What a busy couple of week it’s been at Woodland!

Since the start of December school has been Christmas ready.  The children have enjoyed lots of fun activities and treats, including Christmas craft night, Christingle service, Mad Alice theatre performance in school, pottery making, Christmas films and much more.

This year our Christmas play –  A Midwife Crisis, followed last years trend and went online!  Thank you for all your lovely comments we are so pleased you enjoyed it.

We all had a delicious Christmas Lunch made by our fantastic school cook Karen Yum, Yum! It was a lovely treat and we all had great fun eating and listening to Christmas songs together.

Thursday was party day and we had lots of exciting games and a lovely party feast. The children played together and it was lovely to see how well they all helped each other to share the fun. Santa made a quick deliver during his busy schedule with presents for all the children.

We have had a fabulous term at Woodland and we would like to wish you all a happy, healthy Christmas break.

See you all next year!

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Children in Need and Samaritan’s Purse Shoe Box Appeal

Thank you to everyone who donated to our Children in Need Activity Day and sent items and postage money for our Samaritan’s Purse Shoe Box Appeal. The shoeboxes are sent to over 100 countries all around the world and the boxes the children have filled today are being sent this weekend.  We managed to fill 14 boxes and raised £45 for Children in Need. The children had a fun afternoon taking part in all the activities.

Thankyou from Mrs O’Brien and The School Council

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The whole school recently visited Beamish and had a great time.

Squirrel class learnt about life, work and school in their area around 120 years ago.  They visited the pit village cottages and learnt about how difficult every day jobs were as there was no electricity and machines to help people.  They had a go at doing some of the different jobs.  They visited the old school and saw what learning was like back then.  They decided it was a lot more fun now! They then went in the drift mine to see how miners used to get the coal out of the ground.  It was a difficult and dangerous job but coal was used for many different purposes from burning on the ranges and fires in people’s homes to powering steam engines and trains.

Owl class enjoyed a fantastic trip to Beamish where they visited Pockerley Hall to find out about Georgian farming and they participated in a history of farming workshop where they found out about the development of Home Farm in three time periods. They also visited the farmhouse and practiced drill as a Home guard.

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Lest we forget – Here are some of our Remembrance Day crafts made my the children at Woodland Primary and placed at the village’s War Memorial.

What a fantastic fun Halloween Day we all had in school today!  Firstly all the children came dressed up to school, everyone looked great.  During the morning the children were treated to a Magic Show by James at Flash – Comedy and Magic (Thank you to Friends of Woodland School for paying for this).

At lunch time Karen treat the children to a Halloween themed lunch, which was delicious.

Then in the afternoon the children created Halloween arts and crafts, including: banana ghosts, ghost jam jars, pumpkin printing, funny bones skeletons and they even had a spooky photo booth!

The day was topped off with disco dancing and a special performance by the staff of ‘Just Dance Ghostbusters’.

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Tag Rugby Competition Wednesday 20^th October 2021, Staindrop Academy

It feels like a long time since we last boarded a mini-bus to Staindrop for a sports tournament which made today’s trip extra exciting.

The team got off to a flying start winning our opening 2 games with tries from Harry, Luke R, Luke H and Summer. In the next 2 games we lost to the eventual tournament champions and runners up but we kept our heads high and drew our final game.

That result meant we finished 3^rd, a magnificent result.

Congratulations to the whole squad: Luke R, Eva, Bethany, Summer, Emma, Douglas, Caleb, Luke H, Thomas, Harry and Charlotte. Our players excelled with great tagging, try scoring, positive attitudes, great team work and sportsmanship.

Our player of the tournament was Luke H with 7 tries, and our most improved player was Emma.

The families of Woodland Primary School have been collecting food donations for the local food bank in Barnard Castle. The School Council organised a collection as part of their Harvest Festival celebrations and were very happy with the amount of donations. The whole school has taken part”.

Thank you from the School Council

The children at Woodland had a visit from the Dogs Trust last week!  They taught the Squirrel class how to stay safe around dogs and the Owl class how to handle dogs safely.  We thought this was useful as there are lots of new dogs in the village following lockdown.

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