Three Lane Ends, Escomb, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, DL14 7SR
As part of our school’s aims to promote a happy and successful school, we are proud to announce that we have just successfully achieved the “Rights Respecting Silver School Award”.
If you would like to know more about what it means to be a Rights Respecting School please click on the link provided.
Escomb Primary School – what a team! Amazing fundraising walk today to help support a family make some special memories.
Year 6 children had the privilege of taking part in and celebrating International Women’s Day at Bishop Auckland Town Hall. It linked with the work they have been doing on the No-Man’s Land exhibition.
Sue Snowdon spoke about how she was the first female to be appointed Lord Lieutenant of County Durham. Adam, Chloe and Keira stood up to do a reading before World Champion Thai Boxer, Rachel McKenzie, showed us how hard work and determination pays off. Jayden said “ Rachel is a true fighter. When others doubted her she did not give up”. Seven of our children sang a lovely song then Kate Fox (Poet and Broadcaster) finished the morning off.
All the children left feeling inspired by what they had heard and are determined not to let stereotypes be a barrier to what they want to be in the future. Here are just some of the comments our children had to say:
· “I was inspired by all the women who stood up for themselves against stereotyping. They showed a lot of girl power.” – Keira
· “These women were some of the most inspirational women I have ever met because they did not give up on their dream.” – Adam
· “It was inspiring to listen to all the stories of the challenges the women faced. They were determined not to fail.” – Lara
· “The whole morning inspired me to never give up and follow my dreams.” – Hannah
Today we celebrated World Book Day as a whole school by coming dressed as one of our favourite story characters. The children were challenged to come in original costumes and they certainly rose to the challenge. It was so hard to pick just one winner from each class so we decided we would choose two!
Well done to:
The children spent the afternoon taking part in some fun activities in their class.
See below for some photographs:
Year 6 are really excited to be going on their residential to Robinwood Activity Centre. It will be three days, full of exciting activities and a great opportunity for us to work together as a team, encouraging on another and pushing ourselves to the limit.
We will be split into three teams: Mountain, Ridge and Crag. during the day we will be working in these teams and on the evening we will be doing activities as a whole class.
Please click on the following link to see what we have been up:
As part of our Full STEAM Ahead project, Mrs Gill, Mrs Collings, Mr Cox and Miss King are travelling to Toledo with six Year 6 children on Sunday 20th January. They will travel to Edinburgh on coach before flying to Madrid for a 5 day adventure. We will try to keep you updated on what is happening through out the week.
Please click on the following link to see what we have been up to:
You may remember the ‘Invent a Sausage’ competition at half term. I am delighted to announce that Holly in Year 5 invented the winning sausage over the whole of the North East. Her sausage was The Christmas Banger.
Holly thought her sausage was best because “lots of people like Christmas dinner and sausages so how about a Christmas sausage called a Christmas Banger”. Holly’s invention has won £300 for school and the sausage will be served as choice on the school dinner menu next Wednesday.
Holly also gets 80 links of her invention to share with her family. We are going to use the £300 to buy wet lunchtime equipment for the children.
Well done
Holly!
Bienvenido Julio!I am sure that your children will have told you that we have had a visitor in school this week. Julio Vegas is a Headteacher from Toledo in Spain and will be with us until Friday 17th November. Julio is working alongside me and the senior leadership team to compare school leadership roles in England and Spain. He is also visiting classrooms and working with the children to support their learning of Spanish particularly in Key stage 2 and also to explore the teaching methods that we use here. It is always fabulous to have a visitor from another country in our school; it means that our children get a real insight into another country and culture. The children have loved having Julio in school this week and all are very keen to practise their Spanish speaking with him!
We are celebrated International Schools Week (13th -17th November) by holding our own ‘International Day’ on Thursday 16th November.
Obviously the focus of our day was on Spain! During the day the children worked in Family Groups on a carousel of activities to enhance their understanding and knowledge of Spanish culture. Children dressed in anything red or yellow on this day.
