Kingswood Day 1!
A huge hello from Kingswood! The year 6s have had a fantastic first day taking part in loads of different activities. We've been on the zipwire, scaled the high ropes, took part in problem solving challenges and did our best Robin Hood impressions in archery. A...
Sports Day 2024!
On Monday, we were lucky enough to have our sports day. 3 representatives from the GSSP came into set up and run the day with a range of exciting activities. In the morning, KS1 began to earn points for their house teams with the Rubies gaining the most in the morning...
Summer Cup Champions
Well done to our football team who won the Felling FA Y3/4 Summer cup The boys battled hard against some very good opposition winning all of their games in the final. They played some fantastic football, Scored great goals and defended with quality and determination....
UKS2 Cricket
Students from Year 5/6 took part in a cricket competition at Felling Cricket club two of our 3 teams manged to make it to the semi final and one of our teams finished 2nd and has qualified for the Gateshead finals later this academic year! All teams showed great...
Liz Million visits Windy Nook!
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...
UKS2 Take a Trip to Felling!
This term in geography, UKS2 have been looking at trade. In class, we learnt about how trade has changed over time and what is classed as local, national or international. We then had the opportunity to go out on a fieldwork trip where we looked at the different types...
Y1/2 Athletics
10 children from Y1/2 have had a fantastic afternoon participating in an athletics taster at Heworth. They worked together as a team and took part in relay, hurdles, sprints and lap races they had to work as a team when competing in relay baton races. Article 24: You...
Y4 Tennis
well done to our tennis team who won silver at Cardinal Hume School. The team competed against 8 other schools to win a medal. The team showed great individual efforts winning their games and team competitions which all counts towards the total by the end. A real team...
Online Safety Parent Information Session
Last week, we held our online safety parent information session which was hosted by our safeguarding partners, Clennel Education Solutions. The session included key messages about how to keep our children safe online. A number of useful resources and links were...
Cricket Tasters
On Friday, we were very lucky to have Mr Mawson back in school to deliver some cricket taster sessions. Mr Mawson now works for Durham Cricket and came in to give the children a taster of a cricket session. He did a range of different activities and games with all...
Y5 Crank It Up Project Gets Underway
This week, the children in Year 5 have been introduced to a STEM challenge set by the Beamish Museum. In the first session we had a visit from Beamish where they explained the challenge: to make a toy crane out of K-Nex pieces. There are a number of rules as a team...
What a Fabulous Eggstratvaganza!
We have had some eggstratigant and fantastic entries into this years competition. We have loved seeing all the amazing designs. A huge thank you to all the families who have taken part. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education....