Windy Nook: a school and community at War
1914-1918
WW1 Project and its Legacy
At Windy Nook Primary we have always valued the history of our locality, so we are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund First World War; then and now grant to help us investigate Windy Nook: A School and Community at War 1914-18.
In 1914 the village was a still a distinct Edwardian community, ‘occupying’, according to Whellan’s 1894 Directory, ‘an elevated and exposed position’ within Felling Parish. The largest employers were local mines and quarries. Our school opened in 1883 and played a prominent part in local life. During the summer term 2018 our Year 6 children, led by Mr Hawdon and Mr Brown explored the impact of that terrible conflict on local people.
This project had a profound and lasting effect on everyone at Windy Nook Primary School; therefore, and quite rightly so, we have decided to continue to contribute to this page. It is our tribute to the fallen men and women who sacrificed theirs lives to give us the British values that we cherish: democracy; the rule of law; individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths.
Explore & Research
Learning through…
Field Trips
We have field trips planned to Heugh Battery, Hartlepool, Newcastle University and St Alban’s Church.
Local Archives
We’ll be looking at the old school log books and using military service records, CWGC resources, newspapers, maps and census materials.
Expert Visitors
Artist Kate Hancock, ICT expert Martin Bailey and WW1 re-enactor Sgt Chapman will be visiting school to help our Y6 children.
Project Resources
Trade
Directories
Windy Nook
Hero
Finding John
Brown King
Leading Up
To WW1
School Log
Books
WW1 Links
Owls and Robins line up!
This week Owls and Robins have been manipulating numbers up to 100. They have been using Base 10 to partition 2 digit numbers and they have also been exploring number lines. Everyone was fantastic at estimating where their number would go on the number line. Well...
Oh how our garden grows!
This half term children in Reception have been exploring fruits and vegetables. We have looked at the difference between fruit and vegetables while reading the books Oliver's Vegetables and Oliver's Fruit Salad. We discovered that fruit grows above the ground in...
Another busy week in nursery!
This week we have continued to find out about worms and composting. We shared a non-fiction book about worms and we have learned that worms do not have eyes or teeth, they produce slime to help them move around in earth and they do not have a skeleton! We also found...
Perfect Pop Art!
This week, Lower Key Stage 2 have been using a printing technique for their Pop-Art portraits. The children drew around the outlines of a portrait photograph - something regularly done in the Pop-Art movement - and then traced these outlines to create a new portrait....
What is your favourite……
This week in Reception we have learnt all about how we can collect data. We were introduced to pictograms and tally charts and learnt what they are used for, how they are different and how to use them. We had loads of fun finding out what our favourite fruit, food,...
Year 5/6 Homework 9.5.25
Year 5 Y5 Oaks – Maths- 2x Conquer Maths Tasks on Addition and Subtraction of Fractions with Different Denominators (Please make sure you do Y5 homework only.) Y5 Oaks – English- p.94 and 95 – Homophones 1x arithmetic paper on https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5...
Elms Homework 9.5.25
Elms Homework this week is as follows: CGP books Maths - p20 & 21 English - p50 & 51 All 5 Reading Plus texts are to be completed by Thursday 15th May
Welcome new friends in nursery!
We have had a lovely first week back after Easter. We welcomed three new friends who have settled into nursery life amazingly well. This half term we are focusing on composting and worms. We read the story, A Worm called Wallace this week which is a fictional story...
We met Miss Byrne’s Babies!
The children were so excited when Miss Byrne came to visit with her newborn babies. They sat very quietly when Miss Byrne introduced the children to baby Ruby and baby Zara. The children asked lots of insightful questions to help them understand babies, how they grow...
Year 5/6 Homework 2.5.25
Year 5 Y5 Oaks – Maths- 4x Conquer Maths Tasks on Fractions (Please make sure you do Y5 homework only.) Y5 Oaks – English- p.64 – Punctuating Speech in Two Parts 1x arithmetic paper on https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5 Reading- 2 x reading plus texts plus at least...
Elms Homework 2.5.25
Elms Homework this week is as follows: CGP books Maths - p84 and 85 English - p44 and 45 All 5 Reading Plus texts are to be completed by Thursday 8th May
Growing with Reception
This week the children in Ladybirds and Dragonflies brought their beanstalks back into school after looking after them at home all through April. After last seeing them as tiny seeds we were amazed to see some fantastically tall plants! Some of them were nearly as...
Image credits
Banner image: Imperial War Museum Photograph Archive Collection
Response Memorial: Photograph by Jacqueline Banerjee from the Victorian Web
Inside Heugh Battery: Paul Buckingham [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
