Gateshead Music Service ‘Jammin’ at Windy Nook

by Mr McKay | Oct 23, 2024 | Beeches, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips

This morning, we were extremely fortunate to have The Gateshead Music Service visit Windy Nook. They played for all the children across two assemblies and got us up on our feet dancing and singing along to some well known classics. Some of the children had the chance...

Food Bank Donations – Thank you

by Mr Newman | Oct 23, 2024 | Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Dragonflies, Elms, Events and Visits, Health and Well-Being, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Reception, Robins, School Council, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows

Today, the Trussell Trust Gateshead Foodbank came to collect the kind donations from the school community. The food will be packaged and given out next week, helping to feed some of the 10,000 people who use the service in Gateshead each year. School Councillors met...

Singing in LKS2

by K Hill | Oct 18, 2024 | Bluebells, News, Snowdrops, Tulips

This afternoon, LKS2 started their music topic of Life on the Tyne. They started singing songs about the keel row and the industrial times of the North East’s past. Children began learning the songs and thinking about pitch and pace. Once we were more confident...

Computing in LKS2

by K Hill | Sep 27, 2024 | Bluebells, News, Snowdrops, Tulips

The last few weeks, in computing, LKS2 have been learning all about branching databases. We began the topic by looking at yes and no questions and figuring out how to sort objects into different groups. Now confident with this, we were ready to have a go at creating a...

Windy Nook Elects School Council

by Mr Newman | Sep 17, 2024 | Beeches, Bluebells, Elms, Governance, News, Oaks, School Council, Snowdrops, Tulips

Children across Key Stage 2 have been preparing speeches in their bid to represent their classmates on the School Council. Some fantastic and confident pitches were made and all children should be proud of the courage and clarity they showed. In the end, each class...

Walking Water Investigation

by Miss Calam | Sep 11, 2024 | Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Elms, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips

During our first week back after the holidays the children have been set a couple of whole school science challenges. All children this week have thought about what science is to them and have either drawn pictures, written captions or short sentences to describe what...