Wearhead Primary School Today in our music lesson the children were learning more about rhythm which will help them to progress their skills when playing the recorder. We are already looking forward to our next recorder session after half term. 🪈🎼🎵

Butterknowle EYFS had a fantastic morning setting up a friendship cafe. They helped each other to set the table, took orders,made jam sandwiches and served each other. oh and don't forget the washing up! What a wonderful time they had!

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Butterknowle Primary School Adventure awaits in Class 2! 🐒👑 Today, our hard-working authors have been busy crafting their very own adventure stories featuring Kai and the Monkey King! 📖 For the last few weeks, the children have been mastering the art of expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. It was absolutely lovely to watch them independently bring these tools to life, turning ordinary sentences into extraordinary adventures. We definitely have some future best-selling authors in our midst at Butterknowle Primary School! Watch out, J.K. Rowling! 🌟

Woodland Children in Key Stage 1 have been looking after plants and exploring trees on the school grounds. We planted a plant and have looked after it for a few weeks. Today, we observed it to see if any changes had occurred. Some of them had grown more leaves, some had more flowers and some had produced some seeds. We also went outside and made diagrams of trees and bark rubbings.

Hamsterley Primary School In Art, Class 1 have been learning about the work of artist James Rizzi and discussing how he created form by using layers to produce a 3D effect. Inspired by his techniques, the children used a cardboard layering method to create their own three-dimensional artwork. They carefully built up different layers to add depth and detail, producing vibrant pieces in the style of Rizzi.

Congratulations to our stars this week

In RE this week Class 3 learn't about th 'Fall' from the book of Genesis. They wrote a newspaper article to show their understanding of the key events.

Butterknowle We have had a busy week in Class 1. Take a look at some of the maths we have been doing. We used counters to help us find the missing parts.

Frosterley Primary School Congratulations to our superstars this week 🌟

Our Woodland superstars of the week. Well done Owls 🦉 and Squirrels 🐿

St John's Chapel and Wearhead Primaries 🌾 Harvest Festival Thank You 🌾 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Harvest Festival today. The children did a fantastic job sharing the importance of harvest and explaining how it is celebrated around the world. We enjoyed wonderful harvest songs, along with fantastic performances from our talented violinists and recorder players. We are incredibly proud of the confidence, enthusiasm and hard work shown by all of the children. Thank you also for your generous donations of food for the Weardale Food Bank. Your kindness and support will make a real difference to local families in our community. Thank you for helping to make our Harvest Festival such a special celebration.

Frosterley Primary School Our KS1 children have been learning about the vibrant and imaginative artwork of James Rizzi. 🏙🎨 James Rizzi was famous for creating colourful 3D pictures by layering pieces of foam to make parts of his artwork stand out. Inspired by his unique style, our children used layers of cardboard to create their own three-dimensional masterpieces. The children carefully cut, arranged and layered their designs, exploring how artists can create form and depth in their work. We were so impressed with their creativity, effort and attention to detail! Well done, KS1. Your artwork really pops off the page! 🌟👏

Our maths is improving in Owls class at Woodland. This group are working hard at rounding to the nearest 1000 . We have been using our rhyme - 5 and above give it a shove , 4 and below let it go ! It seems to be sticking. Our speed and resilience with whiteboard challenges is getting better . Well done 👏

In computing today Owls at Woodland learned how to debug and evaluate their soundtracks. As we are coming to the end of our unit on SCRATCH , the children assessed how well the program had worked and identified areas of improvement . We overcame some glitches and debugging . We evaluated the genre and how the soundtrack fitted the style. It was a nice way to end our unit. Well done , Owls 🦉