Our Year 1 and Year 2 children didn’t want to miss out on the fun either! Here are their Christmas messages for their families.
Christmas is one of the most magical times in school and one of the highlights of our calendar is sharing the Christmas walk-around with you to showcase your children’s work.
As with everything else, this year is slightly different, but here is a virtual tour of our Christmas wonderland.
We hope you enjoy it!
A big thank you to everyone who donated to The Customs House collection.
We raised a grand total of £556.00. As a thank you they have sent this video for the children of our school.
Sadly, this year we couldn’t have our normal concerts and shows. However, Key Stage Two have worked on a project in their bubbles and proudly present to you “The Twelve Days of Christmas!”
We hope you enjoy it.
On the last day of term children are invited to swap their school jumper for their Christmas jumper once more.
Pupils are asked not to bring toys in this year but we will be making the day a special day! We have plenty of fun activities planned to bring this term to a great end.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Christmas has been very different around our school this year. We have all still had a brilliant time in the build up to the festive season but sadly, the corridors and hallways are not filled with singing, nativity concerts and Carol services.
We were asked to participate in the Co-op Funeral Care Virtual Concert. Y4AS bubble prepared two songs and recorded them to be used with other school bubble choirs from across South Tyneside to spread joy to those in nursing and residential care home across the north-east. We hope you enjoy it.
Chrome books will be available for collection from Thursday 10th December.
Devices must be collected by an adult and signed for upon collection from the main office. They cannot go home with a pupil.
It is important that we maintain social distancing, so we ask for parents to use the ramp to queue in the event of a number of adults collecting at the same time.
We will be open for collection at the following times:
- Thursday 10th December 2:00-3:15 and 3:45 – 4:30
- Friday 11th December 9:00- 10:15
If for any reason these times are not suitable please contact the office and we will see what we can arrange but we ask for parents to where possible collect within these times.
We have purposefully left time between school drop off times and end of day times to aid social distancing.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
We know that a huge part of many family traditions is going to the pantomime at Christmas time and we also know how appreciated our Customs House Theatre is to our town. We would like to support our little theatre with the big heart and also bring a little bit of panto spirit to our children.
On Wednesday 9th December children from nursery to Year 6 will have the opportunity to watch this years performance featuring the one and only Arbuthnot and Dame Bella, all we ask is that you donate £1 using our parent pay app. All of the money raised will be sent directly to The Customs House Charity, who provide many educational and social opportunities for all ages in our town.
This year we are trying to achieve Gold status in the Wild Challenge provided by the RSPB. This showcases the enhanced activities we do at Mortimer as part of our Science curriculum. Mrs Mackay wants the whole school to be involved so over the course of this academic year each class will complete at least one activity in school which will contribute towards achieving the top award.
Already this year we have completed Kennings in Year 4, Reception have kept a watch on the weather, Year 5 have dissected flower heads and presented their findings as a display and we have had another big tree plant on the turning circle to name a few.
Many more activities are planned for the next two terms but this term we are proud to say that we have submitted enough activities to hopefully be awarded a bronze certificate. Our entries are currently being checked by the RSPB but Mrs Mackay is confident we will be successful.
