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Laurel Avenue Community Primary School and Nursery
May 2020
Welcome to summer second half term. We hope that you
all have had a wonderful week, enjoying the weather with your family and taking a break from your work timetables.
This newsletter is a little later to be released than usual. We’re sure you can all appreciate that it was a very busy last few weeks in school and we had to prioritise ensuring school was ready to open to more children as had initially been directed. Covid-19 won’t stop us celebrating all the amazing achievements that are going on in all your homes, so we’re starting this half term off with a newsletter as a reminder of the many, many positives that took place in our community last half term.
As you know, Durham County Council gave all headteachers the directive to delay the opening of schools to more children for a further two weeks, after which the situation will be risk assessed again. I want to say a huge thank you to all staff who worked so hard to ensure that we were ready to open to all eligible children from the 1st June. Consequently, we are already prepared for this when a further directive comes from the Local Authority. We are very keen and excited to get children back into school, but only at a time that is right and safe.
An updated version of the guide will be sent out to all parents and carers to keep you informed at each stage and we will communicate all new information from County as soon as we receive any.
Thank you to all parents and carers who spoke to school staff before making the
decision whether or not to send their child back to school. We respect all your
decisions and will continue to do so; we know that every decision made was not easy.
Home learning will continue as has become normal practice. Every Monday, timetables and activities will be uploaded to your child’s class page on the school website, as well as a letter from each teacher. If you need support with any technical issue or because your child is struggling with a certain part of the work, teachers are working hard from home to support with this, so please send them an email.
We all think you’re doing a really brilliant job with home learning. The photographs and work that are regularly emailed to us show the commitment you have towards your children’s education. Don’t forget, you’re not alone in this so please get in touch about anything.
Stay safe and keep in touch. We’re in this together.
Gaynor Davison
You have been invited to take part in the Laurel Avenue Community Primary School Rainbow Challenge!
Your challenge is to create an image based on a colour theme. Use items from around your homes to create a colour picture like the pictures shown on the front page.
When you are finished, email your picture to
[email protected] We are going to make a beautiful rainbow display in school with the pictures; a positive memory that we will never forget.
We would love for as many children to be included as possible. Thank you.
Thank you for all the colourful Rainbow Challenge pictures, including those displayed on the front page of this newsletter.
They look amazing!
It’s not too late to take part and email your picture to [email protected]
As a reminder, you were all challenged…
Nursery and Reception – Red
Year 1 – Orange Year 4 – Blue
Year 2 – Yellow Year 5 – Indigo
Year 3 – Green Year 6 – Violet
A special message of congratulations to Mrs Walters.
The start of this summer term marked twenty years
since Mrs Walters started teaching at Laurel Avenue
Community Primary School. Over all those years, she has
taught hundreds of children, including some of you, our
now parents, and we have loved being able to go on and
teach your children. Mrs Walters has worked with
dedication and enthusiasm for all of these twenty years
and has played a significant part in the improvements
made to school. We have enjoyed working every day with
her and would like to thank her for all her hard work and
commitment. She is a hugely valued member of our team
and we are really lucky to have had her as part of the
team for all these years. Thank you!
Laurel Avenue Primary School, its amazing staff, pupils
and families are all very special and it is a pleasure to
have spent 20 years working with you all. Anyone who
works with children knows that it is not a job, it's part
of your life and I hope Laurel Avenue continues to be a
big part of my life for many years to come. I wish we
could be at school with you all doing what we all do best
but I hope everyone is safe and well and home.
Miss you all. Take care. Mrs Walters x
We were so proud to hear that some of our children had
entered the Fire and Rescue Poster competition and had
taken a lot of effort with their entries!
Avika created a fabulous poster, presented to a high standard.
Samual also entered and we're very proud to announce that he came
second! Congratulations! He has won a Tesco voucher and he will get an
invite to the Fire and Rescue headquarters in September!
Samual also entered and we're very
proud to announce that he came
second! Congratulations! He has
won a Tesco voucher and he will
get an invite to the Fire and Rescue
headquarters in September!
There has been some AMAZING science completed by children during the last half term! It’s been really difficult to choose just a few examples for our
newsletter. If you haven’t tried one of our ‘Science Fun at Home’ investigation sheets yet, look back on
Facebook or on the ‘All Updates’ page on the school website and you will find them all still there. We will continue to upload these activities every week – on Science Thursday! Children have also been completing
their home learning science work every Thursday afternoon really well. We love to see photographs of you
completing your science and the science work itself. Thank you for sharing.
Class 4 have been learning about the circulatory system and how our heart works. Jasmine & Tyler made a model
of the heart working as a pump.
Lilly-Mai’s well-presented science work about the heart.
We celebrated National Pet Month by sharing
pictures of our best friends, our pets. It was great to meet them all.
Can you remember who these pets belong to?
Let's Get Cooking at Home! Mrs Davison, our Let’s Get Cooking
coordinator, was so happy to see some of the tasty treats you had been cooking at home that she wanted to try and get everyone
cooking! She selected some of our favourite Let's Get Cooking recipes that children have
loved to cook and eat over the years. You can find the recipes on our school website: https://laurelprimaryschool.fluencycms.co.uk/LetsGetCooking
Even if you haven't had your turn to take part in Let's Get Cooking yet, you can still use the recipes to create some delicious dishes. Just look at some of the amazing dishes that our children have created!
If you haven’t
visited our Facebook
yet, why not go over
and like our page?
Laurel Avenue
Community Primary
School
Keep sending your
pictures, messages
and videos to
laurelavenue@
durhamlearning.net
It’s a great way to
stay in touch and
celebrate your
achievements,
including those
of our weekly
Super Stars.
Let’s keep in touch!
We were very lucky to be
able learn about two sets
of eggs hatched at home!
Kaiden documented
every stage and
recorded his
observations. Look at
his fabulous chicks!
Kayden and Presten also
looked after eggs in
their incubator.
They showed us the
candling of an egg,
where they looked
inside to check on
the growth and
development of
an embryo. More
wonderful chicks!
Building a bug hotel in our nursery garden.
Children who have still been attending school complete all their school work each day which leaves them some leisure time to complete lots of fun activities. Here are just a few examples.
A rainbow of handprints.
A rainbow banner for the school gates.
Painting Easter bunnies.
Lots of Jump Start Jonny, designing obstacle
courses and keeping up fitness levels with outside equipment.
Families celebrated VE Day (Victory in Europe Day)
2020, the 75th anniversary since the original VE Day.
Lilly-Mai, Charlie
and Jordy shared
photographs of their
celebrations at home.
Daisy
designed her
own
VE Day
bunting.
Blakley-Joe and Joedn
also created their own
VE bunting.
Emma and
Samual had a
fun-filled day
with a garden
party, followed
by camping out
in their garden.
Samual designed
a VE Day medal
and Emma
designed a VE
Day mug.
We have been very impressed with
how well our Nursery and
Reception children have been
following their weekly timetables
and completing all their activities.
We’ve loved all the photographs
that you’ve sent in every week
too. Keep them coming!
They have learned about tadpoles and frogs,
caterpillars and butterflies. Children have been
super scientists learning about life cycles as
well as being creative through making models,
painting and using technology.
We can’t wait to see what you
will be learning about this half term!
Well done for
completing your
activities about the
book Whatever Next.
It looks like you had
a lot of fun!
It has been great to see so many of you taking part in daily exercise and keeping fit at home, whether taking a bike ride, working on your gymnastics skills
or working out with Jump Start Jonny.
Keep on exercising even a little bit every day. Have a look on
your timetables each week and take part in the planned PE sessions. Learn a new skill like Ethan with his roller skating!
Look out for some fun activities with hoops and gymnastic
balancing activities coming out on Facebook this half term that have been created
specifically for being at home.
It’s time to celebrate the work and
fun that you are all having at home.
Please keep sending your pictures and
messages to
Super Stars These children have been selected
last half term as being Super Stars by their
teachers for their excellent, hardworking attitude to
their home learning with great achievements made.
Nursery: Ruby, Aiden, Alicia, Hollie,
Luke and Charlie
Class 1: Hamoodie, Catherine, Elisha,
Shakya and Emma
Class 2: Ben, Levi, Ethan, Finley and Karam
Class 3: Samual, Avika, Casey,
Lilly-Su and Mia
Class 4: Charlotte P, Jasmine,
Tyler, Tia and Lilly-Mai
Ms Davison: Jordy, Zac, Imogen,
Tayven, Emma, Daisy, Jaxon R and Simon
News from Laurel Avenue Community Centre
Laurel United Youth Group
Weekly activity packs are being delivered to all
of our children and young people which include
activities that we would normally be doing at
youth clubs. Thank you for
sharing your feedback and
photographs with us;
we can see that you are
all enjoying the activities.
Information about how to
contact us for any additional
support is included in the packs and on the
next page of this newsletter.
Caff Gaff
Whilst we are unable to meet at the centre, we
are hosting weekly virtual coffee mornings
instead. We would love to keep in touch with
you and hear how you are. If you would like to
join, please contact us:
We are working alongside partner organisations
to ensure that we don’t contradict support and
to maximise services offered to our community.
If there is anything you feel we can support you
with during this time, please get in touch.
Tel: 07825956094
If you need to get in touch, please call
0191 3868416.
You can also email on
Your child’s teacher is always happy to
help with anything; their email addresses
are on each class page on our website.
Take care and keep safe.
Huge congratulations to Levi who has
been awarded with both his camping
badge and first aid badge from Beavers.