The Durham Dales Federation is a federation of small rural primary schools, which was formed in September 2023. Staff from all schools work together to share expertise and to plan and deliver the curriculum. Our subject leaders co-ordinate their subjects across all the schools within our federation, which ensures that we can offer the same high-quality experiences to all pupils in our schools.
The Upper Dales schools of Wearhead and St John’s Chapel work together on a regular basis each week. At the start of the week, each school works in their own building and on Thursdays and Fridays, the schools come together on the St John’s Chapel Primary School site. On Federation days, we take advantage of the opportunities to work in larger groups with other children of the same age, and we often arrange visits and visitors for these days so that everyone can participate.
St John's Chapel This afternoon, the EYFS children have had great fun outdoors. We made leaf angels and enjoyed throwing the leaves in the air and running through them
View this PostWearhead Primary School EYFS children have had fun creating firework pictures today.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School The EYFS children had fun creating firework patterns in the glitter, this helps strengthen their fine motor skills
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Remember, remember the fifth of November This afternoon in Forest School, Class 1 has had fun melting chocolate to make sprinkle sparklers. We then made stick sparklers and firework paint. We have also enjoyed making an obstacle course and a giant leaf pile. Please remember to always be safe when around fireworks
View this PostSt John's Chapel Primary Class 3 have been learning about factors this morning. The children used counters to make arrays to find factors of different numbers.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School Well done to all of the star award winners!
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead Primary Schools **Halloween Disco ** We Had a spook-tacular time at our Halloween disco! From fang-tastic costumes to boo-gieing on the dance floor, it was a night of frightful fun!
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead In Computing, the children in year 5 & 6 have been programming a soundtrack for a section in our class text. The children used Scratch and work worked together to put their soundtrack together.
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead In Computing, the children in year 3 & 4 have been learning about packet data. They created their own image and split it up for a friend to put back together.
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead Well done to this week's special award winners!
View this PostSt. John's Chapel and Wearhead Primary Schools The EYFS children have had a busy morning making and decorating biscuits!
View this PostSt John's Chapel & Wearhead In Maths, we have been learning to calculate the area of a parallelogram. The children cut out parallelograms and made them into rectangles to calculate the area.
View this PostHamsterley Primary School The children all had a fantastic time at the Halloween disco yesterday evening!
View this PostWearhead Primary School Class 1 have been exploring form based on James Rizzi's artwork by cutting, layering and overlapping paper.
View this PostSt John's Chapel Primary School In Early Years this week, we have been having some Halloween fun. We have been carving pumpkins, playing in the spooky water, making magic potions outside and making web sun catchers.
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