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A few weeks ago, our Y5/6 Sportshall Athletics team attended the competition at Bishop Barrington Academy. As there were multiple events, we were awaiting the overall results. They did a brilliant job representing our school and came 4th overall out of 16 schools. An...

The first of our end of term team events was Christmas Orienteering. A big thank you to Jess for organising the event. Red Team came in 4th place, Green and Blue Teams drew in 2nd place and Yellow Team who were awarded a bonus 100 points for their Year 6 team...

Christmas lunch went down a storm. We welcomed Friends of the School and our Governors to join in the fun. Everyone had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the festivities. A big thank you to Nicole and Lisa, our kitchen staff, for providing a delicious lunch!

We invited parents and grandparents into nursery to share some of the Christmas magic with their children. They were very busy making bags of reindeer food to take home, decorating cakes with Christmas sprinkles, measuring how tall they are to create a memory bauble...

This Remembrance Day we remember all of those who have lost their lives in conflict. Our Team Captains and Year 6 School Councillors did a super job of leading our Remembrance Assembly and well done to Charlotte (who is also a member of the Middleton in Teesdale...

A huge thank you to all of the parents and carers who came along to our Family Friday event last week to spend time in the classroom with their children finding out more about phonics and spelling in Key Stage 1 and reading skills in Key Stage 2.

This morning our Cross Country team attended the competition at Staindrop Academy where approximately 700 children gathered to take part with approximately 120 children in each race. All of the children that took part did an amazing job – a particular well done goes...

A huge well done to all of our Key Stage 2 children who took part in our Intra-house Cross Country event at the recreation ground this afternoon. Team points were awarded to the first 6 boys and girls from each year group. And the winners were...Green Team!! The...

This week, our ‘Pride Not Prejudice’ Action Group have been busy making plans for Anti-Bullying Week.  The group have decided that we will celebrate Anti-Bullying Week with an Odd Socks Day on Friday 14th November.  Over the next few weeks, we will be thinking about...

Our Violin performer performed beautifully in front of a whole school audience.  They even gave a wonderful rendition of the Hokey Cokey.  It was also lovely to hear a song written by Violet and Mrs Angel called the ‘Pirates of Wolsingham’!

Red Nose Day A big thank you to everyone who came to school dressed in red for Red Nose Day today and raised a superb £509.81!. The children and even some of the staff had a great time this afternoon, playing the games and winning the prizes on offer. Thank you and...

Image Musical Theatre - The jungle Book The children had a fantastic afternoon yesterday, when the Image Musical Theatre Company came to visit to perform The Jungle Book. As always there was plenty of participation and singing and our very own actors did a great job!

World Book Day A huge thank you to everyone who took part in our World Book Day activities. There were so many wonderful costumes and some great entries into our Extreme Reading Competition. Extreme Reading Competition Winner was Lucy Miller. All of our competition...

Save Our Sandwich On Monday,  the Mad Alice Theatre Company came to our school. The show was called ‘Save our Sandwich’ and it was so funny. They did a lot of fun stuff that included some of the children as well!  Also, they did a quiz, which was super fun. Both of...

Our team have played 13 competitive matches (and some additional friendlies) over 3 weeks of competition at Bishop Auckland Rugby Club. Round 2 was played in wet and muddy conditions and the team did excellently to play with determination and not complain! Round 3 was...

Yesterday, we held our intra-house cross country competition where all of the children competed to earn points for their house team. They did an amazing job and it was wonderful to see children showing determination and...

This week, as part of Durham Music Service’s Big Play event, our violinists treated us to a wonderful performance. Their teacher, Miss Miller, led them in performing a range of pieces that they played with confidence – not a squeak or wrong note in sight! Two of the...

Our team of Year 6 cricketers have competed in 2 weeks of their 3-week league at Hunwick Cricket Club. So far, they have recorded 3 wins in 3 games. Well done Ben, Carter, Carlton, Drew, Euan, Matthew, Rory, Zach and Zack and...

  This week the Image Musical Theatre visited us to perform The Selfish Giant. The children had a fantastic afternoon learning the songs and watching the performance and a group of children were especially excited to get the opportunity to become actors for the...

A huge thank you and well done to all of our Extreme Readers who entered our competition to read in the most unusual places as part of our World Book Day celebrations. Have a look at some of the entries. [gallery...

This week, our Year 6 Dodgeball Team finished top of the Wednesday League at Bishop Barrington, after 7 matches over 3 weeks. The team were unbeaten and achieved an excellent 5 wins and 2 draws. Congratulations Zach A, Zack B, Drew, Ben, Carlton, Elliott and Carter...

  We are delighted to receive a letter from Damian Hinds, the Minister for Schools, congratulating us on our Phonics Screening Check results from last June which put us in the top 1% of schools nationally. A huge well done to all involved in making sure our...

Our Key Stage 2 carol service at St. Mary and St. Stephen's Church was a great success! The children did a wonderful job and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all!

On Monday evening, our Y5/6 Tag Rugby team scored yet another victory playing the winners of the Bishop Auckland League at Parkside. Zach A, Carter and Finlay had the following report on the match: “The game was tough and Toft Hill were a difficult team to play. We...

Congratulations to our Y5/6 Tag Rugby team who have won the local league – recording 3 more wins this week. Our players were absolutely delighted to receive their gold medals after 3 weeks of tough competition. We are very proud of how these pupils have represented...

Our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils had an action-packed 3-day residential visit to Robinwood, Barhaugh Hall. They did many exciting activities including Trapeze, Zip Wire, Crate Challenge, Climbing, Raft Building, Canoeing, Caving, Giant Swing and Piranha Pool. Despite the...

Our Year 5/6 cricket team did a fantastic job last night continuing their undefeated run and winning all three of their matches, becoming the league champions. They worked extremely well as a team, encouraging each other and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship with...

We would like to wish Mrs Robertson good luck with her new adventure.  We would like to say thank you for over 20 years of service as a lunch time supervisor, after school care supervisor and a classroom assistant.

We were lucky to have our local Member of Parliament visit our school today.  Over the week, Class 5 and 6 had come up with  some very thoughtful questions to put to Mr Richard Holden who then spent some time trying to answer as many questions as he could.  It gave us...

This week in Class 5, we have had the wonderful opportunity to create some structures using willow.  The children went out in small groups to contribute towards a larger structure which will be installed in Killhope Lead Mining Museum alongside making some bird...