Year 1 have been finding out about Road Safety. The 2 boys above, demonstrate crossing the road safely.

Year 1 are learning about the work of some of the special people who help in church. Children took on the roles of priest, reader and altar servers.

Year 1 have been working very hard in Numeracy.Today, we have been practising counting.

Year 1 and 2 were amazing today when they performed their Nativity play, Jesus' Birthday Party. The acting and singing was fantastic.

Year 1 had a lovely time making vegetable soup in class. They helped to prepare the vegetables and mixed the ingredients together.

And now for the best part of cooking...... eating! Yum!

Today, the whole school wore blue to make a visible commitment that we are not prepared to tolerate bullying.
In our Pastoral groups, we wrote prayerto ask God to keep us safe and happy.

For many more pictures, take a look in the Gallery.

Our school is taking part in Switch Off Fortnight. In our Citizenship lessons we are learning that wasting energy is very bad for the environment. We are all making an effort to switch off lights that are not needed.

Year 1 are finding out about Baptism. They listened very carefully to the words the priest uses then they acted out part of the celebration.

Year 1 have been investigating length in Numeracy.

Year 1 and 2 in the hall.

Two very well informed Year 6 children.

Today, the Community Support Officer came into school to talk about firework safety.
Year 6 were reminded of lots of safety advice.
"You must always wear gloves when using sparklers." Joseph Bainbridge.
"You should never go near a firework that hasn't gone off." Jessica Tracey.

There was lots of designing and building at lego club.

For more photographs see the Year 1 & 2 Gallery pages.

Today St. Alban's celebrated the huge success of our Comenius project.
Each class had worked on a traditional tale from one of the Comenius countries and presented their work to an audience of parents. We all enjoyed snacks from each country after our performances and had a delicious European lunch. What a day!

The Little Vain Mouse

Nursery acted out their traditional tale on the Key Stage 1 stage.

How the bear got its bobtail

Year 1 created an animation about their tale using a prgramme called I can Animate.

How to ride a donkey

Year 3 acted out their tradional tale.

Year 4 put on a puppet show and sang a song about the donkey.

The Legend of Colapesce

Year 5 presented a news report about the Sicilain traditional tale.

Year 6 studied Italian art on the Legend of Colapesce and recereated their own artwork. They also presented an animation.

Year 1 have been having lots of fun at the Teddy Bear's Picnic.

This term in Art, every class in school painted flowers relating to the month they were born. Several children from each class were entered in the Gateshead in Bloom Art competititon. Well, the results are in! The above children were awarded special prizes for their fantastic flower paintings. Well done.

Over the past six weeks children from Year 4 have been working on Easter crafts after school. Today they have all taken home their very own "pompom chick". They should be very proud of themselves. Well done!

Year Reception and Year 1 had a fantastic time making and eating pancakes. Yum! Though, it was possibly Mrs Straughan who broke the record for the number of pancakes made and tossed!
For more photos, see the Gallery.

'Morning Reading' has started in Year 1. Parents come into school to read with children and to share literacy activities. As you can see, the children are enjoying this! More pictures in the gallery.

In Year 1 we are discussing the celebration of Mass.We enjoyed role play to help us understand the words and actions of the priest.

"We really enjoyed getting dressed up in our party clothes!"

" Yum, yum!"
For more pictures, see the Gallery.

Well done to Year 1 and 2 who performed and sung so well during their nativity play, 'Are we nearly there yet?'
For more pictures, see the gallery.

Year 1 made delicious vegetable soup - and then they enjoyed eating it!

Year 1 have been finding out about Baptism. They know it is when we are invited to join the family of Jesus.

We made pictures using Paint.

Year 1 made fruit salad. We had a great time.
(For more pictures, see the Year 1 Gallery).

Year 1 and 2 were visited by Mr. Skinner from The Dog Control Service. The children found out how to behave responsibly with dogs and really enjoyed completing activities in their Dog Control booklets.

Year 1 are very happy to be working in their classroom again.

Well done to the following children who received awards on 3rd April 2008.
Year 1: Jack Luke for being a helpful and considerate class member.
Year 2: Rachel Morley for working hard and being helpful in class.
Year 3: Daniel Gurr for always being polite and well mannered.
Year 4: Jack Henderson for becoming more focused and completing his work.
Year 5 : Stephen Gray for having excellent quick maths skills.
Year 6: Lucy Soulsby for always being a happy and hardworking member of Y6.
Mrs Hetherington's Award: Billy Davidson for excellent participation in the Celebration of Easter.
Head teacher's Award: Adam Burton for acting so well as Jesus in the Celebration of Easter.
Attendance Winner- Year 4.

End of term Winners
Attendance- Year 4 .
House Winners- St. Oswald.
Congratulations to all these hard workers.

Our Easter raffle and 'Name the Chick' competitions were drawn today.

As part of our easter activities, children have brought decorated eggs into school. They are all absolutely amazing. Well done children.
To view pictures of your creations, have a look in the gallery.

Parents Evening for Years 1-6 is on Wednesday 19th March from 3:10 pm - 8:00 pm.
Please return the slip with a preferred time or alternatively sign up on the lists outside each classroom. Thank you.

Well done to the following children who received awards on 14th March 2008 in Merit Assembly.
Year 1: Emily Sinton for excellent progress in reading.
Year 2: Adam Gilchrist for excellent progress in reading.
Year 3: Joseph Neill for excellent division and multiplication work.
Year 4: Elli Maggs for making a beautiful Easter card.
Year 5 : Daniel marsden for being very brave on Wednesday.
Year 6: Jordan Brown for making good progress with reading comprehension.
Keep up the excellent work!

Barnaby is having a lovely time in Finland!

Barnaby Bear has been packing his bag this week as he is due to fly off in the half term holiday. We wish him well on his journey and look forward to his return as he brings us information about Poland.

As part of our art work we have been weaving and have made these wonderful Valentine cards for the ones we love.

Barnaby Bear likes to travel! He has been travelling around the world gathering information that he has brought back to Year 1 for us to study.

Watch this space for information on Barnaby's latest trip.

We have been learning about 2 digit numbers and how to count in tens. In this activity the children were counting their bags of golden treasure.

See the Year 1 Gallery for more pictures.

In Pastoral groups, we prayed together.
Here are some of our prayers:

In Pastoral groups, we have been finding out about the 'UNICEF Day for Change'.

As part of our Celebrations topic Year 1 have been finding out about the Mass. We used role play to learn about the different parts of the celebration.