Fellside Community Primary School

We designed and made our very own fairy tale costumes, and will enjoy dressing up in them as we learn about traditional fairy tales. If any local theatre company would like to use our costumes, don't hesitate to contact us, our hire rates are very competitive!

  We would love you to leave a comment in the comments box below.

See you all next year, school opens Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

Welcome to our whole school Christmas Performance.

This year every Reception child had a line to say in our Nativity play, and with lots of enthusiasm and practice, they all performed exceptionally well and made all at Fellside very proud!

Again Key Stage 1 classes joined together to perform 'Christmas with the Aliens'. Most of Year 2 played aliens who were stranded on Earth and invited to learn about Christmas by the children from Fellside.

Year 3 & 4 joined together to perform 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'. The performance switched between a modern day Grandad's living room on Christmas Day and Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth. The performance had rock guitarists, a choir, some lovely singing and some superb acting! The Year 3 and 4 children showed great enthusiasm throughout the performances - a great success!

Year 5 performed a modern day 'Cinderella', the children practised incredibly hard to put on a very entertaining show, filled with beautiful singing, superb acting and a lot of laughs!

Year 6 continued the fairy tale theme and put on an excellent performance of 'Sleeping Beauty'. All the children embraced their roles with mountains of enthusiasm and put on a really spectacular show!

Hope you enjoy the Animoto...

As always we welcome your comments.

Hope you enjoy the video of our first Nativity.

We welcome your comments in the  box below.

On Friday Reception walked to Fellside Post Office to post their letters to Santa. The lady in the Post Office showed us a great big sack and the scales she uses to weigh parcels. While we waited outside we sang lots of songs!

We all hope Santa enjoys reading our letters.

Tracey from 'kids R fit' came to school today and each class took it in turn to have a hoopstar session. Everyone gave it their best shot (including members of staff) and they all had a fantastic time. It was amazing to see how many different activities and games the children could do with a hoop and good music! 

 

      

  Click on the following links to view short video clips of the children in action -

hula hoops 082.avi   hula hoops 086.avi    hula hoops 095.avi  

hula hoops 111.avi   hula hoops 131.avi   hula hoops 168.avi 

Hope you enjoyed the photographs and videos of the children 'hooping'. Tracey is going to view the pictures and videos. Would children from each class please leave a message for Tracey in the comments box below, to let her know which part of the 'hooping' experience you enjoyed the most and if you would like to do it again in the future.

 

  

Looks like Mrs Maitland will need to practise a bit more to catch up with one of the children in Year 6! He managed to twirl 4 hoops in one go! If you would like more information about 'kidzRfit'  you can click on the following link to visit the website - kidzrfit   

 

 

 

 

 

Please click on the following link to access  'parents numeracy meeting 2011'
Parents numeracy meeting 2011.ppt

Please click on the following link to access 'parents.reading meeting 2011'
parents reading meeting 2011.ppt

Please click on the following link to access letter.

Mums, Dads and extended family members, have your handkerchief at the ready to enjoy the Animoto of the children's first day in Reception. As you will see they all had a wonderful day.

We look forward to your comments.

Please click on the following to access letters

Microsoft Word - Dr Bike 13th September 2011.pdf

Microsoft Word - Karate Class Sept 11 - Fell _2_.pdf

Thanks 

Today we had a special playtime, we got together with our Fellside Families and our Year 6 family member taught us some playground games. We had a great time!

Please can we join in!

What a performance, what a show... the sound of sweet music drifted through the school. We had solo performances to an orchestral finale, with harmonious performances in between. Every child played and sang with ease and confidence to a delightful audience.

At times the concert brought a tear to the eye, especially when one of our Nursery children played the violin.

Thank you and well done to all who performed, and to all who came and supported.

Thankfully the weather was kinder this weekend than last and the Pedalling Picnic took place this morning. With about 60 riders in total, it was another super event, well done to all families who came along. It was wonderful to see children from Nursery to Year 6 cycling together. Thank you to Alan Barlow and Gary Haley for organising this event.

Alan Barlow our 'Bike It Officer' arranged for Ben Slinger & Danny Butler from the Mad Cycle Stunt Team to perform at our school. Enjoy the Animoto of the dedicated and talented twosome, as they perform their outstanding bike stunts.

What was your favourite stunt ? Leave a comment and let us know.

Year 6 reached their target. A huge thank you to everyone for their support.

On Friday 24th June, we discovered the nest had not changed from the previous day. The beasts had not returned and had fled elsewhere. Community Police Officer Toni arrived and in our assembly she wrote up the daily happenings at the nest site as evidence. Also the children were happy to assist her with her inquiries. She wore a crime scene suit as she took samples of the shell, skin, bones and an unhatched egg which she bagged and labelled ready to be taken to a science lab in Gateshead to be analysed,

 What a week it has been! Several children had over the last few days reported strange circumstances in their back gardens - loud flapping, heavy footprints and a child from Year 1 even reported he had seen glimpses of a dragon's tail!

What was the creature that had roamed Whickham and made temporary home in our school grounds?

Perhaps the Scientist will shed some light...

Leave a comment if you have any seen anything mysterious in the Fellside area!

Community police officer, Toni arrived with some serious and important information for the whole school. In morning assembly, we were told that after some disturbances were reported early in the morning and the police had arrived to investigate. They discovered an enormous nest with five huge eggs in the centre. We were informed that we must not touch the nest as the area might be contaminated. Toni asked if we could collect evidence and clues that might help her investigate the scene later in the week. Scientist had advised her to leave the nest intact until the identity of the mother had been found.

 
Each class went to the scene to take a look for themselves. The eggs were huge. Later in the day children reported that they has seen one of the eggs moving slightly? Who could have laid such enormous eggs?

Day Two

We were keen to discover what had happened overnight. Had the mother returned to visit her clutch of gigantic eggs? When we went to take a look at the nest, we discovered that one of the babies had hatched! A broken shell was left behind but whatever had come out of it was nowhere to be seen. Blue and green slime surrounded the egg shell.

Mrs. Maitland had arranged Kay, a zoologist, to bring in some of his pets so that we could find out more about animals that hatch out of eggs. Reptiles, birds, fish, insects and spiders, amphibians and just three mammals hatch out of eggs we discovered. A Bearded Crested Lizard, a Blue Tongued Skink, a Red Kneed Tarantula, a Meerkat, a Blue Frog and a Python were some of the amazing animlas we met, Jay also brought in the most adorable baby ferrets.

 
The large python was very long, heavy and friendly. She felt smooth to the touch.A snake skin is left behind when a snake grows. Snake skins have the most amazing patterns

Everyone in school is writing about the nest from children in Year One to pupils in Year Six.

We look forward to your comments about the nest!

Click on the following link to access information regarding the Pedalling Picnic

Pedalling_picnic_letters.pdf

Pedalling picnic 2011.pdf

Apologies, cancelled today, taking place Saturday 25th June.

Reception children (and parents) made their own costumes pretending to be a range of creepy-crawlies - from lovely ladybirds, beautiful butterflies, scary spiders and busy bees.
We made up mini-beasts moves and dances to our favourite tunes, played creepy crawley corners and musical bugs at our Annual Ugly Bug Ball !

Many thanks to everyone who helped their chldren to look so fabulous. We all had a ball !! Please leave a comment if you enjoyed the ball.

Please click on the following link to access letter

  Fellside breakfast 17th June  

Please click on the following link to access letter

Family French Workshop

Year 6 are doing their Enterprise Project starting Monday 13th June - Friday 24rd June. Please click on the following link to see their Enterprise Project Newsletter -

Year 6 Enterprise.doc

is the target the children have set and they are working together in groups to try and raise the full amount. The list of activities are as follows- 

support Year 6. Help them reach their target, so they can achieve their dream, and have the best Year 6 school leaver's party ever!

Please click on the following to access summer fair letter.
Microsoft Word - Dear Parents Fair.pdf

Please click on the following to access sickness bug letter. 

Microsoft Word - Dear Parentillness.pdf

Transport was the 'theme' for our Reception visit to Newcastle Airport. Can you name the different types of transport we used and saw on our trip? The photographs and video will give you some clues.    

We all had a fantastic day!

 

 

 

In March as part of our topic on Transport, the children in Reception class were asked to design a car for a favourite toy.
Using their design, they cut wood and made seats, steering wheels and spoilers to create some classic cars of their own.
Many thanks to parents who came into school to help us see our designs become real cars - we couldn't have undertaken such a day without your support.
We tested our cars in the school hall just like Lewis Hamilton's F1 team, had to make some minor adjustments to the suspension and wheel alignment! After our testing, we went back into the classroom to adapt our designs.
Enjoy the video and photographs of our fun day. (Click on any photo collage to enlarge it)

Enjoy the video of The Lion Dance performed by Reception children.

Thanks to all the parents who came to watch the performance.

Reception children had a fabulous time performing their own version of "The Lion Dance". The children had previously watched the Lion Dance Team perform The Lion Dance to celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year.

If you managed to attend the assembly, hope you enjoyed it. For those who couldn't make it, enjoy the photographs and video. As always we appreciate your feedback by completing the comments box below.

The following Animoto has been amended.

 I'm sure you will enjoy watching the video link below of your children on their first day in reception class.

They all looked fantastic in their new school uniform and were looking forward to the start of a new and exciting time. The children loved the activities in the classroom and had a great time outside.

We ended the day with a drink of milk and a story, a good day was had by all. 

Please let us know if you enjoyed the photos, we would love parents and extended family members to post a comment below.

This year is the Year of the Rabbit. On Thursday 3rd February 2011 we celebrated the Chinese New Year by completing different crafts and cultural activities in Reception class.
We made Chinese paper lanterns and wrote messages using Chinese characters. We also made a rabbit card for the New Year animal, and some dancing Chinese dragon puppets.
We tasted a pomelo, a large Chinese grapefruit and smelt different Chinese cooking ingredients like black beans, Chinese mushrooms, star anise and sugar cane. We cooked traditional Chinese rice which tasted lovely. Our day ended with a visit from the Lion Dance team who performed an amazing Lion Dance in our school hall.The drums and cymbals were so loud we had to cover our ears! We gave the lion a lettuce to eat as part of Chinese New Year tradition.The lion spat out bits of the lettuce and if we caught a piece, it would bring us good luck all year.

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

 Please leave a comment below if you enjoyed looking at or taking part in our chinese celebration.

On Thursday 27th January a meercat, opossum, iguana, python, lizard, bullfrog, tarantula, hedgehog, scorpion and a bearded dragon came to visit to our Nursery. They also had a quick visit to Reception class. Their names were Poppy, Maku, Ziggy, Amber, Belinda, Prince, Maria, Snowball, Alice and Claude. You can also look at photographs of  the creatures in Animal Encounters in Nursey.

Keep a look out on the website for a video  "Animal encounters of a 3rd kind"  featuring reception children. The premier will be shown at a later date.

As always we welcome your comments.

If you would like to take a further look and find out more about Jays Animal Encounters, please visit the website using the following link -  jayanimalencounters

 Enjoy the photographs of the very brave children and the incredibly brave creatures. 

 

As you can see from the following photographs, Reception children have had a wonderful first week doing a range of new and exciting activities inside and outside of the classroom.

They have all settled in well and are enjoying their time at school.