Witton-le-Wear Primary School

31 St James Gardens, Witton-le-Wear, Bishop Auckland DL14 0BG

Head Teacher: Mr S Whelerton

Witton-le-Wear Primary

St James Gardens

Witton-le-Wear

Bishop Auckland

DL14 0BG

Tel: 01388 488 350

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Witton’s Big Build Bake Off

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Have you got what it takes to be Witton le Wear’s STAR BAKER 

Welcoming guest judges, Mrs Ruffer and Mrs Fisher, both works closely with The Auckland Project as well as being huge Great British Bake-Off fans, along with our very own Mr Whelerton and Mrs Yuill.

Choose one or more categories to enter – £5 per adult, £2 per child (per entry) Prize for each category

Adult Categories:

  • One tier cake
  • Biscuit
  • Scone
  • Pastry
  • Showstopper
 Child Categories:

  • Cupcake
  • Biscuit
  • Savoury
  • Traybake
  • Showstopper

 

All entries will be sold after judging to help raise much needed funds for our Big Build Project – EVERYONE WELCOME even if you do not wish to enter, come along and buy one of the masterpieces in the competition. Extra activities on the day Decorate a Gingerbread Man Cupcake Icing Live Music Guess the weight of the cake Tea and Coffees available

Please email Miss Brown (s.brown302@wittonlewear.net ) if you would like to enter the bake off by 7th February.

Welcome September 2021

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Welcome to the start of a new exciting school year! Wishing all our new children and families who are joining us for the very first time, a very warm welcome. May this September be the start of a long, happy and very successful partnership!

School opens for Autumn Term for children in Reception to Year Six on Thursday 2nd September. Breakfast Club and WASCLS also start today.

Nursery children will return to school from Monday 6th September.

New Nursery children joining us this year have their initial visit to school on Thursday 9th September at 3:30pm and join us for their Stay & Play session on Friday 10th September, before starting their nursery hours from Monday 13th September.

We are all looking forward to the new, exciting academic year ahead!

Sponsored “Walk to Mexico”

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🇲🇽 “Walk to Mexico” 🇲🇽

Dear Parents and Carers

We would like to say a huge thank you for your support during our Walk to Mexico sponsored event in March. As a school we managed to walk 5039.6 miles and we are thrilled to inform you that to date we have raised over £1600 from this event. These funds will go towards enhancing our children’s learning in many different ways.

Again thank you so much for your continued support.

From all the staff at Witton Le Wear Primary School

*URGENT!* Changes to Spring Term!

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**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!

Critical Worker/Vulnerable Child information:

Farewell Mr Stephenson!

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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 Surprise Visit!

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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!

Christmas Fair – Covid-Style!

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*Christmas Fair Update* Witton School raised a whopping £1193 which, given the fact that we haven’t been able to run any events in school for parents, is AMAZING!! This money is going to be used towards additional curriculum resources across the school in 2021. We have also qualified for the Barclays Matched Funding initiative which means that they will match this amount raised with a further £1000 which is great news. We want to say a HUGE thank you for your fabulous support for all of our Christmas fund raising activities over the past couple of weeks. Our parental and community support is amazing, thank you!

The Christmas Fair is our main fundraiser of the year. It enables us to pay for things like our school fun day, in-school theatre visits, subsidise school trips as well as many other activities and resources we strive to offer. Our school budget cannot stretch to anything but the essentials so the school fair is vital to support school funds. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we are unable to hold the school fair this year but we are hoping to still safely carry out some of the usual activities such as the raffle, chocoholics stall(chocolate tombola) and Jolly Jars.

BUT WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP!

From now until the 4th December we would be very grateful for any contributions towards raffle prizes and the chocoholics stall.

  • Raffle: Covid-Style The children will be allocated raffle tickets to bring home. If you wish to buy them, please return the stubs of the tickets bought- along with payment- inside a labelled envelope, to be entered into the raffle. It will be drawn on the 11th December 2020
  • Chocoholics stall. (Chocolate tombola) This will be held in school every day during the week 7th -11th December. Tickets £1 for 5 goes. Each bubble will have the opportunity to have a go during that week Money will need to be in a sealed, named envelope with amount enclosed.
  • Jolly Jars- Please bring in your completed jars by Monday 7th December . This will give us the 72 hours required before awarding prizes and selling them on Friday 11th. Last year these were amazing.
    (See extra information on attached letter)

THANK YOU IN ANTICIPATION OF YOUR SUPPORT.

Your contributions will help to raise much-needed funds for our school.

Virtual Rainbow Bake-Off!

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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

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