Achieve Success
Welcome to
Windy Nook
Primary School
County Final Success for Our Year 5/6 Football Team
Our Year 5/6 football team delivered an excellent performance at the County 5-a-Side Finals in Darlington. The team remained unbeaten throughout the competition, winning two matches and drawing one, while showing fantastic determination, teamwork and resilience...
Bluebells Homework 8.5.26
Bluebells homework this week is as follows: FOR CHILDREN WITH YEAR 3 CGP BOOKS: English – Page 82 and 83 – Words ending 'sure' and 'ture' Maths – Page 52 and 53 – Time problems FOR CHILDREN WITH YEAR 2 CGP BOOKS: English – Pg 32 - The 'ur' sound Maths - Pg 44 and 45...
KS1 keyboard creativity!
This half term, our Key Stage 1 pupils have been building their computing skills by learning how to use a keyboard with confidence. The children explored what different keys do and practised using them while creating their own digital work. We began by learning about...
Cricket Tasters
Last week, KS1 and KS2 were lucky enough to have the opportunity to take part in some cricket tasters with the Durham Cricket Foundation. Each class had a 30 minute taster session where they learnt some new cricket skills and were told all about the exciting...
Support for Families – External Agencies & Professional Services
At Windy Nook, we understand that families sometimes need help accessing the right support for their child. Below is a collection of trusted local and national services, including SEND support, mental health, behaviour, online safety, sleep support, and more. We hope...
Exploring Patterns and New Life in Nursery
This week in nursery the children enjoyed a range of spring‑themed learning experiences. In maths they explored and developed early movement pattern understanding through gross motor actions, body awareness, and spatial reasoning. They created simple repeating...
Weigh to go Robins!
This week in Robins, we’ve been busy investigating the mass of different objects. The children have been using words like heavy, light, greater than, and less than to compare items around the classroom. Using balance scales and non‑standard units (our trusty cubes!),...
A Message from
our Head Teacher
On behalf of the staff, children and governors we would like to welcome you to Windy Nook primary School and our website. Our school caters for approximately 330 pupils from 3 years to 11 years of age. The present school site was opened as a Primary School in 1993, on the existing Infant School site.
We were last inspected by OFSTED in June 2023 where we were graded as good. The inspector noted that, ‘The school is an oasis of calm. The whole school community works hard, shows respect, courtesy and good manners and enjoys being together.’ Please visit the Ofsted section of our website for more information.
Key
Information
Term Dates
School Performance
Pupil Premium
Sen Information Report
Our School Classes
Caterpillars and
Butterflies (Nursery)
Dragonflies
(Reception)
Ladybirds
(Reception)
Robins
(Y1/2)
Owls
(Y1/2)
Nightingales
(Y2)
Bluebells
(Y3)
Snowdrops
(Y3/4)
Tulips
(Y4)
Elms
(Y5)
Oaks
(Y5/6)
Beeches
(Y6)
Welcome to Windy Nook Primary School
The principle purpose of Windy Nook Primary School is to provide high quality education to enable pupils to achieve success. This website aims to give you a taster of the school, as well as providing regular updated information for both parents/carers and pupils and we hope that you find what you are looking for.
We hope that our website reflects our endeavour to create an atmosphere of mutual consideration and respect regardless of age, gender, race, religious beliefs, disability, social or home background and family circumstances. It is a celebration of all of the fabulous work and activities that our children participate in. Please feel free to leave a comment or contact the school direct with any queries you may have.
Thank you and enjoy your visit.
