Please click the link below to read the letter of welcome to the Durham Diocesan MAT from Paul Rickeard (the Trust Chief Executive Officer) and the Durham Diocesan Board of Education.
Letter to parents joining MAT Stanhope (1)
Stanhope Barrington CE Primary School
Westcroft, Stanhope, Bishop Auckland DL13 2NU
Please click the link below to read the letter of welcome to the Durham Diocesan MAT from Paul Rickeard (the Trust Chief Executive Officer) and the Durham Diocesan Board of Education.
Letter to parents joining MAT Stanhope (1)
I know many of you will have joined the nation in clapping for the NHS at 8pm on 26.03.20. Inspired by this activity, our staff in school have decided to work with the children to paint a stone for each child in our school and to create a feature in our front garden to let every key worker know that our school community are grateful for everything they are doing.
We are so proud of little Scarlett who learnt to ride her bike yesterday. Her friend Daytona helped her and by the end of the day there was no stopping her – well done Scarlett – an amazing achievement!
Medicspot is calling all primary school children to share their creative ideas to help encourage frequent hand washing – the best way to keep yourself and others safe from coronavirus. Find out how you can enter and win £500 for Stanhope Barrington CofE Primary School here:
Thank you to everyone who took part in our photography competition after school on Wednesday 18th March 2020. We really appreciate you taking part. Obviously, we have been overtaken by events and whilst some entries have been sent in, I am sure other participants have more important things to think about at the moment. As a result, we have decided to postpone the judging of the competition until things return to normality.
In the meantime, we thought we would share with you some of the images from the event that we have received so far.
Once again, thank you for supporting our school.
Here are some of the examples of the photo event:
What a beautiful spring day we’ve had today! Our children have had lots of fun – mainly playing outside in the fresh air. They have created an enormous rainbow which we have put up in the school window.
The team at Stanhope Barrington would like to add their thanks to every key worker who is working at this difficult time. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Today our children have had great fun taking part in a range of different activities. They began the day doing Joe Wicks PE lesson and then watched the news on Newsround.
After painting rainbows to take home to display in their windows as a sign of support for key workers, they headed outside to play badminton and tennis.
The younger children enjoyed playing with small world toys such as the doll’s house, the castle and car mat whilst the older children took part in an art session using dot art to create pictures.
Well we are on day two and so far we are averaging 10-12 children attending school for childcare. All of these children are from key worker families. Our children are having a great time. We begin the day with Breakfast Club at 8am til 9am where Mrs Porter provides breakfast and the usual games, activities and cartoons. We are working closely with ScotMid Co-op to ensure all children continue to receive a healthy breakfast. The Co-op are providing food and vouchers so that the school can continue to ensure this high quality provision. We are also grateful to Stanhope paper shop who continue to supply our milk for Breakfast Club and use in the school kitchen for lunches.
At 9am our teaching staff (who are on a rota) take over childcare and begin the day with Joe Wicks on-line PE lesson. One silver lining of this crisis that the adults in school are getting fitter!!
On Monday, the children took part in a wide range of activities including mindfulness, yoga, outdoor games, board games and watched a movie.
Today our children have played indoor board games and completed jigsaw puzzles. They have had some screen time using the ipads and laptops and then played kick rounders outside before lunch. This afternoon they are making cupcakes and in fact one key workers came to collect their child and he didn’t want to leave as he was enjoying the activity so much!
We continue to provide a cooked school meal for any child in childcare and cold packed lunches for any child entitled to Free School Meals in the Dale. So far the take up of our cold packed lunches has been limited to a few each day but we anticipate that this will increase over time and that we may need to consider the implementation of the government voucher scheme. We are currently awaiting further guidance on how this voucher scheme will work and will keep you posted when we know more.
In the meantime, thank you to everyone who has sent us messages of support and thanks for the hard-work and dedication of our team. One example of the sort of messages we are getting is shown below:
“Without the school staying open and the amazing dedication of the staff I would not be able to continue working and don’t really know where I’d be! So I wanted to say a massive thank you to you!” (Key Worker Parent of Year 1 child)
Please share your ideas and keep us up to date with how you are entertaining your children by sending photos and messages to stanhopebarrington@durhamlearning.net
Hoping you and your families are safe and well.
Yours sincerely
Mr S Myers
Head Teacher