Hello everyone, 

We have had a very performing week this week!

5 performances and musical instrument show case. 

I am sure that you all agree that the performances were of an extremely high standard and all of the children should be proud of their teamwork and talents to create these lovely performances.

I was so impressed with our school choir! They performed beautifully in the chapel at Ushaw College on Wednesday morning this week.

I was so proud!

Musical instrument showcase

Again so much talent and confidence in their performance this morning.

Enrichment & Enjoyment | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Joaquin’s Time to Shine

This week in Pandas for our 'Time to Shine', Joaquin shared his incredible Lego that he has built of the King Power stadium in Leicester. All the children were amazed! That takes a lot of patience and concentration, wow! Well done, Joaquin! 

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 6 had a fantastic morning working with Jane and Mark exploring the world of robotics! The children worked in teams to solve problems, investigating which coloured mats made the robots move, turn, change direction and spin. Through collaboration and perseverance, they successfully completed all of the challenges. It was an exciting and engaging session that everyone enjoyed.

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Key Stage 1 are enjoying their computing unit this term.  They have been using the Scratch Junior App to create their own robot maze, using simple code to make the robot move around the maze! They are so quick to learn and can de bug any problems themselves! Well done everyone!!

KS1 Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Jaxon was our Shiny Reader in Ladybird Class.  He presented 'A Squash and a Squeeze'. Jaxon explained how this book is his favourite to read at home and that he reads it with mammy as his bedtime story. Brilliant presenting, Jaxon. 

Liliana shared her favourite book 'The Lion King'. She told us a bit about Simba's adventures until he becomes king. It's Liliana's favourite book because she really likes lions!

Reception Class Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Reminders

·         Wednesday 17th December - Nursery/Reception/Y1/2 Christmas party day – please come to school in party clothes

·         Wednesday 17th December - Christmas Lunch today – children can wear a Christmas Jumper if they so wish

·         Thursday 18th December - Year 6 Christmas performance today

·         Friday 19th December - Break up for Christmas today

I hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Smith

Headteacher

Hello everyone, 

Once again another busy week here at FMPS lots of practising for the Christmas performances!

This week in Pandas for our 'Time to shine', Ahmed shared his favourite hobbies with us which included Chess, Swimming, Reading and his love for Space! Ahmed shared lots of interesting facts that he has learnt at home about Space and our Solar System. Thank you, Ahmed! You would make a great teacher!

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Tigers have been learning about the environmental and health benefits of eating seasonal, locally grown fruit and vegetables. This week, the children worked together in groups to make their own seasonal tarts - blackberry, pear & apple, and beetroot, parsnip & carrot. Delicious!

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Callie’s Time to Shine - Callie worked extremely hard to produce a fantastic presentation for her Time to Shine this week. We loved hearing about Callie’s family (we all thought Rascal, her miniature schnauzer, was so cute), her sporting achievements in netball and other interests such as travel and craft. Our favourite part was the amazing interactive quiz at the end in which she awarded special Christmas candy canes as prizes for those who answered questions correctly. So kind and thoughtful of you, Callie!

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Turtles have been getting into the festive spirit by learning a traditional French Christmas song. The children showed wonderful enthusiasm as they practiced the lyrics, improved their pronunciation and explored the meaning behind the words. After learning the song, they worked in small groups to rehearse and perform for the class.

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Smoothie photos - This week the children have been busy making smoothies. They planned their own recipes and cut up their fruits beforehand. We all enjoyed watching the blender and of course the best part was the tasting!

KS1 Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Memories - We have had a few more children bring in their memory cards, baby photographs and special keepsakes to show. We all really enjoy looking a these together and discussing our past as part of our History topic. 

KS1 Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Please click the link below to see what Nursery have been doing this week!

Nursery Photos 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

 Reminders

·         Monday 8^th December 1:15pm start - Y1/2 Christmas songs for parents today at 1:15pm – Lower Hall doors open at 1pm

·         Tuesday 9th December 1:15pm start - Reception Christmas songs for parents today @ 1:15pm – Lower Hall doors open at 1pm

·         Wednesday 10^th December 9:15am start - Nursery Christmas songs for parents today 9:15am – Lower Hall doors open at 9am

·         Wednesday 10^th December – estimated time of arrival back at school 4:15pm - KS2 Pantomime trip to Durham Gala Theatre – Jack and the Beanstalk

·         Thursday 11^th December 1:15pm start - Year Y5 Christmas songs/poems for parents today at 1:15pm – Lower Hall doors open at 1pm

 I hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Smith

Headteacher

Hello everyone, 

Once again another busy week here at FMPS!

This week was Lydia's time to shine and she proudly presented all of her swimming certificates! Lydia talked to us all about her lessons and the time it has taken her to learn. She couldn't wait to share some tips and tricks with the rest of the class to help everyone with their swimming lessons! 

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Maame's Time to Shine - Maame delighted us all during her Time to Shine this week when she read a poem about flowers to us. We loved the images she created and the confidence she demonstrated when answering our questions about her passion for poetry writing. Using the advice given to us by author Mel Taylor-Bassent in the live session yesterday, we acted as mini-editors for Maame and made some suggestions for her final draft. We look forward to reading your final version, which we will add to our class poetry book, Maame!

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Dalia’s Time to Shine, This week Dalia showed us some of her lovely pieces of art she's created by using colours stickers. Very artistic!

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Live Author Talk, Tigers Class took part in a live author talk with Mel Taylor-Bessent, the author of Race to Adventure Island and The Christmas Carols books. She shared lots of interesting information about the writing process, explained why she loves to write and answered lots of our questions. Mel told us that we are already authors ourselves – we just need to use our imaginations!

You can find the link to her YouTube channel at YouTube.com/@writeforfunwithMTB, and she has lots of free Christmas Carols resources on her website: www.meltaylorbessent.com.

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Beowulf Battle Cry - Year 6 performed their motivational speeches as though they were Beowulf speaking to his warriors before entering a cave to face a dragon. Those who performed had the rest of the class ready to face the dragon.  

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Our Shiny Reader in Ladybird Class on Friday 28^th November chose to share 'Superworm'. She explained that this was her favourite book since the main character (the worm) is very strong, therefore helps others! A very well done. 

Please click the link below to see what fun our Reception children have been having this week!

Reception Class Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 5 have been developing their speaking and listening skills this week, taking on the role of some fierce Anglo Saxons and Vikings. We drafted questions that we'd like to ask Harold Godwinson, Harold Hadrada and William of Normandy in 1066. Today we used hot seating to bring this to life which allowed us to create more empathy towards these characters and deepen our understanding of the story, 'Anglo Saxon Boy'. 

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Last week we created textured printing plates using a range of resources (pasta, rice, bubble wrap and more). This week we were able to paint over the top of the materials and print them into our sketchbook to create our backgrounds for our art work. 

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Please click the link below to see what Nursery have been doing this week!

Nursery Photos 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Reminders

·         Monday 1st to Thursday 5th December - Last week of clubs for this term

·         Tuesday 2^nd December – KS2 Pupils who wish to perform in our school Christmas assembly (pupils only) to bring in instruments and music for a practise today

 I hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Smith

Headteacher

Hello everyone, 

It’s been a very snowy and busy week here at FMPS!

Thank you to everyone who donated to Children in need last week we raised an amazing - £484.06

Fun in the snow this week for Grasshoppers! We loved feeling the cold ice on our hands, listening to the crunch under our feet and watching the snow fall. A lot of fun was had throwing snow balls, building snowmen and exploring the seasonal changes.

Grasshoppers | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

This week in Pandas for our 'Time to Shine' Matthew shared with us one of his favourite hobbies, rock climbing! Matthew attends his sessions at Durham Climbing Centre. Matthew explained what each different skill was that he has learnt and demonstrated how to do them including overhang, project climb and dyno! Matthew explained how he always likes to challenge himself. Thank you, Matthew, you are super brave! - Miss Robson/Pandas

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 4 toughly enjoyed learning about the different types of rock formations!

Year 3 and 4 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 5 Science, we used playdoh to represent the planets of our solar system and worked hard to measure their distance from the sun. 

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 5 Computing the children loved sharing their Scratch quizzes with each other. They planned, designed and created a quiz on a topic of their choice. 

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 5 and 6 really enjoyed last weeks Curling session- especially the tournament at the end! 

Year 5 and 6 Photo Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

This week we have been learning about memories. The children have loved hearing stories written by their special grown ups, looking at photographs, baby clothing and tiny shoes. Thank you to all who have joined in so far. I mentioned to the children that we will continue this next week for anybody who would still like to take part. 

KS1 Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Year 1 and 2 had great fun making up a routine in our dance lesson.  Last week we came up with ideas for how a car might move and this week a train! We worked in partners and then groups of 4 and then presented our routine to the class!

KS1 Gallery 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

Please click the link to view what fun nursery have been having this week.

Nursery Photos 2025-2026 | Framwellgate Moor Primary School

I hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Smith

Headteacher