Thank you so much for your support at our recent MacMillan Coffee afternoon. We raised just over £300 as well as enjoying a good catch up over a cake and a coffee. What a great achievement.

Welcome back to the new year at St Wilfrid’s School! We hope you have all had an opportunity to meet with your child’s new teachers during class meetings, and have received information about class routines and learning. If not, please ask! We welcome new starters across all of school, as well as our First Steps. We have already found some stars in our first awards assembly of the year, well done to all of them!

Well done to Phoebe, Ella, Ryan, Molly, Livvy, Nina, Niamh and Eady! All of these super stars have achieved 100% attendance for the full year. They enjoyed a trip to the shops to spend their reward. What a bunch of bargain hunters they were. Well done!

This week, we say goodbye to our year 6 children. We wish them every success and happiness as they move on to secondary school. Have a look at the fun we had with them at our Leavers’ Disco on Wednesday night.

This week the children have been finding out about life as a refugee, and then writing based on their experiences. They have, shared refugee stories and books,

travelled in boats, interviewed an Aid worker in our own refugee camp and shared their prayers and wishes in our cardboard shelter. It has been a thought provoking and often emotional week. The children have approached this topic with empathy and incredible maturity, as well as producing some amazing writing. We even had a visit from the local press. Look out for us in The Northern Echo tomorrow or Monday.

This week, all classes have taken part in lots of activities and learning to improve our health, our fitness and our skills in taking care of ourselves and one another. we have run lots, learnt new First Aid skills, and even made healthy, bike powered smoothies. We had great fun as we learnt important new facts and skills.

As part of our World Book Day Activities the whole school took part in a competition organised by Vision for Education to design a new cover for their favourite book. We are very proud of Anna in Year 4, who was runner up in the whole region with her new design for the cover of Alice in Wonderland. You can see a picture of her receiving her award below.

Our April newsletter is now available to download from our Newsletters page.

Our March newsletter is now available to download on our School Newsletters page.

Our latest newsletter is available to download below.

February 17 Newsletter

Previous newsletters can be downloaded here.