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 Year 5 and 6 have been investigating how circuit components function and what happens when components are changed or added in a series circuit.
View this PostThe children in EYFS have enjoyed exploring their dinosaur park today.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Class 2 have been carrying on with their soap sculptures and have also started looking at stencilling.
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead This morning, the children in year 5 & 6 have been investigating how changing a circuit will change what the different components do.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School The children made salad in cookery club tonight!
View this PostSt. John's Chapel Primary School This week, Class 2 and Class 3 made soap carving sculptures after learning about Inuit art.
View this PostSt. John's Chapel Primary School Class 1 enjoyed their art lesson yesterday exploring and describing different textures.
View this PostSt. John's Chapel and Wearhead Take a look at our superstars from this week...
View this PostSt John's Chapel Primary School Save Our Sandwich Theatre Performance & Drama Workshop We had an amazing time watching the "Save Our Sandwich" theatre performance and drama workshop! The children were fully engaged and had so much fun participating in the interactive storytelling, drama, music, and movement activities. A huge thank you to Mad Alice Theatre Company for bringing this fantastic experience to life! Check out some highlights from the day!
View this PostWearhead Primary School We have had an exciting morning watching a fabulous performance of 'Save our Sandwich' by the Mad Alice Theatre Company which has been funded by the Weardale Action Partnership. This afternoon, both classes took part in a drama workshop where they played games and sang songs and rhymes while performing actions. Class 2 also created their own musical notation using pieces of fruit! Weardale Action Partnership (AAP)
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Well done to all of the star award winners and those who finished their good to be green sticker charts!
View this PostOur topic this term in Early Years is, Dangerous Dinosaurs We are learning all about different animals that roamed Earth millions of year ago. This morning the children had a great time playing in the dinosaur swamp
View this PostWearhead Primary School Today, Class 2 were learning to accompany the song "Hit the Road Jack" on the ukulele with Mrs Millar from the Durham Music Service
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Save Our Sandwich! Class 1 and 2 have had a fantastic day taking part in a healthy eating workshop! They watched a fabulous performance this morning all about healthy eating and sharing. Then, the children played different games and completed different healthy eating themed activities. The children now all have a good understanding of what we can do to keep our bodies healthy. Thank you so much to Mad Alice Theatre Company for a fantastic day!
View this PostHamsterley Primary School This afternoon in Jigsaw (PSHE), KS1 were set the goal of making a jam sandwich. They needed to follow different steps and try different things in order to achieve the end goal.
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