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Within our school you will find a happy, welcoming, stimulating environment providing high standards of education, valuing the efforts of the individual, fulfilling the learning potential of all pupils and promoting equal opportunities. We promote learning for life and encourage children to learn no matter where they are, inside or out! We believe in developing the “whole” child and work hard to nurture, encourage, support and extend all of our children to achieve.
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Christmas themed play and exploration enjoyed in class 1 this week. The children made their own ‘snow’ and practised their counting skills making Christmas trees using small manipulatives. They have been innovated stories about Father Christmas and learning about the conventions of a letter as they wrote their own letters and lists.
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Please find attached a poster for an Empowering Parents Group at Hexham Family Hub, starting in January.
This group is for parents and carers of children with additional needs and/or disabilities who would like to meet with other parents/carers, facilitated by a Family Hub Practitioners.
Further information, including contact details, can be found on the attached poster.
Please feel free to share this with any families who may be interested. #FamilySupport #community ... See MoreSee Less
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A very merry Christmas lunch yesterday. Full of festive cheer and some rather lovely Christmas jumpers! ... See MoreSee Less
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Today for our Welly Thursday session the children enjoyed all things to do with Christmas 🎄 we learnt about where Christmas came from, we talked about our Christmas traditions and we listened to the story ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. We then made our own reindeer dust using porridge oats, dried fruit and cherries 🎅🧑🎄🎄#whittonstall #christmas2025 ... See MoreSee Less
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A magical night of storytelling, hot chocolate and snuggles at our Christmas Storytelling evening. The children wore their cosiest pj’s and slippers. Huge thank you to Beveridge’s Nursery for the very kind donation of our beautiful tree this year. ... See MoreSee Less
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What a fantastic Welly Thursday session we had today, the children learned all about igloos. We discussed what an igloo is, how we build igloos, who lives/stays in igloos and how we can stay warm in something made from something so cold. The children designed their own igloos and then they were challenged to work as team to build one using the outdoor materials. They loved going inside to play when it was completed ❄️🌨️🗻 #whittonstall #winterfun ... See MoreSee Less
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Nursery and Reception came up with some fantastic ideas for innovated stories based on the tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. The most popular, by far, was changing the characters to the kangaroos! They came up with amazing adjectives to describe them. These included powerful, hairy, fluffy, strong and chunky! #talkforwriting #innovation ... See MoreSee Less
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Class 2 have had the most amazing morning at St Mary Magdalene’s church today. We travelled back 2000 years to journey through the Christmas Story 🎄, we met the Wise Men, the Shepards and even Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus 👶 Whilst on our journey we listened to the different perspectives of those involved in the Christmas story and then got to take part in some craft activities such as making our own crowns, decorations a sheep bauble and making our own mini Holy Bible. ... See MoreSee Less
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For our ‘Welly Thursday’ session today, the children explored positional language. We listened to a story called ‘Snail Trail’ by Ruth Brown 🐌 Then we talked about all the positional language we could use, in this we had some cue cards with pictures of a fox 🦊 in which they identified where the fox was. The children were then challenged with positioning themselves around the yard for example on top of something, underneath something, next to something, etc. Finally when back indoors, the children built bridges and towers 🌉 and used some farm animals that they positioned in certain ways using our positional language. ... See MoreSee Less
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