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Share a Memory…#stay safe

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It is week two of the school closure and we are really missing our children and families.  In a bid to stay positive and find some comfort in these unprecedented times, we are welcoming any drawings, pictures, photographs and written messages. These can be for the whole CJS family showing what you have been doing, or for specific friends and teachers who are missing each other and want to let them know…Lets go gallery crazy over the next few weeks!

Messages from our children and families:

“Bradley has been doing some gardening and colouring in with Kacie. 
Riley is missing school, teachers & friends, Bradley not so much school but the teachers & friends. 
We ❤ you CJS
Love all of the Dodds household. Xxxx”
“Sebastian (R) would like to say Hi to everyone at CJS. He is missing his friends and all of the staff! He can’t wait to come back! Xx”

“Freyas (H) missing all the teachers and her friends in Class 4.

She’s getting lots of splits practice in!

I’d say Caleb’s missing everyone too but I can hear him on his xbox catching up with his friends!
Stay safe everyone ❤”
“Imogen L says she really misses everyone and hopes everyone is back to school soon, stay safe x”
“Hi everyone
Missing you all lots, av got my rainbow pic in my window and have been making cakes and staying home and staying safe. Miss you all, Mrs Hudson x”
“Hope you all are enjoying time with your families. Stay safe everyone and will hopefully see you very soon. Love Mrs Hannant and her girls xxxx”
“Miss Waters is sing the time to clean her instruments!”
“Miss Parker is sending her wishes and has even sent her rainbow picture”
“Being doing a lot of running to get out of the house, Joe went up our hill at Leadgate, when he came with me…missing our little running buddies, Miss Oselton x”
“Just a few photos of Robert cooking a two course meal for the family to earn his chef badge at cubs.  They are holding virtual cub meetings online to all keep in contact” Well done Robert!
“Sienna is missing school and her friends/ teachers so much! She’s had fun today sliming her dad however! xxx”
Beth D doing a volcano experiment for science and  learning about volcanoes for geography – Well done Beth!
Rose G is missing all her teachers and friends…
Nona R is missing school so wanted to let you know what she’s been doing. Lots of baking, made cupcakes, Easter cakes and biscuits. She also did her nails and mine (Mam) like ladybirds!  Nona has been playing scrabble, lazy on the garden swing in all weathers! And made a lovely rainbow for our window.
Over Easter, Vanessa B made some chocolate nests, tye dyed a t shirt and made some bubble bar soaps.
Here’s a couple of pics of the Turner boys celebrating Louie’s 10th birthday in lockdown style x
We’re missing our lovely school so so much, I hope you’re all safe and well.

Ben Wilson misses you all

Stay safe xxx
Gracie F has been cooking, up-cycling furniture and cooking!
Gracie F is continuing to keep up with school work and helping by making the tea!
“Mia M has been doing school work on a morning, she absolutely loves TT rock stars and her maths has came on leaps and bounds, we’ve done PE with Joe and listen to David Walliams.  On afternoons we do cooking, cleaning, gardening and walk our dogs, then on an evening with this lovely weather we’ve had bbq’s and hot tub fun.  This week though on Thursday night we welcomed our new arrivals and the girls have never took their eyes off them since just a few pictures I thought you could share everyone loves puppy pics hopefully we will be back to school soon and Mia can tell you all about them”
“We picked Robert’s cross country vest up yesterday, today we didn’t do a run as we are also cycling lots and thought we would share a picture at Colins seat up the Waskerley way with Robert in his school vest”
“In the gallery is a photograph taken of Keira in her rainbow hat posting a birthday card to Captain Tom for his 100th birthday. We loved the stay safe video. Well done to everyone. Keira is missing everyone in Class 4, especially her BFF’s. 💜”
“Hi everyone , i hope everyone is well i am missing you all loads, so i have asked my mam to send some pictures of what we have been doing since we have been off.. we have had loads of fun, but my mam has made sure i do my work .. thanks for that mr medows haha 😂 STAY SAFE EVERYONE see yous all soon lewis x p.s missing your jokes in assembly mr Dixon 🌝”
It’s great to hear that Robert L is still committed to his cross country training – below is a picture of Robert from a morning run on his favourite hill near hownsgill where he trains…
While walking through the woods to Allensford, my boys saw little colourful doors high up on the trees, when i got closer i could see each door had a name on, Rosie, Lailee and Honey. I told them i knew those lovely names…I emailed Lailee’s Mam and it was there doors! A great craft idea that they have made that made my boys look for more. Thank you Lailee M and family! Photos below, Mrs Raine
Corey C-B has been spending quality time with his family,for VE day they have had a little tea party outside with some home baked scones! They also ordered some caterpillars and watched as they transformed into gorgeous painted lady butterflies. One of them didn’t want to leave Corey and stayed on his arm for about 10 minutes.  Brilliant
A photograph below of Keira was taken on V.E Day. Keira is holding her Great Grandad’s
medal from the President for helping to liberate France during World War Two. Her Great Grandad was only 20 when he was in France during the war.
A few pictures of Isaac J below having some fun times during the lockdown.
We are very proud that Rebecca’s (Yr 3) rainbow picture and chocolate cake she made has appeared on the girl guides facebook page. Well done Rebecca D.

“Some pics below of Caleb keeping busy when he’s not doing school work or playing on the PS4!
Planting, growing (not just basil, radish and beetroot but finally his second front tooth too! 😉 ) watering… Mastering making his favourite food, pancakes! Tea outdoors followed by toasting marshmallows on the fire. A special delivery of his next set of all stars cricket gear… to name a few things…

Caleb is missing staff and friends, sending hugs, well wishes and be safe xxx”

Silly Face Challenge…

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First of all, can we say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who joined in with the 8.00 p.m. clap for our NHS last night. Our home estates were amazing, the atmosphere and support from our community laves us tearful and speechless. We have an amazing team of NHS workers and they are doing a brilliant job in uncertain times. We do appreciate you…

In a bid to try and keep our families upbeat as they isolate together, can you now send in your most ‘silly’ faces…these will be uploaded to the gallery below.  For children (and adults) this will get the laughter going, it will also be a chance for children to see pictures of their friends, who we are sure they are all missing.

Stay safe

The CJS staff team.

Rainbows – Spread the Colour

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While out in the car yesterday, a rainbow painting in a bedroom window caught my eye, then another one…

So i did what we all do and googled it, see link.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51988671

So my family set to work on our own Rainbows…and my little boy Freddy called it ‘Raines Rainbow’…

Please support us in spreading hope at this difficult time. Send in pictures of your rainbows and i will upload them to the gallery below #rainesrainbows

Take care everyone

Works Packs – Preparations

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Work Packs are being prepared in school for children to access from home should children already be in self-isolation or to prepare for partial/whole school closure.

Today (18th March), all primary contacts have been sent a text with their class website link to access their work from home. The texts are individual and direct your child to complete a particular ‘PACK’.

If you have not received your text, please contact the school.

Paper packs of the same work are being produced and will be ready for Friday, should we need to send them home. If your child is already in self-isolation, you can collect your pack from school from noon on Friday 20th March.

Thank you for your continued support and patience at this very difficult time.

Our Classes

Kind regards
Mr Dixon
Head Teacher

Hooks into Books

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On Wednesday, our Year 6 children arrived in school to find lots of feathers scattered around the classroom and a copy of the first chapter of our new class novel ‘Skellig’ on their table.  The children were very excited and intrigued by all of this and are desperate to read the book.

Two of the children from Class 8 have been doing exceptionally well with their reading in school and at home.  So much so that they have read all of the books in school!!!  As a reward for this, the girls were asked to write a wish list of books and school have purchased these for their class.  Well done Nona and Jasmine!

Special recognition award

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This morning in assembly one of our Year 6 girls, Jody Brown, was given a special recognition award from Consett Rotary Club.

Jody has been an asset to our school over the last four years. Staff in school agree she is one of the most kind-hearted children we have ever had the privilege to teach. Jody is caring, well mannered, patient and helpful. She is an excellent friend and I’m sure all of her friends feel lucky to have such a positive, loyal and trustworthy person in their lives. Jody has shown real determination during her time at Consett Junior school, she never gives up and always strives to do her best. She listens to and acts on all of the advice she is given and has made excellent progress academically and also in the band where she started off in year 3 playing cornet and now plays the tenor horn. Jody will always go out of her way to help anyone who needs it and that’s why we feel she deserves to be presented with this year’s special recognition award.  Well Done Jody!

Return on Nurture Club for the Third Year

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After School Nurture club returned yesterday and all the children who attended had a brilliant time, as did the staff. The first session allowed the children to mix with children from other classes and year groups and start to embed new relationships. All our children have different personalities and levels of confidence, a brilliant balance and good chemistry for this group.

Children started the session drawing things they like/enjoy alongside playing their choice of music and games with the props we supplied. Check out the gallery below…

February Attendance Reward

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The whole school attendance for February was an excellent 96.89% which is a slight drop from January but we are still above our floor target of 96%. Sickness absences are always going to impact, we have 218 pupils on roll therefore completely unavoidable. Unauthorised absences are still evident in all year groups, with year 6 being the highest. If daily reporting to school is in place in year 3, then by year 6 we should have little to none. Most parents/carers are very good at informing us of the reason for their child’s absence, which can be done via calling, texting or emailing the school.

All year groups are above the floor target!

The February attendance by year group is as follows:

Year 3 – 96.18%

Year 4 – 96.56%

Year 5 – 96.74% –

Year 6 – 98.00% – EXCELLENT YEAR 6 – TOP AGAIN!

As year 6 have once again achieved the best attendance for February each child in year 6 will be given a cake/giant cookie next Friday, 6th March as their reward.

Class 5 (Miss Breheny) have knocked Class 8 off the top spot and achieved the reward for the best class attendance at an outstanding 98.45%, well done! The Class 5 reward for this is a FREE non-uniform day which will also be next Friday. Mind, Class 8 were very close at 98.26!

Ethan and Emily’s ‘Ring the Bell’ Day

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Today we have had a very special and memorable day in school to celebrate the end of treatment for Ethan and Emily.  Both children have been undergoing treatment for Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), Ethan has had three years of treatment and Emily two years.  As our school community have been part of their journey and this is such an amazing time, we decided to celebrate with them in school.

This morning the whole school came together for a special assembly and the families and friends of Ethan and Emily came along. Mr Dixon introduced the assembly and talked about why we had all come together, after this there was a very emotional slideshow of memories of both the children which highlighted the importance of strong families and also that they are two very brave and strong children. Following the slideshow we welcomed Jagoda Campbell-Hewson, who is a cancer specialist nurse at the RVI and has grown so close to the children throughout their treatment, to talk to the children about their type of cancer and what treatment they have had. This was a very engaging and informative assembly and she delivered it sensitively and even brought humour and audience engagement into the mix!  The children asked many questions and left with an understanding of ALL.

At the end of the assembly Mr Dixon talked about their journey and how amazed he was at the care and sensitivity of all the children in school, as they have supported them on their way to recovery. A huge thank you Taylor Shaw as one of their employees (and lucky for us she is also one of our parents), Helen Merritt made two AMAZING cakes, one for each child as each of their roads to recovery were individual to them.

Finally, although this is not completely the end of treatment for Ethan and Emily, as they will still need to have check ups, and the worry will never be too far away from their parents minds, we wanted to mark this in some way in school. So, as the children ‘rang the bell’ at the RVI we have purchased a bell and individual plaques which have been put up in school.  So even after the children move on through their lives and we are a memory we hope they treasure, their bravery and resiliency will echo through the ethos of the school and all will remember two of the bravest children we were blessed to teach.

A huge thank you to all of our families for always keeping these children in mind at times when yours have been poorly.  Today we have raised £139.00 for Wards 4 and 14 of the RVI.

We have enjoyed a very ‘dancy’ lunch and the catering team did an amazing job of serving almost 160 lunches and decorating the hatch with balloons and ribbons donated to them by a flower shop in Stanley.