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Year 6 have settled into their new class and will be having a very busy term.
Mrs. Wallis will be teaching the History topics. We will be finding out about the Indus Valley civilisation, focusing on the study of Aztecs.
Science is all about 'micro-organisms'. Through this topic, we will learn that there are many very small organisms called micro-organisms which feed, grow and reproduce and which may be harmful or beneficial. We will be visiting the Centre for Life in October to further our scientific study into micro-organisms through 2 amazing workshops!
Our art topic is all about 'People in action'. We will be looking at how the idea of movement is shown in different kinds of art, such as illustrations, cartoons, paintings and prints-we certainly enjoyed being models for each other last week!
PE will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays with the opportunity to be involved in golf lessons in the near future!

Well, Parochial have won again!
Our Y6 tri-golf team won their competition against Brandling, Bill Quay and White Mere schools at Heworth Grange.
Congratulations go to Adam Boyle (captain), Callum W, Lewis, Daniel, Rebecca, Faye, Alex, Emily & Ellie
Great chipping and putting guys!
Mr B.

Check out the two new videos recently added to our weblog. Links are on the homepage to a School Tour (top of the page), and a very funny clip when Fab Flournoy visited our school (link on the left hand side of the page).
The School Tour video was created by a group of Year 5 and Year 6 children attending ICT social club, along with some other children in our current Year 6 class.
Enjoy!

This Spring term the wonderful Year 3 will be learning about:
Nesting birds (Literacy)
Weather & Climate (Geography)
Food packaging (D.T.)
Databases (I.C.T.)
Magnets & Springs (Science)
...and a whole lot more besides!
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Mr B.

KS1 have been enjoying the colourful labels around the playground. They can practice reading key words and learning the alphabet

You can read our latest Ofsted inspection report here:

Ofsted Report December 2007

Click below to link to a map of the location of our school:

Location map

Don't forget to have a look at the Photo Gallery to see some pictures from around our school. The link is at the top of the page.

German model village by Year Six.

The full name of our school is 'Whickham Parochial Church of England (Controlled) Primary School'. Dr. Robert Thomlinson founded the school in 1714. It was built as a charity school in order to provide education for the children of the parish. It is reputed to be the oldest Church school in the Diocese of Durham.