Welcome to Bluebells
We are the Bluebells.
Our teacher is Miss Hill, who is accompanied by Miss Jones, Mrs Turnbull and Mrs Barnett. In the Bluebells, we always try our best, ensure we are respectful and make sure to have lots of fun!
Our ethos is ‘Work hard and always try your best’.
Resources:
https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Important information:
Homework is given out on Fridays and should be returned to school on the following Friday morning. This will consist of maths, grammar and vocabulary.
Spellings and times table are expected to be practised regularly over the week. Spellings will go home every 1-2 weeks depending on the spelling rule being learned.
P.E. is on a Monday– children are expected to have their kit to participate (P.E. kit will be taken home after use and not left on school premises).
If your child is having a school lunch please ensure that payment is now done through our online payment service.
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...
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...
Summer Cup Champions
Well done to our football team who won the Felling FA Y3/4 Summer cup The boys battled hard against some very good opposition winning all of their games in the final. They played some fantastic football, Scored great goals and defended with quality and determination....
Y3/4 Quad kids
Yesterday two teams competed in the Gateshead SSP Quad kids competition at grace college. Everyone competed in a 400m race 50m sprint, Long jump and the howler throw. All points were added together to make a team total. Windy Nook A came 3rd overall out of 25 teams...
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...
Identification Keys for Amazonian Animals in LKS2
This week in science, LKS2 have been linking their learning to their topic of 'Rocking Rainforests' and have been creating identification keys for different Amazonian animals. First, we recapped some of the animals that live in the Amazon rainforest and the different...
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...
Cricket Tasters
On Friday, we were very lucky to have Mr Mawson back in school to deliver some cricket taster sessions. Mr Mawson now works for Durham Cricket and came in to give the children a taster of a cricket session. He did a range of different activities and games with all...
LKS2 take on cricket!
This term, LKS2 are learning all about cricket. In our first lesson this week, we practised a mini game to see what skills we already know. We focussed on assessing how far we can run until the ball returns to the wicket stumps. It was impressive how many children...
Easter Service at St Albans
Once again our children excelled at St Alban's Church for our Easter service. Everything from musicians, Sign Squad, Singing and especially the Year 5 children who narrated the service was excellent. We would like to that St Alban's Church and Rev. Danie for allowing...
Y3/4 Futsal Winners
A group of our Year 3/4 children were chosen to attend Heworth Grange school, to take part in a futsal competition. Our teams played amazingly well, scoring goals for fun scoring goals for fun all afternoon, one of our teams managed to make it all the way to the...
Art around the world!
In LKS2, this term, we have been looking at art for our topic and in particular, focussing on the skills of a range of artists from all over the world. We began our topic by using a map to find four figure grid reference for the places that artists such as Picasso,...