Percy Hedley Foundation

Northern Counties pupils, staff and parents have been involved in designing and promoting the ITV "Signed Stories" website, an interactive collection of well known stories which are accessible to all family members as they are presented in text, illustrations, British Sign Language (BSL) as well as being read aloud. More...

Northern Counties School held its Annual Christmas Fair on Saturday 6th December 2008 - an event which is growing each year and is great fun for all the staff, children and their families. More...

Northern Counties School was delighted to receive a new bus from the Variety Club at an official handover at St James' Park on 24th October. More...

Abi's class spent three days exploring Northumberland and Edinburgh Zoo. More...

This half term, Abi's class are working with the Northern Counties artist-in-residence, Kelly, who is working with the pupils, teaching them how to make their own puppet of themselves. Their puppets have been used for social communication lessons. More...

Abi's class spent the week beginning June 16th in the Northern Counties residential unit. The group planned various outings based on their Asdan Units, which are Horticulture and Using Public Transport. More...

As part of our Geography work on maps, directions and compass points, Sam Butlin's class (Stewart, Oliver, Mark, Anthony and Jordan) have taken up a new hobby. It is called Geocaching and it is great fun because it is just like a treasure hunt! More...

Since Northern Counties 'School for Families' opened its doors on Thursday 2 February 2006, the reaction from children and their families across the region has been fantastic. We are really pleased with the initial response to this free service which offers the chance for pre-school children and a family member to learn new skills by working together in a relaxed and informal setting. More...

Our new specialist teaching base for pupils on the autistic spectrum opened in January. The room was designed to incorporate work bays for individual teaching, a group teaching area, work space for movement and interaction and an additional area for quiet time and relaxation. More...

We were thrilled that so many parents and friends were able to join us for our Christmas performances this year. The assemblies were held on Wednesday 21 December, Primary children in the morning and older students in the afternoon. We were very proud of our students and the wonderful performances they gave. There was even a performance by some of the parents who have been attending our signing classes. Well done! More...

The younger children all enjoyed their Christmas party on Monday 19 December, in particular the visit from Santa. More...

You will have seen the coverage in the press and on the news, Northern Counties has been given an extra Christmas present this year in the form of an excellent OFSTED Inspection Report in November 2004. More...

Our Christmas Fair was a great success. Everyone had a wonderful time and there was a lovely atmosphere on the day. Thank you to everyone who came along to support us. With your help, we raised £2,431.26. More...

Some of our older students performed signed Christmas Carols at the Metro Centre on Thursday 8 December and Eldon Square on Wednesday 14 December 2005. Thank you to everyone who came along to watch and support us. We raised £1,070.29 at the Metro Centre and £844 at Eldon Square. More...

A personal friend of Matthew Lone's family, Iain Norton, mentioned to Matthew's dad a few months ago that he was planning to do a Coast to Coast bike ride (a mid life crisis brought on by hitting forty!). He wondered if Matthew's school would be willing to except some sponsorship money. Northern Counties were delighted to accept and Iain began the job of getting sponsorship from business associates and friends. More...

Some of the students in Post 16 and Sarah Gedney's class took part in an art competition this term called 'Eyes Open' to coincide with World AIDS Day. The resulting art work was displayed at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. More...

Abi's class have spent the last half term learning about the Solar system. On Thursday 20 October they visited the Mars Exhibition at the Centre for Life. More...

On Friday 7 October we were joined by parents and friends for our Harvest Festival assembly. More...

Here at Northern Counties we are very proud of our new family room. The room provides a relaxing environment for families to spend time in when in school for meetings and appointments. It has information leaflets, toys for siblings to play with and tea and coffee making facilities. More...