Headteacher: Alison Johnson Deputy Headteacher: Jane Brook Tel: 01388 762380 Fax 01388 768675 email: peaseswest@durhamlearning.net www.peaseswest.durham.sch.uk

10th June 2014

Peases West Primary School Billy Row Crook County Durham DL15 9SZ

Staffing update Following successful interview for a leadership post at Sacriston Primary School, Miss Teasdale will leave us at the end of Summer term. We know you will join us in congratulating Miss Teasdale, and wishing her well for the future. She will be a huge miss! This term, we have welcomed Mr Elms to our school. Mr Elms has joined us as an Activity Leadership apprentice, focussing on all aspects of PE and Sport provision. We have also welcomed back Mrs Hird, following her maternity leave. The structure for September 2014 is as follows:

As you will see, we are welcoming some new members of staff to school in September. Miss Mould and Mrs Patton have undertaken very successful student placements in school, and are well known to children and the school. Miss Blewitt joins us as a newly qualified teacher, and will work alongside Mrs Morton in Class 2. Our ‘moving up’ day will be 10th July. Should you have any questions about staffing, please do not hesitate to contact school.

Mrs Horner is currently away from the school office as she is accompanying the school’s residential visit to Borrowdale. Thank you for your patience and understanding

with any delay in office matters during her absence. All staff are available to help in any way they can during Mrs Horner’s absence.

Could you please ensure when dropping off and picking up your child to school, that you do not park on the yellow zig-zag lines at the end of the school lane. This is extremely dangerous and is putting

children ay risk. Could this message please be passed to grandparents and relatives who may bring and collect your child from school. Thank you.

Class: Teacher Support Staff

Mrs Nodding Mrs Weatherall

Mrs Britton Mrs Hird Miss Mould Mrs Sully Miss Hall

Class 2 (Years 1 and 2) Mrs Morton/Miss Blewitt Mrs Knotts/Mrs Sully

Class 3 (Years 3 and 4) Mrs Rafferty Mrs Patton/Mrs Lauder

Class 4 (Years 5 and 6) Mrs Brook Mrs Patterson

Early Years Foundation Stage: Nursery

Reception/Class 1

Tempest Photographers were in school last week to take class photographs.

These will be available very soon.

Reception class visit to Co-op supermarket

Class 1 have been reading the story “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. As part of their learning, Reception children made shopping lists in preparation to purchase alternative healthy foods. With their lists and money, children travelled to the Coop in Crook. They practiced reading signs, prices and labels in the supermarket and handled money, counting and naming coins and collecting change. Following the visit the children all helped to prepare a healthy picnic for the Hungry Caterpillar! They worked cooperatively to organise their own picnic discussing what they needed, sharing and turn taking and handled tools safely. All the children enjoyed tasting their chosen healthy foods. Thank you Reception Children for incredible behaviour outside of school.

School uniform School uniform can be ordered online at

www.stparent.co.uk Please order by 3rd of the month for same month

delivery.

Apps Children and staff are using Apps in class to support and develop teaching and learning. Currently

children are using ‘Hairy Letters ‘ and Twinkl apps. Both these apps are suitable for EYFS (Nursery and Reception )and KS1 (Years 1 and 2) children and can be purchased at a small cost on home tablet

devices if you wish to do so. ‘Hairy Letters’ supports children’s letter formation and alphabet recognition. ‘Twinkl phonics’ has a range of games and activities all which are matched to the Letters and Sounds curriculum. The games and activities are arranged into Phase order from Phase 1 to phase

5. We are currently looking at apps to support the New Computing Curriculum to be introduced in September and therefore we will keep you informed regarding any future apps which children will be

using in school.

Peases West School Summer Fair * Celebrating our school, our community and our history.

COME ALONG AND JOIN THE FUN!

Saturday July 12th 2014 12noon to 4pm at Peases West Primary School Billy Row, Crook FREE fancy dress competition FREE ‘Crafty Kids’ area FREE historic display FREE bike and scooter marking FREE Tug o’ War Inflatable mega slide and castle! Archery, football and assault course Tombola and bottle tombola Fire Brigade, Police and Army

Face painting and tattoos Jewellery and nail art NERF shooting range Panning for gold Medieval stocks Balloon modelling Barbeque and refreshments Cream teas ‘on the lawn’ Plants, stalls and much more! *

Peases Quest ( Peases West PTA ) proudly presents

Plans for the Summer Fair are being finalised. We are still looking for donations for the tombola and bottle stalls. Please note - we are

collecting all different kinds of bottles (washing up liquid, fizzy pop, shampoo, bubble bath, ketchup, sun cream, water, wines and spirits etc). Any

donations can be handed in to the box in the entrance, or your child’s class teacher. Cakes can be handed in on the day before the fair. If you can help in any other way, please let us know. We are always looking for volunteers! Thank

you!

Date for your diary!

Fundraising Quiz night Thursday July 3rd 2014 at 7pm - The Green in Billy Row

Further information and tickets available soon!

KS2 Football

It was a tough match on the 4th June at Parkside Academy. The weather conditions were wet and rainy, but we still played to our best ability. Unfortunately we lost 1-0 to Witton-le-Wear. Kieran was solid in defence along with Brody and Samuel. Callum, Connor and Jake were good in attack and they nearly scored twice. Sam was excellent in goal, saving the ball many times to keep us in the game. It was the last game of the season and it would have been nice to end the season with a win, however we will go into next season with increased confidence, and a determination to succeed. The team positions were … Sam–goal Brody-defence Samuel-defence Kieran-defence Dillon-(sub) defence Jake-midfield Callum-centre Connor-centre We have had eight fixtures this season and have had lots of fun with the help from Mr Elms and Mrs Morton. By Jake and Brody. Player of the match: Kieran W

In Summer 2, we welcome back Sports Coach, Darren Tait. Darren will be delivering Athletics sessions with children in Class 3, and will also be delivering an afterschool club to children from

Years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Level 2 Interschool Cricket Competition On the 5TH of June we took part in an Interschool Cricket Competition at Crook Cricket club, against twelve other teams. During the morning we played three matches, one after the other, winning two and narrowly losing one. After a short lunch break and deliberation for the scores to be added, we found out that we were in the semi finals. We were over the moon!!! Seen as we got through to the semi finals we got to play for 3rd place after sadly losing in the semi finals. However we finished the match and finished 3rd out of twelve schools. We found it really fun because we got to meet other schools. By Shannon and Kimberly

Peases West basketball tournament

On Monday 2nd of June we took part in a Basketball tournament with local schools. Luckily, the rain held off while we played all of our matches. Year 5 and 6 played an outstanding 5 matches against: Howden-le-Wear, Witton-le-Wear, Stanley Crook and Tow Law Millenium. The team, Kira, Mollie, Amy, Shannon, Millie, Callum and Kieran, showed amazing team work and skill. We would like to thank Miss Teasdale for the brilliant coaching and support. The Team enjoyed it very much. In the end, Peases West came 4th. By Amy Plumb

Sports Day As part of our Sports week celebrations, we will aim to hold our carnival themed ‘Sports Day’ for Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, during the morning of Wednesday 25th June. In the event we have to rearrange due to weather conditions, it will be held during the morning of Wednesday 2nd July. Nursery and Reception children will hold their Sports Day on Thursday 26th June, during the morning. In the event we have to rearrange due to weather conditions, it will be held during the morning of Wednesday 2nd July.

Year 5 activity day at Wolsingham School and Community College

Thursday June 19th

Year 5 children will enjoy a taster activity day at WSCC. They will leave Peases

West Primary in the morning and travel to and from WSCC by coach. As some of the activities

will be held outside, please ensure that your child is dressed in their school PE kit, and if the weather is hot and sunny that they have

appropriate sun protection.

Year 5 Multiskills taster day at Parkside Academy

Monday June 30th

Year 5 will spend the day at Parkside Sports College enjoying a range of

multiskills activities. They will travel to and from Parkside by bus. Please

ensure your child has their PE kit with them and if the weather is hot and sunny

that they have appropriate sun protection.

Roddymoor Community Allotment Association

We were delighted to be invited to attend Roddymoor Community Allotments last week. Our Year 1 children, accompanied by some of our Key Stage 2 junior children, had the opportunity to learn

about planting, plant care and growth, and also planted sunflowers at the revamped allotments. We will continue to work in partnership with Roddymoor Community Allotments, and have some exciting

plans in place over the next year!

Please ensure you notify school when your child is absent. If we do not receive a reason for the absence, it will be recorded as unauthorised.

absences will be unauthorised.

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Summer Term dates for your diary: Tuesday 10th June - KS2 (Classes 3 and 4) visit to Preston Park Tuesday 10th - Friday 13th June: Borrowdale residential visit Thursday 19th June - Year 5 Activity Day at WSCC Thursday 19th June Cricket tournament Friday 20th June - Athletics festival Week beginning 23rd June - Sports Week Wednesday 25th June: Sports Day Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (morning) Thursday 26th June - Nursery and Reception Sports morning Friday 27th June - County Athletics finals Friday 27th June - Sainsburys games Level 1 Intra school competition Monday 30th June - Year 5 Parkside Activity Day Monday 30th June - Nursery and Reception Intra school competition Tuesday July 1st - Jo James music concert Thursday July 3rd - Peases Quest PTA Fundraising Quiz night at The Green Thursday 10th July - Whole school ‘moving up’ day Thursday 10th July - Annual reports to Parents sent home Friday 11th July - Learning Journal submission deadline Saturday 12th July - Summer Fair Tuesday 15th July - Class 2 presentation assembly at 2pm Wednesday 16th July - Nursery presentation assembly at 9.15am Wednesday 16th July - Class 1 presentation assembly at 2pm Thursday 17th July - Class 3 presentation assembly at 2pm Friday 18th July - Class 4/Year 6 Leavers’ Presentation assembly at 2pm

School breaks up on Friday 18th July and reopens on Tuesday September 2nd 2014