by Mr. Hawdon | May 22, 2024 | Around The World, Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, English, Events and Visits, Health and Well-Being, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Proud to Present, Reception, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows
Yesterday, Liz Million came to Windy Nook for the day to share her amazing knowledge on illustrating. She worked with the whole school in workshops across the day. Liz began to share her story to the children about how she is from Darlington, went to university in...
by R Byrne | Mar 22, 2024 | Dragonflies, Ladybirds, News, Reception, Science
Reception made bread buns after reading the story of The Little Red Hen. They used a recipe, measured the ingredients and helped make the dough. Once the dough had proved, the children kneaded individual portions and prepared it to make bread buns. Once cooked, the...
by Miss Smith | Jul 14, 2023 | Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, Events and Visits, Health and Well-Being, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, PTFA, Reception, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows
Today was the return of the annual Summer Festival at Windy Nook. We decided on a 90s theme and all of the children really dressed for the occasion. Year 6 led the event, painting banners and manning all of the different stations on offer: bubbles; juice and biscuits;...
by Amanda Clough | Mar 24, 2023 | Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, Events and Visits, Health and Well-Being, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Proud to Present, Reception, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows
To raise awareness about Down’s Syndrome, Matthew Atkinson, a young adult who has Down’s Syndrome presented an inspirational assembly this morning. He talked about what it is like to have Down’s Syndrome and the amazing things that he has achieved...
by Mr Brown | Mar 3, 2023 | Around The World, Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, English, Events and Visits, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Reception, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows, World Book Day
On Thursday 2nd March, Windy Nook Primary joined schools around the country and around the world to celebrate World Book Day. The idea of this special day is to promote a love of reading and enjoyment of books. We had lots of book-based activities going on in school,...
by Miss Smith | Jul 22, 2022 | Around The World, Beeches, Bees, Bluebells, Butterflies and Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Elms, Ladybirds, News, Nightingales, Oaks, Owls, Proud to Present, Reception, Robins, Snowdrops, Tulips, Willows
In celebration of the diversity of our community at Windy Nook, children have been working to paint flags to represent the varying linguistic and cultural heritage of some of our families. They are going to be placed on display in the school hall in the next academic...
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