Thank you to the PTA whose generous donation has enabled us to subscribe to eight magazines for the next 12 months. Children from Reception to Year 6 are enjoying magazines on topics such as science, maths, nature and geography. We know that this will further develop a love of reading at Toner.
The fabulous Anne Malabar from ground works came to visit us to complete a litter pick.
First we had a discussion about how litter affect people and animals…and the world. Then we got into groups of 3/4 and everyone had a job to do. We had a bag holder, a tally keeper and a litter picker. Everyone swapped roles after 8 minutes so we all had a turn.
We only managed to get to the school car park before we saw tonnes of litter. We set to work straight away and hopefully improved the environment around our school.
Once we got back, we counted the tallies and checked who collected the most litter.
Team collected 96 pieces
Team collected 82 pieces
Team 3 collected 110 pieces
team 4 collected 41 pieces
Team 5 collected 78 pieces.
All just from our school car park!
James said he felt guilty that we’ve let our school get this way.
Piper said she felt disgusted.
Maisie felt excited because it was fun to do something nice for our school.
We hope to work with Anne again soon on our next venture! We had a great morning. She was also an expert at learning all of our names.
Friday 18th March is Red Nose Day. We would like to invite children to come in to school in non-uniform or wearing something red. A suggested donation of £1 would be appreciated and all funds will be passed to the Comic Relief Charity.
This year the whole school read and completed activities about the same book, ‘Rain before Rainbows’ by Smriti Halls. We enjoyed showing off our colourful outfits in assembly, listening to stories from mystery readers and visiting the book cafe! The money raised is being used to buy books for each class’s book corner, thank you to parents for your generous donations!
9am until 9pm opening hours for South Tyneside Urgent Care for Children service
With effect from Monday 7 March, the nurse-led service at South Tyneside District Hospital will be open every day from 9am until 9pm. The temporary change has been necessary due to unforeseen staffing challenges. Parents are being reassured that the service will continue to be available for 12 hours every day to see and treat the vast majority of children who attend hospital with urgent, but not life threatening, problems.
The temporary change means the service will open one hour later at 9am (instead of 8am) and close one hour earlier each day at 9pm (instead of 10pm). Please see attached updated NHS information leaflet.
We are joining forces with Hebburn Help to help the children of Ukraine.
Yesterday, Year 3 went to Waterstones in Newcastle to spend our World Book Day tokens. We had so much fun looking at the endless amount of books. The workshop we took part in was fantastic. We discussed the books we read at home and at school. We read a spooky book with music playing to build atmosphere and talked about how to engage our audience when we read. Some of us even had our minds read! We were all shocked (even all the adults!)
It was so lovely to see the children enjoying their books on the metro home! I think some of us had nearly finished by the time we got back to school!
Today year 3 got to spend their World Book Day vouchers at Waterstones in Newcastle Town centre.
We were welcomed and entertained by Johnny who had us all in the palm of his hand with his storytelling and engrossed with his mind reading talents! (Even the adults too!) The spooky sound effects made such a difference when we were listening to the stories. We can’t wait to visit again, especially when the immersion chair is in place.
Our only regret is that we couldn’t stay any longer as we had to get the metro home. I have to say, we were so proud and impressed with the children’s behaviour. They were absolutely brilliant.
It also made my day to see all of the children reading their books on the metro home. Take a look at some photos below.
We can’t wait to visit again soon.
WOW! What a response to our inaugural Books and Biscuits Club. I was blown away by how many children wanted to get together and discuss books on a Tuesday night – we really do love reading at Toner.
The lucky first group of children enjoyed their first session tonight – here are some pictures! We introduced ourselves and chatted about a book we had brought, shared some of our favourites and what we liked to read, and then listened to a story with a delicious biscuit.
I am already looking forward to next week!
Well done to Year 5 and 6 pupils who created a great standard of projects at home around their curriculum themes. It was fantastic to be able to welcome parents back into school to view the projects too!
