Our four Fun and Fit Champions did a fantastic job this year working with our Year 3 and Year4 children. They played a variety of games on a lunchtime which the children thoroughly enjoyed.
Y4 have had a fantastic week being pirates. Their costumes were amazing and creative, we thank parent’s for their support as ever.
Children even had the chance to fence like true pirates.
Well done to our Y4 children who competed in South Tyneside School’s Sandcastle challenge.
A great day was had by all and our children were, as always, excellent ambassadors for our school.
Thank you to Miss Anderson, who supervised the children and helped them with their design.
Our Y6 children are loving being part of WW2 week this week. From jiving to making Anderson shelters, designing children’s games and now digging for victory in a local allotment.
We are providing real life experiences of what life would be like during the war.
Later this week we will be celebrating VE Day and the children are planning to bake and prepare their own food for the party.
Well done to all our Y5 and Y6 children who took part in our recent production. The children, once again, were outstanding. We may be biased, but we know Mortimer has talent.
Thank you for all your support for both performances and for helping our children to dress for the occasion. The main choir, in particular, were certainly dressed for the occasion.
Y4 had a fabulous trip to the farm this term. This trip reinforces their geography curriculum but also links with work related learning. This is a working farm and children learn all about how a farmer makes his money.
Our Y6 children, who are moving onto Mortimer Community College, have been working closely with Sunderland Association Football Club to prepare a business presentation about designing trainers.
All the children thoroughly enjoyed this project and it was a lovely link to their new school.
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Our wonderful choir has just come to the end of what has been a very busy, but extremely enjoyable year.
Autumn Term always finds us rehearsing Christmas music before we know it and we had a super time taking ourselves out into the community to share a little Christmas Spirit with others. Once again we sang for the ‘Tea and Chat group’ who meet at Westoe Methodists, Marsden’s ‘Friendly Circle’ plus a new adventure – a performance at Hillhead Tearooms (followed by delicious doughnuts and juice!).
We also performed alongside South Tyneside’s Senior Wind Band at the Rotary Carol Service in St Hilda’s Church.
Spring Term introduced us to an amazing charity ‘Daft as a Brush’, a brilliant group of people who provide support in the form of dedicated transport for cancer patients. We sang at the launch of their ‘River Tyne Trail’ in April, joining Toner Avenue Choir to sing ‘Water of Tyne’ at South Shields Pier.
Summer Term saw us return to the wonderful acoustics of St Michael’s Church, Westoe, where we joined with Bede Wind Band in a lovely evening of music on June 24th. We discovered a few potential conductors hiding in our ranks too!
Our summer concert also means a final performance for our Year 6 members and we would like to say a very big thank to them for their continuous dedication over the last four years. Good luck and keep on singing!
The children have worked enthusiastically all year, producing one of the best sounds we have heard in several years. Without the fantastic support we receive from Mr Powell and Mrs Taylor each week we wouldn’t be able to do as much as we do and we would like to say thank you very much to them both.
Here’s to another fabulous year next year!
Miss Middleton
