Christmas Performances

All the children at Whitehouse have been working hard in taking part in a Christmas performance. They have been learning lots of different songs and some children even have solos! Many children said their lines with

lots of expression and enthusiasm! Well done to you all!

Christmas Parties The Children have had lots of fun at the Christmas party!

Everyone dressed up in party costumes, Christmas jumpers or elf and Santa costumes. There were lots of yummy party

food to eat, party games and lots of singing and dancing!

Christmas Fair Another year and what another brilliant Christmas Fair! Thank you for all your support and coming in to join us to celebrate this wonderful event. As always we had many stalls from book stalls, food stalls,

chocolate fountain, henna, face painting, human fruit machine and many more! To finish the night off, we had the brilliant choir performing on the stage singing Christmas carols. It

was a lovely end to the night along with the raffle. We really appreciate all forms of donations that we receive but would like to say a special thank you to the following companies who were kind enough to donate towards our

Christmas Fair and Raffle.

We hope you all have a relaxing, joyful and a happy Christmas and New Year. Along with plenty of rest ready to start school in the New Year!

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Polite Messages: Parents must stand behind the yellow line in the playground on the morning and afternoon when drop-ping off and picking children up. Also, please can we make sure all items of clothing are clearly labelled? Thank you

Inside this issue:

Cartoons and fun page

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Book and music reviews

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Sports 6-7

Interviews 8-9

Puzzles 10

Growth Mindset 11

Dates for diary 6th January - School

Opens The rest of the dates will come out in January. These will be on the school

calendar. This is our ‘Rights Re-specting Logo.’ Rights respecting is a way of understanding children’s rights towards life. If you see this logo around school - can you spot which right it is linked to?

Operation Christmas Child

Thank you for all of your dona-tions this year. As a school, we have managed

to ensure that at least 38 children, around the world, have some-

thing to open on Christmas morning.

Article 32 and 33 — Right to be protected. All children have the right to be protected from danger. It is the government’s duty to protect children from any-thing that might harm their health and education.

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Up for laugh… Why are frogs always so happy? Because they eat whatever bugs them. Why do some people eat snails? They do not like fast food. Have you heard the joke about the butter? I better not tell you ,it might spread.

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Growth Mindset In Whitehouse we use two words which

are—growth mind-set. This may be new vocabulary to you however, we try our best to apply this to all our learning.

What is growth Mind-set? Growth Mind-set is where you are dedi-cated to do something that you find challenging and never stop trying. If you have a Growth Mind-set, it means you persevere through challenges, never giving up. It can be challenging to adopt a Growth mind-set so here are some examples of where you can apply it to your learning and everyday life.

Vocabulary Instead of: I can’t do this It’s too hard I give up My friend can do it Say: I can’t do this yet I’ll try a different strategy Maybe I can ask for a bit more help I can learn from them

What Growth Mind-set in-cludes:

Having another go Being an independent learner Using resources to help your learning Asking a friend Not being overwhelmed by challenge Persevering when faced with problems Building your resilience

Anagrams L o c s o h t c y a e r l i h w i o s e t e h u

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Puzzles

p l e n c i w k h e o m r o t h m a s

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Why did the student eat his homework? Because it was a piece of cake. What did the beach say to the tide when it came in? Long time no sea. Where do the pencils spend their holiday? In Pencilvania. What type of bee can not make it’s mind up ? A maybe.

Book Reviews

The Twits

If you like funny and silly books, then this is the book for you. It’s a book about these ugly people who loved playing pranks on each other (quite good for old people)! They are monsters. You would like this book because they play pranks on each other. Take a look at the book, you won’t regret it! -Bella

Dork Diaries Spectacular Superstar Nikki Maxwell and her band mates (Chloe, Zoey and Brandon) are looking forward to an awesome tour with the Badboyz! The downside is Nikki’s frenemy, Makenzie Hollister, has managed to switch from going to Paris for 2 weeks, to going on tour with Nikki’s band, even though she is not part of the band. Nikki is determined to stay out of Makenzie’s way to avoid all the drama, until she finds out that her roommate is Makenzie. Will Nikki survive her biggest dream, going on tour with the Badboyz, as it quickly goes from awesome to awful? If you like Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates this is the book for you. I enjoyed this book because it’s funny and every sentence wanted to make me read more!

-Bella

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Mrs Denham Catering Supervisor

Q: On a scale of 1-10 how much do you enjoy cooking? A: 10/10 I really enjoy my job. Q: What made you want to work in a kitchen? A: It fitted in with my family at the time. Q: What is your favourite recipe? A: I like making things that the children will eat such as jam roly poly and pies. Q: How long have you worked at Whitehouse Primary School? A: I have worked at Whitehouse Primary school for around 30 years. Q: What is your favorite Christmas song? A: My favorite Christmas song is White Christmas! Thank you!

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Interviews

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Interviews This term we have interviewed Mrs Robinson who teaches in the Crathorne room. We have

also interviewed Mrs Denham who works in the kitchen.

Mrs Robinson Crathorne Room

Q: Do you like working in the Crathorne Room?

A: Yes because it is lovely seeing the progress the children make.

Q: What made you want to become a teacher??

A: When I was little I always wanted to work with children.

Q: What is your favourite subject?

A: RE. obviously! Q: What has been your favourite memory of working at Whitehouse Primary School?

A: I have lots of memories over the past 33 years but Mrs. Holi-day making me hoover the decking is the funniest! Q: Do you have a favourite Christmas film?

A: My Christmas film is Love Actually. I like to watch it in my po-lar bear pyjamas with hot chocolate and marshmallows.

Thank you!

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Music Review Artist: Katy Perry We would rate her songs 10/10 because she puts pride and effort into all of her songs. Katy Perry is a national superstar. She is inspirational because she is a good singer and makes children want to accomplish their dreams, to be famous like her. Some of her most popular songs are: Roar Firework Swish Swish Chained to the Rhythm -Bella & Bella

Demon Dentist

By David Walliams

Darkness has come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of ear-wigs creeping and crawling under their pillow.

Evil is at work! But who is behind it all?

BEWARE THIS IS A “HORROR STORY.”

-Bella & Jasmin

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Whitehouse Sports Section After School Sports Clubs Football Club

Mr Mullen runs football club and takes them on the trips. In football club they learn new tricks and do a club after school. Some year 6 children who have now left our school attended the club last year and loved it. For warm ups they practise with foot work and go into teams. In the club you have 11 players each side which includes the goal keepers. You have people playing in defence midfield and strikers. In the re-cent tournament year 6 and 5 went to Stockton town both boys and girls came 3rd.—Katie + Ruby. Running Club Mrs Skilbeck ran a running club one night a week this term where the children practiced their running tech-nique and built up their stamina by completing a variety of drills and games before they competed at Cross Country and sprinting events in Athletics.

Multi-Sports Club Mr Mullen and Mr Messenger ran a multi sports club this half term where the chil-dren took part and learned the rules for a variety of sports such as Danish longball and dodgeball. Yoga + Dance Club Mrs Skillbeck ran a yoga club this half term where children learned the tree pose, downward and upward dog poses as well as meditation where they imag-ined that they were in different places. They also practiced different breathing techniques.

Y5 Swimming

During this term the Year 5 children have been going swimming each morning for a week at St Bede’s Secondary School. The children prac-ticed stokes such as front crawl, backstroke, breastroke and butterfly. They also developed much more confidence in water and most children even swam in the deep end where they could not touch the floor! The chil-dren had one lesson on lifesaving skills where they had to collect a heavy brick from the swimming pool floor and tow each other from one side of the pool to the other. A lot of children managed to achieve their 25 metre badge which was a great achievement. Some children in Year 5 can even swim a mile, which is 64 lengths! The Year 5 children thoroughly enjoyed going swimming each morning and can’t wait to go again! The Teachers were so proud of their achievements.—Lucia.

‘I really enjoyed the lifesaving

because I want to be a

lifeguard when I’m older–

Lucia

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Y1 Multi Sports Festival Class 11 Meditation In class 11 a lady called Cara came in to school. She did a sunshine warm up then we all laid and relaxed our whole bodies for 5-10 minutes. Here are some pictures. Class 11 had a lovely relaxing afternoon. — Lucia During this term, the Year 1 children

participated in a Multi-Sports festival at Durham University’s Sports Centre in Stockton-On-Tees. The children took part in a variety of activities which in-cluded dance, balancing beanbags, skipping, ribbon twirling, hoola hooping and relay races. The Year 1 children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in these activities one afternoon.

Competition Highlights Tag Rugby Two teams of boys and one team of girls entered the Tag Rugby competition at Grangefield this year, with one of the boys team coming 3rd place—an amazing achievement. All children played with 100% effort and showed sportsmanship throughout the day. A brilliant day enjoyed by all!

Athletics During the athletics tournament, we com-peted in a variety of different events against lots of different schools. This included triple jump, long jump, javelin throw, vertical jump, speed bounce, obstacle relays and running relays. The children performed bril-liantly in the first cluster round and qualified to the Stockton finals. Unfortunately, we finished 4th in the Stockton finals and didn't qualify for the Tees Valley finals however every child did Whitehouse proud!

‘Tag Rugby competition

was fun because we got to verse other

schools’– Jasmin.

‘I enjoy sports competitions because you

get to work as a Whitehouse

team– Freddie.