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It really has been the busiest of busy half terms –

Ofsted – well done to everyone for showing how well ‘Team Yarm’ is doing.

Remembrance Sunday commemorations when the school was represented so well by pupils and their families.

Decorating the Christmas Tree with thanks to School Council…

We want to say a great big well done to all of the children this week! They’ve put on two fantastic performances of The Inn Crowd and created some amazing animations on our school trip. If you haven’t had chance to check out their animations please have a look at…

For your homework this week, we would like you to think about how we show care for people at this time of year. Research an organisation that supports people in need at Christmas.

You might like to research:

• Shelter
• Salvation Army appeal
• Cash for Kids
• Shoe Box appeals

Think…

Reception are very excited about our trip to The Hullabaloo in Darlington to watch a magical theatre show about friendship, the moon and being brave in the dark.The trip is Friday morning therefore the children will be back to have lunch at school as usual.

Year 3 received delivery of some stick insects earlier today. The visiting teacher who brought them, talked about how to look after them and what they eat.

This week is a busy one for Year 4!

Today’s Christmas performance was fantastic with the next two on Thursday and Friday.

Viking Villages

On Thursday we will be making Viking villages as a D&T task with one produced per class. If you have any leftover materials to help with this then that…

Some of the children have completed the Stone Age home(work) activity and have put a lot of time and effort into their creations. We think that they look fantastic!

The children have been hard at work remembering their lines and practising their singing for the KS2 Christmas performances this week. They have made a great start and we are sure that this will continue for the rest of the week. Well done!

This week we have been looking at the Matchbox Diary. We would like you to consider:

• What you would put inside your matchbox? It has to be small enough to fit inside.
• What is the importance of it?
• What memories does it evoke?
• What would your story be?
• Which people does it remind you…

The festivities have started in Nursery this week.

We learned all about the Nativity story and opened up our new role play area to reveal the Nativity scene. Children have enjoyed retelling the story using puppets and dressing up clothes.

We have been practising for our performance with the…