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On behalf of Mickley First School, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you. We are very proud of our wonderful school community and look forward to working with you on your child’s journey through our lovely school. We provide ourselves on being “A small school, with big ambitions”. Read more
Mrs K's garden is back in business! Early Years have planted some lovely winter veggies in their pots and tubs 🌱🥔 so we are all excitedly waiting to see what grows! ... See MoreSee Less
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This morning we were delighted to host Attie Lime at Mickley First School to listen to her poems. 😊
Attie joined us for our Special Assembly where she read lots of fun, engaging poems with lots of opportunity to join in and have a proper belly laugh! The children absolutely loved it, they joined in beautifully and even asked Attie to recite her last poem twice as we just didn’t want the assembly to end.
We practised our opposite words as part of the Opposites poem from her “Blue Jelly and Strawberries” book, everyone was fantastic at shouting out the correct opposite word when asked. Then we moved on to a more challenging poem, we had to raise our hands super fast whenever we heard the word “box”…the catch…lots of the words sounded like box! We listened to a poem about fireworks (very relevant!) which was full of amazing onomatopoeia words, where the word sounds like the sound it makes. Attie asked us all to use our imaginations to picture the fireworks as she read, our heads were all full of big BOOOMING fireworks FIZZING and POPPING everywhere. 🎇🎆
One of Attie’s favourite poems was up next “Let’s Ask Miss”. The poem is all about rules and how sometimes we might want to do things that break the rules and sound really, really fun, but Miss says NO! to keep us all safe.
We were also very honoured to get to listen to poems from Attie’s new book, “A Welly Full of Christmas” which has only been out for a week! We had so much fun reading these poems with Attie, her words are so full of fun, learning and imagination.
All of the children loved this so much, we are very grateful to Attie for coming in and spending this time with us 💛 ... See MoreSee Less
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Remembrance 2025 at Mickley First School.
Mrs Miller has done us all so proud with her amazing display for Remembrance. She has knitted the red and purple poppies herself over the year to make wreaths for the School. But, as she went on, it turned into a much bigger, amazing display as you can see! We asked Mrs Miller to tell us about her display:
"I thought it would be interesting for the children to see the poppies and find out more about them, especially the purple ones.
I put the displays together over half term at home, and then Colin, my husband, and I came and put them up at school.
The red poppy display is for all the soldiers, men and women who died, and the purple display is for all the animals who died, the horses in the battlefield, cats on the ships to keep the rats down, dogs were used as messengers, ambulance dogs that located casualties, companions to soldiers. Pigeons carried vital messages.
Mrs Grevett gave me the plastic poppies which she had from a display a number of years ago and I used these for the waterfall.
I was a member of the Royal British Legion women's section, Prudhoe branch, with my mother for a number of years until it was closed in 2023. We all used to knit the poppies each year for the waterfall display in the Glade.
Ged Devlin from the RBL kindly gave me the big poppies for the posts.
We've always had links with the RBL.
Colin was a musician in the Light Infantry and is a retired Major and Director of music in the Rifles and played each year at Durham Cathedral Festival of remembrance and the band led the parade on the Sunday".
A bit of history....
The poppy is a well-known and established symbol that carries a wealth of history and meaning. During WW1 the fighting ravaged the landscape of Western Europe. What were once beautiful landscapes turned to mud, bleak and barren. Against all of this, the bright red Flanders poppies flourished, showing resilience in their thousands amongst the chaos and destruction. A poem was written in 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae inspired by the poppies and how their presence moved him after the loss of his friend in Ypres. The now famous poem, "In Flanders Fields". This in turn inspired an American academic, Moina Michael, to use the poppy as a symbol to commemorate those who had fallen in the war. Along with Anna Guerin and Earl Haig they firmly established the beautiful red poppy as an emblem to The Royal British Legion.
But what about the purple poppy?
The purple poppy is a symbol of remembrance for animals lost in service, and to support those who serve today. During the Second World War, animals played vital roles, on the front lines and at home, serving alongside their human counterparts. From horses and dogs to pigeons and cats, their loyalty and bravery saved countless lives. Mrs Miller has included a lovely poem in her display for them 💜
A huge thank you to Mrs Miller for her passion and hard work, it is a beautiful display to help us all remember this Remembrance Day. ... See MoreSee Less
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