Trial Blog Archive

Over the past few weeks, the children in Moonlight class have been learning all about habitats in science. They have investigated polar, desert, and ocean habitats, discovering how animals adapt to survive in these different environments. This week, the class went on...

Pupils in Key Stage One enjoyed an exciting educational visit to South Shields this week as part of their geography topic. The trip gave children the chance to explore and identify a range of physical and human features in a real-world setting. During the visit,...

On Friday, our cricket teams and cricket club participants were the guard of honour at the Banks Hones Riverside in Chester-le-Street. Durham Women were playing Eseex Women in a T20 Vitality Blast game. In glorious sunshine, our pupils welcomed onto the pitch the...

Thank you very much for everyone who put together and supported this year's Summer Fair. We had a beautiful, sunny early evening and a huge range of stalls: wet sponge stocks, raffles, face-painting and tatoos, lots of different refreshments, lucky dip, tombola,...

A team of our Year 6 pupils took part in a Vex Go Festival organised through the Nissan Skills Foundation and supported by The Reece Foundation. The team had to build an underwater course, construct a robot and then drive or programme it to perform tasks. Each task...

Today was Cultural Passport day for years  5 and 6. This is a time when our pupils can work with their adults, working through different activities related to, and updating, sections in their cultural passport. Year 6 were involved in making a story board and...

As part of our exciting new Art topic on sculptures, children in Key Stage One enjoyed a wonderful trip to Chester-le-Street Park. The visit gave pupils the chance to see a variety of sculptures up close, inspiring them to think about different shapes, textures, and...

This afternoon, we were represented by some year 5 and 6 pupils at the Durham and Chester-le-Street School Sports Partnership's Cricket Festival - run by Durham County Cricket Foundation. We had a brilliant afternoon at the pituresque Durham City Cricket Club in...

Durham Dash is an event that we always look forward to each year. This year the event took place at Beamish Museum and on a stunning evening in the magnificent grounds of Beamish representatives from years 3, 4, 5 and 6 took part. Running a 650 metre loop, or chest...

This term, Galaxy has been working on a fantastic project with Nissan. They worked with the Year 3 children and talked them through what life is like in the Nissan factory. The children loved finding out how big the factory is - approximately 50 football pitches - and...