Today, 28th November 2021, marks the First Sunday of Advent. Today the first purple candle was lit on the Advent Wreath at Mass. Below you will find an online Advent Calendar from Cafod, which has many useful links. There is also a link to some Advent resources that you can use at home as a family. We hope that you find these resources useful as we journey together towards Christmas.

CAFOD Primary advent calendar 2021

https://cafod.org.uk/Pray/Prayer-resources/Advent-family-prayer-ideas

During Anti-Bullying week, Children were led in a liturgical prayer by Class 1 where they listened to the importance of being kind and helpful towards others. Children took part in various different activities and all thought of one kind word to describe one another.

Children in year 5&6 have worked with Paul from Clennell Education Solutions to learn more about ways to stay safe online. Children were fantastic in discussing the potential risks and identifying ways to reduce these risks.

Please follow this link from Clennell to a video for more information.

You can also read our Apps for Children Parent leaflet to find out more information on suitability of apps and tips for supporting your children to use technology safely.

Further information can also be found here Parents Online Safety Information

A BIG well done to the winners from each class of our Macmillan Coffee morning raffle.

Please see below to find out about enrolling your child for September 2022.

Children across school participated in Macmillan Coffee Morning to raise funds for Macmillan cancer support. All children took home a cake and tea/coffee as well as a raffle ticket for the chance to win a prize.

Please take a look at some of these fantastic upcoming events over the Summer Holidays…

The Summer Reading Challenge combines FREE access to books with fun, creative activities during the summer holidays. Throughout the Challenge, library staff and young volunteers support the children, helping them to discover new authors and illustrators and to explore a wide range of different types of books and ways of reading,

 How the Challenge works

• Children sign up through their local library and receive a Wild World Heroes collector poster
• Children set a reading goal and borrow and read library books of their own choice during the summer, collecting special stickers to complete their poster and extra incentives along the way
• The Library Facebook page will be hosting weekly FREE events to coincide with the Summer Reading Challenge and will be uploaded every Wednesday but will be available to play back at a later date.
• Each County Durham Library will be giving out weekly FREE craft activity packs to keep children entertained over the summer. There will be weekly ‘how to’ videos uploaded to our Facebook page on a Monday.
• Library staff and volunteers are on hand to advise
• Children who complete the Summer Reading Challenge are presented with a certificate and a medal
• The official Challenge website, wildworldheroes.org.uk, hosts digital rewards, author videos, games and more for children to enjoy all summer

You can find additional information and free resources to support children’s reading for pleasure in the Summer Reading Challenge School Zone: wildworldheroes.org.uk/school-zone-src

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