90s Summer Festival 2023
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;...
KS1 Art Gallery
Round 2 for our Windy Nook gallery and this time with EYFS and KS1. What a great evening seeing all of the children’s hard work on their portraits as well as their sketchbooks. It was lovely to see the children so proud of what they had created and showing this off to...
School Council Visit the Hydrogen Home
On Wednesday morning, our school councillors visited Northern Gas and Power's Hydrogen Home. The children participated in a workshop learning about fossil fuels, hydrogen production and the importance of reducing our carbon footprints. They thought about ways they...
School Games Day
This week, across the whole school, we celebrated School Games Day. This is a day where we focus on a mass sports event and look at some of the countries involved with it to celebrate sports achievement. This year, we focussed on the upcoming Women's World Cup. In...
Windy Nook KS2 Art Gallery
In celebration of all of our amazing art work created at Windy Nook, on Thursday, we set up our very own gallery! Each KS2 class had the opportunity to create a colourful portrait of themselves that was then displayed in the hall for school and parents/carers to come...
Another huge thank you from DSNE
You may remember, on the 24th March we participated in Dress up for Down's Syndrome Day as part of celebrating Down's Syndrome Day, raising nearly £300 for Down's Syndrome North East. Down's Syndrome North East and Matthew's family would like to pass on their thanks...
Reception Class New Starter Welcome Meeting
Please find attached a PDF copy of the parent information power point from the Reception New Starter Welcome meeting. Reception Class new starter induction powerpoint for parents 2023 In the PDF there is information about the transition days in July and the transition...
Windy Nook Sports Day
Today we hosted our annual sports day for children in Reception all the way through to year 6. The children took part in 6 different activities as part of a carousel. They were: sprints, vortex howler throw, egg and spoon race, standing long jump, obstacle relay and...
Crank it Up 2023!
This term, Year 5 have been hard at work on their ‘Crank it up challenge’. We began by thinking about the criteria and brief of the crane. We then got to grips with the K’nex pieces. As a class, we got together and planned our designs. Then the hardwork began. We had...
Final Forecasts in Year 5!
In Spring term, Year 5 children learnt and presented a weather forecast for France in front of a green screen with Kevin Owens, Creative Director of Your Film. He worked his magic behind the scenes and the final forecasts look outstanding! We are thrilled with how...
Kingswood 2023!
What an amazing time we have all had at Kingswood this year! The children have really pushed themselves to the limit and had a fantastic time as well. Here are the photos, apologies but some are duplicated and also n no particular order. Thanks for Mr. Hawdon, Mrs....
KS1 Visit St Alban’s
KS1 have been learning about Christian churches and their role in the community. Today we visited St Alban's church. Reverend Danie told us all about her job and the children learned about the parts of the church. They sang and danced and some of the children even...