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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.