School Grounds
Visit to Gateshead Food Bank
On Monday afternoon, staff and children from Windy Nook visited Gateshead Food Bank, Team Valley. We gathered together the food and household items, that have been generously donated by our school community, and travelled to the warehouse. On arrival, we were greeted...
Designing Dinosaur Eyes
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education In art we have been designing dinosaur eyes. There were lots of steps to complete before we could take our dinosaur eyes home. STEP 1 We had to research to find out what dinosaur eyes looked like and then we...
Recycle your batteries here!
As part of our commitment to the environment and as a rights respecting school we are collecting batteries to recycle . Hopefully by now, you will have received your recycled battery collection box . School Council / Rights Respecters will collect the batteries every...
Year 3/4 Leaf Printing
This week, Miss Clough joined Lower Key Stage 2 to show them a fantastic leaf-printing activity. First, the children had to pay attention to the safety instructions. Then, they took their mallets and pressed the green chlorophyll out of the leaves. This soaked through...
Snap Circuits in LKS2
As part of Science Week, Lower Key Stage 2 were treated to a workshop of awesome electrics - making snap circuits! The children worked together to assemble their circuits and created moving parts, light and sound outputs. We thank our visitors from Wilmott Dixon for...
Year 6 – pond dipping!
Environment Week has been fantastic for all of us - it culminated in Year 6 visiting our pond to investigate the different insects that live there. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or...
Tremendous Tetrahedrons
Today the Elms, Oaks and Beeches had an excellent session with Wilmont Dixon turning canes and elastic bands into mini tetrahedrons. We then connected all the mini tetrahedrons together and created a tremendous tetrahedron, which towered over everyone.
Quadkids Final at Kingsmeadow
We had a fantastic time representing Windy Nook Primary at the Gateshead Final of Year 3 and 4 Quadkids at Kingsmeadow School in Dunston. The sun was shining, the team was smiling and every team member gave each event 100%. You can tell by some of the looks on their...
Times Tables Rockstars
Year 2 have been proving their times tables expertise today during maths. They have been using the times tables rock stars program to improve their skills. They have their own personal account to use at home and their log in details are in their homework book. They...
Tulips’ homework for 27.6.19
Homework for this week is as follows: Grammar - Year 4 Tests 5 and 6 Maths (CGP Year 4) p67-69: Year 4 Objectives Test Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.
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