Please leave a comment, which was your favourite animal?

We hope you enjoy a selection of our photographs, we had great fun with Jay and the animals, don't forget to leave a comment about your favourite animal. How many animals can you remember?

From Mrs Lamb, Mrs Arbon, Mrs Potts, and all the staff and children at Fellside.  

Which chick do you like the best?

 Please leave a comment if you enjoyed the day and would like to do it again!

Some of our Year 4 children took part in a Year 4 Tennis Tournament at Blaydon Tennis Club on Thursday 3rd May. We entered two teams who both competed brilliantly against other schools. One of our teams finished in third place while the other team won the tournament! The winning team now go on to represent Fellside and Gateshead at a School Games event in July. Congratulations to everyone who took part - the attitude and sporting behaviour shown was excellent. Good luck to our winning team at the School Games.

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More photos and a chick flick to follow! Can you think of some good chick names?

Rain stopped play yet again...  Tennis fun day on Sunday is cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Don't forget to go along to Blaydon Tennis Club this weekend

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April - Time : 4 - 6pm both days,

for a Fellside Fun Day with Jonathan Newton and other tennis coaches. This is a free event for any pupils, friends and family of Fellside Community Primary School.  

Refreshments will be provided following fun tennis sessions and activities. We hope you can go along and join in the fun. 

The programme for the day is as follows :

•tots tennis
•mini tennis
•cardio tennis
•basket drills session
•singles and doubles
•ball machine
Over the 2 hour sesssion there will be 3 or 4 rotations so you can try each activity. Also, there will be free courts to use for family & friends.

If there are any changes, they will be posted on our school website over the weekend.

Please click on the following link to access Booking, Registration, Information and Consent form. booking form ffc.pdf

Please click on the following link to access our current school meals menu. 

Menu for 2011 & 2012.pdf

Well done to everyone who took part, the response from the whole school was fantastic as usual.

Well done to everyone who took part, the response from the whole school was fantastic as usual. 

Well done to everyone who took part, the response from the whole school was fantastic as usual.

 Well done to everyone who took part, the response from the whole school was fantastic as usual.

 Well done to everyone who took part, the response from the whole school was fantastic as usual.

Well done to everyone who took part, the response from the whole school was fantastic as usual.

Due to the weather forecast this weekend, we have postponed the Tennis Fun Weekend.

New date : Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April.

Revised time : 4 - 6pm both days.

Same place : Blaydon Tennis Club

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please click on the following link to access April newsletter and school uniform survey : 

Newsletter April 2012.pdf          School Uniform Survey.doc

Don't forget to go along to Blaydon Tennis Club this weekend 21st & 22nd April for a Fellside Fun Day arranged with Jonathan Newton and other tennis coaches. This is a free event for any pupils, friends and family of Fellside Community Primary School.

Opening times - 21st April - 3.00 - 5.00pm  Sunday 22nd April - 11.00 - 1.00pm

Refreshments will be provided following fun tennis sessions and activities. We hope you can go along and join in the fun. For further information visit Blaydon Tennis Club using the following link Blaydon Tennis Club

The programme for the day is as follows : 

• tots tennis
• mini tennis
• cardio tennis
• basket drills session
• singles and doubles
• ball machine

Over the 2 hour sesssion there will be 3 or 4 rotations so you can try each activity. Also, there will be free courts to use for family & friends.

Masks in glue and felt by Year 1. Mermaids and the pirates of 'Davy Jones's Locker'

Can you see your mask?

We learnt some Spanish phrases to help him settle in- he will definitely be able to find his local football pitch now! We also had lots of fun learning traditional Spanish playground games. We ended the day by tasting a selection of Spanish dishes and watching an animoto full of Jordan's memories of Fellside.

We are very sad to see Jordan go, but wish him the very best in Tenerife. We know he will become as much of an asset to his new school as he was at Fellside.

Please leave your messages below for Jordan (He's promised to check the website regularly to see what Year Five are getting up to!)

Enjoy your holidays from Mr Mordue & Mrs Wrate.

Can you spot your card? 

 Enjoy your holiday, from Mrs Balkwill, Mrs Mitchell & Mrs Wilkinson.

Don't they look lovely, can you remember who made these cards?

Enjoy your holiday, from Miss Scott & Mrs Potts.

Don't they look lovely, can you remember who made these cards?

Year 5 also decorated eggs, which egg was your favourite?

Enjoy your holiday, from Mrs Lamb & Mrs Potts.

 Don't they look lovely, can you remember who made these cards? 

Enjoy your holiday, from Mr Bailey & Mrs Wrate.

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Don't they look lovely, can you remember who made these cards?

Enjoy your holiday, from Mrs Armstrong & Mrs Rutherford.

Don't they look lovely, can you remember who made these cards?

Enjoy your holiday, from Mrs Cameron & Mrs Rutherford.

Enjoy your holiday, from Miss Grinsted & Mrs Nevin. 

Don't they look lovely, can you remember who made these cards?

We gave each of the teachers a bag of goodies to take back to Uganda, which contained a selection of educational gifts and treats for the children.

Please leave your comments... what are the differences between life for children at Fellside and children in a school in Uganda? 

We have just received a little note from Ben Shepherd just to say... Thank you for making him and his friend feel so welcome. He thought the assembly was really interesting, the penalty shoot out spectacular and the Hula - Hooping truly exotic!

He also wishes us a brilliant World Sport day!

Here are the new price for sessions from April 2012

Breakfast Session 7.50am to 9.00am - £5.00

After School Session - 3.15 to 5.50

Sessions from - 3.15 - 4.15 - £5.00 3.15 - 5.50 - £8.00

Thank you
Rachel

Today we planted some seed potatoes for our potato race. Year 1 planted Rocket potaotes and Year 2 planted Casablanca potatoes. To make the race fair, we planted them at the same time and the same depth. The winner will be the class with the most potatoes.  

Can you remember who planted the seed potatoes?

Children from years 5 and 6 gave a short presentation to explain all of the exciting things that go on at Fellside that link with our RE work. This ranged from a pretend wedding to learning Bollywood dance routines!

The mayor was very impressed and as well as presenting us with our certificate, he also answered lots of questions about what it's like to be mayor of Gateshead. 

On Friday 9th March, we had a special visit from TV presenter Ben Shephard! Ben is an ambassador for the London 2012 Olympics and he came to hear about our preparations for World Sport Day, which is on Monday 25th June, and for National School Sport Week, which runs from Monday 25th to Friday 29th June.

We showed Ben a video which showcased some of the sport we do at Fellside before a member of each class delivered a presentation, showing Ben our plans for World Sport Day and National School Sport Week. In the presentation we also told Ben about our links with schools in Tanzania and China. After impressing Ben with our plans, we had a Year 5&6 penalty shoot out competition on the school field (Ben scored!) before finishing the morning with a Year 4 hula hoop session which Ben bravely joined in with! He said he had lots of fun and was really impressed with the behaviour and attitude of all of the children at Fellside!

The Olympic 2012 team have added Ben's Fellside visit to their blog on the 2012 website and to the News section on the Get Set website. You can read it here:  world sport day gateshead children 

Thank you to Ben and the Olmpic team for visiting us and well done Fellside!

Who is you favourite legend?

The night was a great success and the children performed their routine, called 'I've Gotta Fellside Feeling', brilliantly. It was an exccellent experience for the children to perform at a venue like the Sage in front of a packed audience, and they certainly rose to the occasion. Well done Team Fellside!

It was nice to see everyone at the Bike it breakfast, hope you enjoyed it.

Here are a few children in the BIG PEDAL who came to school on bikes or scooters today, there were a few more than last week. Well done everyone ... keep it up!

See you tomorrow for the 'Bike It'  breakfast. 

       Please leave a comment... who can you spot in the picture ? 

Please leave a comment... Which part of his visit did you enjoy the most?

Children from afternoon Nursey had a super time on their bikes. There were so many photographs, we thought it was nicer to have a video. Hope you enjoy watching the video, see if you can spot yourself and your friends.

Who did you see?
If you enjoyed the video, please leave a comment!

Children from morning Nursey had a super time on their bikes. There were so many photographs, we thought it was nicer to have a video. Hope you enjoy watching the video, see if you can spot yourself and your friends.

Who did you see?
If you enjoyed the video, please leave a comment!

 Nick will be back into school over the next couple of weeks to do the same session with our Year 3 class. 

If you would like the recipe for the chicken wraps or any further information please click the following link  cooking for life. As always we appreciate your comments. 

The pupils of Fellside have taken part in 'Face Britain', a national project organised by The Princes's Foundation for Children and The Arts. Here are pictures from Reception children that will be part of the portrait of HM the Queen.

The pictures can also be viewed on the offical 'Face Britain' website.

Click on the following link Fellside Face Britain and follow the online instructions to the gallery.

Matches, Lighters, NEVER TOUCH! They can hurt you very much!

Then we listed all the household items that can burn. We spotted dangers around the house. Kitchens we decided were the most dangerous rooms. 

Stay out!

On Tuesday 27th February, chef Nick came into school to teach us how to make healthy beef burgers.

As you can see from our faces, we all had a fantastic time making the burgers. As a special treat for all our hard work we were allowed to eat them. We just managed to save one for Mrs Cameron, who said it was the best burger she had ever tasted. If you would like further information please click on the following link  cooking4life . 

Please click on the following link to access February newsletter :     NewsletterFeb2012.pdf

On a chilly Tuesday morning the children of Year One made their way to Spoor Methodist Church for a very special wedding.  Their friends were going to be married.

After changing into their special costumes, the children got to their places. The ushers gave out service sheets and showed the guests to their places. The groom and his best man waited nervously near the front. When Mrs Ducker began to play the organ all assembled got to their feet to see the beautiful bride and her handsome father walking down the aisle followed by the five pretty bridesmaids. Readers read out poems about love and marriage, the congregation sang and all fell silent as the bride and groom made their important vows. The best man gave Rev. Liz the wedding rings and they were placed on fingers. Everyone clapped for the happy couple.

Then Year One posed for photographs and there were relieved smiles on everyone's faces.  Rev. Liz congratulated the bride and groom for saying their promises so clearly and for the splendid behaviour of the whole class. Waving goodbye to Rev. Liz the children made their way back to school now looking forward to the Reception party.

Year One would like to say thank you to everyone who came to the church to share their wedding day, those who organised the wedding outfits and especially to those mums who accompanied them to and from the church. A big THANK YOU also to Rev. Liz for conducting the service and to Mrs Ducker who played the music in the church.

At the Reception the bride, her groom and their parents greeted their guests. More photographs were taken and the excited children were joined by the Year Two wedding party and their good friends from Gibside School. The best men and the fathers of the bride led the toasts. The children wished the happy couples good health and happiness and drank their 'bubbly' (lemonade and orange juice). Next the brides and grooms cut the magnificent cake. Lips were licked and the guests tucked in to their slice.
After learning to waltz in P.E. lessons, the brides and grooms took to the floor for the first dance together. They were some joined by their guests who danced beautifully. For a moment it was just like 'Strictly Come Dancing'!
Finally, each bride stood before the girls from her class, turned her back and threw her bouquet. Quickly each lucky girl held the flowers aloft. It was the end of a special party and everyone had played their particular parts perfectly.

What a great day!

Enjoy the Animoto of our special day and the photograph collage made with the photographs taken by our Year 2 wedding photographer! A very important royal person is having a special celebration soon and is also going to have a collage. We are so pleased our school did it first.

Every Friday since January 2012, Dr Brendan Renwick has been coming into Nursery to share Traditional Tales through music and drama. Well-known stories have been brought to life by "Brendan the Music Man" using puppets, music, drama and amazing props. The children have loved each session and count the sleeps each week 'til Brendan visits! On Friday 10th February, Brendan and the am children shared some of the work they have done in Nursery with their first ever performance in front of the whole school. They loved being up on the stage and used "big voices" so that all their brothers and sisters in the audience could hear them speak.
 

Well done to every single child who took part. We were so proud of you! Thank you to Brendan for bringing these stories to life - we will never forget them!

Thank you to all the parents who gave up their time to share their favourite books with us! 
 

 Parents came in to our class to help us make paper Dragons, Lucky red money envelopes and paper Lanterns. We all had a go at Chinese writing, which is even harder than writing in English!

We also learnt a lot about Chinese New Year by watching clips from CBeebies, you can see them too if you click on the following link. Chinese New Year.  If you would like more information, or to watch the Chinese Celebrations held this year in Newcastle as well, click on the following link. Newcastle Celebrations

And for those who don't understand Chinese writing... On Monday 23rd January 2012, we celebrated Chinese New Year in Nursery. We cooked Chinese Noodles with peas, spring onions and sweetcorn. PS. Before our special recipe for Ooodles of Noodles is available in the local Chinese Take Away, you can have a copy from Nursery, but hurry there are only 1,000,000 copies!

Feel Good On A Friday @ Whickham Library

Friday 3rd February   10am - 12pm

Lets all forget our stresses and FEEL GOOD FOR THE DAY!!

Come along and try stress busting activities, improve your health and self.

Why not have a hand massage or try a different beauty treatment, indulge in fresh fruits or a fitness session on the Wi!!

Plus lots, lots more.......

Chill with the staff who will be wearing their favourite pyjamas for the day!!

Everyone Welcome - refreshments too

We look forward to seeing you there

Maria Buckley

Senior Library Assistant

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

Matt worked with our class to learn, practise and perform a whole play on life in Tudor England. Not only were the children able to practise and perfect their acting skills, but we also learnt lots of historical facts and has plenty of laughs along the way!

 At the end of the day, Parents were invited to watch our final performance, and it's safe to say they were as impressed as the staff at how professional the play was.

The hard work the children put in was evident in their confident performance. Year 5 loved their day of acting, and they are all very enthusiastic to learn more about the Tudors in the rest of our topic. As always we welcome your comments in the comments box below.

The Friends of Fellside World Book Day disco will be held on Thursday 1st March. There will be prizes at each disco for the best girl and boy fancy dress outfits (come as a character from your favourite book).
Reception Nursery and Key Stage One 4.45--5.45 pm
Key Stage 2 6.00--7.15 pm

Please click on the following link to access January newsletter.
NewsletterJanMM.pdf

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.

We welcome your comments in the  box below.

On Tuesday 13th December, groups of Year One pupils assembled Christingles.
Christingles are made up of different parts, each one being there to remind us of something. The orange represents the world and the candle is to remind us of Jesus because Christians believe Jesus to be the light of the world. The red ribbon goes all round the 'world' and reminds Christians that Jesus died because it represents the blood of Jesus. The four cocktail sticks could stand for either: the four seasons or the four corners of the world. The sweets (or sometimes dried fruit) is to remind us of God's gifts to the world including kindness and love.
Year Two joined them for some singing as the candles were lit up. It was a magical moment! 
       

Many thanks to all the parents and grandparents who helped support the children on the visit...we couldn't have had the visit without you!

If you enjoyed the Animoto, we would love you to leave a comment in the comments box below.

Many thanks to all the parents and grandparents who helped support the children on the visit...we couldn't have had the visit without you!

  If you enjoyed this Animoto, please leave a comment in the comments box below.

It all began when several children pledged to create a healthy tuck shop in their election speeches. Mrs Lamb thought this was an excellent idea so decided to help the children do something about it.
Mrs Lamb contacted 'Fruit to Suit', a company that specializes in healthy snacks for schools, and arranged for Lisa to come in and give us some training.

We thoroughly enjoyed our training day! The children were given jobs from marketing directors to finance managers. We learned how to check an invoice, stock take, make an order, balance a float and most importantly... we sampled the snacks and picked our favourites!
The children then worked very hard to promote the tuck shop. They made posters, wrote letters to the children's families and gave an assembly to all of Key Stage Two.
The big day finally arrived and the first tuck shop took place on Friday 2nd December. All the hard work and preparation paid off and the children are now eager to continue the hard work.
The tuck shop will be open every Wednesday playtime from now on, in the Key Stage Two yard. All snacks are 40p, contain no traces of nuts and are healthy too.

If you would like further information about the company please click on the following link Fruit to Suit

  Training Day.

Presenting our ideas to KS2 in our assembly.

 The big day! Our healthy tuck shop.

Please click on the following link to access the December Newsletter.

  NewsletterDecemberMM.pdf

Now, in exchange for you writing and drawing and putting lots of good things on my webpage, I promise I will be a good and faithful friend and I'll always be around to play with!

Your first job....is to give me a name!

We all hope Santa enjoys reading our letters.

Children in Year 5 and 6 walked to Whickham Library to meet the Two Steves and to learn all about their writing and their brilliant stories.

In the afternoon, Year 3 and 4 children gathered in the hall and were treated to some fun games with the Two Steves, inspiring the children through their stories.

All of our KS2 children had great fun meeting the Two Steves and learning more about their writing and their books!

For more information on the Two Steves, visit their website: www.the2steves.net

After the session, the children had their own i-Hero books signed by the Two Steves.

Don't forget to post a comment below about the visit.

Years 5 and 6 held a fabulous street party to celebrate VE day as part of their 'Bombs Away' topic. They invited grandparents to join them for an afternoon of singing, dancing, eating and memories. What a wonderful afternoon it was, the children learned a huge amount by listening to the many stories and tales of childhoods past and sampling the splendid rationing recipes kindly brought in by their families. Many thanks to everyone who came along from near and far!

Please post a comment below of your special memory!

Everyone had a super time with Sparkle and Heidi.

 Please note ... 'Bling yer bike day' is Tuesday 29th November not Monday 29th  as stated in the letter from Alan Barlow 'Bike it Officer.

Can you help run a stall?

Can you donate any of the following?

• Cakes - brought in on the day in a named tin/box
• Toys/games/books - clean and unbroken please (From Monday 21st only please)
• Bottles for the Bottle Tombola - if everyone bring a bottle in, this stall alone will raise over £300!
• Children's Tombola Prizes
• Raffle prizes - do you run a business? Would you be happy to donate a raffle prize? Our raffle is always very popular and raises the most money at the fair - but we need quality prizes. If you can donate a prize please fill in the form that was sent home, and bring it in with your prize. 

 Please take all donations and offers of help to the school reception -

thanks in anticipation from F.O.F!

Monday 31st October - Friday 4th November was Parliament Week. To celebrate Key Stage Two invited Dave Anderson the MP for Blaydon, into school to talk to us in assembly. Dave told us about his job as an MP (Member of Parliament) and told us what it was like to work in Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. The children listened incredibly well, asked Dave some excellent questions about being a politician, and we all learned a lot. Our School Council is feeling inspired to continue their great work on behalf of the pupils at Fellside after listening to Dave's experiences and advice.

If you would like to see more about the charity, please click on the following link - COCO Charity 

Monday 14th November Training Day (School closed to children)
Friday 25th November Friends of Fellside Christmas Fair
Tuesday 29th November 'Bling Yer Bike'
Tuesday 29th November Early Years & Year 1 children to Northern Stage
Thursday 1st December Year 2 & KS2 children to Northern Stage
Tuesday 6th December Christmas Performance - Afternoon
Wednesday 7th December Christmas Performance - Morning
Wednesday 7th December Christmas Lunch
Thursday 8th December Christmas Performance - Morning
Friday 9th December Nursery Christmas Performances AM & PM
Monday 12th December Year 3 and 4 Christmas Party
Tuesday 13th December Nursery Christmas Parties AM & PM
Tuesday 13th December Carol Service at St Mary's Church
Wednesday 14th December Year 5 and 6 Party
Thursday 15th December Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 Party
Friday 16th December Last day of term
Tuesday 3rd January Children return to school

The Friends of Fellside Christmas Fair is on Friday 25th of November, there will be plenty of stalls and activities to do, we look forward to seeing you there. If you are interested in helping out then please contact school or any FOF member.
Fellside Fun Club will not operate during the afternoon of Friday 25th November.

Please click on the following link to access the Novermber Newsletter - NewsletterNovemberMM.pdf

The Fellside Fun Club Halloween Party will take place on Monday 31st October from 3.15pm until 5.45pm. Bookings are now being taken and places are limited and allocated on a first come first served basis. Please see one of the Fun Club members of staff to book your place early and avoid disappointment.
Thanks,
Rachel

 A terrific £220.28 was raised during the Macmillan coffee morning for the cancer charity, thanks to everyone who came along and gave their support. FOF's next events are the Halloween discos, taking place on Thursday 20th October. Tickets are available on the door costing £2.00, which covers entrance fee, a bottle of water and a bag of sweets.
Nursery, Reception and Key Stage 1 4.45 - 5.45 pm
Key Stage 2 6.00 - 7.15 pm
There will be prizes at each disco for the best girl and boy fancy dress outfits.

Please note a change to the Christmas fair date; it will now take place on Friday 25th November, giving plenty of time to buy those Christmas gifts.

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