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.

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.

Here is our Athletics Team just before leaving for Gateshead Stadium. We look very professional in our school tracksuits!

Here we are at the opening of the Athletics Festival. We waved our 'Life to the Full' banner with pride. All the children who took part had a fantastic time and competed against children from over 40 Gateshead schools. It may have rained but we never stopped smiling. There was sprinting, skipping, long distance running, throwing, jumping and lots of cheering as we gave it our all.
Miss Robinson and Miss McVittie also had a great day and felt very proud of the children. Well done Team St. Alban's!

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!

We had fun tasting lots of different types of bread

Year 2

Year 3

Year 5

Year 6

Mr Seaton really got into the spirit of it!

For many more pictures have a look in the Gallery.

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.

Well done to all the children to took part in the Athletics Festival at Gateshead Stadium. Our children competed against children from all over Gateshead. They performed really well and were great representatives for our school.

Whilst some children were competing at the Gateshead Athleics Festivals, the rest of Key Stage 2 had fun playing games outside. We played rounders and football and had a lovely afternoon.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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'.