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Try Tennis for Free!

Fancy a free day out? On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, Blaydon Tennis Club will be hosting tennis sessions (including some adult coaching and kids coaching!).  One hour time slots are available between 1pm-5pm. All you have to do is access www.lta.org.uk/tennisweekends, search for 'Blaydon...

A Big Thank You to the Year 6 Parents

Year 6 are really excited for their VE Day party this afternoon. Thank you to all the parents who have provided/made something for our party this afternoon. Photos to follow!...

KS2 Production – Help Needed

Our KS2 production this year will be Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Unfortunately it appears that our dreamcoat has disappeared from our storage and as a result we are urgently asking if anyone has any old stripey/multicoloured material that they would be happy to...

Career Related Learning Workshop in Y6

Year 6 have had an excellent day today, taking part in the ‘National Life’ programme. They have discussed their nation (looking at various landmarks within this), spoke about skills needed for different types of careers, organised their very own ‘community barbeque’ and even set up...

Y3/Y4 Futsal Taster

Tomorrow dinnertime, the children in Y3 and Y4 will have the opportunity to take part in a game of futsal. Futsal is a variant of association football played on a hard court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It is usually considered a version of five-a-side football. If...

Circus Event

                  We have invited Mr Dan from Skipping Workshops into school on Tuesday 18th June to teach the children some circus skills! They will also perform in front of the whole school. We are very excited about this and hope that the children enjoy the experience....

Summer Fair – Tombola Donations Wanted

                We will be holding a cake stall and tombola at the Dunston Summer Fair which is being held at Dunston Football Club on Saturday May 11th 2019. We are looking for any donations towards our tombola prizes. If you have any spare items lying around which...

Year 6 Make Spitfires from WW2

Over the past two days, the children in Y6 have been creating clay Spitfires (one of the most famous aircrafts used in WW2). They learned lots of interesting facts along the way! Such as: The name Spitfire was taken from an old English word meaning someone...