St John's Chapel Primary School This afternoon, Class 1 had an amazing time enjoying the beautiful weather during our Forest School session. We started the session with a colour hunt, spotting vibrant signs of spring all around us. Next, we got creative and built dens and homes for animals, using natural materials. We showed incredible teamwork and imagination To end the session, we cooked some crumpets on the fire. What a delicious treat!

Wearhead Primary School We have enjoyed the beautiful weather this afternoon in our forest school session. We had a special visitor (Miss Brooks' Dad, George), who helped us with lots of jobs in our garden area. The children took all of the weeds out of the raised beds, and planted and propagated vegetable seeds so that we can eat our produce later in the year. We enjoyed pizza pockets cooked over the fire and also had time to toast some marshmallows.

Learning at St John's Chapel! Year 5 & 6 have been exploring decimals and their place value up to 2 decimal places. Great work, everyone!

Can you help us? At Hamsterley Primary School, we are planning on enhancing our EYFS outdoor area provision. We are looking for any construction signs, cones, work benches or construction barriers to help with this. For our other outdoor provision areas, we would appreciate any loose parts that may be useful for our mud kitchen or water area (like old pots/pans or jugs). If you have any spare pallets, boxes or crates that you would like to get rid of we would be more than happy to take them off your hands! If so please leave us a comment or email Miss Mawson e.mawson@durhamdalesfed.co.uk Thank you

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

St John's Chapel & Wearhead Today, 10 of our KS2 pupils took part in a Shadow Curriculum Assessment and Review. The children took part in discussions about their school day, what makes it good and what could make it better. They had to think about the skills they learn in school and which skills were most important. They also met a neuroscientist, a biologist and an engineer from Durham University and learnt about their careers.

St John's Chapel and Wearhead Primary Schools A big well done to this week's special certificate winners!

St. John's Chapel Primary School and Wearhead Primary School Class 2 had a super time last Friday collaborating with Kerryanne! Together, they designed and created wonderful signs for our outdoor area. What an inspiring team effort!

Last week, Class Two and Class Three at St. John's Chapel Primary School put their bridge-building skills to the test! Using their knowledge of bridges, they designed and built structures to span a 15cm gap, then tested them to find the strongest design. Amazing work, future engineers!

Last week, Class Two at St. John's Chapel Primary explored healthy eating in their PSHE lesson! They matched foods with their sugar content and were shocked by some of the results.

St John's Chapel Primary As part of our Topic work this afternoon, the children in year 5 & 6 have been investigating how different factors change the rate icebergs melt. They discovered that if the sea is more turbulent, then the iceberg will melt quicker and that the warmer the water is, the quicker an iceberg will melt.

In Maths, Year 5 and 6 pupils at St. John's Chapel Primary have been exploring fractions by using cubes to find fractions of different amounts. Great hands-on learning!

Wednesdays are a hit at Wearhead Primary Schoolit's roast dinner day, and one of our favourite meals of the week! Delicious food and happy smiles all around!

Maths is buzzing in Class 2 at Wearhead Primary School! Year 6 tackled reasoning skills, Year 5 solved two-step addition and subtraction problems, Year 4 worked on equivalent fractions, and Year 3 explored equivalent fractions using manipulatives. Brilliant focus from everyone!

St John's Chapel & Wearhead Primary Schools On Friday, the children in year 5 and 6 worked with Kerryanne (from the North Pennine National Landscape) to weed the wildflower meadow. The children learnt how to identify creeping buttercup and other invasive plants.