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On Thursday 22nd November Mrs Armstrong took a group of children to the Gymnastic Festival held a Gateshead leisure Centre. The two groups of children were Year 3/4 and Year 5/6. The children each did a floor routine which had some technical gymnastic moves. The children, staff and parents enjoyed the festival.

Author Sally Prue visited school on 14th November. She worked with children in Miss Masons, Mrs Barnes and Mrs Walkers classes. The children had opportunities to ask questions and purchase signed copies of her books.

Parents were invited into school on the afternoon of Thursday 18th October to share in the Harvest Celebrations. The staff and children put on a performance of Harvest Rock!. The parents enjoyed songs, dance, drama and readings.

Year 3 and 4 classes visit Gateshead CLC.

A reminder of some of our Christmas Events.

Mrs Commons and Mrs Rudge`s classes have been enjoying tennis coaching on a Tuesday afternoon in school. The six week course involves the children learning new skills, playing short games and learning the rules of tennis. The children are very enthusiastic about the lessons. Miss Mason`s class will be doing the coaching after christmas.

On Monday 10th December from 6 - 7 pm, 27 children from Miss Mason's and Mrs Barnes' classes sang two carols at the Royal Bank of Scotland Carol Service at Wesley Methodist Church, Durham Road.

Children from Year 3 and 4 performed a traditional Russian folk tale, 'the Snow Child', for parents and carers on Thursday 13th December. A spectacular extravaganza of song, dance and drama was enjoyed by all.

Miss Waters, Ms Ferguson, Mrs McGinley and their class visited Seven Stories in the Autumn Term.

Every Thursday Miss Waters Class enjoy their PE Programme.

On Thursday 10th January the Panto came to school.

Miss Water`s class walked to the Pet Shop at Felling in the Autumn Term.

Year 3 and 4s Autumn topic was Castles.

Linda Robinson visited school on 16th January to give a talk to Year 5 and 6 in the morning and Year 3 and 4 in the afternoon. Parents were also invited on the afternoon to attend a workshop.

This term Year 3 and 4 are learning about Australia.

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.

Children in Year 3/4 are enjoying experiencing conversational French with Mademoiselle Mason and Madame Sharp from Joseph Swan.

Children in Year 3/4 are enjoying experiencing conversational French with Mademoiselle Mason and Madame Sharp from Joseph Swan.

This week all classes in years three and four are visiting Shipley Art Gallery to work alongside an artist to produce samples of felt.

Year 3/4 will be visiting Durham Cathedral as part of their RE work on Thursday 27th March.

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.

Every 5 weeks or so, 16 children from Key Stage 2 will be chosen by their teachers to go for a fun sports afternoon at Joseph Swan.

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.

ICT Club will be running on Tuesday lunchtimes for the whole of the Summer Term.

Chloe Star, the hamster in Miss Waters' class, will be posting a monthly diary of what she gets up to in school. Watch this space!

On Tuesday 1st April, year 3/4 held a French Coffee Afternoon for parents & carers. The children showed their visitors all of the fantastic French things they have learned with Mrs Spark from Joseph Swan, including how to order food in a French cafe.

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.

On Wednesday 7th May, 13 children from Key Stage 2 visited Joseph Swan as part of their Rewards for Sport Programme. Photos from the afternoon can be found in the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 galleries.

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.

Teams from Glynwood are taking part in two tournaments in the near future.
22nd May - Year 3/4 striking & fielding at Joseph Swan
12th June - Year 5/6 girls' football at Joseph Swan
We wish both teams every success & hope that they have fun taking part!

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.

On the final day in June, 20 pupils attended the annual athletics tournament at Gateshead Stadium. There were a team of 10 year 3 / 4 athletes and 10 year 5 / 6 athletes participating in a range of different events. The Glynwood athletes proved extremely successful winning a host of medals on the day.

Roll of honour

Year 5 / 6

Bronze medal in the cricket ball throw - Hazel Harpin
Silver medal in the 3 spring jump - Bart Kowalczyk

Year 3 / 4

Gold medal in the 3 spring jump - Chayse Martin
Gold medal in the girls 60 m sprint - Chayse Martin
Gold medal in the girls relay - Chayse Martin, Gemma Tse, Caitlin Worlidge & Lucy Richardson
Silver medal in the 800m run - Lucy Richardson
Bronze medal in the 60m skipping - Molly Barber

All the children performed exceptionally well and many more pupils missed out on a medal by only one or two places.

fantastic job well done!!!

Year 3 and 4 had their annual design and technology day on Wednesday 2nd July. All children took part designing, making, testing and evaluating a Roman catapult or chariot. Everyone had a very productive day, not only making their designs but working things out in a team! ( see the children in action on the Gallery )