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
Year 6 Transition at St. Albans
Yesterday, Rev. Danie invited our Year 6 pupils to a transition to secondary school workshop at St Albans Church. All the children and staff agreed that it was both excellent and helpful. We would like to thank Rev. Danie and everyone else at St Albans Church for...
Olympics Day!
On Wednesday, we held an Olympics Day to celebrate the upcoming summer games. As part of this, children all came dressed in the colours of an Olympic country and made flags and banners in class for our final parade. They also took part in a number of physical...
Another wonderful week in nursery!
This week we have participated in the whole school Olympics Celebration Day. We made some fantastic Argentinian Flags on Monday and Tuesday. We painted the appropriate sections light blue and glued on the Argentinian badge. We stripped some Willow sticks of their...
A check up for our teeth
The dentist came to check the teeth of some of the Ladybirds and Dragonflies. The dentist set up the classroom like a dental surgery. She checked and counted the children’s teeth. The dentist was very impressed with the children’s teeth. Article 24: You have the right...
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...
Rotting Rotbots in Nursery!
Our topics this half term are Summer and transport so we have shared stories with those themes during snack times. This week we have focussed on counting again in maths which we did through a variety of games both inside and outdoors. We made our own playdough and...
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...
Knife Crime Information for parents/Carers
Please click on the links within the pdf. for information on knife crime. Primary School staff - Knife Crime (1) Primary School staff - Knife Crime Or should you require a paper version then please ask at reception.
A New Greenhouse for Nursery!
This week we have spent a lot of time in our nursery garden. We used compost from our compost bin and re-potted our sunflower seedlings into bigger plant pots. We discovered some tomato seedling growing in the sunflower plant pots which are a result of tomatoes being...
Not a Stick!
During snack time we have shared the story, Not a Stick. We found a stick outdoors and re-enacted the story. We used our imagination to pretend the stick was an object. Some of chose items from the story and some of us thought of our own items like a flower and a...
Milkshake madness!
We have been reading Oliver’s Milkshake by Vivian French. It explores where milk comes from and the health benefits of drinking milk and eating fruit. We then made some blueberry and strawberry milkshakes to taste. We created a tally chart to find out which milkshakes...
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...