Bishop Auckland, Co Durham
Co-op Local Community Fund
We would like to say a ‘Huge Thank You’ to all the customers and staff at Cockfield Co-op for raising the fantastic sum of £1244.13 for Friends of Woodland School, through your Local Community Fund.
The money has been used to install some outdoor gym equipment for our school and pre school children to enjoy. They are all having lots of run on the equipment and keeping fit and healthy too.
The children took part in various activities and lessons explaining the importance of Remembrance Day. They made stained glass poppies with cellophane and created a window display which as you can see looked fantastic. On Remembrance Sunday Mrs Denham took our school poppy wreath to Woodland Memorial and on Remembrance Day at 11.00am we all took part in a 2 minute silence on the school playground to remember the brave soldiers who gave their lives to make ours better.
At lunch time our lovely cook Karen made all the children and staff a poppy cupcake which were both amazing and delicious!
The children enjoyed an afternoon of Halloween fun today. They came dressed in costumes, did lots of craft activities and had fun dancing to Halloween songs.
Everyone at Woodland hopes you have had a lovely summer despite the difficult circumstance we are all dealing with. We have had a great couple of few weeks back at school and the children are enjoying being in their new classes and seeing all of their friends. Our new reception starters have settled in well and are already getting used to the school day.
Over the Summer the wildlife camera has been very busy. Lots of rabbits, 3 woodland cats on the prowl, a frequent snuffling from our local hedgehog and 3 very special visitors, fox, stoat and badger!
Just a final goodbye to our wonderful Year 6 pupils Charlotte, Leon, Ruby C, Ruby T, William C and William T.
It has been a pleasure teaching you and we wish you all the very best at Secondary School.
Thank you also for the fantastic support from all the parents over the years.
We hope you enjoyed your final ‘Guard of Honor’
From all the staff and pupils at Woodland Primary School.
Share a Million Stories – World book Day is all about celebrating books and sharing stories. Books are incredible things that allow us to escape from reality for a while and visit a made-up fantasy land.
Join our reading revolution! This year, most schools nationally are participating in a project called Share a Million Stories. On World book day, you are invited to share a million stories and spread the love of books and reading for pleasure. The aim is to read regularly for 10 minutes at a time. Each week the PAL readers (Peer assisted learning readers) will collect the minutes you have read and add it to the school total and then add it to the national total. Happy reading!
On Tuesday 28th of January 2020 Owl Class visited Palace Green Library to learn more about Norman Cornish. We first looked at Norman Cornish sketches and his finished pieces. We compared the sketches to his finished pieces of art and saw how he built up his pieces and how he labelled his sketches to help him. After that we went into an amazing exhibition where we copied some of Normans art work.
After lunch we went upstairs to the Wolfson gallery where we found out about Durham history from the stone age to the Victorian time, we saw a dodo skull and an elephant skull. We talked about the jobs in Palace Green Library and how the library would help us if we were a student at the Durham University. Back in the learning room we did a quiz on Palace Green.
This was a fantastic trip we all enjoyed it and we all would all like to go again.
We’ve had a very busy first half term of 2020 with lots of interesting visitor, visits and activities, it was all topped of this week with snow at Woodland, which the children all really enjoyed!
Today our cook Karen made all the children and staff a lovely Valentines bun which were delicious, thank you Karen xxx
The Apple Tree- Orchestral Performance
In partnership with the Durham Music Service and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), the Squirrels watched and participated in ‘The Apple Tree’, featuring soprano Kirsty Hopkins. With lots of opportunities for singing, signing and joining in, it was a lively and interactive event, designed to be accessible to all.
The 45-minute-long performance was broadcast live from Ushaw College and was a fabulous opportunity to introduce the children to the world of orchestral music.
The Children learnt about the changing seasons through a mixture of Baroque and folk music, and met the magnificent instruments of the orchestra. This concert was designed for young children and has received rave reviews. We watched it online along with hundreds of other children, teachers and families across the country.
The broadcast was delivered via YouTube and is available to watch again by all for 6 months, you will find this by searching on YouTube. The performance was a co-production by Orchestras Live, NYMAZ and Durham and Darlington Music Education Hub.
