Ox Close Crescent, Spennymoor, Co Durham, DL16 6RU
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Please feel free to download the Parent’s Guide to the new National Curriculum. This guide is intended to support parents. Obviously it
would be impossible to set out in detail everything your child would learn during their six years of primary education, but by providing an outline of typical content and some background information about how the curriculum and assessment works, hopefully it will help you support your children in making the most of their education.
Parent’s Complete Guide to new National Curriculum
The following jigsaw charts also display the curriculum coverage year-by-year and provide a useful outline of the content your child will cover.
We are delighted to continue our partnership with Durham Music Service. We are aware that at times you may have questions that the school office can’t answer. Please follow the link below to the Durham Music Service website for more information.
We are fortunate to have a terrific partnership with Oxclose Nursery, an outstanding well established nursery school. Our Reception children take advantage of the nursery facilities each day. The nursery which is on our site, offers wrap around care to our children. This is on offer from 7:45 am until school starts and from 3:15pm until 5:30pm. Please follow the link to find out more about this wonderful nursery.
Community Garden
We are delighted to be able to use Sam Jackson and Scout Ed as our Outdoor Education consultants this year. Sam has already started working with our children and he will work with all classes over the course of the year.
Information about Outdoor Education
Please open up the attached document which gives extra information about the content of Sam’s sessions. For more information please see the website link below.
Mae Bostock enjoyed amazing success in the National Schools Judo Qualifiers in Nottingham last weekend.
After triumphing in each of her four contests, Mae was awarded a gold medal!
She now moves forward to the finals in Sheffield where she will represent the school on March 7th. We are all very proud of Mae and wish her well!
There was good reason to celebrate in October when the school successfully achieved the International Schools Award. The award was presented at a prestigious ceremony, which was held at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. Miss Robson had submitted the application before she went on maternity and gave evidence of the superb international dimension that is offered at Ox Close.
Mr Harrison received news of the success early in the term and attended the ceremony along with Miss Smith, who leads Modern Foreign Languages, and two pupils- Talia Cowan of 5/6S and Jessica Chan of 3/4S.
There were keynote speakers present, including international explorers and representatives from the British Council, and the event proved to be very enjoyable. Councillor Pat Lawton, Deputy Mayor of Spennymoor, went on the stage with the Ox Close delegation and agreed to support the school during International Week following the event.
Mr Harrison said, “We are very proud of the fact that we offer such a broad experience to our pupils rather than a narrow exam based curriculum. This award follows other prestigious awards such as Artsmark Gold, which acknowledges the commitment to Music and Art. In itself, the International Schools Award is a great achievement and it is especially important to present a balanced global perspective in the current political climate. Over the last 3 years we have offered Mandarin and now other schools are beginning to follow this trend. Visits to France are also a long standing tradition. I would like to thank Miss Robson and Miss Smith and to congratulate Talia and Jessica, who were model pupils on the day.”
Last week, 20 boys and girls from Year 5 and 6 qualified for the Sportshall Athletics Finals at Sunnydale Leisure Centre. The athletics competition consisted of numerous individual and team indoor events, such as the ‘speed bounce’ and the ‘obstacle relay’.
The children did very well to qualify for the finals and Mr Heron and Miss Hockridge (who accompanied the children) said that the children represented the school magnificently!
