by daveross | Jun 18, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Jun 16, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Jun 16, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Jun 13, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Jun 13, 2025 | News
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...
by daveross | Jun 13, 2025 | News
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...
