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Year 5/6 will visit Eden Camp in Yorkshire tomorrow to find out what life was like for children during World War II.

This Thursday (20th Sep) sees the first year 5/6 football tournament of the 2007/8 season. Ten of our year 5/6 boys and girls will be representing the school at a tournament to be held at Colegate Primary School. The tournament begins at 3.30 and will run to 5.30 approximately. Parents are welcome to come along and support the children and your help would be most appreciated with lifts to the school.

Mr Otterson

Well done to a team of Year 6 children who came second in the final of the Lego Robotics Competition at Heworth grange CLC on Friday 19th October.

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.

Mr Otterson, Mrs Walker and Miss Ferguson took a group of Year 6 children on a residential at Robin Wood during November. Staff and Children enjoyed three days of outdoor and indoor activities.

Year 5 children enjoyed two days of ICT activities at Heworth City Learning Centre on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th October.

A reminder of some of our Christmas Events.

Year 6 represented the school in the Gateshead schools basketball finals on Tuesday 27th November. They finished in fourth place out of the many Gateshead schools that took part. Well done to our team!

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.

Year 5 and 6 had the opportunity to learn about some of the key skills of a successful business when they had workshops this week. Year 5 learned about marketing and advertising and created their own "Mad hatter" product. Year 6 had a theme of "What's my line?" based upon learning about the different carreer choices they could make.

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.

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.

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!

Mrs Barnes' class have taken part in as joint project with Emmanuel College, where they learned about trade and how to design products and advertise them effectively. The pupils had to present their products in front of the rest of the class and also at the Year 5/6 open afternoon held just before Christmas.

Mr Otterson's class have been fortunate to link up with Mr Thomas and Miss Livingstone from Emmanuel College and create an electronics project. The children learned about the basics of electricity, conductors and insulators and how to draw and make simple circuits. They are now putting these skills to good use by making their own sitches, buzzers and alarms. Eventually the class will design a whole class idea that will need all of their expertise to create a working electronics model - so watch this space!!!

Thank you to everyone who attended the open afternoon just before the Christmas holidays. The children appreciated their audience coming along to demonstrate for them what they had been learning about during the term. There were some excellent pieces of drama from Mrs Walker's class and examples of business enterprise ideas from Mrs Barnes' class. Thank you to the children in Mr Otterson's class who showed off their literacy talents and air raid shelters and blitz pictures they created.

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

The link below is to a very useful site for Year 6 children in the run-up to their SATs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/index.shtml

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.

We recently went for lunch at The Last Days of the Raj Indian Restaurant in Low Fell. We have been learning about India in our Geography lessons and we felt this was very beneficial to the topic. Mr Khan and his staff put on a fabulous lunch with various starters, main courses and desserts. The standard of the food was fantastic and the children very much enjoyed their experience. They were extremely well behaved and a credit to the school - many pupils said they would be returning again with their own families. Thank you to the staff of the Last days of the Raj!

After taking part in a Gateshead schools basketball tournament run by The Hoops 4 Health scheme, one of our teams advanced into the final at The Metro Arena last Friday night. They played before the main game between Newcastle Eagles and Scottish Rocks. Although they did not win, this was a great experience for them and they played extremely well. Everyone enjoyed the night, and the Eagles won!

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.

Two of our Year 5/6 pupils represented Joseph Swan feeder schools at an athletics tournament at Gateshead Stadium. They both performed really well, with Chelsey Smith winning the gold medal in her race. Well done!

In the last term our children have been receiving professional coaching in their PE lessons in basketball, athletics, rugby, golf and tennis. We feel that the children have benefitted greatly from the expert tuition.

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.

As part of their food technology work, year 5/6 tasted bread, then baked their own. The bread was yummy!!!

Look in the Year 5/6 Gallery for more pictures of our breadbuns - they tasted as good as they looked!

As part of their India topic, year 5/6 took part in Bollywood dancing workshops with Ravinda. It was great fun.

Four children from Year 5 spend Friday 2nd May at Heworth Grange CLC competing in the Lego Robotics Heats. They worked with Mr McKenna.

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.

Check out this podcast recorded at our recent visit to Gateshead CLC.

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Check out this podcast recorded at our recent visit to Gateshead CLC.

Listen to Podcast

Check out this podcast recorded at our recent visit to Gateshead CLC.

Listen to Podcast

Check out this podcast recorded at our recent visit to Gateshead CLC.

Listen to Podcast

Check out this podcast recorded at our recent visit to Gateshead CLC.

Listen to Podcast

On Thursday 8th May Mrs Barnes' and Mrs Walker's classes went to Gateshead CLC to record some stories for Gateshead CLC web radio. Click on the podcasts to listen to them.

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!!!

During the last week in June the whole of Years 5 and 6 visited Ingram Valley as part of their topic about Northumberland. A fantastic time was had by all and the children behaved extremely well during their visit. The day began with a hill climb to the summit of Brough Law, from where the pupils sketched a variety of landscapes across the valley. Unfortunately the rains fell and we headed down the hill for an early lunch. After lunch the chuildren were set a task of creating a dam across the river in their groups. The pupils were judged on the quality of their dam and the standard of presentation. Some groups were slightly more focused on catching the local wildlife rather than brave the freezing temperatures - but after an hours building, the victorious teams were Mr Otterson's group and Ms Taylor's group. The children finished off with a plodge and play in the pools created by their dams - some even managed to submerge themselves fully just to show the quality of their dam building skills!

Well done to all children who partcipated in the Glynwood games and the various cricket festivals over the past few weeks. There were many successes and all pupils represented their school with the right attitude and tried their best.

Year 5 and 6 are busy rehearsing for their end of year performance, Revolting Rhymes and Rousing Rhythms. The date for the performances is Tuesday 15th July at 2.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. Please come along and support the pupils in what should be a fun show to end the year.

Admission will be by ticket only costing £1 for entry and programmes will cost 20p

Congratulations to those pupils who worked with Mrs Walker & took part in her PSHE Award.

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 5 and 6 pupils took part in a Netball tournament at Joseph Swan School on October 16th. Miss Mason and Mrs Rudge took 14 children to take part in a tournament against our local cluster schools. The children had attended several weeks of after school and lunch time sessions to improve their skills and it showed as they put on as fine display of netballing skills on the night. The teams came a very respectable 3rd and 4th overall against some high class opposition. Many thanks goes to the parents who helped out with lifts and of course to the fine coaching efforts of our staff.

Our chosen country was Spain! Viva Espana! Some of our children go on holiday to Spain and were interested in learning more about this country. There were three sessions on offer - Food Tasting with Miss Walker, Spanish Bull Fighting with Mrs Overman and Spanish Language with Mrs Barnes. During the previous week the children researched Spain on the internet and completed a quiz to prepare them for the day. It was lovely to see Spanish costumes worn by the children on the day.

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.

As part of aiming to improve our links with parents and get more adults involved with their children's learning, Mr Otterson will be starting up some Numeracy sessions for parents and children to attend to help improve basic mathematic skills and learn some of the different ways in which maths can be taught today. The sessions are intended to be fun and concentrate on developing skills and learning ways in which to help the children when tackling homework and preparing them for SATs.

After consulting parents the most selected option was for Tuesday evenings straight after school from 3.30 til 4.30. The first session will therefore take place on Tuesday 18th November at 3.30. If you can't make this time slot then some different session times after Christmas will be on offer.

Hope to see you there

Mr Otterson

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 the last afternoon of the Autumn term, the whole school took part in our annual carol service at St. Johns church. Year 5 pupils read 7 Bible readings and acted out scenes from the Christmas Nativity story, whilst the congregation were invited to join in with a selection of modern and traditional carols. The children performed very well and the service was a lovely way to prepare for the Christmas break.
Thank you to the staff who helped prepare the service and to all the adults that came along to watch the children.

This term we studied the Tudors in year 5/6 which culminated in a special Tudor Food Week. This included preparing, making, tasting and evaluating Tudor soup (Pottage), visiting an exhibition about life in Tudor times for rich and poor people, food hygiene and making Tudor Pomanders. For Christmas we created Tudor purses using a range of sewing techniques and as a special treat they were filled with gold coins!!!

Year 5/6 had a fabulous festive fun-filled Christmas Party during the last week of term. The children were extremely well behaved and joined in all the games. Everyone looked fantastic in their party clothes and the afternoon was a great success!
Thank you to the parents who provided party food and the adults who helped us prepare.

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!

Friday 26th June saw the annual athletics festival at Gateshead stadium with 50 schools competing and Glynwood school performed tremendously well yet again. A total of 20 children took part in a range of track and field events on an extremely wet day in high summer! Everyone took part in a fantastic sporting manner and we were successful in a number of events including the following:
Chayse Martin - Triple jump (gold medal), Relay (Silver medal) and 80m sprint (bronze medal)
Lucy Richardson - Long jump (gold medal), Relay (Silver medal)
Chelsey Smith - Javelin (bronze medal), Relay (Silver medal), 800m long run (bronze medal)
Jessie Cain - Relay (Silver medal)
Caitlin Gaughan - Relay (Silver medal), Cricket ball throw (silver medal)

Lots of other children reached finals and semi finals of their events and a good time was had by all!

Well done to all the athletes!

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.

A group of Year 5 and 6 pupils had a very exciting day at the Shipley Art Gallery, viewing the dresses worn by Mary Wilson of the Supremes, designing their own creations and enjoying modelling some fabulous dresses designed by fashion students in the style of the 60's and &70's. Back at school the children copied and designed some ideas of their own which can be seen in the Key Satge 2 corridor.

It has been an exceedingly busy term in year 5 and 6 as usual. here are some of the highlights of the past few months.
Topics: The major focus for the term was World War II and evidence of the pupils fantastic work can be seen in classrooms and on display in the year 5/6 corridor. The pupils decided which areas of World War II they would like to concentrate on and prodcuced some lovely creative pieces of writing, artwork and technology based on the topic. There was also the obligatory trip to Eden Camp which proved a roaring success and provided the children with lots of ideas and questions for follow up work in the classrooms.
All 3 classes aslo carried put a plant study and leanred about the physiology of plants and how to look and care for them - some more successfully than others! Mr Otterson's class did a short topic on Earth and Space where the pupils prodcued some excellent projects based on the "big questions" they had based on the topic e.g. is there life on other planets? What is a Black Hole? and my personal favourite, Why are there so many things named after chocolate bars in space?
The phase has studied the artwork of several famous painters and artists, had opportunities to develop their cookery skills with Nik the Chef and continued their development of French skills with Mrs Shenton. Add to this the music workshops, Maths breakfast clubs, one to one teaching, electronics project with Emannuelle College and many more activities, it has been an action packed 13 weeks at school!

This term has been a bit quieter than normal, partly due to the fact that the leisure centre has been closed and as a result several tournaments and festivals have been put on hold til later this year. We have had basketball and football tournaments this term in which the year 5 and 6 pupils have performed really well and look forward to the forthcoming hockey, netball and multiskills events in the next half term.

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

A group of children from all three Year 5 and 6 classes visited Hawkesbury House to sing a selection of traditional carols and some more modern songs to celebrate the festive season. The children sang beautifully, the elderly residents enjoyed the exceptional solo performances and some of our pupils were particularly interested in speaking to the elderly about their 2nd World War experiences following the knowledge they have developed during their topic lessons.

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.