On Monday 12th March 2018, the children in Year 4 visited Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. The children had a chance to explore the ‘Rain forest’ in the Winter Gardens and had to find all of the answers within the garden to complete their worksheets. They then had a look around the rest of the museum.

After lunch the children then a drawing workshop and went back into the Winter Garden and found different leaves to draw and add colour using oil pastels. Over all the children had a wonderful time and were as usual exceptionally well behaved.

Well done Year 4!

For World Book Day, the children in Year 5 took part in a number of activities. They brought books in to share with their friends, read their favourite books in class and shared their books with the children in Year 2. The class were very impressed with the reading skills of the younger readers! Year 5 also designed a book token as part of a national competition. Good Luck Year 5.

We have received the following information and have been asked to give it out to parents/carers in our school:

As you may be aware, South Tyneside launched our Stronger Together Strategy for children with additional needs on 31^st January 2018.

Our Parent Carer Forum, Stronger Together South Tyneside, have arranged for their own event to be held on Tuesday 13^th March 2018, at South Shields Town Hall, and an invite is attached for this event.  We would be grateful if you could please make this invitation available today and Monday for parents collecting their children from school.

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STRATEGY LAUNCH

Just a reminder of our Strategy Launch on 13^th March at the Town Hall south Shields 12-2pm. Lunch and refreshments are being provided. This is a meeting to introduce you, our members to our strategy that the local authority has wrote in consultation with us. Alongside this we will be talking about the new Ranges in schools, which is our new graduated response system and how this may effect your child. The ranges are being used in ALL schools Mainstream and Specialist.

We, the steering group will be hosting the day but representatives from the Local Authority will also be there to answer questions and present the strategy in true co-production style.

Please do come along and see what we have been doing and what the local authority have pledged to our children and their families. You do not need to be an official member of stronger together, your child does not need to have an Education Health Care Plan or even a diagnosis for you to come along.

It’s a free event that we are putting on so please come and show your support and see the plans we would really love to hear your comments.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible NEXT TUESDAY.

Due to bad weather condition, Stanhope Primary School had to close on World Book Day 2018… To make up for missing such an exciting day we decided to host it this Thursday instead.

And we are so pleased we did! the children have surpassed our expectations with their costumes this year!

A big thank you to parents/carers for all of your efforts.

The reception class had a fantastic time at the multiskills festival at Temple park. We travelled by minibus to the event, where we took part in lots of different activities including dodge ball, basketball, tennis and gymnastic. We returned to school in time for lunch a little tired but excited to try out our new skills.

As you are aware, World Book Day 2018 was Thursday 1st March 2018. Due to weather conditions, Stanhope Primary School was closed on World Book Day, therefore we have decided to host it this Thursday (8th March) instead.

We would have deep regrets if the children lost out on the opportunity to dress up as their favourite book author/character!

We can’t wait to see all of your wonderful costumes!