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Welcome to Lumley Junior School, a great place to learn and play.  We have fabulous facilities that include our wonderful ball park, extensive playing fields, a new school library and ICT facilities.   The school is situated in the village of Great Lumley, east of Chester-Le-street, County Durham.  We are a friendly, welcoming school with a strong ethos based around our role in the local and global communities.  We aim to provide a strong foundation for every child's future.  To achieve this class teachers are responsible for the children’s welfare and delivery of the curriculum.  Our teachers work closely with our teaching assistants.  All staff work as a team and draw on their different experiences, knowledge and expertise to ensure work is relevant and well matched to meet the needs of the children.

If at any time we do not reach your expectations please do not hesitate to contact us, as we aim to give of our very best for your children and our community.  We hope you enjoy our website and we welcome you to come and visit our school for yourself (by appointment).

The following are extracts from Year 4's written accounts of the day.

“Yesterday, Monday 30^th January, Class 2 built a Tudor house. They built the house in the school hall atLumleyJuniorSchool.”

“First we gathered in our classroom, laughing at each others costumes, especially Mr Collins who was dressed as Henry VIII.  Next Mr Whisker took our photo, he loved our costumes. We were now all jumping with excitement. After the register we all lined up to go to the Main Hall, where the fun took place.”

“Eventually we arrived at the Main Hall. The man introduced himself to everyone. He was called Charlie. Charlie put everyone into groups of Rich and Poor. He asked us questions, and he told us how hard life was for the poor in the Tudor Times.”

“After playtime we got sorted into groups of six, so we didn’t fight over who did what. Each group had an activity to do. Charlie taught us about the bricks under the houses. We made a poor person’s house. Then a rich person’s house they were both fun to build. Everyone built a dwarf wall, with fake bricks. Nobody knew the bricks were fake. Charlie grabbed a brick and tripped, the brick started to head towards one of the boys. Suddenly, the brick crashed into him. His eyes nearly popped out of his head, but luckily it wasn’t real.”

“After lunch, Charlie told us how pine was lighter than oak, so we used pine but the Tudors used oak. Before we did some activities, we got to hold some pine and some oak so we could see that pine was lighter. I couldn’t hold the oak, it was too heavy! Then we did the activities again, but Charlie made them trickier. The hardest one was bodging because we had to try and make six pegs, but we only made one!

 We started the activities that Charlie had set up for us. We started to build the top of the roof for the rich person’s house. We tried to make some pegs by bodging. We did the thatching and tiling after playtime.”

“It was half past two, and some people’s parents had started to arrive. When my Dad came, we were taking off the tiles because we had to finish off. My Dad helped me take the tiles off. Next all the children had to put some daub on the wattle. I wriggled out of it.”

Some quotes from the children at the end of the day.

“There was one thing left to do, go in the house.  Then year 3 came to see are house, then year 5 came in and finally year 6.”

“My favourite part of the day was doing tileing with my Dad. But I enjoyed it all!”

 “The adults loved the house. I LOVED IT TOO.”

“I also forgot my childminder came and I showed her how to do things.  She was fascinated. My sister loved it as well.”