Wearhead Primary School This afternoon, we enjoyed the beautiful weather by cooking chocolate bananas on the fire, drawing shadow pictures and planting seeds.

Hamsterley Primary School In Forest School, Class 2 started building bird boxes! In groups, they measured and cut the wood timber so in the following weeks they can assemble and decorate their bird boxes. We can't wait to see the end product! To finish the session we enjoyed eating our popcorn!

Hamsterley Primary School Well done to all of the star award winners and the Science Ambassadors who received their certificates and badges this morning!

St John's Chapel & Wearhead British Science Week! This year, Dr Lorraine Coghill (from Durham University) helped our new Science Ambassadors plan and deliver sessions to the younger children to celebrate British Science Week. They did a fantastic job, explaining everything clearly and making sure everyone was safe.

A big shoutout to the winners of our World Book Day 'Create a Potato Book Character' competition! This week, they picked out their well-deserved book prizescongratulations to all!

St John's Chapel & Wearhead A huge congratulations to this week's certified winners! Keep up the hard work!

Hamsterley Primary School This afternoon, our wonderful Science Ambassadors from Year 5/6 and Dr Lorraine worked with the other children to show them some of their favourite experiments from the training day yesterday. Class 1 observed the changes in Skittles when they are dropped into water, made origami fortune tellers and then made rockets. The Science Ambassadors were extremely helpful with the younger children and we were very impressed with how confidently they explained the tasks. Class 2 used felt tips and coffee filters to make pen chromatography and then also did the origami and rockets. Class 2 enjoyed watching the different dyes in each pen separate during the chromatography experiment! Well done to all of the Science Ambassadors, you all did an excellent job leading and explaining activities. You should be very proud! #ScienceAmbassadors #BritishScienceWeek2025

Exciting News! We're thrilled to announce that we're partnering with DurhamLearn to bring Reading and Maths Cafes to our schools for parents and carers! These cafes are a fantastic opportunity to join your children in school, enjoy fun games and activities together, and discover ways to support their development and help them with their homework. The dates for our Maths and English Cafes are as follows: Hamsterley Primary Wednesday 21 May - Maths Café Key Stage 1: 9am-11am Key Stage 2: 1pm-3pm Friday 6 June - English Café Key Stage 1: 9am-11am Key Stage 2: 1pm-3pm St John's Chapel & Wearhead Primary Schools (at St John's Chapel Primary) Friday, 9th May 2025 - Maths Cafe Key Stage 1: 9am-11am Key Stage 2: 1pm-3pm Thursday 19 June 2025 - English Café Key Stage 1: 9am-11am Key Stage 2: 1pm-3pm We'll send out reminders closer to the time and hope to see you there!

Exciting News from Y5 and Y6! Today, our young scientists had an incredible day training to become Science Ambassadors! They enthusiastically participated in 10 different activities, exploring the wonders of science and showcasing their curiosity and creativity. We are so proud of their achievements and can't wait to see them inspire others with their newfound knowledge! #ScienceAmbassadors #YoungScientists #LearningIsFun

St John's Chapel Primary School- Class 1 In DT, we have been experimenting with construction materials to create a moving vehicle. We then evaluated our vehicle by labelling the different parts using key terminology, such as 'wheel', 'axle' and 'chassis'. Year 2 then wrote some sentences to describe their vehicle. Super work, Class 1!

St John's Chapel Well done to Reception for writing about the life cycle of a frog Fantastic independent work!

Hamsterley Class 1 Forest School As it's British Science week, class one were completing a science experiment during forest school. Miss Mawson had a selection of fir cones and the children had to predict what would happen to them once they were put in water. The children all had a good 'guess' as to what would happen. Throughout the session the children came back to check on the fir cones and were all amazed at the results. They were impressed that the fir cones had closed up. Miss Mawson then explained that this happened in order to protect the seeds in bad weather. We also hung some fir cones up to see what happens to them and went on a mini beast hunt and found lots of worms. Nature is amazing!

Hamsterley Primary School Well done to all of the star award winners and the winners of the World Book Day competition!

St John's Chapel and Wearhead Primary Schools Well done to this week's special certificate winners and to the winners of our World Book Day competition!