🌟 Durham Dales Partnership Stay and Play Continues This Half Term! 🌟 We're delighted to continue our Stay and Play sessions across the Durham Dales Partnership this half-term. Our sessions are also open to all children aged 0-4 in our local communities, so please share this post with friends, family and anyone who may be interested. 💛 Free to attend🎨 Fun activities to enjoy together🤝 A great opportunity to meet other families We look forward to welcoming you and your little ones!

Wearhead Primary School Class 1 became local explorers as we learned all about our community and the journeys we make every day! The children looked at aerial photographs, maps and pictures of local landmarks, sharing the places they recognised and discussing their favourite places to visit. We talked about the routes we take to school and the different buildings and landmarks we pass along the way. Using large sheets of paper and felt-tip pens, the children then created their own maps showing their journey to school. They carefully added landmarks, roads and labels to help describe their route. Finally, everyone had the opportunity to share their map and talk through their journey with the class. We were so impressed with the children's map-making skills, observation and confidence when explaining their routes. Well done, Class 1!

Butterknowle Class 1 have been looking at the Christmas story. The children ordered the story and then drew their part on the yard.

St John's Chapel and Wearhead Little Chefs in Key Stage 1! 🍎 On Friday as part of our DT work, our Key Stage 1 pupils rolled up their sleeves and explored the wonderful world of food preparation! The children took turns trying out different ways to prepare food, then put their senses to the test by tasting their creations and describing the flavours, crunch, and textures.

The children in class two showed their own interpretation of God by drawing their own images. We were considering the question 'What does it mean if God is holy and loving?' and how that might look. The children produced some beautiful work that they should be very proud of.

Butterknowle Class 1 began their DT topic by looking at different foods. We discussed the source, deciding whether it was plants or animals.

Frosterley Primary School We've had a wonderful time exploring our provision in Class One!

Frosterley Primary School 🤩🌟 Congratulations to our super stars this week 🌟🤩

St John's Chapel & Wearhead 🌟🎉 Well done to this week's award winners!🎉🌟

We had some extra time in science and we returned to our learning about the phases of the moon 🌒 in Owls class. We used Oreo's to create edible diagrams and labelled them . The children really enjoyed this extra lesson 😋

Forest school activities at Woodland in Owls class.Creating Mandellas using nature as inspiration . 🍃 🍂

Our star writers and pupils of the week at Woodland 👏 🦉 🐿 Also our smiler of the week 😀 Well done ,everyone .

At Woodland, children in EYFS have been involved in lots of activities about birds. This links with our class text 'Sunny and the Birds'. To try to attract some feathered friends, we put some bird seed and a bath outside. We made a bird watching area and used our binoculars and an identification sheet - we spotted some blackbirds and a crow! We practised our cutting skills to make the tail on our bird craft.

At Woodland, Squirrel class had great fun with Mrs Unwin in our 'Little Fingers' music session. We love the new song we are learning for Christmas about brussel sprouts!

Hamsterley Primary School This morning, Class 1 enjoyed a Bonfire Night-themed Forest School session. The children created colourful ribbon sparklers and used natural materials to make nature artwork inspired by bonfires and fireworks. Before heading outside, they worked together to make apple crumble cones, which were then cooked over the fire.