Well done to all of the children for their wonderful clay pots which were submitted for the Witton le Wear Village show on Saturday.

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!

Earth Day – What is it and how can we help?

🇲🇽 “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

**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