Chris Callaghan has spent the day in school today talking to the children about his book, ‘The Great Chocoplot’.

The children have really enjoyed his time spent with them and were inspired by his love of books and writing, some children bought books at the end of the school day, following the order form sent out last week.

We will be putting all photographs below for you to browse. If your child purchased a book, Chris signed this and wrote a personal message in the front. it would be great to add these to our gallery too.

Please take a photograph of your child holding their book and showing the message and email this to consettjunior@durhamlearning.net and we will add this to our gallery.

Thanks

Mrs Raine

On Sunday we were messaged by Mrs Leggett, informing of her safe arrival in Nepal.  She siad that she arrived safely after a very long journey.  Everything went well and the Nepalese Head Teachers were all there waiting to greet them at the airport.  They checked into a lovely hotel and needed sleep, even though it was only 1.00 p.m. in Nepal.

Mrs Leggett has promised to send many photographs so our children can follow her on her Journey this week.  Yesterday (Monday 18th November) they visited a Buddhist Temple and they all visited one of the schools to have their first meeting about the Connecting Classrooms project. Tomorrow they will set off to visit their partner school! Very exciting!

On Tuesday (19th), Mrs Leggett visited our partner school Global Pathshala, Mrs Leggett observed their meditation class and the children.  The children also have a music group and are very good, their instrument are very different to ours.  Mrs Leggett has found so many similarities between their school and ours, they even enjoy performing in shows!

On Wednesday (20th), Ms Leggett visited a statue of Shiva with Dila who is the Headteacher of Glabal Pathshala.  The children put on a fancy dress competition for Mrs Leggett.

Before I go any further, can I just say an ENORMOUS thank you to everyone. Today we have been fundraising for Children in Need.

The costumes and efforts from all today has been phenomenal, clearly a lot of time spent on making many of them. There were so, so many donations of sweets that children were able to go back and back again for turns on the tombola.

As a school community we have today raised a breath-taking £518 for Children in Need. The £518 cheque will be sent to Children and Need

Thank you.

We were recently asked to take part in some work with BBC Newsround, in conjunction with the Big Award – An Anti Bullying group our school currently works alongside. Some of our year 6 pupils have been interviewed in regards to the pressures of the modern world, social media and the like…as you can see from the video link at the bottom the children were a credit to their families and the school. Future media personalities clearly!

The Big Award group comes into school at least once a year to work alongside our children and staff to ensure we are up to date in terms of training and prevention of bullying within school. They support us at all other times in the year, should we need them. We are also mindful of the modern world and the pressures of social media – so are constantly training our staff and ‘Buddy’s’ to deal with these changing pressures.

Well done to our Evie, Caitlin, Eva, Elliot, Brandon and Robert, we are so very proud of you all. It was a pleasure to see them talk openly about their feelings, they are a credit to our school.

This is currently anti-bullying awareness week and we have our BIG representatives in school this Friday for a special assembly, we would love to see many of our parents/carers there for this. It is usually a very fun and interactive assembly. Children can also wear odd socks on Friday, which is part of their goal of raising awareness, children can make this fun by tucking their trousers into them!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround