Dear Parents/Carers of year 6,

On Friday 2nd July Year 6 children will be going on an action packed school trip to Moorhouse Activity Centre. On the day of the trip children must be in school no later than 8.30 a.m., (bus will leave at 8.45 a.m. prompt) and they will return to school at a much later time of 6.30 p.m. If you child attends breakfast club they will go to their class at 8.30 a.m. Children not attending breakfast club must only come to school at 8.30 a.m. and go straight to their class for registration.

Children do not need to wear their school uniform and do not need a change of clothes BUT they must not wear ‘crop tops’ or ‘shorts that are too short’, due to the harness they will wear for some of the activities. Depending on the weather, it is advised that all children will need a waterproof coat and trainers that you don’t mind getting dirty (Just to clarify, they can come wearing these, they do not need to be additional trainers). If it is a sunny day children should bring sun hats/caps and sun cream. If children need to bring their mobile phones these must be turned off and given to their teacher, they should not carry them and must not take any photos. Children found to do this risk being excluded from the sleepover the following week.

During the day the children will be split into five activity groups and in turn they will participate in rifle shooting; abseiling; tree climbing; zip wire; team challenges and the day will end with a camp fire. All children will be encouraged to take part,  but if they really don’t want to, they will not be made to participate in activities they are worried about. After all, the aim of the day is fun.

Please complete this Microsoft form by Friday 18th June ONLY IF you need to order school packed lunches for the day. Otherwise children will need to bring TWO packed lunches, or enough food for two meals. ALL children must have an additional drink. There are water filling stations available so children can use this at anytime they need to re-fill them.

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The cost of the trip is covered by the £25pp families have paid to cover all end of year trips. Children do not need any money on the day.

Kind Regards

CJS Team

Last Wednesday we shared a ‘preliminary interest form’ to gather numbers in order to book a residential trip for our soon to be year 6 children.

The response was good which has allowed us book the dates we reserved. Therefore we have now secured Monday 16th May – Wednesday 19th May 2022 and the total cost to pay is £240 per child. School will cover the remaining £27 pp as well as the cost of the coach. If you have not shown and interest and change your mind, please get in touch as there are only three places remaining.

We have booked the Alston Site and a link for you to view is below.

https://www.robinwood.co.uk/

Deposits are non-refundable (£25), and failure to pay in full before the deadline (Friday 29th April 2022) will mean your child will not be able to attend. If you showed an interest then you will find a payment item on ParentPay called ‘Robinwood Residential Trip 2022 – Year 6’. This is a ‘reducing’ payment item which will allow you to see your balance go down after each payment is made.

In order to secure your place deposits MUST be paid by Friday 16th July. Failure to pay will mean your place will be revoked.

Children who do not go will spend time out of school in the local area doing other fun things on those days.

CJS Team

Dear families of year 6

As promised, here is a peek into the route/times for when the children are partying on the party bus on Monday 12th July.

The bus will leave school from Ashdale Road at 9.15 a.m. depending on the direction the bus is facing it will either head up to Medomsley Road or down to Sherburn Terrace, either way it will arrive at Number 1 Roundabout. From there it will head down the bypass (A692) into Consett to KFC Roundabout and back up Front Street. The bus will spend the next 15 minutes circling around the ‘B’ roads of Consett before taking a scenic route out of Consett to head down to Allensford Park for 10.00 a.m. It will spend an hour at the park so the children can run around and Mark Wilkinson Photography will be there for the hour taking photographs for a parent gallery.

At 11.00 a.m. the children will board the bus and continue on their way touring the local area before returning to school at 12.00 noon.  Please ensure children have their water bottle and an additional drink for the bus.

If you are planning to find a place along the route to watch the coach please remember social distancing and also please do not share photographs if other children are featured on them. There will be opportunity for you to view and purchase photographs from Mark after the event.

CJS Team

Our end of year show is taking place in school on Thursday 1st July (rehearsal day is 20th June). All children will be involved in preparing for this, even if permission is not granted for the video (they will just not feature on the day).  Usually at this point in the year we have calls from families asking what they need to wear on the day. To make this easier for all please see below:

Year 3 (Class 1 Mrs McMahon) – all children are wear ‘normal clothes’ as if they are going shopping.

Year 3 (Class 2 Miss White) – all children are to wear casual clothes that they can dance in, this must include flat shoes and a hat/cap.

Year 4 – Some children will be scientists and this will need to wear a plain white top, black trousers and we will provide the with a wig. If you child is NOT a scientist (they will have been told) then they need to wear ‘normal’ style clothes i.e. just non-uniform.

Year 5 (Class 5 Miss Breheny) – All children to wear black ‘from top to toe’.

Year 5 (Class 6 Mr Moore) – All children to wear black bottoms and either ‘red, white or blue’ top.

Year 6 – please can you ensure you child knows what they are wearing, the teachers have already told them. Most children have different parts and many costumes are being provided by school.

CJS Team

We are writing to inform you that your child’s classes will be starting their new topic in PSHE, we use a scheme called Jigsaw (PSHE), each of the topics are called puzzles and the next is called ‘Changing Me’. Due to changes in the National Curriculum, these are now compulsory parts of the curriculum and must be taught.

During these sessions your child will be learning about puberty and human reproduction, don’t worry this is delivered in an age appropriate level and way. It is treated in a matter-of-fact manner to allay embarrassment and fear.

Jigsaw Summer – PHSE

On Wednesday the 7th of July we are going to have our sports day-albeit a little different this year. This event will be carried out in year group bubbles with children competing in their school competition houses.

Years 3 & 4 will be taking part in a range of events in the morning and year 5 & 6 will be having their sports day in the afternoon. For this event we are asking children to wear a t-shirt in their house colour (class teachers will be reminding children of their house) and sports wear on the bottom.

Aynsley: blue.

Dale: yellow.

Edgar: green.

Unsworth: red.

Also, please be mindful of the weather on this day as a hat and sun cream may be required, as well as an extra water bottle.

Unfortunately, parents will not be able to spectate this year, but our school photographer will be in taking lots of pictures which we will convert into a fun video for you to view on our School’s YouTube channel.

Good luck to everyone and may the best house win…

CJS Team

FAO of current Year 5 families

We are generating interest at this moment in time to see if there is enough demand to organise a residential trip in May 2022. Many places are not open in full yet and the ones that are open are filling up fast. We have provisionally reserved Monday 16th May – Wednesday 19th May 2022 and we have been told the cost will be £267 however, we are able to subsidies some of this cost so you would only pay £240 per child. The cost of the coach is not included, but again, we will subsidies this cost.

A link to the centre is below and we will be booking the Alston Site.

https://www.robinwood.co.uk/

Please can you complete this initial interest form below no later than 3.00 p.m. on Friday 11th June. If there is enough interest then we will proceed to book and a £25 deposit will be required to secure your child’s place before Friday 16th July 2021.

Please note, deposits are non-refundable, and failure to pay in full before the deadline will mean your child will not be able to attend.

Children who do not go will spend time out of school in the local area doing other fun things on those days.

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CJS Team

To all our families…

As you may remember, our outdoor library was burnt down last year. Thanks to all the amazing fundraising, lead by one of our parents (Kyla).

With the money raised and a substantial amount added from our budget we have gone bigger and better. At the moment we have a company furnishing the in side of it and this will be completed in a few weeks. As this touched the hearts of so many in our community, we thought it only fair to allow our children to name it…

Please can you ask your child if they would like to enter this competition to name our outdoor library/intervention/quiet space and for their entry to be emailed to Mrs Raine before Friday 25th June. All names will be shared with parents who will be asked to vote for the best one.

consettjunior@durhamlearning.net

They will be given a small reward and will also feature in a photograph which will be published in our local paper. We hope this will all be done by the end of term.

Good Luck!

CJS Team

On Tuesday 15th June (next week) year 5 are going to Adventure Sunderland to take part in some very exciting water-based activities. The actual activities will be dependent on the weather on the day but the options are: paddle boarding, kayaking, raft building, pier jumping and body boarding.

The children will be participating in the activities with their classes; with class 5 spending the morning playing beach games with CJS staff whilst class 6 take part in the water activities. Both classes will then have lunch and swap for the afternoon.

The bus will be leaving school at 8:30 prompt so please can all children be in school for no later than 8:15 so they can be registered. The children will be back at school between 3:50-4pm depending on traffic.

For the day the children MUST bring (they cannot go without these things):

-a swimming costume
-a towel
-a SPARE pair of old trainers that they don’t mind getting wet
-packed lunch (unless pre-ordered from school)
-2 water bottles
-please ensure long hair is tied back

Children do not need to wear their school uniform for this trip but please be mindful of the weather on the day- a hat and sun cream may be beneficial as the children will be spending all of the day outside on the beach. They do not need money, but please pay the £5 contribution on ParentPay.

If your child has asthma or any medicines they need to take please ensure this is brought in with them on the day.

Adventure Sunderland will be providing wetsuits for the water activities.

We are very much looking forward to this trip and giving the children the opportunity to experience some exciting new activities.

Year 5 Team

On Monday 5th July children can come to school wearing red, white or blue and the kitchen have created a spectacular menu to keep in with the American theme.

If your child is on packed lunches they are welcome to have a dinner on this day, as long as you have pre-ordered using the form below. Please complete the form in the link below by Wednesday 23rd June.

Here is the menu…

Philly cheese steak sub
Southern fired chicken taco
Tater tots or fries
Mini corn cobs OR Boston bbq beans
Cobb salad OR Nacho chips
Cornbread
Keylime pie OR Rocky road brownies

Cream soda!

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