Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.

Acrostic Poem – Sadly on the 8th September 2022 our Queen, Elizabeth II, passed away.

The Queen has sadly died,

History will remember her,

Elizabeth’s glorious reign seemed endless.

Queen of all our land,

Unique, graceful, noble and beloved,

Eager to take the throne,

Endless service to our people

Now she is at peace.

At King James Academy, in History, we all designed plates to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee.

We burned flints dipped in different metals on a bunsen burner to produce colourful flames.

Everyone enjoyed playing football rounders on the 4G pitch at King James Academy School.

We produced some fabulous art work using oil pastels and ink at St Johns.

Year 5 visited Broom House Farm to see where some of the food we eat comes from.  We now know that some of their animals go to the abattoir to be slaughtered before it is prepared at the butcher for consumption and returned to the farm to sell in their shop.  We learned about the different types of wild flowers and had fun sitting in the meadow picking them.  Most of us left some fruit from our packed lunches to give to the pigs.  There were lots of chickens which were allowed to wander – these are called free range. We even got to stroke the 12 week old baby goat called Crumble.

Y4 have enjoyed an afternoon in the sun creating their own natural transient art. They looked at examples together and discussed what they liked about different pieces of natural transient art, and how they all interpreted piece differently. We then headed outside to create our own. There were some fantastic creations such as a fox, a dog, a bird, a flower and much more! 🌿🍁🌺🌼🌰🍃🍂

At CHJS, we are working towards our Educate and Celebrate Pride in Inclusion Award. Pride Month takes place every year in June as a celebration designed to recognise the influence of the LGBTQ+ community. Celebrating diversity and people’s right to live how they choose without celebration, Pride Month promotes positivity and equal rights for all. Pride Patrol have decorated and held a cake sale to celebrate equality and diversity. Money raised will be used to add new diversity books to our school library.

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!

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.

Year 6 have worked with Durham Enterprise Team this worked. They had the opportunity to become managers, accountants, buyers, sellers or members of the production team. Over a series of trading ‘days’, the teams made and sold origami ducks by following different instructions! The purpose of the day was to make as much money as they could and learn about important business and life skills. We found out about different aspects of careers. Each team started with a start-up fund and by the end of the day, each of our little business groups had made a profit. The Y6 team and the visitors saw some fabulous negotiations, examples of teamwork and more importantly, resilience! Well done Y6!

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.

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