As many of you know, I have been in Holland with Year 6 this week. Throughout my experience of leading residential visits, I have always found them to be enormously beneficial to a child’s social and emotion development. Children often come back with a greater confidence in their own independence and resilience. I am looking forward to hearing our groups’ reflections upon our return.
As promised last week, here are some of the children’s responses following a recent pupil voice survey:
What I really like about our school is…
- ‘how everybody is kind and respectful’
- ‘art, maths, food e.g. pizza and chicken’
- ‘I like the different events e.g. International Day’
- ‘the teachers and staff’
- ‘everyone is one big family, we are all nice to each other’
- ‘I like how we do lots of learning in school’
- ‘that there are lots of things to do like music lessons and football’
- ‘ I like how it sometimes feels like we’re playing instead of learning’
I think our school could be improved by…
- ‘more equipment to play with on the yard’
- ‘an ice cream van on hot days’
- ‘having more options for lunch’
- ‘butterflies’
- ‘better toilets’
- ‘more toys and sports’
- ‘some of our computers are very slow ’
- ‘a tree house with lots of swings and slides’
See you all next week; have a great weekend.
Mrs A Whistler
Headteacher
Dates for your diary in the next two weeks:
Tuesday 21st June – Year 5 Show Racism the Red Card (coaching sessions)
Wednesday 22nd June – Year 5 girls to Durham High School 12.30 – 3pm
Friday 24th June – Summer fair after school in the playground (weather permitting)
Saturday 25th June – Transition morning from 10am to midday (meet your new teacher)
Friday 1st July – Athletics at Gateshead International Stadium for Year 4 and Year 6