This half term, nursery had a wonderful outdoor stay and play with all of their special adults. We shared a story all about the lifecycle of a caterpillar, before exploring some of our outdoor learning and finishing off with our favourite disco dudes! 
 A huge thank you to all of our parents/carers for their continued support 
At Valley View we are always promoting positive friendships and know that everyone in our school community is important and special. In order to celebrate all of the wonderful work we do everyday we were invited to attend the annual Friends Against Bullying (Fab) Awards. This event was organised by the Young People’s Parliament and celebrated the work of a small selection of schools in South Tyneside. Our school was awarded a main award in recognition of our ongoing work to encourage positive relationships. It filled us with pride to watch some of our fabulous Year 5 children stand up on stage and present to an unknown audience. They did an AMAZING job showcasing our wonderful work. As part of our presentation we shared all the inspiring work that was completed in anti-bullying week, this included installing a buddy bench.
Another fantastic Reading Cafe this morning with lots of activities linked to reading you can do with your child at home. Thank you so much to everyone who came! We hope you found it useful and enjoy doing some of these activities at home!
Today the children showed great citizenship, they wanted to help members of our community this winter so they teamed togther with local charity, Hebburn Helps.
The children collected donations of warm blankets and hot water bottles in school, the student council then delivered them to Hebburn Helps who will distribute them to families in need.
We have been exploring hedgehogs in Forest School this term. We have discovered that hedgehogs are nocturnal and why they have spikes on their back. In our first session, we enjoyed using natural materials to create our own hedgehog sculptures. We are looking forward to finding out how we can help to care for these wonderful animals.
This week, EYFS explored the Hindu festival Diwali – the Festival of Lights. We discovered why the celebration is important to Hindu’s, how they prepare for the festival and what you might see during Diwali. We found out that they spring clean their homes in preparation, they exchange gifts and share family meals, they watch firework displays and they light up their homes to invite the Goddess Lakshmi. We enjoyed creating our own diva lamps that we decorated with our special adults at home.
EYFS were very proud to have a special visitor this week. We have been learning all about Remembrance Day and its importance, and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask a soldier if we ever met one. We were very excited to meet Anthony, who answered all of our questions including why we wear poppies and why he has special medals. It was wonderful to put all of our learning into a real life context. We paid our respect to soldiers like Anthony, and all of their families, by completing a 2 minute silence on Friday 11th November.
Thank you so much to our wonderful school community for the amazing food donations.
The student council organised the food and we took it to Hebburn Helps to be distributed to families in need.
