Our school has a strong family ethos and a wonderful community feel. Our staff work hard to making learning challenging yet fun, and seek to develop strong links between staff, parents, governors and the wider community.
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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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As part of a day celebrating colour, nursery and reception explored the life and work of the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. They learned all about the different techniques he used and then created their own masterpieces! ... See MoreSee Less
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We’ve had such a lovely colour-themed day today! 🌈 Everyone looked absolutely fantastic in all the bright and colourful outfits — it was wonderful.
A huge thank you as well to everyone who kindly brought in a donation for the raffle. Your generosity is really appreciated 💖
Thank you all for taking part and helping to make it such a great day! ... See MoreSee Less
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To celebrate colour day, Class 2 have been creating our open colour poems using each of our senses! 👀👃👄😋✋ ... See MoreSee Less
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Outdoor afternoon saw the children exploring natural shapes in their environment. They focused on spirals and the different natural materials such as shells and plants that can be spiral in shape. They drew their own spirals and then worked collaboratively to create their own using natural resources they found. ... See MoreSee Less
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Our Pirate Jack poem ... See MoreSee Less
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This week in class 1 we have been busy learning about how to keep our oceans and beaches clear. We enjoyed the story ‘Someone Swallowed Stanley and explored how plastic pollutes and endangers animals. We explored recycling and reusing, designing and building our own recycled models. Reception have wowed Mrs Drysdale with there sentence writing as we explored positional language and similies in our literacy work. We learned about why the oceans are salty and did an experiment to investigate how salt makes water more ‘bouyant’. Nursery and Reception created a class similes poem about Pirate Jack. ... See MoreSee Less
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Do you need childcare during May half term? Mid Tyne Kids Club at Broomley First School have some spaces available and are taking bookings for Tues 26th -Fri 29th May. If you are interested, email [email protected] or call Broomley First School Office 01661 842271 to book. Please make it clear in your communication that your child attends Whittonstall. ... See MoreSee Less
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In class 2 the children have began exploring algorithms. The children were tasked with giving the bee bots simple instructions to move them around the forest themed mats. They had great fun working as a team to problem solve how to get the bee bot to their desired destination. 🐝⬆️🐝⬇️🐝➡️ ... See MoreSee Less
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To celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday 🎂 Early Years had a whole day learning all about his illustrious career and life. We firstly watched a video all about is life and how he became so famous. We designed a birthday cake for this momentous occasion. We became naturists exploring the outdoors to discover what creatures our environment has, and we read a story called ‘The undersea cleaning spree’. We showed our understanding of how to make the world a better place by cleaning rubbish out of our own ocean in order to save all the sea creatures. Finally we sang Happy Birthday to Sir David and enjoyed some yummy cake. What a great day celebrating 🎉🥳🧁 ... See MoreSee Less
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