Cockfield Community Primary and Nursery School

Front Street, Cockfield, Bishop Auckland DL13 5EN

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After School Clubs

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After School Clubs for next term :

Monday : Fencing / After School Fun Club

Tuesday : Football / Board Games

Wednesday : Indoor and Outdoor Fun

Thursday : Art & Crafts

Friday : Film Club

 

We return to school on Wednesday 5th January 2022. For this week only it will be after school care only. Clubs will all start again on Monday 10th January 2022

Please click on the link sent through in your text.

 

 

Christmas Parties

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Christmas Parties

Next week is party week 🙂

Classes 1 & 2 Monday afternoonClass 4 Tuesday afternoonClass 3 Wednesday afternoon

Children can come to school in their party clothes on their party day, please remember that they will still be playing outside as normal at break and lunchtime so their clothing needs to be suitable for this and any footwear needs to be suitable for indoors and outdoors.

Christingle Service

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Our Key Stage 2 bubble took part in a Christingle service led by Reverend Brian today. We learnt about the symbol of light and had lots of fun along the way. All children in school made a Christingle. A very big thank you to the ladies of the church for organising all of the oranges, candles and sweets. It was a shame we couldn’t visit the church this year but we still had a very special service in school.

Pantomime Trip

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Trip to the Pantomime
This morning I received advice and information from the local authority and Public Health England
regarding the current situation in schools across our county which recommended putting in some
additional measures in order to keep our school community safe. One of these measures is to strongly
consider cancelling school trips and any indoor mixing in large groups. This means that sadly we will
have to cancel our trip to the theatre next Thursday. We will be fully refunded by the theatre and will
arrange refunds for those who have paid as soon as the funds come through. We are really disappointed
that this is the case and we will make sure that next Thursday is a fun day in school, the buffet lunch will go ahead and we’ll start talking to the children about what they would like to do instead and arrange
some special activities for them. I can only apologise for having to make this decision, it hasn’t been an
easy one and I know the children will be disappointed but we’ll certainly make sure they have a fantastic day in school. Christmas definitely isn’t cancelled at Cockfield Primary it will just be a bit different again this year.
Please click the link to read the official letter Pantomime
Kathryn Costello (Headteacher)       

Christmas Performances

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After taking further advice and following careful consideration, we have decided against having a live audience in school for our Christmas Performances this year. We know how disappointing this will be for the children and parents but with the current uncertainty that we have around COVID and the increase in cases in school recently, we just don’t feel we can take the risk. The performances will be recorded and will be shared via our youtube channel before the end of term. We had hoped to get to the end of term without any further disruption but sadly the virus has caught up with us. We are hoping to have everyone back in school next week and to get things back to normal. We are currently reviewing our risk assessment around the Christingle in church and it is likely that this will just be for the children so that they can still have the experience of the Christingle service in church and we can operate in our COVID bubbles.

Sorry for the inconvenience, as a parent myself I know how difficult it is to take time off work and I can only apologise for the short notice. Details of how to view the performances will be published via Classdojo, Tapestry and Facebook and will also be on the school website.

Here’s hoping for some normality very soon and rest assured the children will still have lot of fun in school this Christmas.

Thank you for your help and support,

Mrs Costello

COVID19 Additional Measures

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Due to a rise in COVID cases in school we have decided to put in some temporary additional measures for a short period of time. I have spoken to the local authority today and taken advice and although we don’t have an outbreak and there is no cause to worry, we have made a few temporary small changes to the school day. Please see the attached document for details. I know parents will be wondering what will happen to our Christmas performances and celebrations. We are really hoping to go ahead as long as the number of cases fall, but may need to cancel and go online at short notice. A letter will come out tomorrow explaining our plan.

Christmas Lunch

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Taylor Shaw are once again providing us with a Christmas lunch and this will be held on Wednesday 8th December 2020. Please let school know if your child is not on school meals and would like a christmas dinner. This will be the normal price of £2.15 and is payable via ParentPay.

Traditional Roast Chicken

Sausage Bite and Stuffing Balls

Raost and Creamed Potatoes

Seasonal Vegetables

Gravy

 

College Pudding with White Sauce

Christmas Dessert Selection

 

Vegetarian Option

Vegetable Crown