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 🦉

Wearhead Primary School 🌱🍂 Class 1 Harvest Learning Through Play 🍂🌱 As part of our harvest celebrations, Class 1 have been developing their understanding of harvest through exciting, hands-on learning opportunities in our outdoor area this week. The children enjoyed 'harvesting' vegetables and discovering where some of our food comes from. They then put their imaginations to work in the mud kitchen, using the vegetables to create delicious "vegetable soup" and sharing their creations with friends. As part of caring for our outdoor environment, the children also helped to remove old plants and prepare a planter ready for winter. They worked brilliantly together, developing their teamwork skills while learning about the changing seasons and how plants grow. What a wonderful way to bring our harvest learning to life! 🌿🥕🥔🍲

St.John's Chapel Today's Cookery Club was all about making delicious flapjacks. Everyone enjoyed getting sticky fingers from the golden syrup, which gave them the perfect excuse to lick them clean! We had lots of fun working together and finished the session by helping with the clearing up. It was a fantastic morning full of laughter, teamwork, and tasty treats

St John's Chapel Maths mastery in action this morning! Our fantastic Year 1 and Year 2 children have been busy exploring systematic number bonds. To help bring the maths to life, they used hands-on double-sided counters. By flipping and arranging the counters, the children could visually spot patterns and see how different pairs of numbers always add up to the same total.

Woodland Primary 🦉 This week in outdoor learning we did some weaving between two sticks. We practised our knots when we were joining our sticks together and we helped each other to keep the sticks steady. We used our webs to collect some interesting autumn objects.

Butterknowle Primary School Reflecting on the very beginning! 🌍 In our latest RE lesson, class 2 dived into the book of Genesis to explore its powerful core messages. Instead of just reading the text, we focused on ordering our thoughts around what these ancient stories teach us about creation, purpose, and our relationship with the world around us. It was incredible to see our students engaging in deep discussions, mapping out their ideas, and sharing such mature insights.

Woodland Primary We have had a lot of fun using positional language this week! The children in EYFS made an obstacle course. They gave their friends instructions to complete it. Everyone was excited to get the trophy at the end!

Woodland Primary 🦉 Children in Year 1 and 2 at Woodland have used beebot to tell the story of The Three Little Pigs. The children planned the algorithms so beebot visited the different places in the story. We all had a lot of fun!

Butterknowle Primary Congratulations to our Stars of the Week, who were recognised in this week's Celebration Assembly.

Butterknowle Primary 🌳 Year 5 and 6 children were given the challenge of communicating and working as a team to collect cones without touching the outside of the hoop otherwise they had to start again ! They worked alongside year 3 and 4 children to work towards this goal.

Butterknowle Last week, we welcomed lingotots into school. Class 1 loved learning French through games and stories.

Butterknowle Class 1 have been enjoying their PE lessons with our sports coach. We have been developing our skills in throwing and catching through a variety of games.