West Jesmond Primary School

We are pleased to announce that two of our children have won in the The Great Digital Stottie Trail design competition. We are so excited to see what their designs will look like when they come to life on the trail. Thank you to Big River Bakery for letting us be a part of this exciting opportunity! 🍞🎨

Year 6 had a fantastic morning at the Tyneside Cinema celebrating the end of their time at West Jesmond Primary. A huge thank you to everyone at the Tyneside Cinema for providing such a wonderful end of year experience!

As part of our Humanities learning about Grace Darling, Year 1 enjoyed an exciting visit to the RNLI Lifeboat Station at Cullercoats.
We met some amazing RNLI volunteers who, just like Grace Darling, dedicate their time to helping keep people safe at sea.
We loved trying on and exploring the lifesaving equipment, learning about the different beach safety flags.
Afterwards, we had lots of fun playing on the beach, building in the sand and keeping our eyes peeled to spot Steven Seagull! 🐦🏖️
It was a fantastic day of learning, exploring and making memories while discovering how bravery, kindness and teamwork continue to save lives today.
A huge thank you to the wonderful RNLI volunteers and parent volunteers for making our visit so special! ❤️💙

🏁 The Results Are In! 🏎️🎉 The Formula 1 Society from Newcastle University returned to our school this week to announce the winners of our F1 livery competition! 🏆✨ Our children were thrilled to see the winning design from each year group transformed into a realistic Formula 1 race car. It was fantastic to see their creativity brought to life and celebrate all of the amazing ideas they submitted. 🎨🚗 A huge thank you to the Formula 1 Society for coming back to share the winning designs and for giving our children such an inspiring experience. 🙌 Congratulations to all of our winners, and well done to everyone who took part—we're so proud of your creativity, imagination and hard work! 🏁🌟

Today, Year 6 had a visit from Martin, who works for the RNLI, who talked to us all about how to keep safe around water. He talked to us about what happens to the body when we enter cold water and showed us some rescue footage. Martin told us which flags to look out for to tell us where it is safe to swim, how to protect ourselves on the beach and what to do if we get into trouble in the water.

Year 6 have had a fantastic day making pizzas as part of our Design Technology project. We designed our own pizzas, practised weighing accurately and chopping toppings safely. We loved taste testing and evaluating our creations too!

Year 6 enjoyed a brilliant ‘Moving Up!’ workshop with NERAP today, which was a great opportunity to reflect upon ourselves as learners, our highlights from primary school and consider our next steps to secondary school and beyond. We talked about the different future pathways on offer to us, such as, the possibility of college, university or an apprenticeship and how this might lead us to our dream future career. We also discussed the skills and qualifications we might need to get there.

Year 4 had a wonderful day celebrating Green Day! 🌳We had visitors Fiona and Jane from North East Nature Park who helped us answer our question 'How can we help biodiversity in our local area?' We conducted some research to find out if our playground is permeable and how many pollinators we could see. We then added this data to their national habitat mapper. Thank you for a great workshop! 🌱

Yesterday, as part of Year 2's Green Day, the children explored the question: "What is renewable energy?". They investigated different sources of renewable energy and learned why these are a more sustainable choice for our planet compared to non-renewable energy sources. The children enjoyed discussing how renewable energy can help create a cleaner, greener future. We were also delighted to welcome a visitor - Tom Walker from Statkraft, who shared how wind turbines generate clean energy. Inspired by what they had learned, the children designed and made their own wind turbines to take home! A fantastic day of creativity and environmental awareness. Well done, Year 2!