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Raffle Winners

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A BIG well done to the winners from each class of our Macmillan Coffee morning raffle.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

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Children across school participated in Macmillan Coffee Morning to raise funds for Macmillan cancer support. All children took home a cake and tea/coffee as well as a raffle ticket for the chance to win a prize.

Library Events over the Summer Holidays

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Please take a look at some of these fantastic upcoming events over the Summer Holidays…

The Summer Reading Challenge combines FREE access to books with fun, creative activities during the summer holidays. Throughout the Challenge, library staff and young volunteers support the children, helping them to discover new authors and illustrators and to explore a wide range of different types of books and ways of reading,

 How the Challenge works

  • Children sign up through their local library and receive a Wild World Heroes collector poster
  • Children set a reading goal and borrow and read library books of their own choice during the summer, collecting special stickers to complete their poster and extra incentives along the way
  • The Library Facebook page will be hosting weekly FREE events to coincide with the Summer Reading Challenge and will be uploaded every Wednesday but will be available to play back at a later date.
  • Each County Durham Library will be giving out weekly FREE craft activity packs to keep children entertained over the summer. There will be weekly ‘how to’ videos uploaded to our Facebook page on a Monday.
  • Library staff and volunteers are on hand to advise
  • Children who complete the Summer Reading Challenge are presented with a certificate and a medal
  • The official Challenge website, wildworldheroes.org.uk, hosts digital rewards, author videos, games and more for children to enjoy all summer

 

You can find additional information and free resources to support children’s reading for pleasure in the Summer Reading Challenge School Zone: wildworldheroes.org.uk/school-zone-src

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Message from Durham Youth Council Regarding Holiday Activities

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We’ve been approached by some of our partners, they’ve been allocated some funding to support children, young people and families over school holidays with free holiday activities / programs / projects, all of these projects will run across County Durham, and will provide food/meals for those that take part. It is a little bit of a spin on the previous, much smaller scale ‘holiday hunger’ projects that have been ran in previous years, but offers much more opportunity for development etc.

We’ve been asked to consult with children and young people to ensure that the money is being spent in the right way, offering the right activities, food etc. as a result, we’re carrying out an online consultation to find out what children and young people want.

Please see the link below we would greatly appreciate if you would encourage your children and young people to complete the survey, the money is there to be spent on them.

This consultation will close Mid May so we can provide a report of findings with partners.

Thank you!

DYC Members.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GNL9TGJ

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