White Mere Community Primary School

I would just like to say a huge, huge, huge thank you to Y5 pupils and parents, for my wonderful 'wedding' surprise this morning! My gifts, cards and balloons were absolutely lovely and I am so touched by the thought, it was a gorgeous surprise and has made me even more excited to get married!Thanks for making my last school day as
Miss. Mcdonald so, so lovely!! I hope you all have a fantastic holiday and I can't wait to fill my new honeymoon album with lots of pics!

Thanks again! See you all in September!

Love Miss. McDonald soon to be Mrs. Hutchinson! Woo hoo!

Me and my girls, in my Minnie Mouse hen doo veil!

The School Newspaper Club have rolled out the very first issue of W. M. Express - an exciting new newspaper packed with gossip, class information, reviews, sport, puzzles and even a comic. I would like to thank Ryan, Olivia, Ross, Zoe, Ellie, Kate, Katherine, Beth, Milly and Lewis for their very hard work on getting our first issue to press and I am really looking forward to the new ideas they have for the next issue.

A huge congatulations and big thank you to our fantastic swim team, for their excellent efforts representing our school at the Felling, swimming gala last Thursday! It was a fun and exciting night, as our girls swam to victory, winning 3rd place overall, out of the fourteen schools taking part!

There was also individual success as Amy Kyle from Y5 won silver in the 25m breaststroke and Rachael Dodds Y5 won bronze in the 25m backstroke. Well done!

Thanks again to our super swim team, who were...

Rachael Dodds Y5, Amy Kyle Y5, Sophie List Y5, Georgia Durham Y5, Laura Kelly Y5, Lauryn Slater Y5, Leianne Reay Y5 and Zoe Forster Y6!

Y5 had a fabulous day dressed as their favourite book character for world book day!
They even had a new teacher 'Miss. Honey' for the day!

In the Autumn Term Y5 had a fun packed and interesting day learning even more about the Romans, when we visited Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields. We spent the day exploring the Roman ruins, forts and reconstructions. We were also archaeologists for the day, digging for Roman artefacts!

We even found a human skull in our dig!

In literacy we have been studying recount texts. For our final piece of writing we wrote our own news report on the horrific Haiti earthquake. To begin with we researched information about the earthquake using the internet and watching news reports. We also watched and read news reports to investigate the key features needed in this type of writing!

Come and read our reports!

On Wednesday 3rd March, Year 5 were chefs for the morning and had a fabulous time learning how to cook a healthy and extremely tasty meal! Cooking for life chef Nick taught Y5 pupils how to prepare and cook a chicken stir-fry safely. You can still smell the food now!! Yum Yum!!

Chefs at the ready!!!