Erupting Volcano in Birch
Birch have been learning all about volcanoes. They made their own and had great fun making it erupt!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎄
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Birch class. All children enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree. We are looking forward to the fun Christmas activities which are planned for next week.
Update from Durham County council
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Act of kindness in the local community (Thinking of others)
During Enrichment today some of the Year 11’s visited Stoneleigh residential care home and dropped off some flowers for them to display in their communal areas. Previously the group wrote some letters with words of kindness for the residents to help lift their spirits and make them feel loved. During this time the pupils adhered…
Fantastic Finish in Hazel
This term Hazel class have been learning about the Stone Age. Today we brought our history part of the topic to a close with our fantastic finish. We got dressed up as cave people. Created our own stone age houses and had snack in our cave. Well done…
Ofsted report
Good Morning Everyone We have been sent the full Ofsted report following our inspection on the 12th and 13th October and although it has not been uploaded onto the offical Ofsted website we can share it via the school website. I have added it as an attachment to this blog. It’s fair to say we…
Children in Need – Maple Class
For Children in Need Maple class got up to lots of different activities. . We looked and talked about what Children in Need is. All of our lovely children came in non-uniform wearing either red and yellow if they could. We created out very own Pudsey Bear headbands and Pudsey Bear faces. Take a look……
Greek restaurant in Birch
Birch created a Greek restaurant where we had three tables and we tasted our flat bread, hummus, Spanakopita and Greek honey biscuits. We also made Greek lemonade which was very soar!
Norahsnorthpole
Evening Everyone We will be holding a cake sale on Thursday 2nd December in order to raise funds for Norahnorthpole, the link is available at the bottom of this post. Cakes will be available for pupils to buy from the staff room for a donation so if you would like to make a contribution please…
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…