Fellside Community Primary School

Year 5 took part in a Tudor Music workshop on Thursday 14th January

Today we saw creativity at its best. In amongst the heaps of snow grew snow dragons, icicle sculptures, forts, volcanoes, The Angel of the North, snow tunnels, Buckingham Palace, snow crocodiles, the list is endless!

Years 5 and 6 became evacuees for the day when they visited Beamish Open Air Museum before the half term holiday. They learned what it was like to leave the city and work on a farm as some children might have done during the Second World War. They tried out many activities they have never done before for example they made cottage cheese, prepared for a blackout, stuffed mattresses and wrapped potatoes. Many thanks to everyone who helped them to find their fabulous costumes, they really did look authentic.

All aboard to Home Farm.

We were feeling both excited and a little bit apprehensive as we began our evacuation experiences. We could imagine how it would have felt for children in World War II.

We stuffed the mattress with straw and blacked out the windows.

                       We enjoyed making cottage cheese.                                      We enjoyed looking at real World War II artefacts. This school pinafore looked uncomfortable.  

At the end of our trip we loved our visit to the sweet shop!   

On Wednesday 23rd September, Year 5 took part in a sculpture day at Bill Quay Farm. We had lots of fun learning to use tools such as hammers, saws and vices. We were assisted by a selection of local artists who helped us create our fantastic wooden sculptures, inspired by the movies. These magnificent creations were displayed in Saltwell Park before being brought to Fellside, where they are now to be seen guarding the entrance to our school.

We learned to use a saw.                                

Look at our Buzz Lightyear!

Our Iron Man was as tall as a building.

Year 5 have been reading legends of Robin Hood, and have written their own endings to an exciting episode, in the style of the author.
Robin and Will were lured to the castle by the fiendish Nottingham, who had captured Marion as bait. The two outlaws thought they had outwitted the sheriff by sneaking into the castle through a secret hole, but little did they know that they were walking straight into the dungeon and had fallen prey to Nottingham's cunning plan.

We began our stories just as the sheriff crept up behind Robin, with a sword in hand, and gleefully announced that they were 'trapped'.

Have a look at just a few of the wonderful, gripping stories we wrote. 

  Annabel.doc  

  Anna.doc

  Ellen.doc

  Daniel.doc

Liberty.doc 

Year 5 have just finished learning all about the Tudors, and to celebrate we held a lavish Tudor banquet.

Year 5 will be performing their class assembly at 9:15am on Tuesday 25th of November. Family members of all the children in Year 5 are invited. Refreshments will be provided by Friends of Fellside.

Any help in providing 'Tudor' costumes will be much appreciated. I look forward to seeing you on the 25th!

Sally Moore

On Friday 12th September, twenty of our top cyclists accompanied by ten adults cycled to Gateshead's Baltic Square to watch 90 of the world's top cyclists finish stage 6 of the Tour of Britain.

Our children from Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 took part in the Athletics Festival at Gateshead Stadium on Friday 27th June. Girls and boys from the school claimed a bumper crop of medals, including five gold and four silver. A fantastic time was had by all and many thanks go to Mrs Bowren and Mrs Potts for all their support on the day.

Click to enlarge images from the event below:

Click below to see further images of the event.

The ICT Club have been using Microsoft Powerpoint for all sorts of fun activities including creating interactive quizzes, writing their very own adventure games and diaries of school trips. Click below to have a look at some of their work for yourself!

Remember the Newsreels which were once such a major part of a trip to the cinema? Year 5 have been recreating these mini-films as part of the new Film Narrative topic for Literacy. Our pupils have learnt all about the film-making process including: writing a Production Sheet; planning different camera angles and assigning roles within Newsreel teams. We also researched and watched numerous Newsreels from the 1930s through to the late 1970s.

Year 5 have created some fantastic bar charts and line graphs this term. Firstly, the class collected their data using tallies and frequency tables. Next, the children plotted both bar charts and line graphs by hand and then, in later lessons, they linked this numeracy work with ICT to present their charts using Microsoft Excel.

Click below to see some more examples of their super graph work.

Year 5 have travelled back 500 years through the mists of time with their class assembly today. Their special guests, Henry VIII and his wives amongst other Tudor characters, appeared alongside Ant and Dec for this summer special edition of This is your Wife.

On Friday 22nd June children from Years 3 to 6 travelled to Gateshead International Stadium to take part in this years Gateshead Primary Schools Athletics Festival.

Everyone competed brilliantly and a good day was had by all, the journey home was accompanied by the tinkling of the various medals won, from bronze through to gold.

Children from Year 5 have been involved in an event aimed at encouraging Fair Trade products. Players from the Newcastle Falcons also attended the event, much to the delight of the children.

One child has written a report to explain exactly what happened.