The Durham Dales Federation is a federation of small rural primary schools, which was formed in September 2023. Staff from all schools work together to share expertise and to plan and deliver the curriculum. Our subject leaders co-ordinate their subjects across all the schools within our federation, which ensures that we can offer the same high-quality experiences to all pupils in our schools.
The Upper Dales schools of Wearhead and St John’s Chapel work together on a regular basis each week. At the start of the week, each school works in their own building and on Thursdays and Fridays, the schools come together on the St John’s Chapel Primary School site. On Federation days, we take advantage of the opportunities to work in larger groups with other children of the same age, and we often arrange visits and visitors for these days so that everyone can participate.
Hamsterley Primary School This afternoon in Forest School it was Class 2's turn to go blackberry picking. We then enjoyed blackberry jam on toast
View this PostSt John's Chapel This afternoon in Forest School, the children lit the fire and cooked bananas stuffed with chocolate and marshmallows. They also worked together, used a tarpaulin and rope, to put up a four point shelter as a team.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Well done to all of the star award winners!
View this PostSt John's Chapel In Maths, we have been learning mental strategies to add and subtract numbers. We started by using 100 squares and counters to add and subtract 9.
View this PostSt. John's Chapel and Wearhead Primary School On Friday, we had a special assembly by the Weardale Red Squirrel Group who are monitoring and helping to look after red squirrels in Weardale We are going to borrow a camera and feed box to put up in the school grounds to see if we can help them to spot any red squirrels around our schools.
View this PostSt. John's Chapel and Wearhead Primary Congratulations to our certificate winners this week !
View this PostSt John's Chapel and Wearhead Primary This afternoon, Class 1 visited St John the Baptist Church as part of our RE topic 'What can we learn about Christianity from visiting a church?' In the church, we identified the different features, before taking a photograph with our iPads and ticking them off on our checklist.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School We have made some delicious gingerbread people in Reception
View this PostHamsterley Primary School In RE we have been talking about Harvest. EYFS have had fun this afternoon harvesting our vegetables in the garden
View this PostSt John's Chapel and Wearhead The finished gingerbread men I think the children had fun
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead In Computing today, the children in year 3&4 have been learning about a file's journey. We created our school network and sent files to different places through the network.
View this PostSt John's chapel and Wearhead What a busy morning we are having in class one. We have been making gingerbread men Watch this space for the finished product.
View this PostSt John's Chapel and Wearhead The nursery children have been enjoying bathing the babies this morning listening to stories about bodies
View this PostWearhead Primary School In our Art lesson, class 1 looked at artwork by James Rizzi and created a piece of art based on this.
View this PostWearhead Primary School The nursery children have been completing activities about bodies this week. They have enjoyed singing 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes', listening to stories about bodies, giving the dolls a bath and getting involved with creative activities.
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