9R Model making.

Pupils used fine and gross motor skills to join materials together in the first step of building our own Wizard’s castle/house in response to their English book ‘Whizzbang Wizard’ and also the artist Annalise Rees. They used communication, problem solving, and decision making skills to work as a team. Everyone was feeling proud of what…

9D Climate Champions

9D won themselves a lovely chocolate treat for completing the most Climate Champion  Challenges this term. They have made recycled cotton bags and dog toys from old clothes, which will be donated to the RSPCA. They have also learnt about seasonal food and made chips, and also made a conscious effort to use less pre-packaged…

Clothing recycling

Storm Arwen managed to lift and tip our recycling bin over, fortunately when no one was on site! It is back in situe now so if you have a spring clean in January please consider bringing in any clothes, shoes, bags or belts, as the last collection from our bin raised  £32.40 for our school…

Automatism in Art

Key stage 3 pupils learned what Automatism is today in Art. They had to not think for a few minutes while they doodled, which is harder than it sounds. Then we looked at their doodles and discussed what we could see, and how everyone’s perspective is different. Pupils then picked out their images with outlines…

Tree Planting

Some of our school eco-committee helped plant Blackthorn trees which were donated by the Smoke Free Durham Stop Smoking support service. This tree we planted will offset the carbon created by the manufacturing process for the tobacco that an average smoker uses in just 2 weeks! Trees need to be felled to make the paper,…

Clothes Recycling

  Fundraise and Recycle Limited is a north-east based family run company, that specialise in the recycling of unwanted and unloved clothing and goods for collection and redistribution. We have received a recycling bin, which is in our car park, to encourage our school community to recycle clothes, shoes, bags and belts whilst at the…

9R Colour Illustrations

Pupils in 9R have learnt about colour mixing, and used the secondary colours that they created to recreate an iconic illustration from the book ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. Using shape recognition and cutting skills and also thinking about placement on the page in order to recreate the image. They all captured the bright colourful shapes and…