Year 1:Abbie Carruthers for fantastic ideas in Literacy
Year 1/2: Scott Handleigh for working hard and improved behaviour
Year 2: Emily Docherty for working so hard on her part in our play
Year 3: Nicole Dimond for always being so cheerful and helping everyone in class
Year 4: Kieron Milne for always asking sensible questions
Year 5: Kieron Gilmore for his excellent writing in Literacy
Year 6M: Davis Handleigh for his improved ice-skating skills
Year 6A: Anna Bailes for being a lovely member of Year 6

Well done everyone for working so hard over the past week

Anti-bullying wristbands were on sale during anti-bullying week, 14th and 18th November, to raise money for the charity anti-bullying alliance. We raised a total of £103. Thank you to all who bought them.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2011 Children In Need Raffle.

Thank you to everyone who took part we raised a total of £193.60

Year R: Jerrard Dagdag for a fantastic picture of his story
Year 1: Joseph Houston for sharing his wonderful knowledge of plants with Year 1
Year 1/2: Thomas Hughs for always being ready to answer questions in maths
Year 2: Lewis Rutherford for trying really hard in singing practice
Year 3: Ethan White for always taking part and sharing ideas
Year 4: Lucy Perry for always being ready to listen.
Year 5: Peter Hamilton for improved behaviour in class
Year 6M: Estelle Clark for fantastic freeze framing in Literacy.
Year 6A: Olivia Lazzaei for fantastic teamwork during shelter building
Mrs Clark: Megan Shiell for outstanding written work about Shabbat
Mrs Fox: Rosie Bamling for good answers when planning the Year 1 Liturgy

At St. Alban's school we are so lucky to have excellent volunteers that come into school when needed. Recently we embarked on a Comenius cookery fortnight where all children had the opportunity to cook recipes from Turkey and Finland. This was a roaring success, with children tasting foods they never imagined they would. Thank you for all of your help! The recipe books are still available to buy at £2 from Mrs Reynolds.

Rec: All Reception class for excellent behaviour on their recent trips
Year 1: Isabella Rogers for producing fantastic work in science
Year 1/2: Lucy McShane for being kind and helpful member of the class
Year 2: Hannah Ellison for her lovely manners and excellent behaviour at all times.
Year 3: Owen Hawes for working extremely hard in Literacy and Numeracy
Year 4: Katherine Ruff for her great pottery skills and her improved handwriting
Year 5: Katie Wilkinson for writing an excellent revolting recipe.
Year 6M: Luke Gilmore being an excellent friend to his Year R Buddy
Year 6A: Jordan Davison for his excellent short story
Mrs. Clark: All of Year 5 for their excellent behaviour and listening skills
Mrs. Bridon: Sam Urwin for good work in letters and sounds

Mr. Pringle from the Football Association has been coaching Key Stage 1. The children in year 2 have had great fun in their sessions and have learnt lots of new skills.

Reception: Magaret Stewart for being a useful and caring member of the class
Year 1: Jake Bloomer for some loverly work on our topic
Year 1/2: Michael Porthouse for listening carefully and working hard
Year 2: Jorja Gardner for trying really hard in Numeracy
Year 3: Chloe Bloomer for listening so well and remembering some important facts.
Year 4: Joshua Povey for trying really hard with his Numeracy work.
Year 5: Shamus Kennedy for excellent behaviour and work at Heworth CLC
Year 6A: George Kasfikis for excellent reading
Year 6M: Laura Elsy for working hard in Numeracy
Mrs Clark: Ben Winship for thoughtful work in R.E
Mrs Fox: All of Year 6 for their efforts in litergical dance
Mrs Bridon: Jack Georgeson for always having a friendly face

Year 2 can sort shapes using a Venn diagram!

During Creative time, Year 2 produced superb pastel drawings of the Great Fire of London.

Year 2 had a fun afternoon painting Spring flowers.

Year 2 and Year 4 took part in The Gateshead Dance Festival and performed at the SAGE. Both classess had a great time were absolutely fantastic. Well done, we are all very proud of you!

Year 2 are finding out about shapes.

Year 2 have been studying Information texts in Literacy. We have also researched our topics using the internet.

Today, our children were visited by lots of scaley, furry and slithery friends. We had so much fun learning about these animals and we even got a chance to hold some of them.

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, Year 2 have had a fantastic week making dragons, drums and finding out about Chinese culture.

Year 2 had a fantastic time baking scones. We made plain, fruit and cherry scones and they were delicious with jam and cream.

Year 2 started our preparations for the Dance Festival today. We are going to perform an Olympic inspired dance and we are very excited.

Year 2 have been learning about odd and even numbers. The children are showing how the number 7 is 'odd' as all of the children cannot be paired up. Well done Year 2!

Year 2 have been making patterns in ICT.

Here are Year 2 just before our Christmas party. Don't we look smart!

Key Stage 1 children performed their nativity play, 'Hosanna Rock' were absolutely fantastic. Well done children.

Year 2 really look forward to music lessons with Mr Nicholson. This week, we had so much fun singing songs and playing percussion instruments.

In our RE Topic, 'Initiation', Year 2 have been finding out about the sacrament of Baptism. In the photo, the children are role-playing what happens during a baptism.

Year 2 have loved their 'Superhero' topic in Literacy. We have role-played encounters with vilains, created our own superheroes and written superhero stories. The whole class were awarded special superhero medals because of all their hard work.

Year 2 have been learning about living things in Science. The children explored the school field and were able to find lots of plants and animals sharing this grassy habitat.
Super work scientists!

Year 2 have been busy making collages about their Summer holidays.

Bernadette and Sabrina Smith were invited to a celebration ceremony at Dryden Teachers' Centre by the Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service. They were presented with certificates by the Mayor of Gateshead. The girls had made a dvd of Bernadete's First Holy Communion with Digital Voice Media Productions. They also received certificates from the Royal Television Society for their film.

Today, World Cup Fever hit St. Alban's. Today we are dressed in the colours of our favourite teams. Come on England!!

Year 1 and 2 spent the morning at Saltwell Park. The classes are working on a School Linking Project with children from Felldyke Primary School where they are learning about diversity. Today, the children had fun playing in the park and making new friends.

Key Stage 1 Easter Craft Club

Key Stage 1 Liturgical Dance Club

Today, everyone in school wore a hat to raise money for the Haiti Eathquake Appeal. There were some really funny and funky hats; Mrs Fox wore a Zorro hat and Mrs Reynolds look very summery in a huge sombrero! In classes, we found out about Haiti and said this prayer together:
Dear Lord
We pray for the people of Haiti.
Comfort those who hurt and be with those who are sad.
We pray for food, water, shelter and healing for the people of Haiti.
Help us to share what we have with our sisters and brothers
as they begin to rebuild their lives
Amen

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

Year 1 and 2 are having lots of fun in Christmas Craft Club. The children have made Santa and Snowmen hand puppets and bracelets.

'Our finished houses.'

Making houses in DT.

For our Humanities topic, we have been finding out about our local area.
We have been taking a close look at what's in Pelaw, and also looking at the history of our school.

There was lots of designing and building at lego club.

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

Year 2 have had a great time in Textiles making puppets with Miss McGlynn. We even put on a puppet show. It's behind you!!
For more photos, see the Gallery.

"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.

Thank you to all those who bought raffle tickets to raise money for Children in Need.
Congratulations to this lucky winner!

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.

Our Geography topic is 'Going to the Seaside'. We have been looking at seaside places in this country and around the world.
We've had great fun making our own holiday brochures.

Year 2 had a fun afternoon studying the plants and animals in the school environment.
It's surprising what you can find!
Look in the Gallery.for more pictures.

This week, children from Year 2, 3, 4 and 5 are visiting Gateshead City Learning Centre. Children are going to explore new technology. Year 2 and 3 are using a digital video, animation, digital music and digital photography. Year 4 and 5 have the opportunity to create an animated slideshow and to broadcast live on the internet as part of Gateshead CLC Radio.

Year 2 visited Whitehouse Farm for our Spring trip this year. We had a fascinating day observing farm animals such as cows, sheep, goats and pigs. We also had the opportunity to see and handle other creatures including lizards, snakes, rats and mice. The children and parents had an exciting day looking around the farm, feeding some of the animals, and gaining a better understanding of how animals are cared for. As expected, the children were very well behaved throughout the day.

Year R are visiting Bill Quay Farm on Tuesday 18th March.
Year 2 are visiting Whitehouse Farm on Tuesday 18th March.
We hope you have a great time and we can't wait to hear about what you did and saw.

Year 2 visited Pelaw library on Tuesday this week.

The library organised a special afternoon of activities to help the children to prepare for World Book Day which is on Thursday. Activities included a quiz, stories, a talk by the librarian, and an opportunity to choose a book from the wide range of books available. The children enjoyed learning more about the library and seeing how they could make greater use of it.

Join us in the hall at 2.45 pm on Thursday 6th March for a Lenten Liturgy led by our Year 2 children.

I was delighted at the number of parents who were able to attend the meeting about the Year 2 assessments. Hopefully it helped to resolve any queries about the assessments arrangements. If you have any further queries, please contact me.

Mrs Boyd

In year 2 we are finding out about Spain and learning as much as we can about Spanish things.We're going to look at some Spanish artists, food and famous buildings.