Official Opening of Early Years Foundation Stage new facilities
At Tow Law Millennium Primary School we pride ourselves in working together with the community. We are an integral part of the town and as such strive towards providing a high quality learning environment for all our children. In February 2012, we opened a 16 place nursery in our existing Reception classroom and soon realised that we could better use the internal space at the back of the school.
We have worked with a contractor and the Local Authority during the last 12 months to remodel our space and are very happy to say that all work was completed to a very high standard during the Easter holidays this year. On Wednesday 24th May, Councillor Richard Manchester officially opened our Early Years classroom which offers a high quality provision in a respectful and caring environment. We recognise and celebrate that all children are individual and as such develop at different rates, have different interests and come from varied cultural backgrounds. We strive to ensure our provision reflects and supports all children both indoors and outdoors. The event was very well attended.
We have always had a good relationship with the two local child-minder’s but this year have taken this to a new level. We looked at the facilities in and around Tow Law and recognised that these are limited especially when you look at SAFE areas for our very youngest residents to play. We approached Annmarie Hurton and Heather Gwynette and have come up with a plan. During the school holidays we are opening the school to allow these ladies to bring their children to TLMPS, access our early years and strengthen our already effective working partnership.
Between us we are ready to cater for 30 hours a week quality provision, working flexibly to meet the needs of the parents and children. We are proud to show visitors around our facilities and look forward to continuing to evolve together to meet the needs of our community.
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Inspire Day Two
On Monday 5th June, Chris Cook came into school for our second Inspire Day.
We started the day with an inspiring assembly about reaching for your dreams and setting goals but not being disheartened if you do not achieve them.
Chris then did a workshop with each class about ‘mindfulness’.
We look forward to Chris coming back into school for our final Inspire Day on our Sports Day, Monday 10th July.
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Miss Mawson and Mrs Jackson took some of our children to Wolsingham School for a Eurovision Song Competition on Friday 19th May.
The children performed The Proclaimers ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)’. They were dressed in tartan and had Scottish flags painted on their faces.
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The children enjoyed the performance so much that they wanted to perform it during our celebrations assembly.
Preston Park Whole School Trip
On Thursday 26th May, our whole school, from Reception to Year 6, visited Preston Park. It was a very hot, sunny day and the children enjoyed their time in the outdoors in this wonderful park.
Each class took part in a Victorian history workshop and then had free time to explore. They explored the Victorian street, woodland areas and, of course, the playground!
We all had a fantastic day at our whole school trip.
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Our KS1 children in Class 4 had a fantastic afternoon at Wolsingham School for an athletics festival with our cluster schools.
They took part in activities involving; jumping, throwing, javelin and running.
The cluster schools beat the target set for them by David by scoring thousands of points when they were all added together!
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The Early Years team welcomed some new members to school this week. Their four Ginger Nut Ranger Hens were purchased from Durham Hens. They settled really well into their new coop, that had been sourced from The feed Warehouse, Delves Lane. In fact they have settled in so well that they started laying eggs on the second day.in school.
The children held an election in their classes to give the new arrivals their names. They can easily be told apart because the girls, each have a fashionable ankle bracelet in their own individual colour:
Mrs McClucky, named by Class 3, has yellow,
Pecker, named by Class 4 , has blue,
Smidge, named by Reception, has green,
and Flower, named by Nursery, has red.
They are currently in their new run, but this is going to be extended in the near future so they have more space to run around in. They are fed with chicken pellets, which they can access 24 hours and have fresh water available in their hen house.
[Slideshow "chickens" not found]British Values Week – May 2017
The week before May half term, our children across school enjoyed a variety of activities linked to British Values.
Each teacher in school taught a lesson to each class related to a British Value:
Miss Dobson taught a ‘democracy’ lesson,
Miss Thompson taught an ‘individual liberty’ lesson,
Miss Mawson taught a ‘rule of law’ lesson,
Mrs McCluskey taught a ‘mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith’ lesson.
Our reception children learnt about British Values linked to Mr Men.
The children really enjoyed learning about aspects of British parliament and life in modern day British society.
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We celebrated May Day in school as a special British Values celebration day. All classes spent time learning about May Day traditions. Everyone learnt the song ‘May Day Dance’ and performed it to parents together.
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Please see below details of our class organisation for 2017/18 sent to parents on 22nd May 2017.
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