As we have been learning about the Felling Colliery disaster as part of out local history unit, we spent the afternoon walking along to St Mary’s Church to visit a few memorials of local historical importance. First we looked at Thomas Hepburn’s grave, as we found out during our lessons the important role he played in setting up the Northern Miners Union and fought for shorter hours, better education and pay for miners. We also found the memorial for the Felling Colliery disaster, which displays the names of the 91 victims whole were buried in the graveyard. It was devasting to see how many family members lost their lives that day and at such young ages. Finally, we read the blue plaque that had been placed on the wall infront of the memorial as part of the 200th anniversary of the disaster.

Year 6 had a lovely surprise today when an ice-cream van came with a treat for them all for all of the hard work they’ve done over the last 7 years.

Please see the nursery class page for details.

This week we launched our Reading Challenge “Who wants to be a Reading Millionaire?”

The challenge runs from Monday 3rd May until Friday 28th May.

Each class is competing to become reading millionaires!

Our aim is to earn 1 million pounds as a class by the end of the challenge.

We are earning special prizes along the way. Many of us have already earned our first bookmark.

As a special prize for earning 1 million pounds each class will be able to choose a selection of new books for their class reading area for us all to enjoy.

We hope everyone enjoys lots of reading activities and earns lots of money towards their class target!

Good luck and happy reading everyone!