🇲🇽 “Walk to Mexico” 🇲🇽

During the month of March, we would like the children & staff of Witton-le-Wear Primary School to take part in a sponsored walk, walking the equivalent of 5,000 miles (the distance from the UK to Mexico – almost!) to raise much needed funds for our school.

Each class will be walking the ‘Daily Mile’ in our bubbles and we are asking families to walk a mile a day over each weekend. Staff will be walking the extra to build up the mileage we need, however any extra miles you are able to walk at home will be greatly appreciated. Please record all your miles walked at home on the sponsor form.

Please return your sponsor sheet to school by 25th March so we can add up the miles walked. We are hoping to celebrate at the end of term with a Mexican themed day of fun!

Many thanks for all your support!

**School will re-open to ALL pupils from Monday 8th March 2021**

Changes to start of Spring Term: Unfortunately, we have taken the decision as a school to begin remote learning from Wednesday 6th January until Friday 15th January 2021. School will remain closed until Monday 18th January 2021 to ALL pupils except those whose parents are classified as Critical Care workers or children who are vulnerable: have an EHCP or social worker involvement.

Please check your emails for more details!

Witton-le-Wear Primary School wishes a fond farewell to our Head Teacher,       Mr Stephenson, who has dedicated the last 18 years of his teaching career to leading our small village school, making it outstanding in every way!

We would all like to wish you a long, happy and healthy retirement!

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18955448.primary-school-bids-farewell-head-teacher-18-years/

The Drumming Elves from Runaway Samba surprised our school by coming along and treating us to a spectacular drumming performance. Miss Jones contacted Jack Drum Arts and asked them to come along to Witton School to deliver their performance as part of their #lightfantastic winter time programme of events for local communities, bring festive cheer and happiness to all audiences. It was spectacular and our children absolutely loved it, with one little Reception boy saying, “I will ALWAYS remember this!” Thank you to all parents and our Witton Community friends for your very kind donations. We were able to pass £110.68 to Jack Drum Arts, who were thrilled with our generosity and said our children were “Just the best audience this year! They’ve been pure joy to perform for!” A fabulous start to party day, thank you!

This year, things are very different in school! We are celebrating Anti-Bullying Week in our class bubbles rather than as a whole school. Educate and Celebrate holds rainbow bake-off every year to raise awareness of the importance of inclusion in schools & workplaces. We would like to host our very own virtual ‘Rainbow Bake-Off’. Please upload your photos onto Tapestry and Seesaw by Friday 27th November – there will be prizes for the best rainbow cake in each class!

Congratulations to all that entered! We had some fantastic looking cakes. It’s just such shame we were unable to taste your baking too 😥

AND THE WINNERS ARE…..

• Class One – Jack Mitchell
• Class Two – Alice Cole
• Class Three – John-George Gaskill Proud
• Betsy-Lea Longstaff

Congratulations to everyone who entered our Pumpkin Design Competition this year! We had some fantastically creative entries, well done! After careful consideration, Mr Stephenson chose our winners! They each received a Halloween themed goody bag filled with Halloween treats.

Our winning designs are:

Know Your Symptoms– Please click here to compare the symptoms of Flu, the common cold, allergies against those of COVID-19!

What a great start to the beginning of our Autumn Term. It has been great to see you all once again! All our children has been amazing! It has been so lovely to see their smiley, happy faces enjoying being back together again, listening to them chat with their friends, playing & having fun together! Thank you for all your help and hard work!

Colds, coughs and BACK TO SCHOOL
This is really difficult for parents, really hard for schools…and NHS 111 is overrun with calls to speak to doctors. Today the @rcpch issued some new up to date (and evidence based) guidance for parents and schools. It has been made into a simple flow chart to make it easier to understand. We hope it helps!

Here is a link to the government advice document too:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-parents-and-carers-need-to-know-about-early-years-providers-schools-and-colleges-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak/what-parents-and-carers-need-to-know-about-early-years-providers-schools-and-colleges-in-the-autumn-term