Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• HEALTH & FOOD TOPIC AFTEROON

  Mon 26 Mar 2018

  The school hall was full of children and parents, carers and governors during our health & food topic afternoon.  Activities included: milking a cow, tasting smoothies and butter made by the infants, creating a balanced meal, guessing the amount of sugar in drinks, tasting skittles to try and identify their flavours, watching a dissection of the main organs and having a tour of our polytunnel.

  During the afternoon, the following winners were announced:

  • Inigo Baker won guess the weight of the Easter Egg competition
  • Daisy Royston won the infants prize for the best decorated egg
  • Hattie Turner won the junior prize for the best decorated egg
  • Mrs Hester won the adult prize for the best decorated egg

  A 'Skittles Prayer' finalised our fun-filled afternoon, when all our individual prayers were joined together and offered to God.

   

• CAFOD Lent Appeal

  Sun 25 Mar 2018

  NON-UNIFORM DAY
  LENT APPEAL

  Our school will be supporting CAFOD's Lent Appeal this year, by holding a non-uniform day on THURSDAY 29TH MARCH 2018.

  CAFOD are using funds raised to help combat malnutrition                            
  and hunger across the world.  

  A generous person will prosper;
  whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
  Proverbs 11:25

  This year, for each pound given to CAFOD's Lent Appeal,                           

  the UK Government will also give a pound to their nutrition work.

• Thorneyholme Primary School become 'Gift Of Books' collection point

  Tue 13 Mar 2018

  We are happy to announce that we have become a collection point for a unique crowdsourcing campaign that has been launched in Greater Manchester with the aim of reducing book poverty for the region’s most disadvantaged school children.

   

  The “Gift of Books” campaign, which was launched on World Book Day 2018 is calling on the people of Greater Manchester to donate a copy of their favourite childhood book, which in turn will be gifted to one of the 40,000 children in Greater Manchester who have no books of their own.

   

  Students and parents can now donate their favourite books to Thorneyholme RC Primary School, Dunsop Bridge, with a note inside to say why they enjoyed their book so much, this can be downloaded from here: https://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/printwhatmatters/gift-of-books/ where you can also find more information about the campaign, including where all the collection points are located.

   

  Once the books have been collected they will be redistributed to the children in Manchester who are are not fortunate to own one themselves. These Children will be identified by the National Literacy trust who tackle literacy issues in communities across the UK where low levels of literacy are seriously impacting on people’s lives.

   

  The initiative is a joint partnership between Stockport business cartridgesave.co.uk and the National Literacy Trust. Collection points will pop up in the region between now and 31st May, allowing Greater Manchester book lovers to share their love of the printed word.

   

  How donating a book will make a difference: five key facts facts

  1.     One in eight of the most disadvantaged children in Greater Manchester say they don’t have a book of their own at home.

  2.     In England the median hourly wage of workers with the highest levels of literacy is 94 per cent higher than for workers who have the lowest levels of literacy.

  3.     Reading for pleasure is more important for children's cognitive development than their parents' level of education and is a more powerful factor in life achievement than socio-economic background.

  4.     Low levels of literacy cost the UK an estimated £81 billion a year in lost earnings and increased welfare spending impacting on the economy as a whole.

  5.     Literacy has been found to have a relationship with depression. 36 per cent of those with low literacy were found to have depressive symptoms, compared to 20 per cent of those with the highest levels of literacy.

• Sensational Singing at the Sing Together Concert

  Tue 13 Mar 2018

  Our very talented junior children performed at the Sing Together Concert, King George's Hall.  Children sang a range of entertaining songs from the Rattle Snake Sake to A Curious Tale, in different keys and they even accompanied one song with sign language!  The audience joined in with dance moves and held up the flashlight on their mobile phones.  All the children thoroughly enjoyed it, even those who were a little apprehensive before the day.  Well done, to all our children, we are all proud of you!

  

• GIFT OF BOOKS

  Wed 07 Mar 2018
  As part of this year's Lenten Journey, our school has become a collection point for the local community to give the gift of a book to a child in need, who lives in Greater Manchester.

   

  GIFT OF BOOKS: GIVE A BOOK TO A CHILD IN NEED

  We are proud to have teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to launch ‘Gift of Books”, a unique campaign in Greater Manchester. Our aim is to achieve one objective: reducing book poverty for the region’s most disadvantaged children.

  National Literacy Trust research has found that 40,000 school children in Greater Manchester don’t own a single book at home. Children’s books are a pivotal part of growing up and we wanted to help local children fall in love with reading.

  So we need you! Our “Gift of Books” campaign is calling on you and your spirit of generosity and asking you to to donate a favourite childhood book – complete with a printed note explaining why you want to sha
  re it (available from school). This in turn will be gifted to one of the 40,000 children in Greater Manchester who have no books of their own.To help with this, we will have a collection point from now until 31st May.