Please click the link to see the news report from our surprise visitor from Friday 🙂

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Important dates for Autumn 1 half term….

We will share further details nearer the time

September

Tuesday 26^th – Emile World Cup (online maths competition) starts for KS2

Thursday 28th – Class 3 parents/carers invited in for Stone age crafts (PM)

October

16th and 19th—Parents/Carers meetings with class teachers (after school)

17th—EYFS Phonics meeting for parents (after school)

18th—Tag Rugby competition (Class 3)

18th—Whole school Harvest Festival assembly (PM)

19th—Class 2 trip to Durham Cathedral

20th—Y1 parents invited in for phonics session with children (9am)

23rd—Y2 parents invited in for phonics session with children (9am)

24th—Make a poppy crafts (parent/carer session) – bring a plastic bottle and lid for each poppy (after school)

26th October—Class 4 parents invited in to make Viking Longboats (PM)

25th—Halloween Disco (after school)

27th—Spelling Bee—this will not be an event for families to attend, but we wanted you to be aware that spellings from Spelling Shed this half term will be used in the Spelling Bee—get practicing!!

Here is this weeks bulletin from Mrs Wright containing all the important diarys dates for this term 🙂

Bulletin 3 15_9_23

Open evening for year 6 pupils : Wednesday 4th October 5pm – 7.30 pm

Below is a list of our after school clubs for this term. Please remember that you must book on for after school clubs and wrap around care. Breakfast club you may just drop in and out of.

Monday : Musical Theatre / Art Club

Tuesday : Indoor & Outdoor Fun

Wednesday : Chill Club

Thursday : Drawing Club

Friday : Swankie Sports / Film Club 

After School Club run until 4:30pm and costs £2.50

Childcare runs from 4:30pm – 5:15pm and costs £3.00 (£1 per 15 minutes)

Current Year 6 children :

As you will be aware, your child is due to transfer to secondary school in September next year.  The application process opened on 5 September 2023.  You will need to read the School Admissions online guidance for parents which is located on the School Admissions web page. This contains essential information that will help you in making your child’s application. The guidance is available on our website www.durham.gov.uk/schooladmissions  You must only complete one application and this must be to the Local Authority to which you pay your council tax (i.e. Home Local Authority).

If you live in County Durham, you need to complete an application to tell us which school you want your child to attend.  You should list up to 3 school preferences and applying for just 1 school Does Not improve your chances of gaining a place at that school.  You can apply for any school/academy in County Durham or in another Local Authority area.

Please apply on-line at www.durham.gov.uk/schooladmissions  When you apply on-line you will receive an acknowledgement and you will be offered a school place for your child by email on 1 March 2024.  Please save your log-in details as you may need these at a later date.

Please note that school places are allocated according to specific criteria which are different depending upon which school you apply for your child to attend.  One criterion is “nearest school”.  If you wish to know your nearest school, please contact us.

If your child’s offer of a school place is for an oversubscribed school (i.e. where there are more applications for a school than places available) we will offer your child a school place based on the child’s/parent’s address.  We may request information on the child’s/parent’s address when we offer a school place and the onus will be on you to prove your address if asked.

If you do not wish to apply on-line, you can contact the School Admissions Team by email or telephone to request a form. Email: schooladmissions@durham.gov.uk or telephone

03000 265 896. Your application must be received by us at the address below by the closing date.  We strongly advise you to return the application form to us by “Royal Mail Signed for™” or “Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed”.  If you complete a paper application form you will receive a letter to inform you of the school place offered to your child on the 1 March 2024.

Please note for both on-line applications and paper application forms, you will be required to read the disclaimer and sign/tick the box to agree that the information you provide on the application form is complete and correct otherwise the offer of a school place will be withdrawn.

The closing date for receipt for on-line/paper application forms is 31 October 2023.

Yours sincerely
School Places and Admissions Team.

Please find attached our 1st bulletin and welcome back from Mrs Wright our new Head Teacher 🙂

Bulletin 1 4_9_23

YMCA Teesdale have 10 spaces available for young people to attend Planet Leisure and ROF. The trip is fully funded by TAAP Fun and Food and will include a packed lunch for participants.

Planet Leisure 10th August. Please meet at the Community Cafe at 10.15am  to get on the minibus. we will be arriving back for 1pm

ROF 59 31st July. Please meet at the Community Cafe at 12.15am  to get on the minibus. we will be arriving back for 3.30pm

There is also a cooking session happening  ‘Cooking on a budget’ on the 28th July from 2-4pm. This session will be running from the community cafe

To book a space please email: anneliese@ymcateesdale.org.uk