This week has been our annual Active Week. It always proves to be a fun and exciting week with a whole range of activities to support our continued focus on physical and mental health. Pupils engaged with kurling and boccia activities led by Miss Johnson where some great levels of competition could be seen! On Wednesday, Year 3 attended a cricket skills event at Bishop Auckland Cricket Club. They participated in a range of activities to develop batting, bowling and fielding skills. The end of the week has been extremely busy with pupils out on the field. They have taken part in ultimate frisbee, a whole school multi skills festival and a whole school rounders competition which have been thoroughly enjoyed by all. You can see the evidence in these photographs! Thank you to those families who attended our sports day this morning. We are so pleased we can include families in these events once again. Children will receive certificates linked to sports day next week. Well done everyone!
This week Year 5 visited Bishop Barrington, where we took part in different activities. We made emoji cheesecakes, played urban dodgeball, learned to play the riff and base line of an Ed Sheeran song and even set fire to the teacher in science! Bishop Barrington also visited us and taught us all about the Shakespeare play of Romeo and Juliet.
Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully and respect other people.
As a Gold Rights Respecting school, we are proud to be working towards becoming recognised as an Educate and Celebrate best practice school. We aim to make our school a safe and inclusive environment for all and to ensure equality and respect for the LGBT+ community. The pages are currently under development but watch out in the Pupil Section for an update and regular posts to showcase this. Take a sneak peek for information regarding this.
The Town Mayor, Cllr Michael Siddle attended the Jubilee Party at Cockton Hill Junior School as a start of the Mayor’s Jubilee activities. After opening the celebration Mayor Siddle said “It has been lovely to see the children participating in such a lovely celebration, it has been such a shame that the weather let things down, but lots of fun has still been had. This Jubilee really is a once in a lifetime event, it has been great to be here today as part of the overall celebrations of the Town. 
As part of our Jubilee celebrations, all pupils took part in an eventful jubilee jog. Funds were also raised for The Angel Trust who very kindly donated crowns for all children to wear.
School pupils have been taking part in a patriotic project to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Youngsters across County Durham and Darlington have been making their own flags, which will be stitched together and put on display. The finished designs, featuring original artwork by the children, will be shown at the No. 42 gallery in Bishop Auckland Market Place for six weeks. The project has been organised by the Angel Trust, which provides charity support and service to groups and individuals experiencing financial hardship.
We have been looking at Myths and Legends. We have been completing work on the Myth “Arachne”, a story about a young girl with a talent for weaving. To link with this, this afternoon we went onto the field to collect natural materials for our ‘mindful nature weaving’ activity. This was an excellent activity to develop fine motor skills and the children showed fantastic teamwork, noticing when somebody else was struggling and offering to help.
This Our Jubilee event is almost here-Thursday 26th May. Hopefully the sun stays out! Tickets will be coming home with children today so please look out for these and keep them safe as these will be required for entry. Children of those families who are attending the event are to be collected at 12:45 from the main yard as they would at normal home time. Families can then move together onto the school field via the grey gate on the black path. Children will not be able to re enter school after this time and parents and families will be responsible for their children during the event.
