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         <description><![CDATA[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.

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         <title>2009-2010 Prospectus</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The latest school prospectus is available to download now. Please click the link below to begin downloading the file.

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         <title>So long, farewell.......</title>
         <description><![CDATA[This summer we said goodbye to another group of extremely talented children. They have been a real pleasure to have in our school and we will miss each and every one of them. We wish them all the luck for the future.  
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         <title>Moving On</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, Year Six have been involved in a series of activities and events with Whickham School. They have had the opportunity to try out the following activities: art, PSHE, science, maths and today they took part in the Mini Games. A fantastic time was had by all, we even got the chance to say hello to Dame Kelly Holmes!
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         <title>Athletics Festival 2008</title>
         <description><![CDATA[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:

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         <title>2008 Pedalling Picnic</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On Saturday 14th June around 60 children and parents took part in our annual Pedalling Picnic (the eighth event).

The majority of participants opted for the long ride - 10 miles from Consett to Swalwell - riding at a cracking pace (for children as young as 5) to reach Swalwell in just over an hour.

The sun shone for the picnic element of this enjoyable event.

Thanks to all who took part and particularly to Gary Haley for his work on the organisation of what has become a traditional summer event at Fellside.

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         <description><![CDATA[Year Six took part in the cricket festival at Whickham Cricket Club this week, the weather was fantastic, all of them played brilliantly and each and every one of them displayed great team spirit. As usual their behaviour was superb.
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         <title>Nursery Newsletter Edition 40</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Butterflies, beans, tadpoles, peas, carrots, cress, radishes, potatoes and children are all growing and flourishing in our nursery. This period of Spring/Early Summer has given our children a wonderful opportunity to study growth inside the nursery, in the garden and in the pond (literally for one child!).
	
This week children have enjoyed their home grown cress in their own sandwiches and have shared the fascination of all of us watching the painted lady butterflies emerge from cocoons. Tadpoles borrowed from our pond have demonstrated another of these miraculous transformations of nature as legs develop and they change to frogs. Today will see the release of the butterflies and tadpole/frogs into the wild.
	
These very real early childhood experiences are often those we remember as our memories of the more routine fade with time.
	
Thanks of course to Lynn and Anna for the extra but essential effort it requires to provide these stimulating experiences for the children. I take this opportunity also to those of you—probably almost all—who have helped in the nursery this year.

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         <title>Newsletter Issue 59</title>
         <description><![CDATA[A collective cheer sounded from Year Six children on completion of their final (the 9th) SATs paper last Friday. Their attitude and commitment during the tests week and in preceding weeks has been outstanding. The children have every reason to be confident of excellent results later this term.

Nationally there has been considerable media and parliamentary interest in SATs this year. Issues have been raised around curriculum content in Year Six classes, the purpose of the tests and concerns about stress on children.
	
From our prospective … We retain a full, broad curriculum as long as is sensible in Year Six with full access to sport and the arts—their residential visit  was in the second half of last term. Naturally we ensure appropriate teaching and learning, and revision and practice opportunities in the approach to tests.
	
The purpose of the tests? Do they test schools or children? I could write pages on this one. Within school we are assessing children and individual results are important to children, parents and teachers. There is no doubt that at a regional and national level results are used to rank schools (newspapers, etc.) and judge school performance (Ofsted, DCSF etc.).
	
We currently operate at a very high level in these crude rankings (5th Nationally in 2007), which is nice, but are such ‘league tables’ useful or necessary? Probably not.
	
Are the tests stressful? Well what test taken seriously isn’t? In my experience a combination of full curriculum coverage, expert teaching and massive commitment from children enables every child to enter the tests confident in their own ability to succeed. Our result bear witness.
	
It seems certain that SATs in their current form have just about outlived their usefulness. Another one, maybe two years left of the current system I should guess. I know that any teacher at Fellside can give an accurate assessment of levels for individual children without any test and we are currently refining this process. Equally I’m certain that government (of any political persuasion) will wish to retain a system for comparing schools and judging performance.

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         <title>Working Together</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Today Year 6 became teachers! They introduced the Reception class to Mathletics, one of our most recent software purchases in school. What a delight it was to see our youngest children being guided and supported by our oldest.
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         <description><![CDATA[Anyone for breakfast? 

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Today saw the first ever bring your bike and have your breakfast event! There were over forty children and parents who cycled to school and then enjoyed fresh juice, croissants, toast and time to chat with friends. Many thanks to James, our Bike-It officer, who organised and ran the event. Watch out for more activities during Bike-It Week, week beginning Monday 16th June.
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         <title>Moving In The Wind!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[This year’s technology challenge was to design and make something that would harness the power of the wind. What a spectacular array and assortment of machines, devices and turbines there were! Well done to everyone who entered, the standard was extremely high. Congratulations to the winners Olivia, Charlotte, Luke and Ellen.
Take a look at some in action!
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         <title>Newsletter Issue 58</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By now all parents and carers will have had, and taken the opportunity to discuss children’s progress for the second time this academic year.

Doubtless you’ll have applied a simple test of progress, and one we encourage all children to use—”look back at your work in September and look at it now”.

In many cases, and this is often most obvious with our youngest children, this can and does show an astonishing rate of progress in writing and maths.

Expert teaching at school, combined with that essential support from home and of course the enthusiasm of our children  enable almost all our children to achieve our aim of ‘learning to read’ in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One, enabling them to ‘read to learn’ and develop advanced skills in Key Stage Two.

We were delighted at the response from parents of younger children to our Phonics for Families workshops run by Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Balkwill. Similar workshops are sure to take place in the Autumn Term.

As you are aware we make every effort to enrich and enhance our curricular and extra curricular provision and always celebrate success and progress in the arts, sports and social aspects of school life. We never lose sight of one of our core purposes—ensuring our children are literate and numerate. The ‘nuts and bolts’ of primary education.

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         <title>Nursery Newsletter Issue 39</title>
         <description><![CDATA[By now all parents and carers will have had, and taken the opportunity to discuss children’s progress for the second time this academic year.

Doubtless you’ll have applied a simple test of progress, and one we encourage all children to use—”look back at your work in September and look at it now”.

In many cases, and this is often most obvious with our youngest children, this can and does show an astonishing rate of progress in writing and maths.

Expert teaching at school, combined with that essential support from home and of course the enthusiasm of our children  enable almost all our children to achieve our aim of ‘learning to read’ in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One, enabling them to ‘read to learn’ and develop advanced skills in Key Stage Two.

We were delighted at the response from parents of younger children to our Phonics for Families workshops run by Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Balkwill. Similar workshops are sure to take place in the Autumn Term.

As you are aware we make every effort to enrich and enhance our curricular and extra curricular provision and always celebrate success and progress in the arts, sports and social aspects of school life. We never lose sight of one of our core purposes—ensuring our children are literate and numerate. The ‘nuts and bolts’ of primary education.

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         <title>Nursery Newsletter Edition 38</title>
         <description><![CDATA[It’s all go! In the  two weeks since half term so much has happened to enhance life at Fellside. 
	
Year Six have had their residential outdoor activity visit to Robin Wood Centre near Alston. Wild country and some pretty wild weather but hugely rewarding  with our children attracting many positive comments for their immaculate behaviour, enthusiasm and positive attitude.
	
Many of our Karate Club members are now proudly wearing new coloured belts. Our swimmers competed at Felling Pool last week. Year Five children have now had two days working with a professional film crew on a film project to be screened later this year at the newly refurbished Tyneside Cinema.
	
… And what about last Thursday? World Book Day with Friends of Fellside Discos after school. Newcastle Utd’s well practised goalkeeper, Steve Harper was here in the afternoon promoting healthy eating and active lifestyles. A real bonus arose after a phone call from London on Thursday morning. A BBC Match of the Day TV crew travelled north to film the whole event for a slot on this weekend’s Match of the Day*. While all this was happening at Fellside I was heading south (staff say escaping!) to London to 10 Downing Street at the invitation of the Prime Minister. So all in all an exciting day for everyone.
	
What I’m well aware of is that all these events which excite, enhance and enrich school life require the extra effort of teachers, support and admin staff and others, often volunteers. 
	
Sincere thanks to all.

* Sunday morning Match of the Day

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