The rain certainly didn’t dampen our spirits during our Outdoor Education session this week. Perseverance was key as we used flint and steel to light fires. Afterwards, we enjoyed toasting marshmallows.

Class 3 loved watching examples of performance poetry and performing the poem ‘Mummy’ as part of their Ancient Egyptians history and english lessons.

We enjoyed celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes and created some beautiful artwork to represent the grotto.

Class 2 were very lucky today to take part in a Chinese New Year Workshop with Durham Oriental Museum via Teams. They listened really well to a story, created actions to remember the parts of a Chinese Dragon and looked at different artefacts.

We have been learning about why our mental health is important. The theme this year’s theme is ‘Growing Together’. We listened to the story of the The Hungry Caterpillar and thought about how he grew into a beautiful butterfly. We thought about how we have grown and created these into butterflies. We are going to create a lovely classroom door display with our butterflies and we can’t wait to share that with you.

We also enjoyed listening to ‘Reach for the Stars’ and set ourselves some goals for the rest of the year.

We had lots of fun learning about how to stay safe online. We worked together to sort out pieces of information and decide whether they were safe to post online or private and should be kept offline. We then had lots of fun creating our own avatar, username and password; making sure we were keeping our identify safe.

We were very happy to welcome Fr Peter into our class to answer some of our questions. Fr Peter is very new to our parish so it was great to chat with him and get to know him a bit better.