Today, Year 6 had an egg-cellent time this morning decorating their eggs for the annual Eggsters competition. The children have loved cutting, sticking, painting and glittering their designs. Basically, it was a fantastic opportunity to be creative and make a mess!

The children are eager to find out the winners this Thursday in the Eggsters Assembly.

On the run up to Easter, the nursery children have been on an exciting adventure to find hidden Easter Eggs in the school grounds. The children had a wonderful time and managed to find all of the hidden eggs!

On Thursday 22nd March 2018 the children in Year 5 visited Mortimer Comprehensive School to engage in transition activities. Although the children have another full year left at Primary School, it is felt that going into Comprehensive School in Year 5 can be very beneficial.

The children had a wonderful time and were well behaved as usual. Well done Year 5!

Between Monday 19th March and Friday 23rd March 2018 the children at Stanhope Primary School took part in a range of activities to raise money for Sport Relief. The children did an extra 15 minutes exercise per day, had a healthy lunch using Quorn on Wednesday and ran a sponsored ‘1 mile’ on Friday.

The children did excellent as always and we have raised lots of money for the charity. As we are still collecting sponsor money you will have to wait a little longer to find out what the grand total is!

Keep checking our website daily for updates.

Thank you to the children, parents, carers, friends and families for all of your donations.

On Friday 16th March 2018, Year 2 thought about what bubbles were made out of and what was inside them. They knew that bubbles fell to the floor because of gravity and that they were transparent.

Using careful observation we noticed that you could see the colours of the rainbow in the bubbles. We also noticed that all the bubbles were spheres.

The class decoded to try to make different shapes bubbles. They use wire bent into different shapes like hearts, triangles and squares. However – guess what happened?

All of the bubbles we made were spheres

We all had great fun!

On Monday 12th March 2018, Year 2 found out about changes of state with a chocolate experiment!

All the children cleaned their hands first and held a giant chocolate button in their hands while Mrs Wann read a chocolate poem. At the beginning the chocolate button was solid but by the end of the poem it was liquid. This is because chocolate melts when it gets warm.

At the end the children all ate the chocolate – it was delicious!

For science week the children in Year 3 did an experiment using colours. They linked tissue between 7 plastic cups and added yellow, red and blue food colouring to the 4 of the cups and watched the magic happen. The colour travelled through the tissue creating the 3 secondary colours! Well done Year 3!

Next Week:

From Monday 19th March 2018 – Friday 23rd March 2018 Stanhope Primary School will be taking part in a range of activities to raise money for Sports Relief. These activities include:

• 15 minutes extra exercise per day.
• Children will take part in a sponsored run a ‘mile’ on Friday 23 March on the school field.
• On Wednesday 21 March, there is a sports themed lunch and the children will have a visit from a leading Quorn rep to promote healthy eating.
• Sports Relief wristband sale (School Hub at break times – £1.00 each)
• Non uniform day on Friday 23 March 2018 (Sports themed – £1.00 per child)

All children will need their trainers in school all week to take part in running activities.

All money raised will go to Sports Relief however, to raise even more money, Stanhope’s ‘Mile’ run on Friday 23 March will be a sponsored run. Attached to this letter is a sponsor form – it would be much appreciated if you were to pass this onto family and friends to raise as much money as possible.

We really appreciate your support and hope that you’ll have fun helping our school raise as much money as we can for Sports Relief 2018!