School staff will soon have an introductory session to our new school website. Peter Bolger, Gateshead Grid for Learning Manager will lead the session - giving a context to the site, demonstrating functionality and giving colleagues a hands-on at publishing to the site. It's easy-peasy - honest!.
A big thank you to all staff and children who have worked very hard this year to make it one of the most successful in the schools history.
Peter Bolger from Gateshead CLC will lead a staff session this afternoon introducing the new school website. The session will, if time allows, include a hands-on publishing opportunity for all colleagues.
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
Tuesday 9th Oct and Wednesday 10th Oct Children from the age of 4 to 11 experienced a range of circus skills with Mini Mansell, circus performer and trainer.
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.
Parents were invited into to school on Tuesday 6th November to discuss their childs progress and how they had settled into their new classes.
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.
Children had the opportunity to take part in our sponsored assault course on Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th October. Children were timed around the course which they were sponsored for. The children raised in total £1200 for school fund.
On the Friday 16th November we held a non-uniform day to raise money for Children in Need.
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.
Children enjoyed dressing up for our Halloween Disco on Thursday 1st November.
7 lucky children with 100% attendance enjoyed a ride on a Fire Engine on Friday 9th November.
A reminder that the Book Fair will start on 3rd December after school each evening in the entrance.
A reminder of some of our Christmas Events.
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.
58 children had 100% attendance during Autumn Term 2007. Well done to them all for being in school every day.
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.
In December 2007, Nursery and Reception classes performed the amazing "Mary's Knitting".
Look in Foundation Stage for even more photos of the amazing performance.
Well done Nursery and Reception.
We will be having a Website Launch Evening on Thursday 24th January from 5:30pm.
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.
Continue reading "Jack and the Beanstalk comes to School!" »
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.
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!!!
Don't forget that we are having our official website launch this Thursday from 5:30pm, in the Assembly Hall. Andrew Bridge of the Eagles will be joining us, as will the press! All are welcome, but we ask that children are accompanied by an adult.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Well done to all of our Circus Club members for this term! We have practised our skills and are now very accomplished at juggling, balancing, diablo and plate spinning. Some of our Year 5/6s have also tried the very difficult Poi! Their tricks were amazing!
This is an exciting time for all through the launch of this website which will create a fuller understanding of the workings of the school, and a greater degree of involvement for all. I am sure that it is going to be a great success. It will be my responsibility to make a regular contribution. Meanwhile on the behalf of the governors, welcome to the Glynwood Primary School website.
Elliott Gibson,
Vice Chairman.
This Thursday (24th) there will be an article about the launch of our new website in the Evening Chronicle. The article will feature pictures of our Head Boy and Head Girl, Drew Harding and Tara McCartney, as well as quotes from pupils and staff, and information about the website launch evening.
On Thursday 24th January we launched our Website.
Day for change is this Friday (1st Feb).
Day for change is in aid of countries in Africa. Any money collected will be used to provide clean water, better food and nutrition for the people who live there. We have decided to make the day non-uniform and if children would like to make a small donation we will send the money away on their behalf.
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.
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.
Children from Nursery and Reception classes have been enjoying working outside.
They have been helping to dig a new area for free digging.
They helped make a new willow dome (though this now may need some attention due to the high winds!!)
They also loved finding worms and were fascinated by them.
We look forward to some warmer weather so we can get out even more.
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.
Here is a price list of products sold in our Fair Trade Shop on Wednesdays after school
Every Wednesday from 3:15pm to 3:45pm we will be selling discounted goods in our Fairtrade shop.
We have registered for the Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers again this year. If you shop at Tesco, please send your vouchers in to school, as we can use them to buy computer equipment. We can also earn extra vouchers by recycling inkjet printer cartridges (not Epson) and old mobile phones.
As part of their India topic, year 5/6 took part in Bollywood dancing workshops with Ravinda. It was great fun.
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.
Lily Rebekah Commons was born at 3:59am on Sunday 6th April weighing 8 pounds. Everyone is well. Congratulations to Mr & Mrs Commons & Lily's big brother, Isaac.
Tesco computer vouchers will finish on May 11th. So far we have over 4000 vouchers, which is enough to get 2 video cameras. Please continue to send your vouchers into school so that we can use them to buy even more cameras.
Next FOG meeting Tuesday 10th June at 1:30pm in the Community Room. PLease come along & join us.
We currently only have 5 members of FOG, 3 of which are members of staff. We desperately need new members. Without more help we will be unable to continue to run the events we do!
Four children from Year 5 spend Friday 2nd May at Heworth Grange CLC competing in the Lego Robotics Heats. They worked with Mr McKenna.
The Fairtrade Shop will be open every Wednesday after school, outside Mrs Lonsdale's office.
We sell large & small chocolate bars, cereal bars, tea, coffee, fruit juice, biscuits, sponge puddings all at reasonable prices.
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 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.
The date of the Summer Fair has been changed to Friday 11th July as the original date clashes with the Gateshead Schools Athletics Festival.
Ms Morton (Luc Hall's Grandma) from Skipton Building Society came to Assembly this morning to present us with a cheque for £276. The Building Society is sponsoring our new team tracksuits, and the money given will be enough for us to buy 12 sets of tracksuits for our sports teams to wear when they represent Glynwood at sporting events. We are extremely grateful to Skipton Building Society for their generosity.
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.
Continue reading "Rewards for Sport at Joseph Swan School." »
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!
Fairtrade cereal bars are on sale to Key Stage 2 children at morning breaks.
We have PE T-shirts @£3.50 each and Water Bottles @£1.30 each, now in stock. If you would like to buy any please call into the school office.
Beanies are for sale in the school office to raise money for St Oswald's Hospice. We have tigers, giraffes and elephants at @£1 each.
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.
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 us all here at Glynwood for achieving the Healthy School Status this year.
Congratulations to those pupils who worked with Mrs Walker & took part in her PSHE Award.
We are proud to announce that we were successful in gaining the Impetus Award on July 10th, 2008. Well done to all those pupils and staff who contributed towards us achieveing this award.
Mr Otterson's wife gave birth to their son, James on the afternoon of Friday 12th September. Mother & baby are well. Congratulations from everyone at Glynwood to Mr & Mrs Otterson & James' big sister, Yasmin.
The Fair Trade Shop is on every Tuesday after school outside Mrs Lonsdale's office. We sell cereal bars, chocolate, tea, coffee, sugar, biscuits and fruit juice at very reasonable prices! The shop is run by School Council - thank you to them and Mrs Damti for their hard work running the shop every week.
The Community Room is set up for parents & carers to use whenever they need it. It is located next to Mrs Damti's classroom in the Year 5/6 corridor.There are 3 brand new computers in there with internet access, a printer, a laminator, paper cutter, and more. It is also a comfortable place where you can wait for your children to come out of a club after school.
See Mrs Lonsdale or Mrs Ryan if you need any help using the room or equipment.
Remember the room is set up for your use - please come in and use it!
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.
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.
Our first Bike It events take place next Wednesday (19th). There will be a free breakfast for anyone (pupils and parents/carers) who rides their bike to school. Breakfast will be available from 8am. There will also be competitions with prizes during breakfast.
Alan, or Mr Bike It, will also give bikes a free health check on Wednesday & fix any minor problems for free!
Alan will be selling bike locks for £2.50 (they are £8 in the shops!), and sets of lights for £3 (they are £14 in the shops!).
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
First Choice Holiday Hypermarket on the Team Valley in Gateshead are offering parents and carers some discounts for holidays taken during school holiday time. Mainly '£100 cash discount off every First Choice or Thomson mainstream holiday, including affiliated brands such as Citalia, Hayes and Jarvis, Jet Save, Sky Tours, Sovereign and Sunsail holidays'.
A letter will be sent out to all pupils with the full details.
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.
Continue reading "Peter Beardsley came to visit on Black and White 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.
The Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers scheme begins next Monday (2nd March).
Please send your Tesco vouchers into school with your child
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!
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.
Everyone in school found out new and interesting facts about France, Germany and Holland on European Languages Day. We learnt how to count,sing and sample foods from these countries. At the end of the day we had a whole school assembly to demonstrate some of our new talents, which included a German Folk Dance.
So far we have shown 4 films. Our next film is Matilda, based on the book by Roald Dahl. If you haven't been to Film Club before, get a letter from the office & return the slip to Mrs Ryan or Mrs Overman.
The next Film Club film is Monsters vs Aliens by Dreamworks. Can the monsters save earth from the evil Galaxar? Come along to Film Club to find out!
The film is scheduled to finish at 5pm.
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
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.
The school has just been informed that there will be no lollipop lady on Southend Road on Thursday 4th March.
Please can you ensure that children who usually cross this road have appropriate supervision on this day.
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
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.
This term we have had several visitors into school including: Linda Robinson to discuss the dangers of smoking, alcohol and drugs, The Fire service to help educate the children in what to do in the event of a fire and how to call for emergency help. Reverend Howell talked to the children about Christianity in the community, both locally and in India. Northumbrian water came in to talk to the school about how to reduce wasting water.
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.
It has been a very busy summer term with lots of sporting events and tournaments. Here are some of the highlights!
The year 5 and 6 girls competed in a football tournament at Cleveland Hall against several other schools. One of the teams was victorious winning all of the games to come out as cluster champions for 2010.
We also held the annual athletics event of Gynwood games in June, which sees 5 of our local schools come and compete in year3,4,5 & 6 events. We were very well represented by each of the year groups coming 2nd and third in year 4,5 and 6. However, the great news was that for the first time ever, year 3 pupils brought home the winning trophy that has been held by Oakfield school for the past 7 years in a row!
Mrs Armstrong has taken several groups of pupils to Joseph Swan for multiskills events, whilst Newcastle sport in the community have held football and rounders clubs for year 3 to 6.
A group of year 5 and 6 pupils attended a basketball tournament at Kells Lane school and came out winners - well done to the children involved.
Mrs Walker has also held several tennis clubs and taken the pupils to many tournaments around the local area. Pupils enjoyed the events and represented the school very well.
On June 23rd Mr Otterson and Mrs Armstrong took 20 pupils to Gateshead stadium for the annual athletics festival. THere were over 1500 pupils that took part and our children were a credit to their school, behaving very well and performing to an extremely high standard.
Results year 5 / 6
Chayse Martin - Sprint gold medal, 3 spring jump gold medal, relay gold medal
Lucy Richardson - Sprint silver medal, long jump silver medal, relay gold medal
Molly Cronnie - relay gold medal
Aimee Paisley - relay gold medal
Results year 3 / 4
Jane Thomas - Throw Gold medal, Relay Silver medal
Jade English - Relay siver medal
Toni Anderson - Relay silver medal
Tegan Hewitt - Relay silver medal
Ryan Bradley - Sprint and relay bronze medal
Corrie Watson - Relay bronze medal
Joseph Linton - Relay bronze medal
Kieron Morris - Relay bronze medal
Lots of our children also reached finals in their events but just missed out on a medal. Well done to everyone who took part.
The first game was against St.Johns, we won 10-0.
Scorers:
Daniel candlish,3, Steven armstrong,3,Clarke armstrong, Devon armstrong, Kieran ward and David foody.
The second game ,against Colegate, was more of a challange but we still won 1-0.
missed penalty by liam pearson.
Scorer: Steven Armstrong, from the half way line (WOW)
`League winners 2010`
Written by Clarke Armstrong, Daniel Candlish and the mush
Unfortunately due to the school fields still being wet, we will be unable to have our KS2 Sports Afternoon today. It is unlikely that we will reschedule due to the amount of activities taking place during this last week of term.
Well done to all the children for their fabulous end of year production Olivia. A big thank you to all the staff and parents who helped out with costumes props etc. Enjoy the pictures!
