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Making Flags to Celebrate the Jubilee

Y5 have enjoyed making flags to celebrate jubilee.

Their work will be displayed in the Clayport Library in Durham, over the Jubilee weekend.

Team Building

Year 6 delivered team building activities to all of Key Stage Two.
They were fantastic role models and showed great leadership skills.

Zumba

Year 2 Trip to Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Year 2 Adam Bushnell Author Visit

Year 2 have learnt all about Pirates in their session with Adam Bushnell this afternoon. They have looked at pirate flags, held special pirate artefacts and designed their own pirate and treasure island!

Year 5 Football Competition

French Poster Competition

We are delighted to announce that a member of our class was chosen as the KS2 winner of a poster competition organised for the North East Festival of Languages.  All y6 pupils created colourful posters to encourage children to learn foreign languages.  As the winner, she received a winners certificate and a book token.  Her ‘languages make the world better’ poster will be displayed in our school, as well as other schools in County Durham.

Easter Egg Decorating

Have a look through our gallery of Easter Eggs, decorated by pupils:

Oriental Museum

Last week, Year 3 enjoyed a live session with the Oriental Museum to find out more about the most important item in the pyramid…the mummy! We took on the role of expert archaeologists trying to work out what the different artefacts found in the pyramid may be. We then met a real mummy and found out more about the mummification process.

Red Nose Day

Year 5 Adam Bushnell Author Visit

We looked at the Amazon Rainforest, we used our senses to describe it. Adam used a rain maker to enhance our senses. After this we started to compose our writing for transmorfication.

Year 4 Visit from Adam Bushnell

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Adam Bushnell this week.  As ever, he was very entertaining and inspired them to write some excellent poems on the subject of volcanoes.  Children are just finishing off their variety of poems for a classroom display.  We will share this with you once complete.

Basketball Tournament

Some of the year 6 boys took part in a basketball competition.
Their excellent team spirit saw them reach the semi finals.

Well done boys!

Visit from Author Adam Bushnell

Year 6 Outdoor Play Fun

Year 6 enjoying the new outdoor play equipment which they helped to raise funds for through the Enterprise Project.

Year 3 Dance Festival

Check out our cool moves at the Year 3 Dance Festival! We had great fun working with a dance teacher to perfect our line dancing, rock and roll, cheerleading and street dancing technique.

World Book Day 2022

We all enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. The children brought in texts that were important to them to share with others.  They enjoyed taking part in reading activities as well as sharing stories with children from other classes.

Reception Class Fun at New College Infant Agility Games

Reception Class Pancake Day 01/03/2022

Year 3 Disco Dancing and Cheerleading

Year 3 have been working hard learning disco dance and cheerleading moves!  We have had lots of fun and the children have thoroughly enjoyed it!

Year 4 Internet Safety Day

Children in Year 4 showed good knowledge of internet safety as they joined in our quiz for Internet Safety Day 2022.

Reading, Art and Crafts Afterschool Clubs (Reception and KS1)

Our afterschool Reading, Art and Crafts clubs have been busy making these lovely robots, which were inspired by a poem.

Year 5 Geography Polar Regions Day

We had a great time finding out more about the polar regions. We were able to explore and actually try on specialised clothing. We found out about preparing for a polar expedition and what food items we would need to pack. We watched the food being cooked and even got to taste it.

We learnt how to put up a tent, how to use a parachute to keep warm. We even got to try a toboggan type sled.

We had a great day and learned so much!

Reception Class Christmas Party

Year 4 – Gymnastics

In this section of our website you will find our latest news and activities for the school year 2021-2022.

We will be adding our next event in the Autumn term.

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