Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• WORLD BOOK DAY 2024

  Fri 08 Mar 2024

  We had a fantastic World Book Day here at New Penshaw. What a great effort by all children and their families with some very creative costumes. 

   

  The children began their day by spending some time with Kerrie from Usborne Books talking about her job and what Usborne do. They then had a chance to take their time looking through a whole range of books n offer, discussing with their friends what they liked and why. They made wish lists and some wen to buy the books at the Book fair at the end of the day.

   

  The whole school participated in a Book Project based on the story "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds: a wonderful story about Art and Creativity for children. We produced some beautiful artwork and had some very interesting discussions about the lessons and meaning within the story, and what the author's intention was when he wrote it.

  

• RAISING ASPIRATIONS - AIR POLICE VISIT

  Mon 04 Mar 2024

  RAISING ASPIRATIONS!

   

  On Monday 4th March, we had a special visitor in assembly. Jayne is a police officer for the National Police Air Service. She told us all about the police helicopter and the kind of things she does in her job. We were really interested to hear all about it.

  

• STEM EVENT - University of Sunderland

  Thu 29 Feb 2024

  Some of our children have recently been building model vehicles.

   

  The younger children in this group built an animal shaped vehicle with axles, wheels and a chassis. The older children built an electric vehicle using their scientific knowledge and D+T skills.

   

  They took these vehicles to the Primary Engineer Programme Celebration Event and tested them alongside children from other schools. The judges were so impressed with our efforts. The younger group were awarded an extra certificate for being excellent communicators when talking about their project.

   

  Well done everybody! Super STEM work!