Hamsterley Primary School This afternoon in Jigsaw (PSHE), KS1 were set the goal of making a jam sandwich. They needed to follow different steps and try different things in order to achieve the end goal.

Hamsterley Primary School Today in Class 2, the children used their knowledge of Inuit Art to carve a soap sculpture in the shape of an Arctic animal.

St John's Chapel & Wearhead This term, the children in year 5 & 6 are learning about electricity. This morning, the children learnt what the different circuit symbols are.

St John's Chapel and Wearhead Well done to this week's special certificate winners!

Hamsterley Primary School Tonight, in cookery club, Class 1 have made Scottish oat cakes

Hamsterley Primary School In computing, EYFS had lots of fun tinkering with computing equipment. We have learnt new vocabulary such as 'motherboard' and 'usb'. This helped with our fine motor skills by using the screwdriver to look inside the equipment. We then used the magnifying glasses to get a closer look. Great job reception

Wearhead Primary School Today the children in Class 2 used soap carving skills to create a sculpture of an Arctic animal, in the style of the Inuit indigenous people. The photos of their final outcomes will be published next week when all are complete but here is a taster of what they were doing.

St John's Chapel Primary In Art this afternoon, Class 1 used hard and soft pencils to make different lines and shapes

St John's Chapel Primary Class 1 have had a busy Forest School afternoon! We used natural resources to create our own weather symbol art, before toasting marshmallows on the fire to make s'mores

St John's Chapel Primary In English, KS1 worked in pairs to identify the features of a postcard

Hamsterley Primary School In Forest School, Class 2 stocked up the squirrel feed box that will help us record any sightings of red squirrels. Then we took part in our own 'Big Garden Birdwatch'. We searched our school garden areas to watch and record which birds are in our ground. We saw lots of wood pigeons

Wearhead Primary School In our Forest School session this afternoon, we played 'Jailbreak' then class 1 created weather symbols linked to their art lessons while class 2 created polar animals to link with their 'Frozen Kingdoms' topic. Afterwards, we had hot chocolate and biscuits.

In KS1, we are learning about landmarks as part of our new topic 'Bright Lights, Big City'. This morning, we visited a local landmark, the Town Hall. We looked at plaques, photographs and used the internet to research the history of the building. We talked about how it provides a service for the community and the different things it is used for

Hamsterley Primary School Well done to all of the star award winners!

St John's Chapel Primary This morning, the EYFS children have been outside exploring the snow and ice. We had lots of fun stomping through the crunchy snow and saw some long, slippery icicles We even spotted some animal tracks in the snow! We talked about how they are different to our footprints and guessed what animals they were from.