Fellside Community Primary School

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:

On Tuesday 10th July Year One and Year Two spent a day visiting Beamish Museum. Year Two experienced what it must have been like to be a Victorian schoolchild. They took part in a lesson which covered handwriting, a recitation of a poem and learning times tables. We had great fun and the sun shone all day!

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!