Fellside Community Primary School

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.

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 to access letters

Microsoft Word - Dr Bike 13th September 2011.pdf

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

Thanks 

Please click on the following link to access Little Kickers letter

Microsoft Word - Year 2 Little Kickers Sept 11.pdf

Thanks

Just a reminder, children in Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 start school Tuesday 6th September. For children in Reception and Nursery, please see packs given out at the induction meetings. Thank you.

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!

On Tuesday 5th July Year 2 went to Jesmond Dene, Newcastle to study the habitats of mini-beasts, as part of their Science topic work. In the afternoon we went for a walk through the dene and learned about its history. We learned a lot and it was fun too!

Can you name the mini beasts?

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.

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

On Tuesday 5th April Year 1 & Year 2 went to Hartlepool Maritime Experience as part of their 'Pirates and Islands' topic. We all had a great day and learnt a lot. Have a look at our photographs and video of our great day.

If you would like more information about the Hartlepool Maritime Experience, please click on the following link - Hartlepool Maritime Experience   Also don't forget to leave a comment in the comments box below of your favourite part of the day.

Please click on the link below to access SAQ club letter.

Year 2 SAQ Club May 11 - FS.pdf

Ahoy, me Hearties!

For those of you who didn't manage to jump aboard the captain's ship this morning, enjoy the photographs of Year 1 & 2 Pirate Assembly.

Without going overboard, shiver me timbers it was a great show! (click on any photo to enlarge it)

Last half term we designed our own shields and added mottos and coats of arms. We proudly posed with our shields in the year one role play area and had fun dressing up in their costumes.

Do you think we look good?

Please leave a comment on the website if you like our costumes and shields.

As part of their food & farming topic, on Thursday 20th May, Year 1 and Year 2 went on a visit to Hall Hill Farm.

On Tuesday 2nd February 2010 as part of our "Let's get Married" topic, Year 2 went to St Mary's Church in Whickham for a special wedding.
Hope you enjoy our "Wedding Album"

As part of their food & farming topic, on Thursday 20^th May, Year 1 and Year 2 went on a visit to Hall Hill Farm. We had all wished for good weather and our wish was granted, the weather was perfect, it was sunny, warm and dry!   

Hello children, welcome to our farm, hope you have a good day..  baa baaa ba baa! 

We enjoyed looking at the deer. 

We had fun feeding the horses.  

One of the lambs decided to come out of the field to see us.

We gave the sheep their food pellets. 

  We were allowed to nurse the rabbits. 

We all took turns in bottle feeding the lambs.

No matter how hard you try,

you will never get through that small gap!

We had a ride on the tractor train. 

 There were other animals too, do you know what they are?

If you would like to look at the farm, please click on the link below.  www.hallhillfarm.co.uk 

On Friday 23rd April the "Great Potato Race" began ! Three children from Year 1 and three children from Year 2 planted two types of potato to see which kind would grow first. Our photographs show the start of the race ! !

Watch this space to see how the race progresses.

READY, STEADY... GO !

1 potato,  2 potato,  3 potato   4,  now let's see if we can grow a few more !

  READY, STEADY... GROW !

For four days in March (Tuesday 23rd - Friday 26th) Year Two had lots of fun and learned new skills when they worked with an artist, Shirley Wells on a willow sculpture of an Indian bride. Lots of mums and grans helped too ! This is what we did:

Planning the designs for the bride's dress.                         Choosing some designs for the dress.

Cutting the willow to the right size.                                       Starting to make the hoops.

Bending the willow.                                                             We're very proud of our hoop!

 Making the structure.                                                         Covering the tissue paper with glue.

 Adding the tissue paper to the structure.                             Nearly covered !

Painting over the tissue paper.                                           Painting designs onto an acetate tile. 

Printing onto the sari.                                                        Adding the designs on the dress

   Year 2 and the "Happy Couple" !

 On Tuesday 2nd February as part of our "Let's get Married" topic, Year 2 went to St Mary's Church in Whickham for a special wedding. The service was performed by Father John and parents, relatives and friends joined us for the celebration. Lisa Mills a former pupil of Fellside Community Primary School was our official photographer. Here are a selection of her photographs for you to enjoy.

The Ushers greet the guests.

The arrival of the bride.   

 The service begins.

Exchanging rings. 

The Blessing.

                                     Dodging the bubbles.                                  

  Our wedding album! 

On Tuesday 29th September Year Two went to St. Mary's Heritage Centre, Gateshead to find out about the 'Great Fire' of Newcastle and Gateshead. Richard Stephenson was our guide. We had a great day and learned a lot too! Here are a few snapshots of our visit.

Richard showing us the stained glass window in St. Mary's Church before the fire.

Looking at the site of the warehouse where the fire started.

Standing on the Newcastle side of the river, where the flames from the explosion spread.

In Bessie Surtee's house which didn't burn in the fire.

Examining artefacts. What jobs did these people do?

Beating the carpet! 

Thanks to Richard we had a fantastic day!

On Tuesday 24th February 2009 Year Two were joined by friends and relatives at St Mary's Church in Whickham for a special wedding. Father Barry kindly performed the service. Here are some photographs of the happy event!

The ushers greet the guests and show them to their seats.

 The service begins.

The best man and the pageboy.

Exchanging rings!

The bride's parents watch anxiously.

The Blessing.

Signing the Register.

The photographer in action!

The 'Happy Couple' lead the procession.

Dodging the bubbles!

The 'Happy Couple' with their families. 

The guests. 

Cutting the cake. 

Congratulations!

Year Two have been making a variety of puppets this term. We started with pin puppets.
If you follow our instructions, you will be able to make some of your own.

Colour in the puppet parts carefully.

Cut round the puppet pieces, following the outline.

Pin your puppet parts together, using paper fasteners. 

Finally attach the lever and have lots of fun moving the arms and legs of your new puppet!

On Tuesday 29th January Year Two held their wedding at St Mary's Church, Whickham. Father Barry performed the ceremony in front of a congregation of family members. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Click below to download an extract of the wedding movie! Please note that this is a large file and my take a few minutes to download. You will also need to have QuickTime Player installed on your machine to view this movie file. The best way to download this file is to click the link below with the right hand mouse button and select 'Save Target As...' from the menu that appears. Then select Save to save the file on your computer and select Open once the download is complete.

Download Movie file (mp4 format)

Here are a few snapshots of our special day!

Don't the wedding guests look fantastic in their best clothes!

Listening intently to Father Barry's words!

The serious part - the vows!

Signing the Register.

The Wedding Party!

The photographer was busy all morning!

The guests blew bubbles over the 'Happy Couple'!

We all enjoyed eating the delicious wedding cake back at school!

This term, Year Two's Design and Technology topic has been 'Puppets'. First, the children made moveable stick puppets which they joined using paper fasteners.Here are some of them:

Next, the children made simple finger puppets with holes for their fingers to wiggle like legs. They designed their character, then added colour and paper decorations.

Here are some of their wonderful characters:

Year Two made Victorian samplers for their Arts Week activity. Nature was this year's theme so we included ladybirds, snails, butterflies and flowers in our designs. We had lots of help from our relatives and friends. Thank you!

On Tuesday 30th January 2007, Year Two performed a wedding ceremony at St. Mary's Church in Whickham. Father Barry conducted the service and parents were invited to attend. Here are a few snapshots from Year Two's 'BIG DAY'!

Pre-wedding nerves!

Wedding Vows

Signing the Register

Bubble Parade!

"Congratulations to the bride and groom!"

The Wedding Party and their guests

The Wedding Cake!

In Design Technology this term, Year 2 have been learning about how puppets move and how they are joined. We have made three different kinds - paper fastener, finger and hand puppets. This is how we made our Jumping Jacks.

First, we coloured in all the parts of the puppet.

Next we cut each piece out.

Then, we joined the parts together using paper fasteners.

Finally, we added the stick to the back of the puppet. When you move it up and down, the Jumping Jacks move their arms and legs!