The Year 5/6 Winlaton West Lane Tag Rugby Team had a fantastic afternoon playing a "friendly" tournament against another local school Parkhead Primary School!

Our sincere thanks to all the parents and staff who supported the pupils at this event and to Winlaton RFC for allowing us to use their club facilities.
Also, a huge thankyou to the referees / coaches and The "Little Warriors" ARLFC club

Please check out our REALLY FUNNY photostory of the event - you may recognise some familiar faces!

Click on the link below to continue!

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Year 5/6 had a fabulous trip to Bessie Surtees House!!

As part of our Shakespeare topic this term, we went back in time to the Tudor Era - where we discovered some interesting facts and people along the way... Take a look at our photostory below - try not to laugh!!

Bessie Surtees Adventure with music!.wmv

From Wednesday 19 - Sunday 30 October - 'Juice', NewcastleGateshead's award‐winning festival for children and young people is back this October half term with a fantastic programme of events, workshops and special opportunities for children and young people of all ages. Juice Festival will take place from Wednesday 19 - Sunday 30 October. The full programme is available at www.juicefestival.co.uk.

Live Theatre presents First Draft as part of Juice Festival, Thursday 20 - Saturday 22 October. Enter the imaginations of 9 and 10 year olds from across Tyne & Wear as six stories are transformed from doodles into short plays performed by a team of professional actors. See www.juicefestival.co.uk

For families: FREE: Cbbc's Live 'n' Deadly show is coming to Gateshead next month as Saltwell Park plays host to one of the fantastic roadshows on Sunday 9 October. Fans of the show can get up close and personal with some amazing wildlife and have a go at some awesome adventure activities at this free ticketed event. To apply for free tickets visit bbc.co.uk/cbbc or call 0370 901 1227 by 2 October.

For under 5s: balletLORENT's Underneath the Floorboards is a magical dance show for under 5s, which is at Northern Stage 19 - 22 October. Workshop opportunities are also available. For further information please email amy@balletlorent.com or visit www.balletlorent.com.

For everyone: Something extraordinary is happening this November as LUMIERE returns to the beautiful medieval city of Durham. For four nights only, dozens of artists, lighting designers and community groups will bring a sprinkle of winter magic to the city with a breathtaking series of installations and projections that will illuminate Durham's buildings, streets and bridges. The festival takes place 17 - 20 November, visit http://www.lumieredurham.co.uk/

Here are some fun activities and events happening around our local area, which may be of interest to parents / carers in the forthcoming weeks:

Please feel free to add any other new / exciting events / comments!

Today Year 6 gave a great leavers' performance and I'm sure those of you who attended enjoyed the concert.

Well done to all the Year 6 pupils for their hard work and the fun we had preparing for this special day.

The Council will be hosting public sessions for the parents from the primary schools currently linked to Hookergate and Ryton and the wider community.

These sessions will provide opportunities for the Council to seek views on the proposed closure and for you to hear more about the proposals for the new build and let you know how your ideas can influence preparations for the replacement school.

See the below document for dates of each public session.

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Key stage 2 Sports Day on 8th July 2010 was a great success. All the children competed in their World Cup country teams and.......Argentina won!!!
This year (for the first time and thanks to significant "encouragement" by the pupils!!) there was a "Teacher Race"!! (Mrs Young took over the microphone for this of course)!

Mr Gormley won!

There was also a "Dad's Race" and a "Mum's Race"!!

Our thanks to all the parents and friends who attended and supported this event.
Also, thanks to all the staff for their hard work and running efforts (under the direction of Mr Innerdale of course!).

Take a look below at our fantastic storyboard of the day - you may find you are on here!
KS2 Sports Day photostory.wmv

To celebrate a full year of 100% attendance, we enjoyed a fabulous day out with our Headteacher and two governors. We went bowling at Namco Funscape, then spent some time in softplay, before going to Big Lukes for lunch. Mrs Exley even managed to get some strikes!!!

Thanks to Hayes travel for their sponsorship of this event.

Take a look at our photostory below!

Attendance Day.wmv

Please find out about the proposed changes to the Secondary School Sector for the West of Gateshead.
Microsoft Word - Sector change.pdf

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.

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.

Last week Year 5/6 visited the Great North Museum as part of their topic work.

There is a forthcoming Kids n Cash course beginning at the Blaydon Winlaton Children's Centre. Please would you contact the Cetnre directly to book yourself a place on the course. Thank you for your help with this matter.

School will be open as usual travel conditions permitting on Friday, 8th January 2010. If possible, it would be really helpful if children could have a change of footwear with their wellingtons. Thank you for your help.

6th January 2010. School Closed due to adverse weather conditions.

We hope the children enjoy 'snow' work!

Receiving the latest mobile phone, iPod, digital camera or hand held game console is great but what about the ones that get left behind?

In January we have been given the opportunity to recycle these and raise even more money for our school! As well as printer cartridges and mobile phones we will be able to recycle iPods, digital cameras, sat navs and hand held game consoles.

So please get everyone to hold on to the gadgets that will be replaced this Christmas, and send them into school in January. Thank you for remembering us.

Please visit the following website for the latest information and guidance about swine flu.

www.teachernet.gov.uk/educationoverview/flupandemic/

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.

Earlier this term, West Lane's rugby team won the "Wooden Spoon " tag rugby event at The Newcastle Falcon's rugby ground. As a rerward for their success they qualified to play during the half time interval of the Newcastle versus Bath Guiness Premiership match at Kingston Park. Although we lost [as did the Falcon's!] it was a great experience to play on the same pitch as the professionals in front of several thousand spectators! For a more detailed account of the day written by team members, see extended entry.

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/

Yesterday Jimmy the ExpoChef visited Winlaton West Lane.

Jimmy provided a morning of cookery demonstrations which aimed at giving the children the confidence to cook with healthy food.

Most children got the opportunity to try new and unusual foods and at the end of the workshop, each child was provided with a recipe booklet with ideas on how to create simple, nutritious meals and snacks.

As you can see from the photographs, West Lane pupils had great fun today in the snow & they all have their fingers crossed for more snow tomorrow.

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.

Winlaton West Lane has signed up to the leading recycling programme Recycool, a scheme that helps raise school funds and divert products from landfill. Every time you donate a cartridge or old mobile phone to us for the Recycool programme, the school will receive a cash donation.

On Friday 14th November, the school entered into the spirit of the day and non-uniform and hats were worn by both teachers and pupils!

As you can see, there was an amazing range of hats - which one do you like best?

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.

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.

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).

The Website Club is an exciting new venture for myself and children in Key Stage 2.

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.

Click to view pupils comments about the fire safety talk

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!

Last month our school Tag Rugby team had a trip of a lifetime. We were fortunate enough to be offered the opportunity to visit Twickenham ,the home of English Rugby ,where we demonstrated our skills at tag rugby[we are unbeaten this season!];formed the guard of honour as the players came out of the tunnel ,and obviously watched the match.

Download childrens views on the day

We regret that we have not kept up to date with our school website. From this day forward we are going to ensure our school website reflects the wonderful work that is going on in our vibrant school.

During the spring term of 2006 Y6JS and Y5GR designed and made some board games about healthy eating.

Y6JS are due to visit Thornley Woods on Tuesday, 31st October 2006.

need an ice-cream........

Peter Bolger, Gateshead Grid for Learning Manager, will give an in service session this afternoon. It will be a hands-on introduction to the school website and a general exploration of Web 2.0 technologies.

Schools Newsletter May (LEA2), Issue 8 04th May, 2006

Please find attached a link to the Teacher's Guide Newsletter for schools.

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