We attended Beamish Museum’s celebration of Flag and Empire Day in May 2018. The event is a celebration of the commitment and effort our young people put into to the various organisations they are part of including their school. This year our group of volunteers proudly waved our school flag and our new Dementia Friendly flag as we help our local community become more dementia aware. We had a beautiful sunny day to march alongside hundreds of children and young people from schools, cadets, cubs, guides, brownies, scouts and rainbows.

Pupils across Key Stage Two were very fortunate to spend the morning alongside Japanese students who taught them a whole range of things about their culture. The children loved dressing up, trying chopsticks, creating origami, calligraphy and learning some Japanese words and phrases. In exchange, the students were improving their English for teaching young people. A great morning of learning for everyone!

To finish off their history topic on coalmining, Year One finally got to visit Beamish Museum after two cancellations due to snow! It was worth the wait, however, as Year One showed off their learning both in the coalmine itself and in the surrounding pit village. They loved riding on the tram and visiting the Victorian sweet shop (they weren’t so keen on the dentist afterwards!)

We could not let the Beast from the East spoil our World Book Day fun! We celebrated a week later than planned with a day of coming to school as our favourite story characters. From Paddington to Peter Rabbit, Wonderwoman to Wally and Mrs Twit to Mary Poppins, we had them all. Well done to all of our children for their brilliant efforts to bring the world of stories to life. Don’t forget to spend your book tokens very soon and add to your own collections of books.