Welcome to Whickham Parochial
I am delighted to welcome you to our school website.
We are proud of the achievements of our school and the enjoyment our children have in the wide variety of activities they take part in.
I hope by visiting our site you will get a taste of what our school is about and it will help you keep in touch with what is going on.
There is a wealth of information here and if you would like to add your own suggestions, or would like to comment then there is the opportunity for you to do some blogging.
I hope you enjoy our site and it helps you understand why everyone at Parochial is so proud of our friendly school.
Peter Armstrong: Head Teacher
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July 1, 2009
Year Six visit to Newton by the Sea
Year Six had a great time at the beautiful Northumberland coast on Monday. It was a misty day, but very warm indeed. The children loved playing on the beach, jumping from the sand dunes, splashing in the water and burying one another in the sand. This was followed by an energising walk past the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle to Craster. The behaviour of the class was excellent!
Rockpooling
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June 26, 2009
Tesco and Sainsbury Vouchers
A big thank you to everyone for the huge numbers of vouchers we have received over the last few months. We collected an impressive 4,800 Tesco vouchers and have ordered a Flip digital movie camera and a USB microphone. An even more impressive 6,000 Sainsbury vouchers have been collected...thc closing date is not until late July, so please keep them coming in. So far we have purchased a variety of sports equipment and some gardening tools.
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Important Dates
A reminder that we break up for the summer holidays on Friday 17th July and return to school on Tuesday 8th September.
Saturday 27th June - Summer Fair 11am-2pm
Monday 29th June - Year 6 visit to Newton by the Sea / Craster
Wednesday 1st July - School Choir perform at Big Sing at the Sage
Friday 3rd July - Year 2 Assembly
St Mary's Church football tournament - 4-6pm (school field)
Monday 6th July - Year 5 visit to Beamish Museum
Year 1 visit to St Mary's Lighthouse
Year 6 Taster Day at Whickham School
Wednesday 8th July - Sports Day - 9.30-11.45am
Thursday 9th July - Year 6 leavers' service at Durham Cathedral
Wednesday 15th July - Year 6 Assembly
Thursday 16th July - Eucharist Service in school at 9.10am
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June 25, 2009
'China Week' in Year Six
During school 'China Week' Year Six had the opportunity to practise some origami skills, instructed by the Year Six class from Clover Hill School. They had fun making Chinese ladies!
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June 24, 2009
Visit to the National Glass Centre
On Tuesday 23rd June, Year 4 visited the National Glass Centre at Sunderland. We spent an exciting morning creating glass mosaics, looking at the Space-Time exhibition and watching a demonstration of glass blowing.
Some of us were scared standing on the glass roof!
Constellations represented in glass
Designing mosaics in the studio
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June 21, 2009
Chinese artefacts
To mark the end of a week spent learning about China and aspects of Chinese culture, we had a visitor from the Oriental Museum in Durham. She brought with her a collection of Chinese artefacts from the Museum's collection for the children to examine.
Year 4 children looking at traditional clothes with silk embroidery.
Close up of dragon detail.
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June 18, 2009
We have achieved the Anti-Bullying Award.
Thank you to everybody who has supported the school in order to achieve the Anti-Bullying Award. Don Sweeny and Liz Elliott, from the LEA, came out to school to talk to pupils, govenors and staff and were really impressed with what they saw.
Today we took three children to the ceremony where we were proud to receive our award. 
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June 13, 2009
Y4 Class Assembly
On 12th June Year 4 performed their class assembly - one of the most looked forward to events in the school year! Through dance, song and drama, they took the audience back in time to World War 2. Mrs Latham would like to congratulate Year 4 for working so well together to make the event such a spectacle.
Teacher with evacuees
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June 9, 2009
Y5 ASSEMBLY SUCCESS
Well done to all of Year 5 for a fab performance this morning!
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Year 5
May 18, 2009
Year 5 tri-golf
Well done to our fab Y5 golfers, for finishing 3rd out of 8 teams at Heworth:
Adam Boyle, Melissa 'chippy' Wright, Rebecca Spurr, Daniel Clarke, Faye Hammerton, Callum Weighell, Emily Peterson, Adam Weighell.
8 different events added up to a non-stop afternoon of excellent chipping and putting challenges.
GO PAROCHIAL!
Mr B.
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I loved the trip i wil be telling everyone about it
THANK YOU
• Emily:
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i really enjoyed doing the play
• charlottte:
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I realy enjoyed the visit to the National glass centre.The best part was the beach because it was re
• Eleanor:
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my mosaic is on screen
• charlotte:
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Looks like you had a fabulous time!
• Mrs Dillon:
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I reaaly enjoyed my trip. it was the best school trip we have had this year. I can't wait to get my
• Jennifer:
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The weather helped to make a brilliant day. Thank you Year 4!
• Mrs Latham:
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the school trip was great. i cant wait to get my finished moasic back
thank you mrs lathem
• charlotte:
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