Archive of Latest News
Latest news is now shared via our Head Teacher blog which is published in the Parents section of the website. Please also visit our Twitter feed for a window into our curriculum offer and to see the purposeful and memorable learning experiences in each year group. Our Twitter feed can be accessed on the Home page of our website or by clicking on the Twitter icon in the top left corner of this page.
Please find below an archive of the news stories that we published before we started to use Twitter.
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Y5 Outdoor Adventure Orienteering Lesson
Fri 26 Oct 2018As part of the PE, maths and geography curricula, the children in Y5 completed an orienteering lesson in our beautiful school grounds. Using an aerial photograph of the school, the children applied their mapping skills to find points in the grounds and then completed a maths problem at each point. -
OWL Trust Film Project
Fri 26 Oct 2018Miss Sewell has taken a group of children to Milecastle Primary School this week in order to take part in the Digital Leaders project. The aim of this project is to create an anti-cyber-bullying film that can be shown to all children through out the Trust during Anti-bullying Week. The film will be written, acted, directed and edited by the children with guidance from adults. Look out for further information about this exciting project during Anti-bullying week in November. -
Harvest Donations - Thank you!
Fri 26 Oct 2018Our Year 6 School Counsellors have been working hard to sort and organise all of the food donations that we have received from our families across the school. Miss Liddle will be delivering the food to the Newcastle West End Food Bank on Friday. She is proud to be making such a large delivery of food. Thank you for supporting this important community project. -
Share a Morning and PACT Sessions
Fri 26 Oct 2018Thank you to all of the parents/carers who were able to join us this week in our Share A Morning and PACT sessions. We hope that the time that you have spent with us has given you a better understanding of your child’s school day. The children love to have you in school and we have really enjoyed getting to know you and showing you some of the teaching and learning that takes place all throughout every day here in Throckley Primary School. -
2020/21 Admission Policy Consultation
Thu 25 Oct 2018Schools in the Outer West Learning Trust are carrying out a consultation about the 2020/21 Admission Policy, from 5th November 2018 - 16th December 2018. Please click on the link below to read the Throckley Primary draft policy. We are consulting on a specific section of the policy which can be found in the bullet point No 2 on page 1 of the draft document. If you have any comments that you would like to make about this section of the draft policy, please contact Lee Comstock, School Business Manager on 0191 267 5311 or by email at Lee.Comstock@throckleyprim.newcastle.sch.uk.
If you would like to read the draft policies of the other schools in the Outer West Learning Trust, please visit the individual school websites. The contact details for commenting on the policies will also be listed on the websites. The schools in the OWL Trust who are consulting on their Admission Policies are listed below.
- Knoplaw Primary School
- Lemington Riverside Primary School
- Milecastle Primary School
- Newburn Primary School
- Simonside Primary School
- Throckley Primary School
- Waverley Primary School
- West Denton Primary School
- Westerhope Primary School
Please see latest news documents for more info.
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Y5 Team Games Festival
Fri 19 Oct 2018A team of Year 5 pupils attended a games festival at the Walker Activity Dome with other children from across the city. The children played various team sports, including bench ball, dodge ball and hand ball. Throckley Primary children have been learning about dodge ball during their curricular PE sessions this term and they were particularly good at this game! Throughout the festival, the children earned stickers when they showed Determination, Team Work or Respect. Miss Richardson was very proud because the Throckley children earned lots of these special stickers! -
National Word Day
Fri 19 Oct 2018On Wednesday, words were celebrated in all their glory for National Word Day 2018! Across the school, children explored different words linked in with their current learning. Through a wide variety of activities, such as, poetry, riddles, Boggle and word clouds, they were able to apply their new learning to support their progress in reading, writing, spelling and in other subjects. Some children even explored the Latin translation of their word to find the origin. During break and lunchtimes, children had the opportunity to practise writing their word on the yard in chalk and share their favourite and least favourite words on a word wall in the corridor. Ask your children about the new words that they have been learning. -
National Restart A Heart Day
Fri 19 Oct 2018As part of National Restart a Heart Day and our PSHE curriculum, KPM First Aid Trainers, Pam McCormack (who works in our office) and Karen delivered CPR training to four of the classes in Years 2, 3 & 4. Pam and Karen were impressed with how the children engaged with the training and they are pleased that so many of our children now have these vital life-saving skills. One of these children may save a life someday! -
Throckley Dodgeball Champions!
Fri 19 Oct 2018Teams of Throckley children in years 3, 4, 5 & 6 were able to demonstrate the dodgeball skills that they have been learning in PE this term at the annual OWL Trust Dodgeball competition. Seven schools from the Trust visited Throckley to participate in the tournament and Throckley won the trophy for a second year. Well done to our Dodgeball Champions! -
Year 3 at Beamish
Fri 12 Oct 2018Year 3 visited Beamish as part of their History topic, 'Children Past and Present'. While there, they spent time in a 1940's farm house and learned about what children would have been required to do during an air raid. They then spent time in a 1900's Victorian school house where they were given lessons and they then went to an 1820's hall where the children were made to do tasks like cleaning pots and sweeping the floors. The children were looking carefully at how childhood was different across the three time periods and they have used their experiences at Beamish to create some great discursive arguments and recounts on their return to school.