Health and Well Being Statement
At Windy Nook Primary School, we understand the need for everyone in our school to have a healthy lifestyle. This helps pupils and staff to do their best and build on their achievements. We actively promote physical and emotional health, and aim to equip pupils with the understanding and skills they need to make informed decisions about their health, both now and in the future. By championing healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and emotional health and well-being, we are aiming to continue to raise standards and improve levels of pupil achievement.
We have posted some useful links below. These are health and well-being websites for your use and information.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life
https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/services/childrens-services/growing-healthy-gateshead/
Young Minds Tel: 0808 8025544 (9.30 – 4pm)
https://www.children-ne.org.uk/mental-health-support
Online counselling and well-being for adults Adult online counselling 12-10pm weekdays 6-10pm weekends
Emotional Health and Well-being Nurse (Lynsey Robson): spoc.hdftgateshead@nhs.et Phone Number: 03000301918
We’re going on a shape hunt!
For maths this week we have focussed on shape. We took part in shape hunts both indoors and outdoors. We discovered that triangles were more difficult to find than circles, squares and rectangles. We continued our Winter theme and used our imagination to produce some...
A marvellous afternoon at multi skills!
Today some children from Ladybirds and Dragonflies headed to Heworth Grange school to take part in a multi-sport event. The children had super attitudes and showed great determination throughout the event and helped their team collect points. They managed to get 274...
Staying Safe Around Dogs with Dogs Trust
Last week, children in key stages 1 and 2 had a visit from Rachel Hibbard from Dogs Trust. She delivered a whole school assembly where she showed children how to approach a dog to pet it and what to do if an unfamiliar dog approaches them. Children then went off into...
Knife Crime Awareness in UKS2
Last week, UKS2 had a visit from Vikki from Northumbria Police's Prevention Through Education Team. She came to talk to use all about knife crime and the potential implications of carrying knives in the community. The children learnt about the age of criminal...
Another busy week in nursery!
We made some more shimmering playdough this week following our playdough recipe. We carefully measured and counted the appropriate quantities of ingredients and practised good turn taking and patience while waiting for our turn. We have continued to focus on repeating...
Making the most of the Winter weather!
We have continued to focus on the topic of Winter. One of the stories that we are reading at the moment is called Here Comes Jack Frost and part of the story mentions the interesting patterns that frost forms on windows. We have been very interested in these patterns...
Welcome new nursery friends and old!
A warm welcome to our new nursery pupils and also a warm welcome back to our existing pupils who have been friendly and supportive towards our new friends. Our new children have impressed us at how happily they have separated from their families and we are all...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Well, that’s another year over at Windy Nook – as ever our children have been fantastic! This is just a quick message to wish all of our community a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May we also thank you all once again for your continued support throughout....
Nursery Christmas Party Fun!
We have had a super Christmas party this morning. We began our morning with making some festive table covers. We had fun dancing to party music, playing Pass the Parcel and we thoroughly enjoyed some party food. We finished our party off by receiving an early...
Christmas preparations continue in nursery
We have continued to prepare for Christmas this week in nursery. We finished our calendars which look fantastic. We also started making our Christmas cards which was great fun as to make the body of the snowman which will feature on the front of our card we made a...
Netball in UKS2
This term in UKS2, we have been learning how to play netball in PE. We started by recapping our knowledge of passing from year 3 and 4 and then moved on to think about how to improve our defending. The children then learnt about the different positions in netball and...
The Littlest Christmas Elf in Early Years
Nursery and reception have had a fantastic time this afternoon watching The Littlest Christmas Elf performance. We thoroughly enjoyed the show and all of the audience participation! We thought that Pip the elf was really funny! Article 1: Everyone, under 18, has the...