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Congratulations to our Week 4 ‘Let Your Light Shine’ winners, Bobby and Frankie!

Well done, Bobby, for using your God-given gift in Maths so brilliantly! Your positive attitude, growing confidence, and strong mathematical skills shine through in every lesson. You work exceptionally well with…

Year 6 were thrilled to welcome Shiza, our Mental Health Support Practitioner, who kindly accepted our invitation to share her experiences as a Muslim. As part of their learning about diversity in Durham, the children were fascinated to hear about Shiza's personal faith journey and how the…

Year 6 enjoyed a truly inspiring enterprise afternoon this week. They were delighted to take part in a Zoom session with Mitch, founder and Creative Director of Shoddy Theatre Company, who shared how he followed his passion for theatre to create his own successful business. The children were…

This week we have started to think about autumn and all of the awe and wonder this season brings.  We went on walk around school to look for signs of autumn.  We noticed the leaves are beginning to change colour from green to red, yellow and brown, and found some leaves which have fallen from the…

The children have thoroughly enjoyed their history learning about ‘The Great Fire of London’.  We have talked about how the fire started, how it spread, the causes and consequences and how London was rebuilt.  The children have enjoyed all the activities including, drama, art, discussions,…

Another busy week is coming to an end and we have very lucky to welcome a new starter into the class. The class have shown have shown wonderful kindness and care and we’ve been delighted by how quickly the new students have settled into the St Stephen’s community.

In Maths this week, we’ve…

This week in English, we have been using drama to help us explore the wonderful story Old Bear.

The children became the toys from the story and worked together to create freeze frames showing the different ways the toys might try to reach the attic. We thought carefully about how our characters…

We’re writing our own stories this week; a series of paragraphs to tell the story of a creature who has arrived, without warning, causing a tremendous commotion as people become increasingly worried about the damage this imposter is doing to our town. Our focus continues to be good word choices,…

Class 6 have been working really hard on their DT project - Playground Pioneers. They have had to explore different structures and design their own playground equipment on TinkerCAD taking into account constraints. Children have then made their own prototypes using a variety of materials and…

As part of our Writing curriculum, Year 5 have been reading through our class novel called “Curiosity, a story of the Mars Rover”. Pupils have been working extremely hard to investigate the different themes and technical language used throughout the text, and are now preparing to plan and write…

This week we have been reading a story called The Colour Monster. This is a lovely story about a little monster who is feeling lots of different emotions but does not understand what they are. The story has helped us to recognise, name and talk about our own feelings. We now know that all emotions…

A huge well done to our fantastic tag rugby team!

Our children represented the school with incredible pride and dedication throughout the league matches. They put up a brilliant fight in a tough 7-4 match against the eventual league winners! While we didn't bring a trophy back to school this…