Back by popular demand- another collaborative Nativity play between pupils from across all ages and residents of Springfield Lodge took place in St Mary’s Church just before breaking up for Christmas.

On the back of our community achieving national recognition as ‘dementia friendly community of the year’ at the recent Alzheimer’s Society event in London, this was an appropriately poignant way to end a wonderful year of working together.

Pupils from Year 3 to 6 put on three fantastic performances of the school’s version of the West End musical hit, ‘We Will Rock You!’ Featuring 28 of Queen’s most-loved hits, our pupils brought the house down with amazing solos, great acting and superb dance routines.

Who will ever forget the Globalsoft Police routine to ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ or our troupe of hippies singing ‘These are the Days of our Lives’?

We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did rehearsing and performing it. The pupils have all worked incredibly hard, largely in their own time, to put on such a professional production. Well done Key Stage Two!

Christmas at West Rainton Primary started with a real treat as our EYFS pupils put on a beautiful production of ‘Christmas Counts’, a Nativity play based all around numbers!

It was hard to believe that many of the performers were only three years old as they danced, sang and said their lines with such professionalism beyond their years.

This was followed up by a fantastic production of ‘A Miracle in Town’ by our pupils in Year 1 and 2. Our oldest infant pupils had to learn many lines and they told the Christmas story wonderfully.

Thank you to our audiences, of over 150 people, who supported our performers so well.

A Merry Christmas to you all!

Our Y6 and reception pupils are the very best of friends! This autumn, they worked together to perform a beautiful harvest assembly for parents, including a harvest ‘squiggle’ dance. They then went to local houses to deliver our harvest hampers filled with kind donations from our school community.

As a special treat for working so brilliantly together, the children then carved pumpkins together to decorate our spooky Hallowe’en disco.

We were thrilled to be invited to share in Springfield Lodge’s Open Day as part of a national day of welcoming communities into care homes.

The morning comprised of a sing-off in which we sang two modern songs and listened to two songs from the residents. The judge had a tricky decision to make, but decided our rendition of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ was the winning song! We were rewarded with a fish and chip lunch in the garden and, as an extra treat, an ice cream each. What better way to celebrate the run-up to summer!

We love working together with our local community. The residents and children get on so well together.