Achieve Success
Welcome to
Windy Nook
Primary School
African Drumming in Year 6
Today Year 6 had the opportunity to learn how to play the djembe, a West African hand drum. Fanuel, a drummer from Zimbabwe, came into school and taught us to play different rhythms on the drum. We learned how to create different pitch and volume by hitting different...
3D Shape Sorters in Bees
Today the Bees were sorting 3D shapes in a Venn diagram. They had to sort them into shapes with more than 3 vertices and curved faces. When they sorted them into less than 3 vertices it looked very different. Article 12: You have the right to give your opinion,...
Future gymnastics in Owls
Owls have enjoyed putting together a basic routine with different moves using big and small body parts, wide narrow and curled. First they did a warm up travelling in different directions and then having to balance when the whistle was blown. Then they combined all of...
Y5/6 Cricket
This afternoon, 3 teams from Windy Nook attended the Y5/6 Countdown Cricket tournament at Felling CC. The children played 5 different matches against different schools and had a fantastic day out improving and learning new cricket skills. Well done team Nook! Article...
Windy Winners!
This week our children had the opportunity to showcase their geography skills. Our supplementary award was for a 'Top Effort'. As always, it's a huge well done to all of our winners! Class Top Effort Top Geographer Dragonflies Isabelle Emily Ladybirds ...
I’m Stick Man that’s me!
This week, we have focussed on the story of Stick Man. Some of us produced some fabulous Stick Man collages, which we will finish next week. We discussed the fact that the sticks that we used to create our stick men used to be part of a tree. We created Stick Man...
LKS2 Take a Rainforest Trip
Yesterday, Years 3 and 4 enjoyed a superb trip to the Winter Gardens in Sunderland. Children got to visit the tropical rainforest conservatory and recap some of the great knowledge they have learned about the climate, plants and animal life of the rainforest. Children...
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.