Wolsingham Primary School

Uppertown, Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland DL13 3ET

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Phased School Reopening

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The re-opening of schools across Durham from 15th June is still to be absolutely confirmed and when we have further information, we will inform parents.

In anticipation of the school re-opening from Monday 15th June, please find the letters sent out to parents which details more specific information regarding the children’s return to school. You will also find below a quick video showing the inside of the building and any changes made – please note social distancing markers are still to be put along corridor floors.

Year 6 Group A – Phased return further details letter to parents

Year 6 Group B – Phased return further details letter to parents

Year 1 Group A – Phased return further details letter to parents

Year 1 Group B – Phased return further details letter to parents

Reception Group A – Phased return further details letter to parents

Reception Group B – Phased return further details letter to parents

Nursery Group A – Phased return further details letter to parents

Nursery Group B – Phased return further details letter to parents

Home Learning

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On Monday 20th April, we will be using the Seesaw app to assign work daily for our children. We have also added a few more useful links to the bottom of each of our class work pages.

Key Workers

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Please find details of the key worker groups below. Please be aware that schools are closing for social distancing purposes and that child care should only be used if there is absolutely no alternative.

Health and Social Care

This includes doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers and care workers.

It also means other frontline staff such as support staff, producers and distributers of medicines and medical equipment.

Education and Childcare

Includes nursery and teaching staff, social workers and special education professionals.

Key Public Services

Includes courts staff, religious staff, undertakers and people in charities delivering key frontline services.

Journalists and broadcasters providing public service reporting.

Local and National Government

Government staff who are essential to the response to COVID-19 or delivering essential public services such as the payment of benefits.

Food and Other Goods

Those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (such as hygiene and veterinary medicines)

Public Safety and National Security

Includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence staff and the armed forces.

Firefighters, National Crime Agency staff and border security, prison and probation workers are also included

Transport

Those who keep air, water, road and rail services operating.

Utilities, Communication and Financial Services

Staff needed for essential financial services, IT and data which are needed to continue during the coronavirus response.

Infrastructure workers who maintain oil, gas, electricity and water supplies are also included.

This also features key staff in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications, postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors.

Workers are advised to check with their employer if they are included.

Collage ‘Dancing Figures’

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Year 4 – Collage ‘Dancing Figures’

As part of Year 4’s Art lessons, they have been learning about the famous artist ‘Henri Matisse’. The children have researched his work and his life to find out why he created his wonderful masterpieces.

Matisse became ill, ended up in a wheelchair, and was unable to paint in style he was use to, so he came up with a new style and called it ‘Painting with Scissor’. The children were challenged to create their own art piece based on the same style and used scissors, a variety of warm and cool colours to create a collage with a focus on dancing figures.

Mrs Meek sent Megan Coyle an email with all the children work and she has now replied and put some of the children’s work on her blog.

To view the blog visit the following link:

https://megancoyle.com/2020/03/13/still-life-collages-from-wolsingham-england/

School Work Packs

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Our teachers are working hard to ensure that learning can be continued at home.  We will be posting up daily work for children who may be absent whilst the school is still open and educational packs will also be provided in the event of school closures, which children can be working on whilst at home.  These are available on the class Work Pages a link to which can be found on each Class Page.

Recycling and the homeless  

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During one of our Eco Group meetings it was decided that we could link two important areas together – recycling and helping the homeless.  We discovered that a lady in London was recycling foil crisp packets to make into ‘Bivi bags’ – a sleeping bag.  Mrs Ashcroft, Ginny and Bea, kindly offered to go along to a meeting in Bishop Auckland to learn all about the scheme and to take part in making a bivi bag.  She then returned to school to feedback what she had learned to Mrs Lambard and Mrs Routledge.  Now Mrs Routledge has set up a team of helpers in after-school club who clean, dry and cut the foil crisp packets that we have been collecting in school.  She will then iron them together so that we can send the foil blankets off to London to be made into a bivi bag.  Each bivi bags needs around 150 crisp packets! 

Summer Menu Tasting

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The children had an opportunity to taste some of the food available on the new school menu which starts after the Easter break. Children were able to try vegetarian crispy tacos, chicken parmo and chicken chow mein as well as watermelon, chocolate brownie and peach shortbread.

Copies of the summer menu should have gone home tonight.

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