Team Amethyst enjoyed a full day out at The Hub, Barnard Castle. We learned about the recording industry and how the hardware and software works under the expert guidance of Tom, Music Coordinator at The Hub. We then recorded our favourite songs and instrumental arrangements onto CD. The CD is available to purchase from school. We hope you enjoy listening to our music as much as we enjoyed creating it!

“Today was the best school trip ever!” TR

“The recording studio was an amazing experience. I really enjoyed it.” FW

“Will we be on the radio? We might all be famous!” KL

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Jill Essam came into school to make lanterns with the children.

The children will parade with them on Saturday 30th November, at the village green, when the christmas tree lights will be switched on.

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On Tuesday 12th November, Reverend Bruce presented the children with new Bibles during assembly.

The Stanhope Methodist Church have given us five copies of “The Lion Children’s Bible” and two copies of “The Good News Bible”. This will enhance our R.E work, especially the KS2 topic “Learning about Jesus”.

Thank you very much Reverend Bruce.

We were all very excited when we received the news from Bridget Whyte, Chief Executive of The UK Association for Music Education – Music Mark.

‘Congratulations on becoming a Music Mark School 2019-2020. We would firstly like to thank you for all the hard work you and your colleagues do to ensure that pupils at your school are able to access and engage with a high-quality music education. Your dedication to offering and delivering a broad and balanced curriculum is both welcomed and celebrated.

Music Mark works to enable our members, and the wider music education sector, to deliver high-quality musical and social outcomes for all children and young people. Our thanks for all that you are doing and will continue to do to support our collective vision.’

Durham County Council has declared a climate emergency and they wanted to hear the views of our pupils at Frosterley Primary School.  A group of ambassadors for Climate Change worked with Alice Grieve, OASES Junior Project Officer, as part of the consultation, to set targets and to highlight the key issues.

“I learned that little changes could make a big difference.  Even just by switching the lights off when we don’t need them, we could make a difference to the earth’s atmosphere.”  TR

“I want to do something to save the polar bears.  The ice is melting too quickly because the earth is warming up.  If we are not careful, polar bears could become extinct.”  AT

“I enjoyed learning about pollution.  We can’t always see it but it is always there.  So, we may not even know when we are damaging our planet.”  FW

On Thursday 10th October, children visited The Bowes Museum. All children attended a lego workshop during the visit.

On Friday 16th July, we had an hugely entertaining visit from “Aristas del Gremio”, a brass band. They have performed during Brass Festival at Durham and we had our very own Brass Festival Concert at school.

All parents were invited and it is fair to say, it was a great way to end our school year!

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Children enjoyed rock pooling and canoeing to Whitby Harbour.

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Children were enjoying the first activities on their residential trip on Thursday 03rd July. They had a wonderful day for body boarding and look at those smiles!

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