A Big Thank you to all the parents for attending our number morning today. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! The children had a great time too!

A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Lam at Golden chopsticks for allowing Reception to taste some Chinese food.

Ho Ho Ho!! Merry Christmas!!

Reception have had a Santa-packed week! On Monday morning they delivered their letters to Santa at Surestart, where he read a fab story about Santa coming to Newcastle. (The one about his visit to Gateshead is still at the publishers!)
The children all joined in with gorgeous singing for Santa. We even heard his reindeer stamping on the roof!

Then in the afternoon, Reception and Nursery had a good old boogie at their Christmas party.

Santa even came to our party too!!

A big well done to all of the children for two fantastic Christmas performances!
Thank you to all the parents for coming to see our show.
A big thank you to the Friends of West Lane for providing warm drinks on such freezing mornings too!

We all enjoyed dressing in spots on Friday to raise money for Children in Need. I bet Pudsey was proud of our Reception children.

To raise even more money for good causes, we made some delicious (though hard!) cookies with smarties in for our grown ups to buy and enjoy!

Dear parents,

We know you did a fab job of supporting Little Acorns with their mission to win FREE sports equipment, so we are hoping you can do the same for us!

Please go to the following website;
www.havenfunfitness.com

Find our school and pledge your support. We need over 70% of parents to sign up.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Beautiful ballerinas have been practising their plies, walks, spring points and step hops. They have also been little mermaids in their new dance!

Reception have done us proud again! This time, joining together to walk to school with their friends and their teachers. We got lots of fresh air and exercise to help us to start the school day with plenty of energy. Well done to everyone who walked to school with us this morning. Thank you!

Well done Reception for a great visit to the Discovery Museum. The children had lots of fun playing in the 'Water on the Tyne' area learning all about the bridges in Newcastle. They also enjoyed exploring in the science maze and finding out about things from the past.

Thank you to all parents/ carers who were able to come along to our Early Reading Experiences (morning and evening). We hope you enjoyed working with your child and finding out all about reading in reception.

Eee, how cheeky are Reception!?
We have been inside one of our school neighbours' gardens to get a closer look of their beautiful apple tree!

A big well done to all of the children, all of the parents, Mrs Exley and Mr. Inerdale for making sure the children enjoyed Sport's day (s) in the end, despite the weather. Thank you to everyone for your patience and cooperation.

The children had a great time racing against their friends and carefully balancing a potato on a spoon! Congratulations to those with 1st, 2nd and 3rd stickers and well done to everyone, because as Sarah Page says; 'It's the taking part that counts!'

We are so lucky in Reception...We've had so many special visitors in to talk to the children about their occupation. This week, we had Jack's mam Joan the Nurse! We listened to her heartbeat, played with syringes and had a go at bandaging!

PCSO David and Emma came into Reception and Nursery to talk about their job and let the children try on their gear!

Mr Blaylock our caretaker came in to talk to the children about all of the jobs he does in school.

Reception had a great time hunting for minibeasts, exploring in the woods and pond dipping at the rising sun country park!

Reception children enjoyed meeting Ralf today! They had lots of cuddles and asked Miss Potts questions about how to look after her puppy. Linking to our topic 'People who help us' the children considered what the Vet does to help pets and we now have a Vets surgery in our small world area.

It's back to school and straight back out into the community for the children in Reception to help those in need. Rescuing climbers, tending to poorly animals and keeping law and order in the outdoor area. The traffic wardens have done a great job of making STOP and GO road signs for cyclists and drivers to obey!

We are all excited for Prince William and Kate to get married on the 29th April. To celebrate, we have been playing in our palace role play area with jewels and dresses, making crowns with repeating pattern designs, writing invitations to the big day, making wedding cakes in the playdough and bringing in photographs of people we know getting married.

Reception were thrilled to get the chance to learn how to ride their bikes in the school yard. It was a bit weird at first having the pedals off, but the children enjoyed practising their balancing skills without them! Well done Reception, Keep pedalling!

Well done Reception for your performance of Monkey Puzzle! You were all fantastic!

The children have been writing letters home from the jungle. We went to the post box to post our letters home!

Reception made tasty pancakes to eat with lemon and sugar! yum yum yum in our tums!

Reception and nursery have been learning about Chinese New Year this week. They re-enacted the story of all of the animals and created dragon dances and masks. The children had a fun time yesterday tasting some Chinese food!

When the children of Reception came to school on Monday, they thought it was going to be just another ordinary day....Until Mrs Exley arrived carrying a GIGANTIC letter! It was from Mrs Giant from the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk!' Mrs Exley found the letter in the chicken coop!

Thank you for coming along to our parents number morning in Reception!

Reception children were delighted when their grown ups came into their classroom to work with them on lots of exciting number activities.
Thank you to all the parents who were able to come into school.

Even brothers and sisters enjoyed themselves!

Reception made bird feeders! We talked about importance of feeding birds in winter and about different types of birds. We put a hole in a yoghurt pot and tied some string on. Then we cut up lard into small cubes, added grated cheese, peanuts, raisons and bird seeds. We then put it into our pot and put into the fridge. Once set we hung out for the birds to enjoy! Outside we had fun bird watching we found red kites, pigeons and seagulls!

Reception and Nursery had a fantastic Christmas party! The children enjoyed the party food, dancing and games. Santa came to visit all the way from the North Pole with presents for everyone!

Despite snow, ice and chicken pox, Reception children managed to put on two fantastic performances for their grown ups!

We are very proud of all the boys and girls. A big well done from Mrs Exley, Miss Reid, Miss Potts and Mrs Ashby. Thank you to the Friends of West Lane and our helpers Mrs Pollard and Kerry.

O, Frosty the snowman
Was alive as he could be,
And the children say he could laugh
And play just the same as you and me.

Reception went dotty, spotty and absolutely potty for Children in Need! The children made super Pudsey masks, put on crazy clothes, painted their faces and put their hair in mad styles and colours!
Well done everybody! Great effort and super fundraising for a great cause. Pudsey will be very proud of you all!

Look at the fantastic costumes! Well done everyone.

Foundation stage party!

Reception walked to school with Miss Reid, Miss Potts and Mrs Ashby! Well done everyone who joined us at the library. We look forward to doing it again next half term!

Reception have been on yet another adventure!This time to visit the Dentist!

Thank you to all parents/ carers who came along to our Reading Morning. We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful.

Reception had a great time visiting the library!

Reception children ventured into the great unknown this week...West Lane's Vegetable Garden! Children gathered lettuce and radishes and a few creepy crawlies along the way!

The children have been an absolute joy to work with and have put a smile on all of our faces on the rainiest of days!
We wish all the boys and girls lots of luck for Year 1 and hope they try their best and have lots of fun.
Love from
Miss Reid, Miss Potts and Mrs Ashby x

Reception have been enjoying role play in the police station.

Take a look at our photostory to see what we did at Saltwell Park!

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Wow, what an afternoon we had! Mr. Innerdale and his helpers did an excellent job of organising a fantastic range of activities and races. We had glorious weather and loads of team spirit. Nursery children, Reception children, school staff AND parents/carers joined in! Miss Potts and Ross Whitfield were so speedy! Thank you to everyone for taking part and watching the children have a brilliant time.

It has been a busy time for celebrations at West Lane. We recently celebrated being 'green' by wering green clothes! We thought about how to save energy, turning off electrical appliances and lights, recycling and protecting the environment.

And of course we had to celebrate that very important day of the England game! We all came to school in our England colours to support the team. Some children even stayed late after school to watch the game. Mrs. Whitfield said the atmosphere in the school hall was even better than at the pub!

For International Week, Reception children have been learning all about Italy!
We made pizza with pepperoni, peppers, pineapple and mushrooms. As the weather was so hot we tasted ice cream outside! We also have been looking at photos from Venice and Rome and building the coliseum and gondolas. We have also made a 'tower of pizza'! Our role play is an Italian restaurant and we have been writing our own Italian menus. The children are becoming very confident at speaking Italian saying 'Ciao bella' and 'buongiorno'. They have also learnt the Italian numbers up to 12 and can sing them to the tune of 'Row row row your boat'.

The sun came out for us, and so did the people, and that resulted in a fantastic Summer Fayre on Wednesday 16th June.

There was a really good turn out from the community as a whole and the atmosphere was fantastic.

When Reception went on their trip to Seaton Sluice, the children were very excited about finding a message in a bottle from Patrick Starfish asking for help to find his best friend Spongebob. The children did their best to find him, looking all over St Mary's Island, and even hunted for him at the top of the lighthouse-That's 137 steps you know!
But oh dear...the truth was discovered the day after...
Mrs Exley arrived with a very serious letter. A rich man named Mr. Pennypacker has captured Spongebob and wants the childrens' help to get Patrick too! He offered the children £1,000,000 to help him. The children had to then decide who to help. The parents could join in using marbles on our cloakroom display...shame on those for helping Mr. Pennypacker!!

Reception had a fantastic afternoon finding out about the ambulance!

Polling Day: Reception are booted out of lower school and sent off to the coast for a fantastic day!
Our first destination was Seaton Sluice beach. Then we headed off to St. Mary's Lighthouse for rockpooling and a LOT of stairs to climb up the tower!

Reception went to the post box to post their postcards. The postcards will hopefully be delivered by your postman soon!

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We had an excellent time at Seven Stories and we loved the story 'The tiger who came to tea'.

'People who are special to us.'

Reception went to visit the Co-op this week to look at the fruit and vegetables. We asked the staff lots of questions about where the fruit and vegetables come from and we all got an apple and an orange to eat back at school!

For Chinese New year, Reception and Nursery got together to share the wonderful things the children have been learning about Chinese culture. We performed dances, songs and parades with masks, dragons and instruments.

Reception are learning all about Chinese New Year this week. We will be role playing in our Chinese restaurant, tasting Chinese food and making dragons.

February got off to a fab start in Reception. On Monday and Tuesday morning, Reception had two successful Parents' morning. This time the focus was on Problem Solving, Reasoning, and Number. We had lots of fun numeracy games and activities for parents and children to explore inside the classroom, in the hall and outside. It was lots of fun!

Rachel Atkinson and Amanda Tweedy came in to share with the children of Winlaton West Lane, the fantastic work that this charity has done to raise money for children's hospitals in the North East. The children and staff of Winlaton West Lane were presented with a baton to inspire us to think of fun and silly ways we could raise money for this valuable charity.
Amanda Tweedy is a reception Mum and made her son Nathan very happy indeed when she came in to Reception to host a poster competition with Rachel. Any ideas for fundraising activities will be warmly welcomed!

In reception we have been reading the 'Gingerbread man' story and cooking gingerbread men!

In Reception we have been dinosaur detectives! We even thought a dinosaur had laid an egg in our classroom...but it turned out to be an Ostrich egg. Ethan and Emily found that out, well done!

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Guess who came to visit us at our Christmas party ... Santa! we had a great dance and enjoyed lots of lovely food.

Reception were fantastic in their Christmas nativity! Well Done!

Thank you to all parents / carers who came along to our reading morning on Tuesday. We hope you found it useful.

Reception children had a great morning with their parents / carers last week. Adults supported their child in an area and then recorded with writing and pictures in their 'Me, my family and my world' books.

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Reception had fun at the library on Tuesday! We all got a book out to take home and we listened to the story of Mr Big.

Dear Parents / Carers:
We would like to invite you to a 'Me, my family and my world' introduction morning on Tuesday 17th November. Please come into reception to support your child in an area of their choice. This would be a great opportunity for you to share with your child and we would like you to make a comment about what you do together during the session in their 'Me, my family and my world' book.
We hope that you can make it and look forward to sharing the morning with you.
Foundation Stage Team

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We all had a fantastic time at the Foundation Stage Halloween party.

We raised £136.00 towards our exciting Outdoor Classroom Project. Thankyou for your generosity.

In Reception we enjoyed our Halloween Party! We all got dressed up in fancy dress, had Halloween Party food and played Halloween games! The money raised from our fancy dress went towards our outdoor classroom fundraising. Well done!

Foundation Stage (nursery and reception) had a fantastic day at Tynemouth on our school trip to the Blue Reef Aquarium!

We learnt some French phrases, ate croissants and had the French flag painted on our face!

Nous avons appris quelques expressions françaises, avons mangé des croissants et avions le drapeau français a retouché notre visage!

Reception had an exciting day during our school trip to Whitehouse farm on Friday the 13th March 2009!

Reception enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year! They tasted Chinese food, made dragon masks and lanterns, carried out a dragon dance and played in the Chinese restaurant.

Reception enjoyed their reward of cheerleading. They danced, jumped and chanted to the music along with their pompoms!

The children had a great time in their nativity play Born in Bethlehem. They all looked fantastic and remembered their lines. There was only a little bit of stagefright on the day! Well done Reception.