Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Friday 19^th April 2024

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break!

FMPS now have a brand-new website and we are looking forward to recording a promotoional video and taking new pictures for our website on 30th April. This is on the Dates for the Diary.

It’s been a lovely first week back I hear Year 3 and 4 had a wonderful time at the tennis festivals photos will follow.

Reminders

After-school clubs are starting next week so if you haven’t already please sign up via the link on parent mail or at the main reception.

On Wednesday 24^th April it is Class photo day.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

Mrs Smith

Headteacher

Hello everyone,

We made it to half team! All the children have had a wonderful time decorating their eggs as you can see by the links below.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-4/year-4-gallery-2023-2024/

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-6/year-6-gallery-2023-2024/

Retirement

We would like to thank Dennis Parsons for being a fantastic caretaker at FMPS for the last 8.5years.

We would like to thank him from the bottom of our hearts for all of the hard work, friendship and great sense of humour that he has shared with us.

We wish Dennis all of the very best for his retirement and hope that he has the opportunity to relax and spend time with his family.

Thank you Dennis!

Getting Married  

Congratulations to Miss Storey who is getting married in the Easter holidays.

We hope that Miss Storey has a fabulous day and honey moon.

We look forward to her returning to school as Mrs French.

Year 5 D.T

On Wednesday D.T we have continued our work on structures. We have explored all of the safety procedures needed when working with wood and tools. Then we had a go at marking, measuring, using bench hooks and saws to cut our wood at 10cm intervals. We were extremely sensible and careful when using the tools and wood and are looking forward to sticking the wooden together and creating a wooden truss bridge.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

Year 5 Pasta making

On Wednesday Pasta session with Chartwells learning all about making pasta. We rolled the dough and cut it into shapes, we stuffed it with cheese and made a pasta called tortellini. We learnt about carbohydrates and how important they are for us because they give us energy.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

Year 6 Wooden bridges

Year 6 began building their Truss bridges out of wood. The class measured, sawed and sanded pieces of wood before gluing them together to form, the first part of their structure.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-curriculum/curriculum-content/design-technology/dt-lesson-photos/

KS1 Bread making

This week KS1 made their very own bread with Chartwells. The children had so much fun and created their very own shape! Yum!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-1-penguins-seals-whales/ks1-gallery-2023-2024/

If you would like to click the link to view all our previous Ofsted reports

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/parent-view-results/survey/result/20014/6

Hope you all have a lovely half team and we will see everyone on the 15^th April when the School re-opens.

Mrs Smith

Hello everyone,

Well it’s been another very busy week at FMPS lots to talk about!

Y6 Bread Making

Megan from Chartwells came to help teach Y6 how to make bread. They kneaded the dough and then shaped it forming plaits, flowers and the letters of their names. Thank you to Megan for all her help.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/parents/enrichment-enjoyment/

Jaguars All Saint Church visit

Jaguars have had a lovely morning visiting All Saints Church this morning. We took part in their Easter in a Box workshop where we explored the Easter story using props and crafts.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

Y5 Science Workshop

On Wednesday Year 5 enjoyed taking part in their science workshop with a forensic scientist. We were given clues and culprits and had to investigate (using evidence) who committed the crime!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

Math Café

The Red and Green Class were really lucky to have the chance to have to experience a maths café with parents. Everyone had the chance to play lots of problem-solving games and it was excellent to see pupils with their parents

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-1-penguins-seals-whales/ks1-gallery-2023-2024/

Y6 Forensic Science

As part of science week, we were tasked to solve a crime using forensic science. A safe had been robbed and the children had to analyse DNA and fingerprints to solve the crime after whittling down a list of suspects. Fortunately, Year 6 solved the crime and the culprit was locked up!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-6/year-6-gallery-2023-2024/

Jumpstart Jonny!

We were so lucky to have a special visitor in school… Jumpstart Jonny! The whole school got involved even some of the teachers! It was lovely see all the children joining in and have lots of fun as you can tell from the links below.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/reception-honeybees-ladybirds/reception-class-gallery-2023-2024/

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-6/year-6-gallery-2023-2024/

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-4/year-4-gallery-2023-2024/

Bridge Making Y5!

This half term in Y5 we are making bridges. Today we investigated truss bridges and worked as a team to make our own using straw and tape. We have experimented on how to ensure our bridge is strong and sturdy and will test them with weights next week.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

Forest School Fun

Reception look forward to Forest Fridays every week, where we have a focused activity to participate in. This week, Ladybirds were building their funky fingers by creating leaf silhouettes using squirt paint bottles. They loved hunting for leaves of different shapes and sizes before gluing them down and getting to work! We then had time to learn through play in the Forest.

Once back inside, we warmed up with hot chocolate and flicked through the photographs which Miss Mallen had captured throughout our session, discussing which part of the session we enjoyed the most.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/reception-honeybees-ladybirds/reception-class-gallery-2023-2024/

Cross County Reginal finals

We had a great morning with Y3 and Y4 girls and boys competing in the regional finals for cross county. Well done to our reginal finalists you were all a credit to our school!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-curriculum/curriculum-content/physical-education/pe-lesson-photos/

Comic Relief

On Friday we helped raise money for comic relief thank you for all your donation.

If you would like to click the link to view all our previous Ofsted reports

https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/parent-view-results/survey/result/20014/6

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Smith

Hello everyone,

We’ve had a fun filled week! On Monday we treated the staff to a coffee and cake I’m pleased to say all the enjoyed it!

Y6 Cooking

Y6 started their cooking sessions at Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School making an apple crumble. The children made their crumble before chopping apples and carefully laying them in the tins ready to cook. Next week, its pizza twirls! It looks like they had a wonderful time.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/parents/enrichment-enjoyment/

Bridges Y6

Y6 have been learning about Bridge design as we began our DT structures unit by testing different bridges and discussing how the weight was dispersed. The class built a beam and arch bridge first before creating their own designs.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-curriculum/curriculum-content/design-technology/dt-lesson-photos/

Toby’s Time to shine

Toby enjoyed sharing his presentation about ammonites and fossils. He explained about their formation and where you might have the best chance of finding your own. He also passed around some of his best samples for everyone to handle and examine in more detail. Well done Toby!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-3-pandas-tigers/year-3-gallery-2023-2024/

Reception Extraordinary Garden 

‘Reception have had a lovely afternoon in the sunshine planting new seeds and bulbs in their extraordinary garden. They learnt that plants need sunshine and water to help them grow. Now we are coming in to Spring, we decided it was a good time to plant some new seeds and watch them grow. They also created a tipi out of bamboo canes and are going to put some climbing plants in the pots to create their own den to relax, read a book and get their imagination flowing!’

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/reception-honeybees-ladybirds/reception-class-gallery-2023-2024/

Centre of Life

On Wednesday, year 1 and year 2 went to LIFE Centre and had an amazing day exploring the museum, learning about light and shadow and exploring materials to built a speedy tunnel to transport watermelons!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-1-penguins-seals-whales/ks1-gallery-2023-2024/

World Book Day

It’s been lovely seeing all the children have been enjoying celebrating World book day as you can see from on the links below!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-5/year-5-gallery-2023-2024/

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-6/year-6-gallery-2023-2024/

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-curriculum/curriculum-content/english/english-lesson-photos/

Masked Reader!

As part of our World Book Day celebrations the children took part in a very special edition of The Masked Reader!  Yes, just like the television programme but with stories instead of songs.  Staff from across school hid behind a range of different masks and read a wide variety of stories to the children.  The KS1 children loved finding out which teacher was behind each mask as they chanted, ‘Take it off’ before the big reveal.  The KS2 children took part in a competition to see who could identify the most readers using just the clues given.  I am sure your children will tell you all about the very exciting event.  What a wonderful way to celebrate World Book Day and a special memory for the children to treasure.

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-1-penguins-seals-whales/ks1-gallery-2023-2024/

Invasion Games

Year 2 visited New College Durham to take part in an Invasion Games festival, children had lots of fun!

https://www.framprimary.durham.sch.uk/our-classes/year-1-penguins-seals-whales/ks1-gallery-2023-2024/

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Smith