Yesterday, 60 Key Stage 2 children tried their hand at making clippy mats from recycled material.
It was a tricky skill to master but some excellent artwork was produced.
Did you enjoy the clippy mat workshop? What skills did you learn? Share your 'comments' below.
Yesterday Y5/6 received a fire safety talk from members of the Tyne and Wear Fire Service.
The children learnt about the job of a fire-fighter, about fire safety at home and at school and what to do should they ever discover a fire.
They were all given fire safety activity packs and some even got the chance to dress up as fire-fighter!
Did you enjoy the fire safety talk? What important messages did you learn? Share your 'comments' below.
On Wednesday morning, the Music Workshop Team came to Winlaton West Lane Primary to play music and sing songs with Key Stage 2 about France.
We all enjoyed it and some children got the chance to play instruments and do other activities.
Take a look at the Photostory produced by Y5/6 children to find out more about what we got up to.
At Winlaton West Lane Primary School we take E-Safety very seriously.
Check out the links below, games and further support about how to keep safe online.
Please take the time to look through this information and discuss it with your child. This will help to re-inforce what they learn in school about using the internet safely.
Last week Year 5/6 visited the Great North Museum as part of their topic work.
Take a look below at this photostory to see what Year 5/6 got up to on their recent trip to Thornley Woods
Thornley Woods 2009.wmv
On 21st October, Year 5/6 took part in the Park Life event at the Dryden Centre.
It was organised by Gateshead Education Business Links Service as a way to introducing the children to the outcomes of Every Child Matters, the principles of enterprise learning, personal thinking and learning skills.
Take a look at the photostory of the event, to see some of the things the children got up to at the event.
On Monday 23 rd November West Lane put 2 teams into the local basketball tournament at Hookergate School. Both teams played 4 league games each with the B team winning 1, drawing 1 and losing 2 and the A team winning all their matches and coming top of their league [scoring a record 39 baskets in the process].The A team therefore got through to the final where they played a very exciting and high quality match which unfortunately they lost 2-1 in extra time. Nevertheless everyone had a wonderful afternoon representing the school very well as usual. For a list of the players, results and scorers see extended entry.
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Our PPA teacher is Mr Innerdale.
Our class teacher is Mrs Scragg.
In June this year, Y5/6PG were extremely pleased to welcome their French pen pals from Baho, near Perpignan, in the south east of France. We had a varied and enjoyable few days of activities and made some very good friends.
Click on the link below to see a series of photos of the visit (may take a little while to upload).
Y5/6PG are hoping to make a return visit to Baho in May 2010.
Want to know which areas of the curriculum are being covered in Y5/6 this term? Then look no further!
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Every year Film Education organises a nationwide film festival called National Schools Film Week. It is the biggest event of its kind in the World with 400,000 children watching over 200 films at 2,300 screenings in 560 locations throughout the UK!
As Year 5/6 is currently focusing on film based narratives, we took the opportunity to take part in this festival. Year 5/6 visited the Odeon cinema where they watched Bolt and Bridge to Terabithia.
Everyone really enjoyed both films and they provided plenty of discussion and opportunities for follow up work. It also highlighted just how much can be gained from being together and having fun outside of the classroom setting.
Between 14th-16th October, Winlaton West Lane made their annual trip to Robinwood Activity Centre, just outside Alston in Cumbria. The children were very excited, since they had heard such wonderful reports about it from previous year groups, and they were not disappointed.
All the hard work put in by Year 6 pupils and staff finally paid off yesterday when Year 6 entertained family and friends with their end of year production called School Daze.
To round off our science work, today we took part in the Great Plant Hunt at Sunderland Musuem and Winter Garden.
Sunny skies ensured we all had fun at our annual Summer Fayre.
This half term Year 5/6AT worked with Claire Sotow to create cushions for everyone to use in the outdoor classroom.
Last night the red carpet was laid out for pupils at Winlaton West Lane as they arrived in style in a fleet of limos for the Y6 Prom.
The school entrance and upper school hall were given a Hollywood makeover for the Oscars themed bash.
The children looked fantastic in their beautiful gowns and formal suits and wouldn't have looked out of place at any star-studded Hollywood event.
Check out the photostory of the nights events.
Year 6 Prom 2009.wmv
Over the past few days in Year 5/6AT we have been thinking about the marks that we leave on our planet.
SATs Guide
http://www.satsguide.co.uk
A website that contains how-to's on nearly every subject and tips that will help you improve your score and make studying for SATS enjoyable.
ICT Teachers
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htm
The ICT Teachers site has lots of KS2 SATs practice questions.
BBC Bitesize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
Resources from the BBC covering English, Maths and Science.
Woodlands Junior School
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/
Includes sample questions taken from past Key Stage 2 SATs papers, as well as a whole host of interactive tests/quizzes.
Science Essentials
http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/essentials/science/index.shtml
Find out loads more about science by investigating the three areas: Choose Life, Material World and Get Physical.
KS2 Maths Tutor
http://www.legend.yorks.com/~calverms/contents.htm
Shape, Space and Measures revision.
Spell It
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y5/activity1.shtml
Interactive online activities and printable resources which teach spelling strategies, rules and patterns.
On Friday, our Year 5 team of James, Adam, Eleasha & Megan took part in a Lego Robotics heat at Heworth CLC.
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Today Year 5 made the most of the beautiful spring day by creating poetry inspired by their springtime surroundings.
They spent time outdoors and every child was encouraged to take a digital photo of a verdant symbol of the season.
On Monday, Lynne from Gateshead CLC visited Winlaton West Lane Primary. Lynne carried out an e-safety talk with each year group to reinforce how to get the most from the internet and stay safe whilst doing so.
You may find the following website useful as it compliments the talk that the children received from Lynne.
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
Last week, Year 5/6 travelled back to the year 160AD when they visited Arbeia Roman Fort.
Over the past few weeks, Year 5 / 6AT have been working hard to collect pots, tubs and yoghurt pots and eventually all their recycling efforts have come to fruition.
As part of our link with Heworth CLC, Year 5 / 6 has had to opportunity to use Apple laptops over the past month. They created cartoon strips using a program called Comic Life and produced music using Garageband.
Take a look at some of the work they produced.
With a crash of drums and a flash of light Joseph and the rest of the cast entertained parents and staff alike at the Year 6 leavers' assembly.
Continue reading "Joseph & His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat" »
A big thank you to all the parents and pupils who supported Year 5/6 at the Leavers' Fayre and throughout Kidz n Biz week.
"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of Pharaoh."
So reads a totally imaginary inscription supposedly in the tomb of Tutankhamen. This is one of a number of curses that Year 5/6 AT looked at when finding out about Ancient Egyptian curses. The children enjoyed reading the curses so much that they decided to have a go at writing their own.
Read the curses if you dare!
Every Tuesday lunchtime, for the past half term, a number of Year 6 girls have been meeting up to take part in the Computer Club 4 Girls (CC4G).
Mr Gormley has been teaching at West Lane for 8 years. He currently teaches in Year 5/6.
Today Y5/6 received an unexpected visit from the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service. Paul and Lenny from the local Fire Service took time out of their busy schedule to give a talk about fire safety. Amongst other things they discussed the triangle of fire and ran through the procedures for staying safe in the event of a fire.
Below are some of the comments that Y5/6 made about what they had learnt during this talk.
In addition to sponsoring Mr Magoo, Y6/5JS have just bought a herd of goats and a community tap to help children in other countries. This is part of their application for the Impetus Award and will provide children who are not as fortunate as themselves, with clean water to drink and a form of income to help raise them out of poverty.
The children would like to say a huge thank you for all the support they had to raise the funds via their table top sale.
We will update you on the outcome of the Impetus Award application in the summer term.
The Fab Food Funhouse took West Lane by storm on the 5th March 2008. Key Stage 2 children learned about healthy eating and exercise through versions of popular TV games such as Play Your Cards Right and the Packed Lunch Tucker Trial. Mr Sweeney and Carol the Calculator hosted the show which was packed with fun, information and lots and lots of audience participation.
The girls swimming team almost completed a clean sweep of the gold medals at the Blaydon Schools swimming gala held at Felling Pool on Tuesday 11th March. The boys team swam well too but without medal success.
More details and comments from the swimmers to follow. Keep checking for updates!
Whilst Year 5 and 6 classes were learning about Shakespeare and what it was like for people in Tudor times, we decided to make a power point to express what we have learned. This is an example of a good Shakespeare power point.
click to view powerpoint presentation
By Sophie Y6 AT & Megan Y6 JS
In Y5/6 AT maths, we have been carrying out maths investigations that are related to our school.
Before half term Miss Taylor asked us to think of a question that we could investigate and that could help to make our school even better.
Our teacher is Miss Taylor.
This term Y5/6AT have being studying the works of a selection of famous French artist. So far they have concentrated on Henri Matisse and Georges Seurat.
This term Miss Taylor’s English group have been busy exploring and performing poetry.
They spent time reading and evaluating a range of poems before moving onto creating their own. They decided that Homer Simpson was a great subject for their poems and had lots of fun thinking up verses to describe his favourite pastime – eating.
The children then worked in small groups to plan, organise and create a poetry presentation of their Homer Simpson poem. They then used actions and sound effects to enhance their poem’s meaning.
Miss Taylor captured the performances on camera . Make sure you check the website over the next few days and you will be able to view the videos of the young poets in action.
Year 6/5 JS are currently working on obtaining the Impetus Award. This looks at human rights, in particular the rights of children. We have researched human rights and discussed the issues that arose. The children were very surprised to find that they had rights and decided to do something about it - hence Mr Magoo.
Y6JS are due to visit Thornley Woods on Tuesday, 31st October 2006.