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Planting Trees!

Ridley and his sister Edith applied for some sapling trees which were delivered to their house. They kindly brought them into school to donate to our forest school area. Some were fruit trees and others were birch. Ridley and Edith, together with their friends and Mrs...

School Council Bake Sale – Thank You!

Our School Council would like to thank you for your generous donations to our bake sale which was held in school this week. We have had two busy days of selling cakes and we raised a fantastic sum of £309.73 which will go into our...

Pre-Loved Uniform Sale

With everyday costs of living on the rise, many families may be struggling to buy many items including new school uniform. We have a vast amount of pre-loved uniform which has been kindly donated by our community. If you would like to pick up a few extra...

Dunston UTS Family Season Ticket

Our neighbours at Dunston UTS Football Club have kindly donated some family season tickets to giveaway free to our pupils and families. Each ticket grants access for 1 Adult and up to 2 under 16s to all of Dunston's Northern Premier League fixtures. If you would...

NSPCC Number Day!

Today we took part in the NSPCC number day. Children and staff dressed up for digits and enjoyed a variety of fun mathematics activities, while raising money and awareness for the NSPCC. Thank you to everyone who donated. ...

Governors Community Award Nominations

Calling all heroes!    Do you know a local hero who should be recognised for their kindness in our community? If any of our pupils have gone above and beyond to help people in their local community, we would love to hear about it for our Governors Community...

Year 4 pupils encourage others to “Ban Single Use Plastic”

Y4 children have been quite concerned about plastic pollution and the use of single-use plastic in school.  They conducted their own research into how they could help prevent lots of plastic going into our bins and then land-fills and unfortunately sometimes into our oceans. Some of...

Christmas Lunch Day – Friday 10th December 2021

On Friday 10th December 2021 our cook and the kitchen staff will prepare a traditional Christmas lunch for all children and staff in school. The children can also choose to wear a Christmas jumper on this day to get into the festive spirit. In addition, there once...

School Council Deliver Climate Change Message

Eva and Scott are Year 6 members of our School Council. Last week they attended the Governing Body meeting where they delivered their own Powerpoint presentation on Climate Change to all governors. They were amazing! On Wednesday this week, they led assembly and shared their...

Welcome our new Eco Cops!

Welcome our new Eco Cops! They will be helping our school to become more eco friendly and encouraging out school to reduce, reuse and recycle....