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 In our Science lesson today, Key Stage 1 went on a materials hunt around school. We had to say what material we thought an object was made from and then record it in a table in our books.
View this PostPlease see this week's #WakeUpWednesday, which is all about the impact energy drinks can have on children.
View this PostSt John's Chapel and Rookhope The children in reception have been looking at the globe to find the United Kingdom and the four countries within.
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Rookhope In Maths, some of the children have been using numicon and numicon pegs to put mixed numbers on a number line.
View this PostChapel Tots is on today at St John's Chapel Primary School from 1.30pm - 3.00pm. It is open for all children aged 0 - 3 years old and is FREE! Refreshments will be available for all. We hope to see you there!
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Rookhope In English, the children have been using dictionaries to find the definitions of difficult vocabulary in our new class text.
View this PostWearhead In class 1 Reception are working hard with their number formation. They have been using the Ten Town characters and rhymes to help them remember them.
View this PostWearhead In class 1 today we started our new Art topic, Flower Head. We began by examining a variety of flowers. We then talked about their visual elements, including their shape, form, colour and pattern. The children then used what they had learnt to draw their chosen flower including the details that they had observed.
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Rookhope In Art, the children have been learning about continuous line drawings. They used pencil and charcoal to create their own continuous line drawings of different shaped bottles.
View this PostSt John's Chapel Primary In Class 1, our new art topic is called 'Flower Head'. We were introduced to the theme of our topic by watching a video about different flowers. Using talk partners, we discussed the flowers' visual elements, including their shape, form, colour and pattern. Then, we explored flowers in the classroom, before making a simple sketch of our chosen flower. We observed our flower carefully and tried to include some of the visual elements in our sketches
View this PostTake a look at our new website! We are very excited to share it with you. www.durhamdalesfed.co.uk
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Here is what we have been up to this week in Class 1 for the lead up to Easter. We have made Easter Bunnies in the play dough area, went on an egg hunt in the tuff tray, made daffodils, pasta cardboard eggs and carrot word searches in Peter Rabbits garden, Easter cards in R.E and Easter number bonds. Have a brilliant Easter Holiday!
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Thank you to everyone who came to the Easter service this afternoon, the children were fabulous like always! We hope everyone has a fantastic Easter holiday.
View this PostRookhope, St John's Chapel & Wearhead Primary Schools Thank you to all of our parents/carers who came along to our Easter craft morning. The children really enjoyed spending time with their grown-ups in school. We had all an 'eggcellent' time!
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Class 1's entries for our Easter Egg competition. Thank you parents for our egg donations. Well done everyone
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