Achieve Success
Welcome to
Windy Nook
Primary School
Skilling up in PE
In PE this week, the Ladybirds and Dragonflies have been practicing different ways of moving around the hall. They walked, jogged, jumped, ran and crawled in lots of different directions. After this, the children practiced throwing the beanbags up in front of them and...
Climate Matters!
On Friday, Year 4 welcomed a visitor from Beamish to discuss climate change. Our guest taught us a lot about Gateshead's rich coal-mining heritage and made links to fossil fuels and the resulting global warming. The children learned lots about life down the pit and...
Coding in Year 3/4
Throughout this term, the Year 3/4 children have been building coding skills. Each class has worked on programming code to perform various tasks. Using 'Scratch' software, Tulips, Bluebells and Snowdrops spent the final week of term programming code to make music -...
Exploring vegetables!
Reception have been focusing on the story ‘Oliver’s Vegetables' by Vivian French. The children have explored where fruit and vegetables come from and why we need to eat fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy diet. In Maths this week the children have used the...
What inspirers Christians
Owls have been discussing what is inspiring to Christians about a miracle story through listening to Jesus feeds the 5000 story from The New Testament part of the Bible, The gospel of John. Chapter 6. Verses 1-33. We discussed how Jesus displayed kind actions because...
Parent support for transition
Information for parents of Nursery and Y6 children: Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people. Article 28: You have the...
Another busy week in nursery!
On Monday we introduced our new friends to the wider classroom by having a fabulous music and movement session in our school hall. Once again, it was wonderful to see our 'original' pupils set such a good example. For maths this week, we focussed on spatial awareness....
A Message from
our Head Teacher
On behalf of the staff, children and governors we would like to welcome you to Windy Nook primary School and our website. Our school caters for approximately 330 pupils from 3 years to 11 years of age. The present school site was opened as a Primary School in 1993, on the existing Infant School site.
We were last inspected by OFSTED in June 2023 where we were graded as good. The inspector noted that, ‘The school is an oasis of calm. The whole school community works hard, shows respect, courtesy and good manners and enjoys being together.’ Please visit the Ofsted section of our website for more information.
Key
Information
Term Dates
School Performance
Pupil Premium
Sen Information Report
Our School Classes
Caterpillars and
Butterflies (Nursery)
Dragonflies
(Reception)
Ladybirds
(Reception)
Robins
(Y1/2)
Owls
(Y1/2)
Nightingales
(Y2)
Bluebells
(Y3)
Snowdrops
(Y3/4)
Tulips
(Y4)
Elms
(Y5)
Oaks
(Y5/6)
Beeches
(Y6)
Welcome to Windy Nook Primary School
The principle purpose of Windy Nook Primary School is to provide high quality education to enable pupils to achieve success. This website aims to give you a taster of the school, as well as providing regular updated information for both parents/carers and pupils and we hope that you find what you are looking for.
We hope that our website reflects our endeavour to create an atmosphere of mutual consideration and respect regardless of age, gender, race, religious beliefs, disability, social or home background and family circumstances. It is a celebration of all of the fabulous work and activities that our children participate in. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact the school direct with any queries you may have.
Thank you and enjoy your visit.
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