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

Year 3 have been working on measuring each other's height in centimetres.

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 3 worked very hard preparing presentations about their favourite books. Their hard work paid off and the presentations were excellent!

Year 3 prepared questions to ask Mrs Nixon as part of their RE topic. The children wanted to find out what she had to do to prepare for his arrival and how she looks after a new baby. Aaron was very well behaved in the classroom and posed for lots of photos.

Year 3 have been studying Greek mythology and in Creative time made 'Medusa' shields. Though, be warned, if you look directly at the face of Medusa, you will be turned to stone!!!

In Year 3 we have been studying India during our humanities lessons. We decided to end our topic with a celebration day. We tasted lots of lovely food, tried on Indian outfits, made model Taj Mahals and paper plate peacocks. We all had a fantastic day. For more photos, see Year 3 in the gallery.
We would like to thank Jaipur Indian take away on West Road, Newcastle for donating some food. It was delicious.

Year 3 have produced beautiful artwork whilst studying India. The children have painted Indian art, decorated drawings of hands with Indian art and even made clay elephants.

This week, Year 3 and Year 5 visited Heworth City Learning Centre. Year 5 worked on CAD CAM (Computer Aided Design and Manufacture) and were able to deign and make their own keyrings.
Year 3, in the photo, created their own comic strips.

We wrote our own play scripts and made sock puppets. We performed our plays for the class.

Children in Years 3 and 4 planted hyacinth, daffodil and tulip bulbs with Mr Seaton. Hopefully some may even be winning entries in the Gateshead Spring Flower Show!

Years 3 and 4 entertained parents and relatives at their Christmas concert. They were taking part in the Christian Aid Big Christmas Sing and raised £56.97 for the charity. Well done and thank you to everyone who enjoyed the concert and the refreshments afterwards.

Year 3 and 4 rehearse for the Christmas Concert on Wednesday.

In our RE topic on Preparations Year 3 investigated the story of St Nicholas, often thought to be the real Santa Claus. They made St Nicholas models and visited an American website www.stnicholascenter.org to research the many legends about him.

We made our own Natron with bicarbonate of soda and salt. We used this to preserve tomatoes. We are going to observe the changes in the tomatoes to see if the tomatoes will be preserved in the same way that the Ancient Egyptian mummies were.

Year 3 went on the Metro to Newcastle last Wednesday. We visited the Hancock museum to look at the Ancient Egyptian artefacts. We saw a real mummy and wrote our names in hieroglyphics. It was great fun!

Year 3 studied Millais' painting of The Carpenter's Shop then put themselves into the painting. We talked about what Mary and Joseph taught Jesus and how important families are.

We had fun tasting lots of different types of bread

All this week, we have been looking at myths and legends in our Literacy lesson. In our lesson today, we used drama to act out an interview between a St. Alban's TV presenter and Theseus and asked him lots of gruelling questions about his fight with the minotaur! We definitely have some budding TV presenters in our class!

Year 3 and 4 put us all into the 'Christmas mood' as they treated us to a selection of Christmas songs and carols. We were wowed by solo performances from Isaac, Nikhil, Faye, Emily and Rachel.
"I really loved the Year 3 and 4 singing the 12 days of Christmas. They were so good at all the actions!" Gemma Bainbridge.
"I really loved Rudolf the Red Nosed reindeer!" Nathan Young.
For more pictures, view the Christmas album in the Gallery.

To view more pictures of all the fun, have a look in the Christmas Gallery.

Year 3 and 4 have had a very enjoyable morning planting bulbs with Mr. Seaton.
More pictures in the Year 4 Gallery.

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.

On Wednesday Year 3 and Year 4 visited Whickham Thorns. Everyone had a fantastic time taking part in the adventurous activities. Have a look in the gallery for more photographs of our fun day out.

This week St Albans have been very lucky to have some visiting teachers from Finland, Italy, Spain and Turkey as part of our Comenius Project.

Year 3 welcomed the Finnish teachers into their classroom. We had great fun learning some of the language and singing songs in Finnish.

Year 3 visited Seven Stories. We became story catchers as we explored the original drawings in the galleries and took part in all of the fun activities. We dressed up as famous, mischievious characters to help us to develop our imaginations.
We used other costumes to invent some characters of our own and began to write our own stories.

17.3.08 A Celebration of Easter
Join the children from Years 3 and 4 for A Celebration of Easter in St Alban's Church on Friday 28th March at 6.00 pm.

Click on the link for a copy of the letter to parents.

Year 3 and Year 4 boys have been taking part in an ongoing singing workshop. The boys have enjoyed participating in interactive singing and body percussion.

Listen to Mr Clickety (mp3)
Year 3 recorded Mr Clickety for the Comenius CD.

In our Art lessons this term we have been looking at patterns.