Class 3 attended a golf tournament organised by Education Enterprise, which was held at Bishop Auckland Golf Club.
The children tried out different golf techniques and were awarded points if they hit certain targets. They learned a lot about golf and had a great time trying the different challenges.
This is a short video of their morning…

World Piano Day was on the 29th March this year. We were very lucky to have one of our talented students to try out our very old school piano.
Please click on the link to watch a short video,

Friday 3rd February 2023
Rock Kidz tour around the country, teaching life lessons in a fun and engaging way through high energy, rockstar workshops. For our school, we have selected the Resilience, Perseverance and Dreams Workshop. This workshop encourages children to set goals, aspirations and dream big through singing, dancing, key messages and fun challenges. It’s a fantastic way to add value to PSHCE in schools through music and fun. In this session, pupils will learn an original song called ‘Don’t Quit’ which reminds them to never give up and always persevere with short and long-term goals they have. A short engaging resilience message will also be delivered by a team speaker during the session, which will unpack the song further and encourage pupils to always pursue their dreams.

Please click on the link to see a short video of the day.  https://youtu.be/SgkHvDmp7ps

A PILOT has flown home to open a reading den at our school.

Children and staff welcomed Nick Walton, who now lives in North Carolina in the US, to their Easter extravaganza show.
Nick, who lived on South Church in Bishop Auckland, as a young boy, saw the school being built in 1972 before he joined two years later.
He left in year six to live in America and he is now an aeroplane pilot with American Airways. Nick recently searched the internet for our school and found our website and learned the children were raising money to stock their library. He got in touch with headteacher Nicola James and offered to buy some new books for the school.
Mrs James bought some books with his generous donation, about being an air pilot, planes and airports to put them in the “Aspirations” section of our school library.
The hope is they will inspire the children to have dreams of being a successful air pilot and see the world, just as Nick did when he lived in Bishop Auckland.
On Friday April 8, Nick and his wife Amanda, visited our school and met the children  and enjoyed our Easter celebration.
He was a guest of honour at the official opening of the school’s new Reading Den, a space where children can read and enjoy books during their playtimes and lunchtimes.
Nick said: “This is an amazing space, I wish I had had something like this when I was a boy.” His wife added: “This is where you would have found me at recess.”
Our head teacher,Mrs James, said she was delighted to welcome the couple to our school and hear the memories Nick had of being at St Andrew’s Primary School nearly half a century ago, when it was known as Henknowle Primary School, especially as they will be celebrating the 50th anniversary in November. Mrs James said: “It was wonderful to meet Nick and show him around the school and for him to meet the children and staff. The children were so proud to show off their school and tell Nick about all the things they love about St Andrew’s.”

Welcome back! School opens Tuesday the 6th September 2022

Please watch our Core Value Song for October. The song was performed by the children in their separate bubbles at different times.
Thank you to our class 4 teacher, Miss Hewson, who wrote the song especially for our school, and to her father, Keith Hewson, who arranged the music.

Please click on the following link

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A lot of you have been learning new skills during lock-down. This included learning how to ride a bike. You sent us some great clips and photos of you either learning to ride a bike, or showing us how you already enjoy riding your bike. See if you can spot yourself in the video.

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Earlier in the year, we held our annual whole school dance assembly for parents. Each class chose a country and created a dance to some music from that area of the world. As always, our talented children entertained us with a variety of styles of dance and parents played a game to guess which country the music came from.

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