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Our year 6 pupils have had a fantastic residential at Ford Castle in Northumberland. Living in a 13th century castle, having fantastically cooked meals, enjoying beautiful weather and taking part in exciting activities all added up to a brilliant few days. Activities...

Our Reception and Key Stage 1 girls had an absolute blast this week during an exciting football taster session led by the Amazon Rebels! The girls brought incredible energy to the pitch, practicing their dribbling, passing, and shooting skills through fun games and...

Our Key Stage 1 children had a fantastic, high-energy day today as we welcomed the brilliant instructors from the Durham and Chester-le-Street School Sport Partnership for a lively Zumba taster session! The school was buzzing with music and excitement as the children...

If ever the term Summer in Summer Fair was more apt. A beautifully warm evening at school helped the Summer Fair to be a fantastic success. We had the usual array of stalls from toys, raffles, football, hook-a-duck, ice lollies, hot dogs, teas, coffees, cakes, pop...

This week, Year Two has been well and truly transported to the heart of the capital city! We have been immersing ourselves in the sights and sounds of the city through our current English text, 'A Walk in London'. It’s been wonderful to see the children engaging so...

Wednesday night this week, as well as England's opening game in the World Cup, was Durham Dash night. Over 1000 pupils took part in running and field events based at County Durham's iconic Beamish museum. We had 48 pupils representing our school. As always, everyone...

This week, our fantastic Year 6 pupils swapped the classroom for two wheels as they took part in the Bikeability course. The program is designed to give children the vital skills they need to ride safely on the roads, as well as teaching them how to look after and...

Key Stage 1 This morning, our classrooms were transformed into an underwater world as our students took part in an exciting live webinar: "Dive into the World of Manta Rays" with the incredible marine charity, The Manta Trust. The children loved virtually diving into...

This week is Enterprise Week for our year 6 class. A wide variety of stalls sold products like cookies, cakes, milkshakes, rock art, nachos, pop,  messages of wisdom and pix 'n' mix. Then there were great activities like penalty shoot out, splat the rat, guess the...

Our year 3 and 4 pupils visited Durham Cathedral this week to see the amazing building, fantastic stained glass windows - new and old - and examine the incredible Lego representation of this 900 year old building.