Our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils had an action-packed 3-day residential visit to Robinwood, Barhaugh Hall. They did many exciting activities including Trapeze, Zip Wire, Crate Challenge, Climbing, Raft Building, Canoeing, Caving, Giant Swing and Piranha Pool.

Despite the warm weather, our pupils never complained and received significant praise for their calm, sensible behaviour from the centre’s nighttime staff. While completing the activities, our pupils impressed their instructors with their excellent teamwork, effective communication and resilience and by encouraging their teammates to overcome their fears. It was an adventure to remember!

We would like to wish Mrs Robertson good luck with her new adventure.  We would like to say thank you for over 20 years of service as a lunch time supervisor, after school care supervisor and a classroom assistant.

We were lucky to have our local Member of Parliament visit our school today.  Over the week, Class 5 and 6 had come up with  some very thoughtful questions to put to Mr Richard Holden who then spent some time trying to answer as many questions as he could.  It gave us a great opportunity to learn a little more about parliament and the work of our MPs.  Thank you for visiting us, Mr Holden!  We may also have some budding Laura Kuenssbergs in our midst too!

This week in Class 5, we have had the wonderful opportunity to create some structures using willow.  The children went out in small groups to contribute towards a larger structure which will be installed in Killhope Lead Mining Museum alongside making some bird feeders which we have put up in our wildlife garden.  We are looking forward to a trip there to see the finished product as well as our tapestry which we worked on earlier in the year. Please visit Class 5’s class page by clicking here to see some of the photos from the event.  Thank you to Sylvan Skills for coming along to work with us today.

A huge congratulations to our Yellow Team who not only won in the Easter Egg competition but also overall across this term!  The points will be reset for the start of next term.

Two firefighters visited to teach us about arson. We learned that arson is deliberate fire starting which is dangerous because it causes property damage; the fire can spread and it produces dangerous smoke.

Zack – “I learned that even 3 breaths of smoke from a wheelie bin fire is toxic and can leave you unconscious.”

Charlotte – “It was inspirational to find out about all the different types of emergencies the fire service is involved in.”

Each class had a fabulous time in the hall this afternoon raising money for Comic Relief.  Each class came up with their own table top game which included golf, skittles and ‘Pin the Nose on Mr Smith’!  The total we’ve raised was a massive £333.05!  Thank you to Miss Stoker and the School Council for organising the afternoon.  Also to Nicole in the kitchen for baking some lovely treats to sell too!

Wolsingham Primary spent Thursday celebrating World Book Day!  The children brought in a potato which they had decorated linked to their favourite books.  They also brought in a spare book for a ‘Book Swap’.  View the Class Learning Pages to see a collection of photos from the day.

To end the term, we had another one of our House Team events.  This half term it was based on Internet Safety.  Each team split into three groups for an ‘Apprentice’ style task where one group had to create a logo on the computer, another group created a mascot and the third group created a SMART poster to.

Class 5 have been working hard to create an informative assembly linked to Internet Safety Day (7th February 2023).  They all did a fabulous job and the parents did fantastic at the end of assembly quiz too! Well done, Class 5 and thank you to all the parents and carers for watching their performance!