from the Toy fair on Friday.
This year we have raised ….£453.61
Thank you so much for all of your donations and your kind support, the money will be used to fund the pantomime and other Christmas activities.
Thank This weekend has been a busy one for the choir and Mr O’Brien.
On Sunday they shared their songs with Whitburn Parish and were praised for their beautiful voices.
Well done.
Today, the whole school made their way to Whitburn parish Church for a beautiful service to celebrate christingle. As always, the children were amazing. Our readers did a fantastic job and the choir were outstanding.
I know that lots of parents would have loved to attend but due to numbers we can only take the children. So, have a look at the photos and films below to see the children in action.
This morning, our choir along with Mr O’Brien opened the winter festival at The Barnes Institue in Whitburn Village.
In front of a large audience they produced a beautiful sound and made everybody feel festive.
Well done
Today the whole school enjoyed an amazing toy fair. Thank you to all of our parents for the fantastic contributions. Our children all enjoyed the ‘shopping’ experience and have taken home a range of new items for the house!
Profits are still being counted, but we will let you know as soon as we have a total.
On Thursday we had an amazing day, it was the 1st December and Marsden made sure everybody felt as festive as possible.
The jumpers some of the children wore were amazing and they all had a great day making a wide range of crafts.
A definite success!
This week we had a fantastic time at art club in Year Three and Four. We have been learning about advent and this week we created advent wreaths. We can’t wait for next week to do something else!
On Thursday 24th November Year Three visited the Oriental Museum in Durham to find out more about life and death in Ancient Egypt. Once we arrived our day was split into three parts. The first part was in the museum classroom. On each table in the classroom was a box containing real objects from Ancient Egypt. We were very lucky as we could handle and explore the objects Some of these were over 3000 years old!
The second part of our day consisted of looking at all of the valuable Egyptian objects the museum had. We looked at clothing, food, gods and burial objects. Some of us even got to dress up in linen robes.
The final part of our day was by far the best. We were amazed to discover that the museum had a mummy and sarcophagus. We learned that the mummy was a female with a prosthetic arm! Very unusual in Ancient Egypt! Although her name is unknown we enjoyed finding out all about her life through the drawings on her sarcophagus.
We had a fascinating time looking around and asking questions.
For the first time, we had a REAL LIFE author visit our school and it was amazing.
Philip Ardagh the author of famous series like ‘The Grunts’ ‘Grubtown tales’ and other titles came to our school to talk about how he became a writer and his journey through the books he has written.
Yeah 6,5,4 and 3 enjoyed a one hour workshop with him where he kept everybody (especially the adults) captivated with his stories and ideas.
