Events and Visits
St. Chad’s Church
Yesterday afternoon, Reception class visited St. Chad’s Church in Bensham as part of their RE topic; ‘Special Places’. Over the last couple of weeks, the children have been talking about their own special places and why they are special to them. We have also learnt...
Grace Darling Museum visit
The children had a wonderful day visiting the Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh. They enjoyed learning about the brave story of Grace Darling and had great fun acting out parts of the story together. We enjoyed lunch in the gardens, tasted some...
Easter Egg Hunt
The School Councillors planned, prepared and led an Easter Egg hunt for our youngest children in Nursery and Reception. The children packed the eggs with easter treats then carefully hid them around our school garden. Children in Nursery and Reception had lots of fun...
Gateshead Dance Festival
We are incredibly proud of our Year 4 children who performed at the Gateshead Dance Festival in the Glasshouse on Tuesday afternoon. The children performed to the uplifting song ‘Sky full of stars’ by Coldplay. They showed incredible energy and enthusiasm throughout...
Red Nose Day 2026 in Reception
Last Friday in school, we celebrated Red Nose Day 2026. The children came into school dressed in something red. Some of us wore red t shirts and red bows in our hair and some of us even painted our noses red with lipstick! The children also enjoyed an afternoon of...
Bikeability in Reception
This morning in Reception class, we were so excited to hear that we would be taking part in ‘Bikaebility’. We were greeted by Richard, who told us that he would be teaching us some bike skills on balance bikes. First, we put on our helmets and Richard adjusted the...
World Book Week in Year 4
This week, Year 4 have been celebrating World Book Week. Our week began with some of our parents and carers visiting us in the school library, where we shared and read some of our favourite books to them. On Thursday, we took a trip to the Dunston Activity Centre...
World Book Week in Year 5
This week in school, we have celebrated World Book Week. On Monday, we visited Dunston Activity Centre’s library. The children explored the library, reading stories together with their friends. Mrs. Bullerwell read a couple of stories to the children including...
World Book Week in Reception Class
What a fabulous week we have had in Reception class celebrating ‘World Book Week’. Earlier in the week, we were so excited to see our parents and carers in school. They came into our class to listen to us read stories. They also read stories to us along with our...
World Book Week in Year 3
This week Year 3 have enjoyed celebrating World Book Week. We started off our week by walking to Dunston Library to have a look around before choosing a book to bring back to school and read. We were able to look at how the library was organised and learnt about the...