Burnside Primary School and Nursery

🐒🐾 A Wild Day Out in Edinburgh! 🐾🦁

Our Year 6 pupils had an absolutely wild time at Edinburgh Zoo yesterday! They had so much fun exploring and seeing all of the amazing animals.

As always, their behaviour was exemplary throughout the trip and they represented our school beautifully. We are so proud of them! 🌟

We would like to say a huge thank you for the generous donation of bedding plants. All classes throughout the school have had the opportunity to help plant the flowers in the front garden.

We are so happy with how bright and colourful it looks, now offering a picturesque and uplifting space for our school.

🌱🎉 WE DID IT! WE HAVE RECEIVED A SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH AWARD! 🎉🌱

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a Schools for Nature digital badge and certificate - personally signed by Sir David Attenborough himself! 📜✨

This incredible recognition is for all of our hard work in improving the biodiversity of our school grounds. Together, our amazing children and staff have planted trees, beautiful wildflowers and a fantastic variety of fruits and vegetables to create a haven for local wildlife. 🐝🌸🍎

We are so incredibly proud of our pupils for showing such care and dedication to looking after our planet. Way to go, team! 🌍💚

🥈 FANTASTIC RESULTS FOR YEAR 4! 🥈

Our wonderful Year 4 children took part in a Tri-Golf competition today where they competed in a whole variety of different activities.

Every single one of them worked extremely hard and tried their absolute best. We are thrilled to share that they came second overall - and were only 2 points off first place! 🏌️‍♂️⛳

Well done, Team Burnside! 🌟👏

🏆 AMAZING NEWS FROM THE 'IF YOU WERE AN ENGINEER' NORTH EAST AWARDS! 🏆

We are bursting with pride today! Yesterday, the regional Exhibition and Awards ceremony took place and Burnside Primary had some incredible success.

Huge congratulations to Ada (Year 1) and Henry (Year 6), who were both named regional winners for their fantastic designs! 🌟

The celebrations didn't stop there - Henry also took home the highly prestigious regional 'Judges Award' and the professional engineers on the judging panel were incredibly impressed with his innovative idea. 🛠️💡

To put their achievements into perspective, there were over 70,000 entries nationally, split across just 25 regions. For Burnside to have two regional winners and a Judges Award is an absolutely phenomenal achievement!

Please join us in giving Ada and Henry a massive round of applause. The future of engineering looks very bright indeed! 👏👏👏

Autism Family Drop-In Sessions

We are delighted to share details of some fantastic Autism Family Drop-In Sessions being run by Northumberland County Council!

These sessions are a wonderful, relaxed opportunity for parents and carers to meet other families, share experiences and access helpful advice and support in a friendly environment.

🎉 HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO MRS. HIGHAM! 🎉

We have some incredibly proud school news to share!

Our brilliant Mrs. Higham has been appointed as a Primary Mastery Specialist with the prestigious Great North Maths Hub !

The assessors visited our school recently to watch her teach, and they were completely blown away by her energy, her clear explanations, and her absolute passion for helping children master mathematics.

The best part? She isn’t going anywhere! Mrs. Higham will continue to be a full-time teacher right here at Burnside.

In her new role, she will be working alongside regional experts and bringing the absolute best, cutting-edge teaching strategies straight back into our classrooms. This means all of our pupils will benefit from enhanced, world-class math provision.

We are so lucky to have teachers who constantly strive for excellence. Thank you for everything you do, Mrs. Higham!

From little seeds to a spectacular sunflower field! 🌱➡️🌻

Our Burnside sunflowers have been collected today for the Sunflower Project!

The children have been lovingly caring for their plants since the start of this half term. They are now heading to SUEZ's Seghill site, where they will join sunflowers from other schools to create a magical nature trail and sunflower field for the community to enjoy. 🌟

A huge thank you to everyone involved, and a massive well done to our children for their fantastic gardening skills!

Incredible effort for an incredible cause 🏅❤️

A HUGE thank you to all the amazing children, parents, and staff who laced up their trainers and took part in the Children’s Cancer Run on Sunday representing Burnside Primary!

The atmosphere was incredible, and it was wonderful to see so many of our school community coming together, having fun and running for such an important cause.

Whether you ran the 1, 3, or 5-mile route, you did us incredibly proud!

It’s and our pupils are ready to take on ! 🚶‍♀️🚲

We are so proud to join to celebrate the joy of walking and wheeling to school. Not only does it help keep us active and healthy, but it also makes the area around our school gates much safer and cleaner for everyone. 🌍✨

We can’t wait to see our wallcharts filling up with stickers! Who’s ready to earn their trophy? 🏆