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.
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.
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.
'Elmer The Patchwork Elephant' is a favourite in nursery. Everyone painted an elephant and glued on coloured squares.Can you see lots of elephants hiding in the jungle?
The children have also been painting 'Elmer' on the interactive whiteboard.
The second half of the autumn term is traditionally very busy both in school, and I'm sure at home, and this year is no exception. Please find below a list of the events up to Christmas.
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.
The children in Reception Class have settled into school life so well.
They have learnt new routines and love all the different areas in their new classroom.
Look how busy we've been...
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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:
Dear Parents and Carers
On behalf of the Board of Governors we commend this OFSTED report to you, and would like to congratulate every member of the Fellside team in their outstanding achievement. Such inspections shine a spotlight on the entire team and highlight a snap shot in time of a team who continuously strive to give their very best for our children, each and every day.
The outcome of the inspection is of no surprise to the Governing Body who are acutely aware of the strong and purposeful leadership of Mr Doran in transforming vision into action, together with superb teaching and learning delivered by all staff, which makes Fellside a truly exceptional environment.
This achievement is a result of the professionalism of everyone within the Fellside team, all of whom have contributed significantly to the development of our school. I am certain you will agree with me when I say that the professionalism, dedication and enthusiasm of all staff at Fellside make our school a truly unique and inspirational environment in which our children can, and do, flourish.
Furthermore, this report recognises the efforts of all partners within the Fellside community; staff, parents, carers, Friends of Fellside, Governors and supporters within the local community, who together have assisted in achieving our vision of “providing an inspiring and caring environment in which we are all challenged to maximise our potential”. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the continuing support that you give to Fellside and look forward to your ongoing support as we strive to maintain these exceptional standards and further develop both the learning environment and curriculum.
Together we really are making a difference.
John Baines
Chairman
Fellside Community Primary School
Phew! A busy week for us all—nothing new there—but yesterday of course we were subject to the close scrutiny of an Ofsted inspector.
At this stage I am not able to give you any detail of the judgment as the findings are not yet within the public domain. You can look forward to receiving the full report in two or three weeks time.
From the feedback we’ve received it will certainly be a report to look forward to.
Your children, as ever, were exemplary yesterday, as were all staff. May I take this opportunity to thank the many of you who extended your best wishes to us in the last few days. It’s much appreciated.
Parents
Need to buy a musical instrument for your child? The Arts Council has introduced a loans scheme, details of this may be found at:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/takeitaway/
Jane Armstrong
We intend to go ahead with Sports Day this afternoon.
BBC weather for the North East indicates the possibility of "showers, heavy and thundery in places".
Postponement until tomorrow offers little advantage from available forecasts - more heavy showers.
Fingers crossed for this afternoon - an umbrella is probably sensible.
For our 40th birthday celebrations we decided to visit our favourite places at school. We took lots of photographs. Come and have a look at them!
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.
40th Anniversary Evening Celebration
Tickets for the Fellside School 40th Anniversary Evening Celebration at The Coachman on Friday 8th June 2007, are selling quickly. Numbers are limited, so get your tickets as soon as possible from the school reception desk!
Time: 7.30pm till 12 midnight
Price: £6.50
There will be entertainment from the Dads’ band, Take Cover, as well as a buffet supper, quiz & raffle.
Fellside will celebrate it's 40th Birthday on 5th June 2007. There will be a number of events organised on or around this day to mark this auspicious occasion - watch this space for details.
If anyone has photographs or memorabilia of past events that they would be prepared to share with us they would be warmly welcomed. Please contact Mr Doran or any of the committee members of Friends of Fellside.
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.
Year 5 have been busy writing non-chronological reports on Foxes. The children carefully planned their reports to include important features, such as present tense verbs, questions to draw the reader in and 'foxy facts', rather than personal opinions.
Year 5 have been busy this term designing and building moving toys using cam mechanisms. Pupils tested their ideas before starting the assembly process by carrying out a 'market test' on their peers in the school. Our children then learnt to accurately measure, cut and shape their model parts using hand saws and hand drills. Assembling a moving toy proved quite a tricky process, as our pupils discovered. Some needed to adjust their moving parts in order for the cam or the follower to move smoothly.
Continue reading to download and watch a video of Adam's finished moving toy.
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Our pupils from Year 6 achieved sporting excellence last weekend in front of over 4,000 spectators. During the half time interval at Kingston Park, our team won the final of the Gateshead School's Tag Rugby Championship.
Just to remind you about the Christmas Events in Nursery this year:-
Concert
Monday 18th December
Christmas Parties
Tuesday 19th December
Raffle
Tickets available from 4th December to be drawn on Thursday 21st December
Details of the above events can be found below and will be in the next 'Fellside Nursery Matters'
On behalf of 130 children a long way away may we thankyou for the 130 shoeboxes which have been so kindly donated by our school community. As I write Gillian Arbon is loading boxes into her car, the first stage of their journey to needy children in far away places. Thanks to Gillian for her work on this and huge thanks to all of you who have filled boxes to make this appeal so successful.
Pam Coates, a dinner nanny at Fellside for seven years, left us today. Not only has she worked at Fellside, she has been one of the key members of Friends of Fellside.
Many of you, I'm sure will have seen the Gordon family's cat Sammy in our school playgroud and on the field. Indeed he was around so often and such a sociable animal that we almost regarded him as our school cat.
Sadly Sammy was knocked down and killed by a car during the half term break. A loss to the Gordon family and to the school. There is of course an important road safety message for all our children from Sammy's death...Take great care.
Our harvest time appeal last year was to raise money for the Malawian charity CHARM. They were hoping to raise enough money to build a bakery. We have just received an e-mail from Laston Mbemba in Malawi with a photograph of the nearly completed bakery. How wonderful it is to see the very real results of the fundraising effort to which we contributed. On behalf of our friends in Malawi, thankyou.
Attending Assembly
Blaydon MP, Dave Anderson visited Fellside on Monday 2nd October and officially launched this new school website. Dave had organised a successful visit to Parliament, including Prime Minister’s Questions, for year six school councillors in July.
Our site's first visitor
We were delighted that he was able to find time in a busy schedule to accept our invitation to talk to KS2 children about the role of an MP, democracy and citizenship. His visit coincided with the completion of our website so we were pleased to have a very special guest to launch the site.
You can download a podcast of the School Assembly and listen to Mr Anderson answering the children's questions by going to our Podcast section on the right panel.
Our school band is called Zodiac Flame. The band has 6 members who sing and play on keyboard and guitar. We have already written and performed two songs and have a number of new tracks in the pipeline. Our debut track, 'Weve been Thinking' is available to download on this site. Check out the Podcast links on the right side panel.
Watch this space for any of our future hits...!