Archived Enrichment and Enjoyment

Enrichment and Enjoyment 2021-2022

Framwellgate Moor Primary School Choir 2022

Enterprise Stalls Day

Sports Day

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Grasshoppers Trip to Clart About Sensory Café

Year 6 Residential Trip to Robinwood

Year 6 had an amazing time whilst away in Robinwood!

They were extremely resilient and gave each activity their very all.

Fears were conquered and challenges were risen too!

Year 4 Trip to Seaham

On Monday afternoon, Year 4 enjoyed participating in the interhouse sports competition, competing against each other in a game of Endzone.

On Tuesday, Year 4 were in Seaham for a geography field trip where, luckily, the weather was kind to us.  There, we were able to apply our classroom learning to study the physical features of this part of the coastline, focusing particularly on coastal erosion and the way it is managed.  Armed with clipboards and activities, the children enjoyed experiencing ‘real life’ geography and we felt they gained a lot from this learning opportunity.  It was a busy and productive day but we did manage to squeeze in a trip to ‘Lickety Split Ice-cream Parlour’ where everyone was delighted to have the chance to choose their own flavour ice-cream, topping and sauce!

The children were an absolute pleasure to take and were a credit to both the school and their families.

Year 1 Trip to Beamish Living Museum

The children had a jam-packed day experiencing life in a pit colliery, the weather was beautiful and we saw so much of The Beamish Pitt Colliery. By the end of the day, children earned their well deserved rest!

Year 4 SSP Cricket Skills Festival

French Café

Year 5 and some Year 6 children visited Madame Raine’s French Cafe in school today. They asked for their food in French and tried various French cuisine items from baguette, pain au chocolat, Brie cheese to Madeleine cakes. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the morning, some even asked for more!

Durham Dash

A Right Royal Do

Flat Stan First Aid

Endless Adventure

Colour Run

Jubilee Celebration Performance

Dear Mrs Smith and School,

Year 5 – 2010s

Year 1 – 2000s

Year 2 – 1990s

Year 6 – 1980s

Reception – 1970s

Year 4 – 1960s

Year 3 -1950s

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

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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!

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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

This is our archived News and Activities

In this section of our website you will find our latest news and activities for the school year 2020-2021.

School Year 2020-2021

Year 6 Memory Video

Uniform Swap Stall

An eco-friendly swapping event for nearly new uniform.

Sports Day Presentation

Year 6 Sports Day

Year 5 Sports Day

Year 4 Sports Day

Year 3 Sports Day

Purple Class Sports Day

Red Class Sports Day

Green Class Sports Day

Ladybirds Sports Day

Honeybees Sports Day

Endless Adventure Trip

Year 6 Robinwood visit

Year 3 Ancient Greek day

This week Year 3 enjoyed a visit from the History Squad. They travelled back in time to 416 BCE  with a Greek hoplite and marched in formation with shields and spears. They re-enacted some of the events from the first Olympic games.

Year 5 Team Challenge Day at Wharton Park

Whales Class

This week the children in Whales class conducted an interview to find out about holidays in the 1950-60s. The pupils asked questions about what a British seaside holiday was like, how people travelled and where they stayed.

Year 5 and 6 – Anti-Bullying assembly photos

Year 5 – Visit to Framwellgate School Durham

Year 5 enjoyed a morning of activities during their visit to Framwellgate School Durham.

Purple Class

Purple class have enjoyed their last few weeks of this half term. We have done some fantastic writing all about Lila and the Secret Of Rain and even acted out the story. We have also learnt to tell the time and enjoyed practising this in different ways!

Honeybees – Zoo Lab – 14.05.2021

Ladybirds – Zoo Lab – 14.05.2021

Green Class – Maths

This week Penguins and Hedgehogs have been looking into capacity and volume in maths. Here we have been experimenting Capacity and volume using different sized containers. Penguins have looked closely into millilitre (ml) and litres (l).

Year 3 – Come Dancing Festival

Year Three enjoyed a Come Dancing festival at school last week. They learnt  different styles including line dancing and street dancing.

Purple Class – Easter Activities

This week Purple class have enjoyed lots of different Spring and Easter celebrations such as; making an Easter garden, making chicks, designing our eggs, spring walks and more! Here are a few pictures!

Year 5 Comic Relief – 19.03.2021

Year 5 had a great day raising money for Comic Relief today.

Badgers and Seals- Enjoying our last week of term

We have enjoyed lots of fun activities this week to keep us busy on our last week of term like: Christmas crafts, making christingles, making calendars, Christmas maths treasure hunt and writing letters to Santa. We LOVED our Christmas party and speaking to Santa too, we even sang him a song from our Christmas show!

Badgers and Seals- 01.12.2020 – History

This week year 1 and 2 enjoyed exploring buildings and people from the past. Year 1 virtually listened to a visitor talking about life in the past and year 2 took part in a history hunt learning about buildings in Framwellgate Moor.

We couldn’t go out and visit these buildings in the community so we brought the history hunt to the classroom!

Badgers and Seals- 01.12.2020 – English

Today we have been learning about the author Oliver Jeffers by reading the clues around the classroom. We have learnt lots of interesting facts and will be starting to read one of his most famous stories ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’ tomorrow!

Seals and Badgers – 11.11.2020 – Poetry

This week Badgers and Seals have been exploring a range of different types of poems. Today we looked at November Night Countdown and worked in groups to put actions to the poem. We performed our poems to the rest of the class! We even played a game where we had to only perform the actions and see if the rest of the class could guess which verse we had!

Year 3 – 10.11.2020 – Computing and PSHE

In  Year 3 Computing this week,we have been using the Scratch program to design different costumes for a sprite. We added code blocks to change the background too.

In PSHE, we have been learning about how to make safe choices. We acted out good, difficult and bad choices for different scenarios.

Hedgehogs 10.11.2020 – History

Badgers 10.11.2020 – History

This afternoon the Badgers enjoyed sharing their baby photos with each other and guessing who was who. We looked closely at our features and compared how we have changed over time. We also thought about memories and enjoyed discussing some of our favourite and funny memories in our life!

Caterpillar Nursery 06.11.2020

This morning caterpillar children have been looking at poppies, we talked about what colours we needed to create our own picture of a poppy, the children decided we need lots of red, and we painted our vision of a poppy.
The children created some lovely poppy paintings.

Honeybees – 06.11.2020

Ladybirds – 05.11.2020

Seals and Badgers – 23.10.2020 – Art

Seals and Badgers – 22.10.2020 -Art

This afternoon the children enjoyed exploring colours and shading using pencils, crayons and paints. We even had a go at  making our own 3D planets!

Seals and Badgers – 19.10.2020

This afternoon the children enjoyed exploring algorithms using beebots and a range of online sources. Year 1 looked at programming the beebot to follow simple instructions and we looked at what happens when we input an incorrect instruction (the poor beebot got a bit dizzy).
Year 2’s explored algorithms using a range of website links and looked at inputting instructions to make certain shapes as well as using some dbprimary games to apply their knowledge!

Year 3 – 16.10.2020 – Maths

Year 3 have had fun in Maths today playing their x 4 game.

Penguins and Hedgehogs – 15.10.2020 – Art

Year 3 – 15.10.2020 – Literacy

The children have had great fun today being their favourite characters from our story.

Penguins and Hedgehogs – 14.10.2020 – Literacy

Penguins and Hedgehogs – 13.10.2020 – Science

Seals and Badgers – 13.10.2020 – Geography

This afternoon we have been at hard at work!

Year 1 have been exploring our school grounds and measuring the areas of our playground using their strides. They then designed their own playgrounds.

Year 2 have been exploring famous landmarks and thinking about what country and continent they are in, we placed the pictures onto our big world map to help with this and learnt some fun facts about these landmarks.

Honeybees – 09.10.2020 – Twinkle Twinkle

 

Penguins and Hedgehogs – 09.10.2020 – Science

Ladybirds 09.10.2020 – Fruit Tasting

Penguins and Hedgehogs 06.10.2020 – Geography

Honeybees 02.10.2020

This week Honeybees have been learning all about spiders. We have put our funky fingers to the task of making our very own spiders, which are now hiding in our class spider web! We have also turned into bakers, we made our own spider Krispy cakes! We tried really hard to mix and stir the ingredients, then we used our wiggly fingers to shape our cakes into a spider shape, it was so much fun! As well as this, Honeybees turned their brain boxes on and labelled our own spider, we learnt what all the body parts of a spider were called. Our interesting fact of the week is that spiders actually have 8 eyes, we were all very shocked to learn this and couldn’t wait to share it with our grown ups at home. Overall this week, Honeybees have had a super creepy crawly week and we are now spider geniuses! – Mr Irwin

Penguins and Hedgehogs 02.10.2020 – Science

Ladybirds 01.10.2020 – Making Smoothies

Ladybirds 22.09.2020 – Experimenting with colour

Ladybirds 21.09.2020 – We love you

 

Honeybees 18.09.2020 – Art

What lovely work our little Honeybees have been doing this week.

We read The Colour Monster and then discussed what made us happy.

School Year 2019-2020

Andy Goldsworthy Inspired Art…..20.05.2020

These beautiful pictures are part of our Erasmus project and are inspired by the famous land artist Andy Goldsworthy.

We looked at his land sculptures and the natural materials that he uses.  The children searched our school playground and collected lots of flowers, sticks and pine cones. They had lots of fun making their own creations.

Year 1 Kangaroo Class – Maths Fun…..18.03.2020

We have been having lots of fun learning about capacity in Maths this week.

OPAL Project…..18.03.2020

To continue the development of our OPAL project we have some more new equipment this week. These exciting new resources enable pupils to wheel and pedal and work together to spin.

Year 4 Football Team…..17.03.2020

Congratulations to the Year 4 Football team last night. Out of 7 matches, the boys won 5 and there were no lost games. A tremendous effort of teamwork and resilience and fantastic parent support! A super well done to the team. We are very proud of them all!

 

Year 1 Koala Class…..13.03.2020

What an amazing effort made by the Koala class for sport relief/book character day.  Thank you parents and children for your support!

Fun 2 Cook Sessions…..13.03.2020

The children are really enjoying the Fun 2 Cook sessions led by Taylor Shaw. The sessions encourage the children to make healthy choices and teach them how to cook various meals.

Year 1 Kangaroo Class History Lesson…..04.03.2020

Our history topic this term is all about exploring the past of our local area and homes. Today we looked at some different pictures and artifacts that were found in homes many years ago, the children enjoyed looking at these and thinking about what they might have been used for (cooking, washing etc) and comparing it to how we do these jobs now.

Year 2 History Lessons…..04.03.2020

In History lessons, Year 2 have been exploring special events and inventions that have changed our world. In order to show which of these ‘fantastic firsts’ were the most significant, the children made use of their IT skills to create some amazing iMovie trailers.

Year 4 – Adam Bushnell Visit 05.02.2020

Our Year 4 class really enjoyed Adam’s visit.

• Year 4 Adam Bushnell Visit

Koalas – Year 1 – Adam Bushnell Visit 05.02.2020

Koala class have been learning about the history of Durham city with Adam Bushnell. We looked at different images of the market place and discussed what we could see in each photograph. We also really enjoyed listening to the story of Lord Londonderry and Raphael Monti who created the statue. Adam also shared a video of what the streets of the city would have looked like in the past. We then recorded what we thought we would have bee able to see, hear, feel, smell and taste as we walked through the market place.

House Assemblies…..31.01.2020

On Friday 31st January we met in our House Teams for a special assembly.

As part of our Travel Tracking we are entering a competition to design a new Walk to School badge, and we spent some time together looking at examples of the competition theme ‘Wonders of the World’.

Our designs didn’t have to be one of the official Wonders of the World and we came up with lots of good suggestions of what our own Wonders of the World could be.  We have our fingers crossed!

Kangaroos -Year 1 – Geography…..27.01.2020

For our Geography lesson today, we walked to the top of the black path to see what we could find in our local area.

 

Kangaroos – Year 1 – Science and Art…..24.01.2020

In Science, we are learning about materials and objects. We carried out an investigation to test which material was the best to keep the teddy dry! We talked about the properties of the materials and how this would effect the result.

In Art, we are learning about healthy eating, in particular, fruits and vegetables. We tasted some fruit smoothies to guess what was in them! We can’t wait to make our own next week!

Honeybees – Reception – The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly…..24.01.2020

We read the story The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly and looked to see where Penguins came from. We looked on the globe and the world map and learned some new vocabulary such as Antarctica, The South Pole, globe and atlas.

Honeybees – Reception – Little Explorers……20.01.2020

The Honeybees enjoy exploring their outdoor area, playing ball games and exploring all the resources together.

Year 2 – DT…..16.01.2020

Year 2 have enjoyed making puppets in DT. Good job everyone!

Year 3 – Ancient Egypt…..15.01.2020

Look at what Year 3 have been doing this week!

• Year 3 Ancient Egypt

Year 2 – Dance…..15.01.2020

Year 2 had lots of fun in dance today!

Year 1 – Kangaroo Class – Scientists…..10.01.2020

Every Friday morning,  we are Scientists! As part of our new Science topic we are learning all about objects and their materials. Today, we explored the school grounds to find different objects and think about what everyday materials they might be made from, for example, glass, rubber, wood, plastic. Then, we thought about the properties of these materials and will be looking at this further during the course of the half term!

Year 1 – Kangaroo Class – Geography…..08.01.2020

Our new topic for Geography this term is all about what we can find in our corner of the world. To introduce children to this topic we have been exploring Google Earth and looking at our school and what surrounds us. The children were able to spot features like; buildings, roads, school and even see the River Wear when we zoomed out of the aerial view. Well done!

 

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School Year 2018 – 2019

September 2018

On Monday 24th September, Ruth Smith from Durham County Council visited FMPS to discuss the importance of being eco-friendly. She shared great ideas with the children on how we can all recycle effectively, in and out of school, reducing the waste in our county.

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Year 6 have had a fantastic morning taking part in Framwellgate Singing Festival at Framwellgate School. The children had great fun warming up their voices and worked together to beautifully sing the recent commonwealth song, Sing.

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December 2018

On Monday 3rd December, a group of year 5 and 6 pupils joined a cluster of schools to be part of a marvellous maths problem solving event! The children worked well with pupils from other schools to combine skills and understanding to master some very tricky mathematical problems! Well done to everyone involved!

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On Wednesday 12th December pupils from FMPS sang carols outside Sainsburys Arnison Centre.
The pupils all sang beautifully and we raised £138.00 towards new school laptops.

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February 2019

On Thursday 7th Feb 2019, Year 5 took part in a debating activity in the hall with Gillian Bell from Parliament. After an informative assembly about the different elements of government, Year 5 had the opportunity to learn further about conventions of debating and how these debates play out in the House of Commons. A speaker of the house was selected and the class were split into two groups to represent the government and the opposition. Year 5 debated a range of topics such as homework and healthy eating, all carried out in a style that reflects that of the House of Commons! All the pupils thoroughly enjoyed this experience and gained a lot from this unique opportunity.

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On Wednesday 13th February 2019 ‘Internet Legends’ came into school to speak to the children about being safe online.

Their main messages were:

Be Sharp
Be Alert
Be Secure
Be Safe
Be Kind

The importance of not over-sharing information was highlighted as well as how to create a super-secure password.

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Comic Relief 2019

On Friday 15th March 2019 it was Comic Relief, and to coincide with a visit from professional author, Adam Bushnell, the children were invited to make a donation and come to school dressed as a character from a book.  The day was a huge success and we raised a total of £477.06 for this very worthy charity.

Here are just a few of the amazing outfits we saw!

 

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