Prudhoe West Academy

Watch this space - Women’s self defence day coming soon! 🥋

Wayne Bond, who is a past parent and our school Karate instructor, is also qualified to deliver Self Defence Training.

We are currently in the process of organising an event (likely on a weekend) for women in our school community or the local community, where you will be able to take part in the full day Self Defence course. We think this is really fantastic skill on offer.

To make sure the course is as brilliant as it sounds, Wayne came along to school tonight to offer us a taste of what you will receive if you come along! All we can say is it was brilliant! We have had a lot of fun & laughs, but on a serious note the course was extremely informative and well delivered! Thanks Wayne ☺️

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✨LITTLE STARS TODDLER GROUP ✨

WE ARE BACK!

Are you a part of the Prudhoe West community or do you live in the local area? Do you have a baby or toddler? Everyone is welcome ☺️

Why not pop along to our well loved and popular toddler group this Friday 8.45-10. Refreshments, toys, activities and a sing along session all included - £3 per child!

We can’t wait to see you all again! 💕

✨REMINDER✨

All children in Year 2-4 will be taking part in karate taster sessions tomorrow. Please remember to send children to school in PE kits

Thanks ☺️

⛑️ Mini Medics ⛑️

Today we welcomed Amy, Neil & Donna from -Lighten - North East Limited to deliver Mini Medics training for all children in Reception - Year 4.

During their session the children learned about dangers, 999, the recovery position, CPR, choking and bandages! The children were phenomenal and we are so proud to have over 150 mini medics in our school!

The children will come home with an activity book and certificate this week, ask them about it and see what they remember! ❤️

✨Weekly Bulletin✨

This bulletin features a lot of key dates all the way up until Christmas. Please however check each week when a new bulletin is sent out as dates may be amended and new ones added.

More information about specific events will be sent out in due course 🥰

🪵**Reception parents**🪵
Hi, Reception team here, we have decided that whilst we are getting to know our lovely new Reception children we won’t be going to the woods tomorrow, our trips to the woods will start next Friday (15th September). We apologise for the short notice, if you need to send them to school in p.e kit tomorrow that’s absolutely fine!

In regards to what to wear for the woods when we do go, children can come to school wearing p.e kit - please make sure legs are covered as much as possible to avoid any risk of nettle stings, and be advised we will likely get muddy so nothing fancy/precious. We also advise children to wear wellies when possible. We do have spare wellies in school but if children can bring their own in that would be great, ideally with their name written in somewhere ☺️

Little Stars Toddler Group is not on tomorrow! ✨

Our first session back will be on Friday 22nd September - spread the word 🥰

🥋 KARATE 🥋

Is your child in Year 2-4 at Prudhoe West?

Karate class starts back this Friday after school and places are going fast so please contact Wayne Bond on 07787145497 to secure a place! Don’t miss out on this fantastic and well loved club ✨

www.seikenryu.co.uk

🤸🏻‍♀️ GYMNASTICS 🤸🏼‍♂️

Is your child in reception and would like to try gymnastics?

You don’t need to attend our school to sign up for this fantastic club ✨ All welcome from the local area ✨

Contact Gayle quickly while spaces last 🙏🏻

PLEA FOR HELP 🙏🏻

We have a few washing machines and bits for the scrap man at school. Is there anyone local who’d be willing to come and collect/takeaway for us?

If so please get in touch in the comments or by calling the school office on 01661 832288 to sort out! Thank you 🚐

PE Days ⚽️🎾❤️

As the new term is approaching, here are our PE days up until October half term.

This will start as of Tuesday 5th ☺️

✨☀️ SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER ☀️✨

Today marks the end of the school year and the start of the summer holidays! What a year it has been with so many amazing memories made along the way.

We have so many thanks to give! Firstly to our amazing staff team, each and every day you all go above and beyond for our community, and we are so grateful. We have been so touched by everyone’s kind words towards our staff as this year has ended, they really do mean a lot!

Secondly to our families and local community, we REALLY couldn’t do it without you. Your support this year has been unbelievable and we feel incredibly lucky to work in such a fantastic community.

Finally to our children! You are the reason we all come to work each day excited and ready to go. You truly are incredible, resilient, kind and talented and we are so proud of you all!

Have a fantastic summer! Relax, stay safe and we will see you all in September 🥰

As promised the cast photos from the Leaver’s Show.

Before the Year 4’s leave later today, here are a few pictures from the last few days. The picnic today, the Leaver’s lunch yesterday and the disco on Tuesday. What an exciting week they have had!

YEAR 1 - During the last few weeks the children have had the best time completing fun team building activities. They also finished their DT project ‘seaside snacks’, creating fun pictures out of fruit and eating their jelly boats. ⛵️🍉
Thank you for all your kind donations. 😀

Let’s go Lionesses 🦁⚽️

We have loved our non school uniform today in support of the Women’s World Cup and our lionesses! The children have taken part in a range of tasks from football games, art work, World Cup research and code breaker challenges.

We are so excited to roar on our Lionesses in their first game later this week 📣

Nursery Train Trip 🚂 (part 1)

All the lovely little Nursery boys and girls would like to say a massive thank you to their families and friends for giving up their time and joining us on our trip!

Also a massive thanks to Fiona and all the staff at Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership for facilitating our trip and paying for everyone’s train fare.

Our fabulous friends took extra care of their adults and told them about all the ways to stay safe around the train station. They walked super smartly down to the train station from school, looked out for their train, had chats with the other passengers, drew beautiful pictures, had a picnic lunch, went for a walk to the curvy bridge, played ‘Train, Train, Ticket (our version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose!’) and remembered to buy their train ticket home to show the conductor’s! 😮‍💨 🎟️ 🚂

Nursery Train Trip 🚂 (part 6)

All the lovely little Nursery boys and girls would like to say a massive thank you to their families and friends for giving up their time and joining us on our trip!

Also a massive thanks to Fiona and all the staff at Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership for facilitating our trip and paying for everyone’s train fare.

Our fabulous friends took extra care of their adults and told them about all the ways to stay safe around the train station. They walked super smartly down to the train station from school, looked out for their train, had chats with the other passengers, drew beautiful pictures, had a picnic lunch, went for a walk to the curvy bridge, played ‘Train, Train, Ticket (our version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose!’) and remembered to buy their train ticket home to show the conductor’s! 😮‍💨 🎟️ 🚂

Nursery Train Trip 🚂 (part 5)

All the lovely little Nursery boys and girls would like to say a massive thank you to their families and friends for giving up their time and joining us on our trip!

Also a massive thanks to Fiona and all the staff at Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership for facilitating our trip and paying for everyone’s train fare.

Our fabulous friends took extra care of their adults and told them about all the ways to stay safe around the train station. They walked super smartly down to the train station from school, looked out for their train, had chats with the other passengers, drew beautiful pictures, had a picnic lunch, went for a walk to the curvy bridge, played ‘Train, Train, Ticket (our version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose!’) and remembered to buy their train ticket home to show the conductor’s! 😮‍💨 🎟️ 🚂

Nursery Train Trip 🚂 (part 4)

All the lovely little Nursery boys and girls would like to say a massive thank you to their families and friends for giving up their time and joining us on our trip!

Also a massive thanks to Fiona and all the staff at Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership for facilitating our trip and paying for everyone’s train fare.

Our fabulous friends took extra care of their adults and told them about all the ways to stay safe around the train station. They walked super smartly down to the train station from school, looked out for their train, had chats with the other passengers, drew beautiful pictures, had a picnic lunch, went for a walk to the curvy bridge, played ‘Train, Train, Ticket (our version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose!’) and remembered to buy their train ticket home to show the conductor’s! 😮‍💨 🎟️ 🚂

Nursery Train Trip 🚂 (part 3)

All the lovely little Nursery boys and girls would like to say a massive thank you to their families and friends for giving up their time and joining us on our trip!

Also a massive thanks to Fiona and all the staff at Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership for facilitating our trip and paying for everyone’s train fare.

Our fabulous friends took extra care of their adults and told them about all the ways to stay safe around the train station. They walked super smartly down to the train station from school, looked out for their train, had chats with the other passengers, drew beautiful pictures, had a picnic lunch, went for a walk to the curvy bridge, played ‘Train, Train, Ticket (our version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose!’) and remembered to buy their train ticket home to show the conductor’s! 😮‍💨 🎟️ 🚂

Nursery Train Trip 🚂 (part 2)

All the lovely little Nursery boys and girls would like to say a massive thank you to their families and friends for giving up their time and joining us on our trip!

Also a massive thanks to Fiona and all the staff at Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership for facilitating our trip and paying for everyone’s train fare.

Our fabulous friends took extra care of their adults and told them about all the ways to stay safe around the train station. They walked super smartly down to the train station from school, looked out for their train, had chats with the other passengers, drew beautiful pictures, had a picnic lunch, went for a walk to the curvy bridge, played ‘Train, Train, Ticket (our version of ‘Duck, Duck, Goose!’) and remembered to buy their train ticket home to show the conductor’s! 😮‍💨 🎟️ 🚂

✨ Our final week at school this year - check out this weeks bulletin ✨

✨ We are hiring - come and join the team ✨

https://www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Catering_Assistant_Permanent_Prudhoe_West_Academy/248263

https://www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/2_x_Teaching_Assistant_with_1_1_Support_Temporary_Prudhoe_West_Academy/248273

🧸✨ Come along to our final baby & toddler session this Friday ✨ 🧸

🚂 Nursery School Trip 🚂

A few little reminders:

If you are kindly volunteering to attend our trip, then please arrive to the school office at 9.20 am. There’s still time to volunteer! Just get in touch with Miss O’Kane and/or the school office! 😊

Children attending our school trip need to be in school at 8.30 am for registration and snacks before we set off. ⏰

Children need to be weather ready (sun cream, sun hat, rain coat, water bottle and comfortable walking shoes). ☀️ ☔️ 👟 🧢 🕶️ 💦

Children all need to bring a small change of clothes in a backpack 🎒 Please label everything 🏷️ ✏️

Children will need to be collected from Prudhoe Train Station at 2.36 pm 🚂

If your child is attending Afterschool Club - please notify the office / Miss O’Kane.

Lunch & high visibility jackets will be provided.

Cameras are strictly prohibited.

Thanks choo-choo! 🚂 😊

🐛🦋Nursery🐛🦋

Thank you little friends for helping us to learn about The Very Hungry Caterpillar and looking after our own caterpillars until they transformed into beautiful butterflies. We are incredibly proud of all of you 👏 😊

Year 3 had a great afternoon with Professor Simon Rees from Durham University who demonstrated some fun and fascinating science experiments. His science show will be part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August.

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✨ Ian Lowery Memorial First Schools Tournament✨

CHAMPIONNNNSSSSS 🥇🏅✨

Wowwwww! What an afternoon we have had at Eastwood Park. I am so unbelievably proud of these boys and girls for their teamwork, skills and amazing attitudes today. They worked hard, and were brilliant ambassadors and represented what Prudhoe West is all about.

Prudhoe West Thunder won their group, and Prudhoe West Lightning came runners up meaning…they faced each other in the semi final. It was a tough game but Thunder won 3-0 meaning they made their way to the final.

In the final they faced Wylam! It was an incredible game, Wylam played brilliantly and pushed us to the final whistle. With some brilliant teamwork and goals, we won the final 3-2 meaning we were crowned champions!!! I was so proud of Thunder but also Lightning who cheered them on until the end, running onto the pitch to celebrate as a school! Safe to say I got a bit emotional! 😫

A big well done to captains Roman and Freddie who led their teams fantastically. Well done to Fletcher who was top goal scorer with a shoutout to Aaron who scored an unbelievable volley! Coaches players of the tournament go to Ava and Toby for being the unsung heroes in defence!

The tournament was incredible and largely down to Wilton Holmes who helped myself and Emma organise it! Thank you to parents Chris and Michael for coaching our teams over the last half term, and to Lesley for all the support today!

So proud of Prudhoe West 💕

🎶Choir - What a fantastic morning we’ve had at Hexham Hospital! The children, as always, were brilliantly behaved and represented our school incredibly well. They sang all of the songs absolutely beautifully and we had a great audience of parents, relatives, hospital workers, patients and others.
The feedback we had from everyone watching was extremely positive, which was so lovely to hear! A member of the public who was attending the hospital came over to me whilst we were having our juice and biscuits and said “when I arrived at the hospital this morning, I wasn’t feeling very good at all…in fact I was having a pretty bad day. I can’t tell you how much seeing your choir sing has made me feel better, thank you so much”. Every time we take our choir out to perform, one of the reasons we do it is to bring joy to other people, and we have certainly done that today. Once again, I’m a very proud teacher and we’re a very proud school! Well done everyone, and a huge thank you to our parent/ grandparent helpers for coming along with us. We couldn’t do these trips without you!
We will post some more photos/ videos on here when we’ve got them altogether. 🎶❤️

🎶Choir - Hexham Hospital trip
Quick reminder that all choir children in Years 2, 3 and 4 who have consent to attend Hexham Hospital tomorrow morning, need to come in their school uniform as opposed to their PE kit. If they are going swimming or playing football later in the day and therefore need to be in different clothes, they can bring these to school in a bag and change into them when we return from the hospital at lunchtime. Thanks ☺️

🎶🚨CHOIR HELPERS NEEDED! 🚨🎶
On Thursday this week, the children in choir from years 2, 3 and 4 will be attending Hexham Hospital to perform for the 75th Anniversary of the NHS! We will be leaving school via coach at 9am and will be back at school by 11.45am at the latest. We currently have not had any parent volunteers, meaning we will not be able to go 😱. If you are free this day and would be willing to come with us, we would really appreciate it! For those of you who came to the show on Thursday, you’ll get to hear the songs all over again, you lucky people 🤩. Please either comment on this post or let the office know tomorrow if you are available! Thank you in advance 🥰🎶

🎶Here they are: the photos from our choir showcase last night!! It’s really tricky to get videos of our performances - due to photo permissions, so in our lunchtime rehearsal today we decided to record our two favourite songs (as chosen by the children) to share with you as another memory from our night last night! Unfortunately I can’t add them to this post though, so I’ll add them to another one instead. Thank you for all of your lovely comments on the previous post. They really do mean a lot, and we’re so glad that you enjoyed the show. 🎶

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YEAR 1 - The children have completed their science project all about animals. 🦎🦋🐝 The children took part in an animal search where they listened for sounds and looked for clues to try and find out what animals we have in the school grounds. Their final lesson was to design a wonderful animal sanctuary based on all the information they had learned about over the last couple of weeks. This included what animals ate and grouping animals based on their features.