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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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 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.
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.
February 26th saw all of year 5 and 6 visit the Whitley Bay Playhouse to watch the play "George's Marvellous Medicine". The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the show and for many it was their first visit to a theatre. The staff at the theatre were very friendly and helped to make it a memorable experience for all.
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.
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!
