The Arts

Today we have been strengthening our fingers and hands by spraying the snow with food colouring and set up business making and selling snow ice creams and snow pies.

As part of our Artsmark award we are working with Beamish to develop links for curriculum through art. Norman Cornish, a pitman painter, is our focus. Article 29  

We had such amazing entries in our ‘Animal Art’ painting competition! It was so hard to choose a winner and the runners up. It was clear that everyone worked very hard. A huge congratulations to Anna who painted a brown bear and amazed us all with her artistic talents! Well done everyone! Article 29

Year 4 were using their artistic skills today at Beamish. They explored how you can learn about history through art…found artistic artefacts…and shaded sketches in the style of Norman Cornish. All in all a very busy artistic day ?…and a visit to Beamish wouldn’t be complete without a ride on

At Front Street we will be celebrating World Book Day on Friday 2nd March. The children can come to school dressed as a favourite character from a book but there is no obligation to do this. They will also come home with a £1 book token which can be used in many local book shops, either towards t

We have had a great time learning about Chinese New Year in Nursery. It has been lots of fun! Article 14,28

The children have been enjoying painting their candle holders and tiles in their first time at Art Club. Everyone had a great time. Article 29

Year 1 children have recently taken part in a project called ‘Paper Playgrounds’ at the Thought Foundation in Birtley. The project came about when one of the children from Yr1 came first in a competition ran by the gallery. The school and parents came together to extend her prize to involve all of t

On Wednesday 7th February the whole school took part in sign2sing 2018. Signing and singing along to the song Friends Forever. We have been collecting donations to raise deaf awareness. Well done Front Street, we have over 2300 views on our Facebook video! Article 23

Today we had our last dance session with Cheryl. We put all of our movements together and make a fossil dance and a dinosaur dance! It was great fun and we are getting better at skipping, jumping, stretching and balancing too! Article 28 29