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Thank you to everyone who joined us on Wednesday 17th October to celebrate Harvest.
The children performed beautifully and treated the audience to a range of songs,poems and prayers. We raised £181.00 and school donated a percentage of this to The People's Kitchen.

We are a Healthy School and in Year 1/2 we have been focussing on healthy eating. We had a visit from Mrs Robson who encouraged us all to try and eat a healthy and balanced diet. We had fun trying a variety of exotic fruit - some of them made our "cheeks cringe" and our "tongues tingle" ! We tried our hands at cooking healthy flapjacks too - they were scrummy !

We enjoyed our visit from Mini the circus performer. All the children,and staff,learnt some amazing new skills such as juggling scarves,balancing feathers,plate spinning and pedal-go riding - it was great fun !

A reminder of some of our Christmas Events.

As part of our topic "Around Our School" we enjoyed a fantastic trip to the Gateshead / Newcastle Quayside. We visited the Sage Music Centre, the Baltic Arts Centre and walked over the Millennium Bridge. Later the same day we visited the Angel of the North. All of the children behaved brilliantly and were a credit to themselves and the school.

On Thursday 10th January the Panto came to school.

In December 2007 the Year 1 and 2 children put on their amazing performance of The Innkeeper's Breakfast.
The audience were delighted and the children were fantastic.
Well done Year 1 and 2.

During the Autumn term all the Year 2 children went down to Joseph Swan to complete some PE tasks and to work alongside other children from different Gateshead schools.
All the children had great fun, whilst at the same time learning new skills and meeting new friends.
The children were all well behaved and were a credit to our school. Well done everyone.

We are fortunate to have a number of coaches coming into school during this term, including tennis coach Jonathan Newton, who has coached a number of different classes across the school. He is currently working with Mrs Damti's class. Mrs Barnes' and Mrs Walker's class are receiving coaching from the Eagles as part of the Hoops for Health programme, prior to their tournament later this term. Mr Otterson's class have just begun a programme of rugby coaching on a Thursday afternoon - so watch out Jonny Wilkinson!

Friends of Glynwood will be holding Valentine's Discos on Wednesday 13th February.
Reception and Key Stage 1 - 4 to 5pm
Key Stage 2 - 5:15 to 6:15
Entry £1

To link with National Science and Engineering Week, we are holding our own Science week in school. All children Year 1 to Year 6 will be going on a science visit that week, more details will follow in the Newsletter. There will be lots of fun science activities and crazy experiments going on in school. Watch out for fun things going on.

As part of National Science week, all classes Year 1 to Year 6 will be going on visits connected to science.
Year 1 and 2 classes will be going to Sunderland Winter Gardens on Friday afternoon to learn about weather around the World.
Year 3 and 4 classes will be going to the Shipley Art Gallery to do some felt making.
Miss Walkers class will go on Monday morning, Mrs Etheringtons on Thursday afternoon and Miss Masons on Friday afternoon.
Year 5 and 6 will be going to the Discovery Museum on Tuesday afternoon to watch Professor Brainstorm perform some amazing experiments and explosions.
We hope all the classes enjoy their visits.

All children will be working with Jonathan Newton, the professional tennis coach at some time this academic year. This half term he is working with Mrs Barnes' and Miss Mason's classes.

Congratulations to the children who entered the Northumbria In Bloom Competition.
All entries were displayed at Saltwell park on Saturday 8th March.
There were lots of amazing paintings done by our children.
We also entered lots of bulbs we had grown ourselves.

Children who made their own miniature gardens did particularly well.
Louise Dixon came 3rd and Harry Dodds came 2nd in their category.

Shona Mullen came 3rd and Devon Armstrong came 2nd in their category.

Reception made 2 different entries in different categories and
came 2nd in both. Well done to everybody who entered.

To link with National Science week we held our own science week at Glynwood, during the week of 10th to 14th March.
All classes Year 1 to 6 went out on science visits and really enjoyed them. Years 1 and 2 had fun at Sunderland Winter Gardens. Years 3 and 4 enjoyed making their own felt at the Shipley Art Gallery. Years 5 and 6 had great fun watching some explosive experiments with Professor Brainstorm at the Discovery Museum.
In addition, children took part in fun science activities and experiments in class.
Lots were connected to food, so we made honeycomb toffee,

experimented with making our own sherbet,

as well as making bath bombs, making rockets fly high

and playing with balloon powered cars.
Well done to everyone who joined in.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools has various games relating to all areas of the curriculum for Key Stage 1 and 2.
Copy and paste the address into your web browser.

This Wednesday will be the last time we will be selling our Fairtrade products after school. But don't panic, we will have a Fairtrade stall at our Summer Fair in July.

Several classes are having sports coaching this half term, and having loads of fun learning new sports skills.
Year 5 - cricket, athletics, golf
Year 5/6 - cricket, athletics
Year 6 - girls' football
Year 1/2 - dance
Year 3/4 - basketball
Year 3/4 - funfit
Cricket coaching is through the Chance to Shine initiative, FunFit and basketball are run by our own Mrs Armstrong, the other coaching is provided through the PE Partnership.

The week beginning 9th June was Arts Week. Everyone had a great week!
Foundation Stage made collages based on Matisse's Snail, made models of minibeasts, decorated tea light holders.
Year 1/2 made sock puppets, did weaving with carrier bags, decorated glass jars, designed and decorated T shirts.
Year 3/4 had a Roman theme for the week. They made life size soldiers using collage, mosaics, jewellery, finger puppets.
Year 5/6 drew landscapes and Northumbrian landmarks using pencil, paint, pastel, mosaic and mixed media.

Photos from the week will soon be added to the Gallery - watch this space!

This week (16th to 20th June) is Healthy Schools Week.
All of the classes will be doing work about how to live a healthy lifestyle by eating a balanced, healthy diet and taking plenty of exercise.
There are also lots of sporting events taking place. Year 1 Multi-Skills is on Wednesday. Year 2 Cricket tournament is on Thursday. Key Stage 2 will be taking part in the Glynwood Games on Friday.

Just to remind you that it is Early Years and Key Stage One Sports Day on Thursday 3rd July at 9.30 am.
Nursery will have their races first, then can either stay with a grown up or can go home.
Please can we remind you that children need to come to school ready in the morning with their kits and trainers on.
They will also need their water bottles, sun hats and cream, because of course it is going to be a beautiful day!!!
There will be sausage sandwiches for sale, as well as other refreshments, cakes and crisps, So please bring along some pennies.
Programmes will be on sale, but each one will hold a special number.
A winning number will be drawn at the end which will win a prize.
Don't forget too the parents race. We all look forward to it, so get practising. There will be a prize for ladies and mens races too.
See you all on Thursday.

On Thursday 3rd July children from Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed their sports day. Children competed in events such as running, sprint and long distance, ball and spoon, obstacle, skipping races, the welly waddle and relay races.

Teachers then joined the 3 legged race. Victory went to Mrs Yielder and Mrs Damti.
Finally everyone enjoyed watching the parents race.

Luckily the sun shone all morning for us and a great time was had by all.
Thank you to all who attended and supported us and helped make the morning such a success.

As part of our Eco-Schools work, we have written our Glynwood eco-code. Each class spent a PSHE lesson writing eco-codes, then a winner was chosen. The winning eco-code was written by Emily Eccleston of Year 5.

Year 1/2 went on a trip to St John's church. There we had a good look around and Reverend Tully spoke to us about his role in church. We asked some fantastic questions about the stained glass windows and the graveyard. Reverend Tully was very impressed.
We all enjoyed this trip and some children said that they would like to return again with their families.

As a school we were involved in raising money for the NSPCC. Foundation Stage did a sponsored colouring activity, Key Stage 1 children did a sponsored spelling activity, Key Stage 2 children did a sponsored maths challenge.
The children were all very enthusiastic & we raised a huge £1,916 for this worthy cause. The children were all rewarded for their efforts with prizes.

October 23rd saw the first House Time of the year and it was celebrated with a Halloween Theme. Children from throughout the school gathered in their respected houses for an afternoon of quizzes, silly games, art activities, spelling competitions and even Ducking for Apples!

All the children behaved fantastically and worked extremely well as part of a team. A particular highlight was Lauryn Burdis' new world record for apple bobbing of 11 seconds! It was a close run thing, but the overall winners of the event was OTTERS !!!!! Thank you to all the adults who helped out to make the event such a success.

On Wednesday 3rd December, ex-Newcastle United & England footballer, Peter Beardsley came into school to take part in a special assembly. We all wore black and white for the day.

On Tuesday 16th December Year one and two went to the Customs House, South Shields to see Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Everyone enjoyed the entertainment and children were eager to find out what next years performance will be!

On Tuesday 16th December Year one and two went to the Customs House, South Shields to see Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Everyone enjoyed the entertainment and children were eager to find out what next years performance will be!

On Monday 15th December Year 1 and 2 had their Christmas Party. We had party games,dancing, food and a visit from the man in red. We had a fantastic time !

As a Bike It school and as part of our commitment to encourage active travel to school, we are delighted to announce that we are taking part in the National, Bike It Virtual Bike Race event starting the 2nd March 2009!

Our next meeting will take place at 6.00pm on Monday October 5th 2009 at the Victoria Pub, Low Fell. Please come along and get involved!

Breakfast Club
Open each morning from 7.50am. £1.50 each day.

If you have any questions about the Breakfast Club please speak to Mrs Armstrong or Ms Ferguson.

Our next film is the old classic Disney film, Dumbo. It will finish at 4:40pm.

The annual Christmas Quiz took place on the final morning of the Autumn term and proved a great success. It was a close run thing going right down to the final round, but eventuallly the Hedgehogs proved victorious despite the children being hindered by the performance of some of the staff on their team! Well done to all those who took part and a big round of applause to the winners.

If you have any old fashion or style magazines that you don't need any more, can you please send them in to Mr Otterson for his class to use in their topic work this term. Many thanks
Mr Otterson

We have introduced a new texting service in school to help us keep you better informed. General reminders and important messages will be sent this way.

As part of our topic celebrations we had our very own wedding at Glynwood Primary. The blushing Bride wore a beautiful bridal gown with her very own Bridesmaids and Page Boy. The wedding party consisted of Mother and Father of the Bride, Ushers, Vicar, Photographers and the Congregation. There wasn`t a dry eye in the house!

As part of our topic celebrations we had our very own wedding at Glynwood Primary. The blushing Bride wore a beautiful bridal gown with her very own Bridesmaids and Page Boy. The wedding party consisted of Mother and Father of the Bride, Ushers, Vicar, Photographers and the Congregation. There wasn`t a dry eye in the house!

Another celebration celebrated by Year 1 and 2 was the Christening of dolly Daisy. We walked to the St John`s Church and had the Christening led by Rev Howell. He explained to us what happens in a Christening and showed us the Font.

In Year 1 and 2 we have introduced Read Write Inc from January. The children are split between 4 staff groups. The children have shown great progress and enthusiasm for the work.

In Year 1 and 2 during Climate Change Week the children had great fun doing the following activities:-
*working in the garden clearing areas and planting new bulbs and crops
*litter picking and sorting for recycling
*making recycled paper
*making recycled junk model dinosaurs
*making class rules for looking after the Environment
*Climate Change posters
*Eco dancing
*Climate Change songs
*making recycled bird feeders

Year 2 have been working with Nick the Chef on a Tuesday afternoon. They have been looking at healthy cooking options and have cooked and tasted these. Year 1 will be next term.

On World Book Day Year 1 and 2 dressed up as their favourite story book characters. Throughout the day they listened to stories and read with other Year groups. Year 1 and 2 produced a lovely art display of their favourite characters.

Year 1 had a Fire Safety talk which was then followed by a Fire engine visit. The children had the opportunity to try on helmets and fire proof trousers, then climb into the engine and be Fire Fighters.

Linda Robinson came into school and spoke to Years 1 and 2 about safe use of medicines.

Year 1 and 2 took part in an ICT day entitled `Fishing for Treasure`. The children produced their own underwater pictures and wrote adventure stories using the computers. Everyone had a great day!

As part of their topic on 'Celebrations' Year 1 and 2 hosted their own wedding.
Don't Ella and Kane look like the perfect couple?

The Eco Club have been very busy planting some trees after school. Well done Hannah, all the people who helped in the garden and also the adults too. Thanks.

Mr Ottersons class have also been planting some fruit trees. We look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labour!!

All classes took part in "Day for Change" to raise money for Mozambique.
We all had to wear our pyjamas for the day.

Film Club will now take place on MONDAYS after school.Our first two films will be:
Monday 27th September - Shrek the Third, finishing time 4:50pm
Monday 11th October - Mamma Mia, finishing time 5:00pm

Please remember to bring healthy snacks and drinks.

Please see Mrs Ryan or Mrs Overman if you have any questions.

As part of Chinese New Year work, the children in Year 1 tasted some Chinese food.
They enjoyed noodles and prawn crackers.

We wonder what it said inside their 'fortune cookies'

Year 1 have invited their grown ups along to share some of their story times.

On Tuesday a firefighter came in to Year 1 to talk about fire safety. The children learned a lot and also had good fun, dressing up in firefighter clothes.

On Friday 4th February, children in Year 1 went down to join Low Fell library in the afternoon.
They enjoyed listening to some alien stories and were then all able to bring a library book away to share and enjoy back at school. We are going to try and make this a regular event.
Dont forget joining the library is free and its fun.

We are having a push on reading in school. Year 1 have started to take home story sacks. Each one has a story and a toy, puppet or maybe even a cd to enjoy and practise the story. Hope you enjoy using them at home year 1s.

Year 1 have finished off their current topic with a week all about India. Children made henna hand patterns, found the flag, even made a lego model of the Taj Mahal!! They really enjoyed tasting the Indian food.

Lucy thought the curry was quite hot and spicy.

Joe loved tasting the onion bhajis. Yum yum!!!

At last, warmer weather has started to arrive!!
Year 1 have enjoyed getting out into the garden area, digging, weeding and getting ready to start growing things. We look forward to seeing what we will grow this year.

Year 1 had great fun not wearing their uniforms, some getting dressed up in red with their red noses to support Comic Relief. We will let you know how much money gets raised. Well done everyone.

Year 1 and 2 had a fantastic time building rockets as part of their work on Space and invited their grown ups to join in too.We all had a brilliant time. Thank you to all those people who came along and supported us and also for the supplies of bottles and foil etc.

We couldn't include all the photos from our rocket challenge morning but we'll try to get a display up in school with the others all up. Thanks again everyone. It was a great morning.

Year 1 have been doing a fantastic job in the garden on Friday afternoons. Last week we discovered frog spawn in the pond. We will be keeping a close eye on it to find out what happens.

Year 1 have had a great time in the last few weeks finding out about Space and the topic has just about come to an end. Here are some of us outside drawing star constellations. They looked fantastic. Well done Year 1.

Children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 have been learning all about the Royal Wedding and finished their week in style with a fabulous street party.

What fun.

Children in Year 1 and 2 have been learning some basic first aid. They know how to clean a wound, dress it and put a plaster or a bandage on.

You'll soon feel better dolly!!

The whole school have been having a healthy week with lots of outdoor learning included.
Children in Year 1 and 2 have been having great fun in our new tents and also been brilliant at trying out our new balance bikes.

Weve also been out in the garden area, tending to our fabulous vegetables and flowers, bouncing on space hoppers and enjoying lots of other outdoor activities. Lets hope the sun continues to shine so we can enjoy the outside more.

Year 1 and 2 had a great time on their visit to Saltwell Park on Monday 11th July.

The weather became damp but it definitely didn't dampen our spirits.

Year 1 and 2 build dens for their teddies.

A big thank you to all the adults who came along to help too. The dens were all fantastic.
This one was only just big enough for teddy!!!

We used our new fire pit in school. Here are Year 1s enjoying toasted marshmallows.


We look forward to using it lots more.

Year 1 have worked really hard growing fruits and vegetables this year and have recently been enjoying eating their hard work. Our potatoes were absolutely delicious, we ate them round the camp fire. We even entered a competition to grow the biggest amount of potatoes. Our peas were brilliant too.

If there are any budding gardeners out there who would like to come and help next year, that would be fantastic. Maybe we could grow even more.

As part of their transport topic, Year 1 and 2 had a visit from Northumbria Police to talk to them about how transport helps people. They had the opportunity to be locked in the van and sit in a car.

On Friday 21st October Year 1 invited their families in to help them build boats for FAMILY FRIDAY. A BIG BIG thank you to all those who came along to help the children. We all had a great time and the boats were fantastic. The children especially enjoyed floating them. Well done everyone.
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On Friday 4th November we had a ‘Take Over Day’ at Glynwood. The children in Years 5 and 6 were able to apply for a staff role in school. It was an absolutely fabulous day! Every child who took part rose to the occasion – we had a new caretaker, teachers, TAs, office staff, lunchtime supervisor and head teacher.

Prior to the half term holiday I talked to the children about the idea in assembly – this generated lots of excitement and enthusiasm for the idea. The children were then able to collect and complete an application form. The forms were read by staff and those for interview were selected – lots of children were disappointed at this stage as we had lots of applications and not enough positions. Those selected were then interviewed and jobs allocated. The children all took their interviews very seriously, dressing the part and being prepared to answer questions in role.

On the day children had to come in school early to prepare – our caretaker was at school for 6.10am to start at 6.30am! They were expected to carry out all of the roles staff would do on a Friday from early meetings to setting things out and planning lessons. The children were outstanding, it was a pleasure to visit classrooms and see them taking control of activities – it was a huge confidence boost to so many children it was amazing to see them ‘shine’. The day generated so much talk about jobs and the future it was great. It was a thoroughly fantastic day and we will certainly do it again next year.

Mrs D. Ryan

More photographs will be added, so please keep checking the website.

Some comments from the children who took part:

“I can’t believe that I was chosen to be Headteacher for Take Over Day. I felt very excited but nervous at the same time. This was a big responsibility and I didn’t want to let me or anyone else down. I was so proud of myself when Mrs Ryan told me I was outstanding that day and I couldn’t do any better. That was the highlight of my day. What an experience!” Sophie Webber, Headteacher

“I think everyone had a wonderful day, I know I did.” Ellie McTeer, Year 1 teacher

“It had been a hard and tiring day, but I had enjoyed it and wish I could do it again.” Miss. Dixon, Clerical Asst.

“I applied to work with Derek our Caretaker – I mopped the packed lunch hall floor, cleaned the toilets, took the milk to the kitchen and Derek made us a cup of tea – he said I had been a pleasure to work with” Joshua Hayden, caretaker

“My second lesson went with a flow. I managed to get their attention, speak to them, as well as giving instructions, I gave them spellings. At this stage I felt full of confidence, I marked their books when they were busy doing their work. Marking their books became easier as I marked them.” Hannah Cartner, Year 4 Teacher

“Take Over Day was a great day. I’m really happy I got the job as Mrs. Armstrong, I had a fun day.” Jade English, Teaching assistant.

Thank you to everyone who kindly put together a box or donated items to a class box. We had 45 boxes for the Peoples Kitchen.
On the 22nd November I took three children: Grace Hall (Reception), Aimee Bartley (Year1) and Will Seager Rooke (Year2) to the Dryden Centre to hand over the boxes to volunteers from the Peoples Kitchen.
The three children made soup and learned more about the vegetables going into the soup. There was also a presentation to the prize winners who had the best decorated boxes.
Grace Hall came second and won a range of super prizes including, a bike helmet, bike lights, sweets, a cooking apron, cinema tickets and a cookery lesson for twelve children. Well done Grace!
It was a lovely afternoon - thanks Grace, Aimee and Will for keeping me company.
D Ryan

Year 1 enjoyed raising money for Children In Need by not wearing their school uniforms, some of them wearing spots. School raised £302.98 in total. Well done everyone.

Year 1 and 2 had a great time at the Centre for Life, trying out ice skating.
They were brilliant with only a few little falls!! Afterwards they enjoyed hot chocolate and cookies and then had a chance to explore some of the activities within the Centre too.

We will get a display up in school as we took loads of lovely photos.

Everyone in Year 2 had a fabulous time ice-skating at the Life Centre on Thursday 24th November

Year 1 and 2 did a fantastic job of performing their Christmas Nativity "The Hopeless Camel". Well done to everyone involved.

Despite the freezing cold, Year 1 enjoyed their walk down to Low Fell Library and listening to some Christmas stories.

Year 1 and 2 had a great time at their Christmas Party. We all enjoyed dancing, party games, loads of party food and even a visit from Santa.