Transport & Pollution

17th October 2022Lee Wilkinson

B13 (Pine) Class have worked hard this term studying different types of transport and exploring different types of pollution. The children in B13 took a trip to Woodhorn and The Land Sea and Air Museum, they particularly enjoyed sitting in the old war cars and aircraft.

Queen Elizabeth II

9th September 2022Lee Wilkinson
The Dales School is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen.
The children at Ashdale were so excited yesterday having received a letter and card from Balmoral Castle in response to letters they sent celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Along with the rest of the nation we offer our deepest condolences to the Royal Family at this time. The Queen will be forever remembered for her devotion to this country.

Train Update

22nd July 2022Neil Simpson
We were invited by Northern Rail to take a ride on the new Northumberland Line. Some children were able to see their houses, we also passed the school. It was very exciting. Northern Rail handed out goody bags to all the children, with a special book included.
We had a ride on three trains in one day. It was a very busy day. We learned a lot about how to travel by train. We waited for the train at Newcastle Central station. It was very busy and we saw loads of different trains. The children are becoming very good train travelers.
The weatherproofing for the train was completed this term. Noel Forte and Barry Lewis from Henkel kindly helped to demonstrate how to apply the Weatherproofing products. We would like to thank Henkel for donating £50,000 of products to help waterproof the train. Noel and Barry have gone above and beyond to help the Dales train project, we could not thank them enough.
Noel is running the great North run in memory of his Son Luke for the charity YoungMinds. Please see the link to his just giving page
We had a visit from Neil from the Aln valley Railway. Neil helped to take out the train controls for the new driving simulator installation. Thanks for all the help Neil.
Thank you to all the help from Northern Rail, Network Rail, Henkel, Northumberland CC, The police Cadets, British volt and Morgan Sindall AECOM,Neil from the Aln Valley railway and TEXO

Queen’s Jubilee Medals

28th June 2022Neil Simpson

Thank you to Cllrs Grant and Susan Davey for coming into school to hand out special medals for the Queen’s jubilee. The medals were donated by Blyth county council. The children were very excited to receive them. We even had a special guest driving the train. We would also like to thank Blyth council for funding our Jubilee party at school. We all had a great time.

Rebound Therapy

25th June 2022Lee Wilkinson

Huge congratulations to our new Rebound Therapy team. Everyone passed the 2 day course this week, meaning we have an opportunity to roll out this great therapy to even more of our Dales children. Our team will create bespoke pupil profiles, engage children in sensory regulation and enjoy intensive interaction sessions amongst a lot of fun.

Well done our bouncing buddies. We look forward to regular online updates to see our new, improved school Therapy offer.

Train Blog

24th June 2022Neil Simpson

We have had a very busy successful July with a lot of work taking place.

Thank you to Morgan Sindall, NCC and the Cadets for helping clean the train and also for the work in the school garden. Thank you to Morgan sindall ground control for cutting back the large trees in the garden. The garden is looking amazing and the children were amazed to see how beautiful you had made it.

The Cadets worked very hard moving all the train seats from the garden as well as cleaning and mopping the train.

Thank you to everyone involved, particularly Reemer for organising the groups of volunteers, we are extremely grateful.

Outdoor Learning Blog

24th June 2022Neil Simpson

This week in outdoor learning we have looked at Eric Carl and his amazing art work. We read his book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We then went on to design and make our own butterfly, looking at symmetry and even made our own Eric Carl art work. In the Garden we explored insects and bugs under a microscope.

B9 Lights, Camera, Action!

13th June 2022Neil Simpson

This week in B9 we have been learning all about the famous photographer Edward Weston. The children were given cameras and were allowed to explore the school, taking pictures of things they found inspirational.