We have rescheduled our World Book Day celebrations for Thursday 8 March!

Your child can use their special WBD token to get £1 off any book worth more than £2.99

• at the Fair or
• in any bookshop displaying the WBD logo on their window (E.g. WH Smiths, Waterstones)

There’ll be a non-uniform day to raise money for Book Aid International on World Book Day this Thursday!

Your child can put a lot of effort into dressing up as a book character – and possibly win a prize – or dress down to suit their personality.

Some of last year’s brilliant winners:

Either way, please remember to bring a £1 contribution to help send books to children in areas of the world which have none. These children cannot learn to read without a supply of good books!

You might be interested to know that publishers donate the books free of charge but it costs £2 to get each book to where it’s needed.  Books travel by ship, air, truck, motorbike, camel…. and even on carts pulled by bullocks – whatever’s available!

School will be open as normal tomorrow, Monday 5 March.

Just a reminder that our annual Book Fair starts in a week’s time and will be held in the school library from Monday, 26 February to Friday 2 March.

On Tuesday 27 February, the Fair will stay open until 4:15pm to enable those of you who collect your children from school to view the books, if you’d like to. It would be lovely to see you!

All children will have the opportunity of visiting the Fair where they can purchase from an exciting range of books and items of stationery.

We strongly recommend a visit to the Scholastic website for a flavour of the books that will be on offer.

From here you can also purchase discount vouchers which are much safer than cash and give your child 20% more book buying power at the Fair.

The dedicated free helpline is 0800 212281.

60% of the total Fair takings comes back to school to be spent directly on our children in various different ways, so it’s worth supporting.

Last year we achieved our highest sales yet. This year, with your help, we might do even better!

This year, our annual Enterprise Day took place on Friday 26th January. The day was delivered in collaboration with Northumberland Education Business Partnership and was supported by 23 Business Ambassadors from a range of different sectors.

Our theme was ‘School’s Cool’, which involved the students developing a range of employability and enterprise skills over the course of the day.  

The challenge of the day was to design, build and promote their ‘ideal school’. The students were given a free reign to come up with a brand, design uniform and to consider their own school rules!

Creativity and Co-operation (both 2 of our 9 Core Values) were central to the success of the task.

Information for the ski trip from 10 – 17 March.

A week-long football camp for 5 – 11 year olds.

Girls Rugby League training is taking place at Whitley Bay Barbarians, at Seghill Rugby Club.

Our annual Morpeth Partnership Ceilidh on Saturday 3rd February

A new drama club is starting on 25 January at Morpeth Boy’s Brigade.