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
Bluebells Homework 9.10.26
Bluebells homework this week is as follows: English – CGP page 68-69 (Prefixes - 'un', 'dis' and 'mis') Maths – CGP page 9 (10 or 100 more or less ) Spelling- Adding Suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (word list below and in reading...
Year 5/6 Football Reach Europa League Finals!
Our Year 5/6 football team produced an outstanding set of performances to qualify for the Europa League finals. The boys played three games and won all three, without conceding a single goal. Throughout the competition, they worked hard for one another and showed...
A Week of Home, Nature and Music in Nursery
This week, the children enjoyed talking about who lives in their home and drawing the special people they live with. They then added their drawings to a house template, creating lovely representations of their families and home life. An adult worked with each child to...
Super Skills in Action!
KS1 have been focusing on developing agility, balance and co-ordination through a range of exciting multi-skills activities with Mr Peden. The children worked hard to challenge themselves as they moved, balanced, jumped and travelled in different ways, building...
Nightingales Homework 9.10.26
This week’s homework for Y2 Nightingales is - CPG Maths pages 9 and 10 The Number Line and Partitioning Please return to school by Wednesday.
Snowdrops’ Homework 2/10/26
Year 3 Maths - pages 29 and 30 English - pages 4 and 5 Year 4 Maths - pages 24 and 25 English - pages 4 and 5 Due 16/10/26
Year 5/6 Homework 9.10.26
This week, homework is in CGP books and online. Elms Maths – pg 21 and 22 – Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 English – pg 9 - Adverbs Reading- 2 x reading plus texts (5 in total throughout the week) plus at least 10 minutes reading per night recorded in...
Tulips Homework 9.10.26
Tulips homework this week is as follows: CGP Books Maths - p26 only English - p70 and 71 Reading 15 minutes daily. Please record this in diaries. Times Tables: please focus on practising the 6x tables this week.
Year 5/6 Girl’s Football
Our Year 5/6 girls' football team had a great afternoon, enjoying lots of football and producing some excellent performances throughout the competition. There were some fantastic goals scored, and the girls faced some very strong teams during the afternoon. Despite...
Year 4/5 Girl’s Football
Our Year 4/5 girls' football team enjoyed a great afternoon of football and produced some very good performances throughout the competition. Despite the wet and rainy conditions, the girls played well and represented the school brilliantly. The team successfully...
Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Through to the Finals!
Our Year 5/6 tag rugby team successfully qualified for the finals after qualifying through the group stage and then winning their knockout round game. All of the children involved worked incredibly hard in training and their effort showed during the matches. The team...
Owls Homework and Spellings 09.10.2026
Owls homework this week is as follows: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling– CGP book pages 16 and 35. Capital letters and full stops and The soft 'g' sound. Spelling list- Week 7 Rule: ‘j’ and ‘g’ Guidance: The /j/ sound is often (but not always) spelt as g before e, i,...
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