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.
