After a year of funraising in school and with the support of our wonderful parents. carers, staff, governors and the wider community we have our first ever school minibus.
We are so thrilled ! We cant wait to go on adventures with the children.
Thank you to Variety for the Sunshine Coach and to Turn Key for sponsoring us.
Year 3 and Year 4 had a brilliant day at the Laing Gallery. We completed a workshop creating sculptures and also had a good look around the different exhibitions. We sketched some of our favourite paintings and looked out for different things in the artwork.
Nursery Blue groups have been enjoying their visits to forest school, which started again this term. The children have been busy making chocolate mud cakes, fishing in the Valley View pond, collecting and transporting with baskets, mud and stones. The children love using the magnifying glasses at the investigation table where they observe woodlice, worms, slugs, leaves and bark.
Look at our pet therapy dog Winston reading with the children this week.
This week our pupils attended the 10th annual South Tyneside FAB (Friends Against Bullying) awards and we won !
The children delivered a presentation about the work that they do in family groups.
Our children were amazing, acting as great ambassadors for our school.
Our newly elected school council from Valley View and Hedworthfield were welcomed by the Deputy Mayor for a tour of the Town Hall in South Shields this week.
The children learned about the history of the Town Hall, they created their own school crest, they participated in a very challenging question time and took a vote on whether to ban homework or not !
It was a great visit, our school council were amazing ambassadors for our schools.
Thank you so much to the Town Hall staff, Deputy Mayor and Councillors who made us feel so welcome.
Our school is an official Research Partner in the Education for Wellbeing programme. We are working in partnership with the Evidence Based Practice Unit. (Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL), which has been commissioned by the Department for Education.
Together we are investigating the impact of five innovative approaches that aim to promote pupil wellbeing..
This cutting-edge research trial is the largest of it’s kind in the UK,. Our contribution will improve understanding of how best to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Year 2 from Valley View and Hedworthfield and the Additional Resource Base 1 enjoyed a ‘Great Fire of London’ day. They baked bread in the Pudding Lane Bakery, build Tudor houses, drew London fire landscapes with pastels, sang songs, toasted marshmallows in our fire pit. They then watched as the Tudor houses were set alight to act out the burning city.
We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen to participate in the National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP)
This support from the NSBP, funded by the Department for Education and delivered by the Charities Family Action and Magic Breakfast, will enable us to expand breakfast provision in our school and reach additional disadvantaged children with a healthy free breakfast.
