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Wearhead, County Durham, DL13 1BN

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Easter Eggstravaganza

26th March 2021 By janehayes

Pupils at the school spent the lead up to the Easter Holidays working as well as having fun with various Easter activities that were created for them. Please view the photographs.

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Red Nose Day/Comic Relief – £84 Raised

19th March 2021 By janehayes

Thank you to everyone who donated towards Comic relief – Wearhead Primary did it again and raised a staggering £84. We are an amazing school.

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Watching Fantastic Mr Fox
Watching Fantastic Mr Fox

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World Book Day 12th March

19th March 2021 By janehayes

The school celebrated World Book Day on the 12th March. We wanted all of the children to be able to take part in the fantastic day. The theme this year was Roald Dahl. Children were allowed to dress up as their favourite character from one of the authors books – the staff joined in too!! Please see the photographs from the day.

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Arrangements for the return to school on 8th March

5th March 2021 By janehayes

5th March 2021 Letter to parents

Friday, March 5, 2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

 Arrangements for the return to school – Monday 8th March 2021

We are looking forward to welcoming children back next Monday 8th March.  This letter sets out some important information about your child’s return to school and procedures that are in place to ensure the safety of all pupils and staff.

Symptoms of Coronavirus

Please do not send your child to school if they are unwell.  If your child shows symptoms that concern staff during the school day, we will contact you to collect them and you will be expected to arrange for them to be tested for coronavirus.  There are two ways to arrange a test – you can book a coronavirus test online or call 119 if you have no internet access.

We are required to submit daily figures to the Department for Education regarding our school community. If a member of your household has symptoms, tests positive for Covid-19 or has been requested to self-isolate, please contact the school either by phone or email. Thank you.

 Uniform and personal belongings

  • If your child has school uniform that still fits, we would like them to come to school in uniform but our priority still remains that clothing should be freshly laundered for each day.  This may mean that you send your child in non-uniform on some occasions, which is acceptable for the time being. We expect children to return to wearing school uniform after Easter.  If your child is in Year 6 and has outgrown their uniform, they may attend school in non-uniform but clothing should be appropriate for a school setting.
  •  Please make sure your child has a coat and an extra jumper/sweatshirt as we will be teaching outside regularly and windows will be opened to ensure good ventilation.
  •  Personal belongings should be kept to a minimum.  Children will need a named water bottle as the water fountain will not be in use and their book bags.
  • Children who have packed lunches should bring their food in a bag or box which can be wiped down with disinfectant.

 Drop off and collection times

To keep us all safe, we would ask that only one adult drops/collects children at school.  Drop off times in the morning between 0850-0900, collection from school at 1515. Could parents/carers wait in their vehicles and staff will greet your child(ren).

All visitors to our school are asked to wear a mask on the school site and our staff will be wearing masks when they greet you.

School Transport

Your transport provider will advise you as to any routines they wish children to follow on school transport.  All children on school transport should continue to wear masks whilst travelling to and from school.

Lunchtime

School lunches will be available from next week.  The cost of meals will be £2-10 per day, which is £10-50 per week or £31-50 for the remainder of this term.  Please can money for school meals be brought in on Mondays in a named envelope.  If your child has a packed lunch, please ensure that sweet treats are kept to a minimum and that it includes fresh fruit or vegetables.

Juice/Milk will be available from Monday 8th March. Please bring £2.00 for milk and £1.00 for juice, cash only please.

PE sessions

Staff will inform you as to when children will be doing PE lessons. On these days, children will come to school in their PE kit including tracksuit bottoms/leggings, t-shirts, and trainers, and will remain in these for the day.  They may be asked to bring a change of footwear.

Class 1 PE – Tuesday and Friday

Class 2 PE – Tuesday and Thursday

Learning in school

For the time being, our four schools will be working in their own buildings.  There will be some shared virtual learning activities but no travelling between the schools.  No educational visits are planned and we will not be resuming swimming lessons for the time being.  We will however be taking the opportunity to increase children’s knowledge of the local area and we are planning local area walks and activities.  Detailed planning and risk assessments have been carried out to ensure the safety of all members of our school community and we will be continuing to monitor the Covid situation carefully as the school year progresses and amend our procedures accordingly.

Hygiene

Good hygiene is essential to all of us to stop the spread of infection.  We will be continuing to ask children to wash their hands at regular intervals throughout the school day and sanitize their hands as they enter and leave the building.  We will also be continuing to teach children about good respiratory and hand hygiene.  Please help staff by reinforcing these messages at home.

I hope this letter answers any questions you may have about your child’s return to school but please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further concerns.  We look forward to seeing everyone back in school next week.

Kind regards,

Sarah Hodgkinson

Executive Headteacher

 

 

 

 

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Making Soup

9th February 2021 By janehayes

Pupils were set a task to choose a recipe for soup and then to make it. Here are some photos.

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2nd February 2021 – We are Open!

2nd February 2021 By janehayes

The school was open for business as usual today. Blizzards did not prevent the Weardale Motor Services transporting the pupils to school. The staff who live locally were also able to make it!

 

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Constructions With Snow!

29th January 2021 By janehayes

Yet more snow fell this week but that didn’t prevent the pupils from having fun creating another superb igloo/tee-pee.

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We are open! 14th January 2021

14th January 2021 By janehayes


Wearhead Primary is open even when it snows! As the school has staff that can brave the elements and reach the school it will be open! The pupils that are here, as well as working hard in their lessons, do have fun outdoors in the snow. Please view the photographs.

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Welcome to The Upper Durham Dales Federation –

14th January 2021 By janehayes

Coronavirus Update 11th January 2021

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A Fond Farewell to Mr Hiley

18th December 2020 By janehayes

Today, 18th December, the small school with the big heart said a fond farewell to the Head teacher, Mr Hiley. To Mr Hiley’s surprise the children performed an amazing send off for him which included Ava playing the part of Mrs Hayes and Brendon playing the part of Mr Hiley. His gifts included a framed photograph of all the quotes that Mr Hiley has used at the end of the Wearhead Warrior newsletters; his favourite sweets – shrimps and bananas; his favourite biscuits – custard creams; a fabulous travel book, an Amazon card for Mr Hiley to spend on…perhaps some more camping items. Mr Hiley will be missed by all here at Wearhead Primary and we wish him well on his next adventures.  Please view the photographs.

 

 

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