Wally, Witches, Wizards and magic will all be in the air at The Bowes Museum over the October half term holidays.

There’s lots to do to keep everyone out of mischief with hours of fun for everyone ranging from our Drive-in Cinema showing the classics The Addams Family, Hocus Pocus and The Exorcist and if you’ love LEGO® then why not take part in a coding workshop to make your model come alive. On Halloween itself there’s a spooky family fun day where you can make a witch’s broom, create a potion or take part in a magician’s trail and watch Magic Andrew perform some tricks.

Bowes Museum Halloween Illustrated Leaflet

We celebrated Harvest Festival this week, everyone learnt about why we celebrate Harvest and we sang some Harvest songs. In art we have been looking at pictures by Gustav Kilmt, we are starting to make our own pictures!

Video to follow

We usually offer an E-Safety Session for Parents this term, however, due to the current situation we are just asking parents to keep their children safe whilst using apps.  There are age restrictions which you can usually find within the app’s terms and conditions. This is not the same as the app/google store rating.  The age limit for many popular social networking sites is thirteen. Some apps will have age limits of 18+ as they are exclusively designed for use by adults.          If children use apps that are aimed at an older age group then this may leave them vulnerable to being exposed to unsuitable content (including advertising), as well as being contacted by strangers. Many popular apps will have ‘help’ and ‘safety’ sections, either within the app itself or via its website. Some apps will even have content specifically designed for parents and carers.  Please visit www.saferinternet.org.uk, this website has some useful parent guides which highlight safety tools on popular devices, and signpost to report mechanisms.  If you require any further information or advice, please contact the school.

Virtual Open Evening videos for Teesdale School are available to view through the school website. There is an opportunity to meet the Head of School in addition to a promotional video for each department which can be accessed by clicking on the links in the virtual school map. Due to popular demand, the videos will remain on the website until the closing date for applications. Reminder – Closing date for Secondary Applications is 31st October 2020.

Please find below a school update letter to parents:

Letter to Parents – Delayed School Re-opening HPS

Well done to the following pupils for receiving the following awards this week:-

Class 1 

Headteacher Award – James

Tidiness Award – Charlie

Kindness Award – Jamie

Year 3/4 

Headteacher Award – William

Tidiness Award – Jeh

Kindness Award – Aadi

Year 5/6

Headteacher Award – Rory

Tidiness Award – Ava Sc

Kindness Award – Matthew

Well done to the following pupils for receiving the following awards this week:-

Class 1 

Headteacher Award – Emily

Tidiness Award – James Henri

Kindness Award – Xander

Year 3/4 

Headteacher Award – Luke

Tidiness Award – Christina Jayne

Kindness Award – Lily

Year 5/6

Headteacher Award – Seb

Tidiness Award – Nicholas

Kindness Award – Clay

Today is world book day, all the children have put in lots of effort and been super creative with their costumes. We have horse riders, prisoners, harry potters, princesses of all kinds, the millionaire boy and many more great book characters. The Staff have also put in such a good effort, today we have:

Mary Poppins

Minnie Mouse

The Paper Bag Princess

The Rainbow Fish

Chewbacca

scarecrow

skullduggery pleasant

Dorothy

Hermione Granger

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Hamsterley recently entered a dodgeball tournament and due to one team dropping out of the tournament, we had the chance to enter 2 teams, because of this opportunity, one of our Hamsterley Teams finished second and the other finished 5^th. What a great result for both of the teams!