Year 4 had a fantastic day at Brighton Avenue School. The children worked with a storyteller on Indian myths and legends and were even taught Bollywood dancing.

As part of their Schools Linking Project Year 4 worked with Northumbria University PGCE students at Shipley Art Gallery, where they met their linked school, Brighton Avenue. Everyone had a very creative day and we're looking forward to the next meeting at Brighton Avenue in November.

Year 4 had a great time making Roman shields. What an impressive army!

Year 4 worked on making their own short film about a character called Jonni Starr. They wrote the script and recorded their own music and dialogue. Well done Year 4.

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!

Year 4 had a fantastic day out at Whickham Thorns.
Assault course, archery, sledging, orienteering, climbing- what a great day!
For more pictures, view the gallery.

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!

Today Year 4 visited Bedes World. We had a great day learning about St. Bede and the Anglo Saxons. For more pictures of our exciting day take a look in the Year 4 gallery.

Dance club 20.1.09
Click on the link to read the letter about Year 4 and 5 Dance Club

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.

Tonight, the Guitar club and Year 4 played to a jam-packed audience.
"My personal favourite was Jingle Bells". Miss McVittie.
Year 4 only started Guitar tuition at the beginning of the school year so we were particularly impressed with their playing. Bravo!
Well done to all guitarists who peformed at our concert tonight.

In our Art lessons this term Year 4 have been thinking about journeys. We thought about dreams and using paint and collage we recreated these journeys in an abstract style.

24.9.08 Year 4 guitar lessons .doc
Click on the link to read the letter about Year 4 guitar lessons
All Year 4 children are learning to play the guitar each Tuesday afternoon during their music lesson. Mr Nicholson, a teacher from Gateshead LA Music Service, is teaching the class. Miss Laws is joining the children and is learning to play the guitar too.

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, Year 4, 5 and 6 are visiting Heworth CLC to use new ICT software.
Today, Year 6 had the opportunity to create their own animations. There are definitely some candidates who could work for Pixar/Disney in the future!
Year 5 used Control Technology where they operated traffic lights and used sensors to create a 'dream bedroom'.
Well done children!

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.

We spent the morning as archaeologists...

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 4 enjoyed their trip to BEDE'S WORLD.

Listen to I'm Being Eaten By A Boa Constrictor (mp3)
Year 4 children recorded 'I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor' for our Comenius CD.

We have completed a 5 week Young Enterprise Programme on the theme of "Our City".

A message to all Y4 pupils

This half term our Design & Technology topic, "Take a seat" has proved popular with our Y4 class. We looked at a range of chair designs and then embarked upon designing our own chairs for a fantasy character.

We have been exploring expressive and descriptive language in poetry.This is an example of what we have created as a class. Both myself and Mrs Husband are sure that you will be very impressed!

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'.