Let's get cooking - Certificate of Accreditation for our School.
School Accreditation Congratulations have been awarded to Winlaton West Lane! This is because we have met the Let's Get Cooking activity requirements for our first year and followed the Let's Get Cooking guidelines for running a healthy cooking club. A huge thank you to Amanda Henry and Fiona Andrew our Club Leaders for all their hard work with the club and inspiring so many children to want to cook and eat good food.

Lets get Cooking Certificate of Accreditation.pdf

Well done to our Year 5/6 hockey teams! A GREAT result!!

Congratulations to our hockey teams, who played some fantastic matches against other Gateshead schools yesterday. A fantastic result - including an 8-0 win in one match and some fantastic goal scoring!

Our 'A' team now goes through to the finals at Gateshead International Stadium at the end of March. Good luck to them and a huge thankyou to all the parents and friends who came along to support the pupils at this event.

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.

A4 poster.htm

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!