In Art we are looking at body shapes and developing our drawing skills to replicate them in charcoal. It’s not as easy as it looks.

Y4 welcomed our local history expert to share his Viking knowledge. We listened, we explored, we shouted our battle cries.

In Reception class we celebrated the Feast of Pentecost with our families, who joined us in song, prayer and craft activities.

‘That History Bloke’ came in and taught, entertained and offered lots of fun to help us learn more about the Romans, our present History topic!

We really enjoyed tasting a variety of breads such as focaccia, various seeded brown buns, pretzels, almond croissants and cheesy topped buns too! Everyone had their favourite flavour for a variety of reasons! We can’t wait to make our own bread buns!

Our kitchen staff did a fantastic job in serving up a feast for the king today. A delicious dinner followed by amazing cakes and biscuits.

Richard, That History bloke, brought in a variety of artifacts into Year 5 last week. He told us about a local miner, Thomas Bennett, who unfortunately died while working down a mine. We investigated his life using a variety of sources, the census, artifacts and photos of the time. It was very interesting.

Year 5 had a spectacular time exploring the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. They walked the island, had fun in the sand, made their own beds, had a torchlight walk, got blown away by the castle and were wowed by the priory and reflected during prayer time. They all were so well behaved and were complimented […]

We have had lots of fun waiting for the coronation of King Charles III tomorrow!

We had a great morning making a map of the outside of school using natural materials. We then used this map and achieved an orienteering challenge.

Today Year 4 enjoyed taking part in an orienteering session with Mr H, they looked at the directions on a compass and developed their map reading skills. The children used their maps to hunt for clues located around the school grounds.

Y1 have enjoyed combining their maths skills and art skills to create a fantastic collage . We talked about the word ‘symmetry’ and matched our butterfly wings up on each side using a range of materials.

Y4 explored the sea through, words, sounds and pictures. This was to help expand their vocabulary in their writing. The children evaluated each others work by walking around the class and sharing their thoughts.

Y4 really enjoyed their cooking session with Little Tasters. They cooked with herbs to fit in with our DT work and tasted their hard work with varying opinions.

Early Years children had an amazing day with Phil from Muddy Monsters, exploring our outdoor area in a whole new way!

Reception children spent the afternoon surveying the traffic in our local area. We completed a tally check to record how many of each different vehicle we could spot!

Y6 led us in our final Lenten prayer service today, following Jesus along the Stations of the Cross.

Reception children visited the residents at McErlane Square to share stories, songs and Easter crafts!

Some of our Y6 children met other youngsters, aged 7-18, from across the Trust to lead us all in a prayerful reflection of the Stations of the Cross. This was live-streamed into all schools in the Trust and helped us reflect on Jesus’ journey with His cross.

The children are reflecting the events of Holy Week in school this week. Today, they heard the story of Palm Sunday, waving palm branches and singing ‘Hosanna!’

Y5 led us in prayer, reflecting on the story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead. They welcomed us warmly, acted out the Gospel with understanding and danced to ‘Lay your hands gently upon us’ with such reverence. We sang and prayed with them and were also challenged in our belief in the resurrection. […]

Y4 had a fantastic session with Miss Yui making music through the science of conduction. They used a ‘makey makey ’ keyboard on the laptops to create music through making a circuit between themselves, the laptop and the conducting wires. They made a digital keyboard using graphite pencils and composed and performed music of their […]

Y4 helped us along our Lenten Journey towards Easter with a very prayerful prayer service reflecting on the gospel story of Jesus healing the blind man.

We all enjoyed a very lovely coffee morning, ahead of Mothering Sunday, to say ‘I love you’ to our parents and families.

We have worn purple to raise awareness about the importance of our kidney, celebrated the 25 years of the Angel of the North, shared our Lenten Liturgy, used ipads to help us draw portraits and worked together to embed our RE learning.

Year 5 and 6 have had an absolutely great time at Gateshead Stadium on Tuesday morning, raising money for CAFOD alongside St Wilfrid’s Primary School. We have walked/ran a total of 459km or 285.25miles. We have set up a donations pages on the CAFOD website if anyone wises to donate. https://cafod.enthuse.com/pf/anna-phillipson

Nursery and Reception children enjoyed a wonderful live production of Room on the Broom.

Year 4 explored herbs in different forms to start their DT learning. They used lots of their senses including, touch, smell and sight.

Early Years children enjoyed another fabulous Fun Friday with their families, exploring, playing, tasting, hunting and learning together!

The children completed their printed pieces based on the work of local artist Thomas Bewick this week. Like Bewick they carved their bird design into a tile and using printing ink created a print. They produced some wonderfully detailed work.

Year 2 celebrated World Book Day by wearing costumes of their favourite book characters! They have taken part in lots of book related activities including reading with Year 6 and visiting the library, where they loaned a book of their choosing. We ended the day with a great celebration assembly looking at the huge range […]

The children in Y4 and Early Years shared their favourite books today!

This evening our Y6 football team took part in their first two competitive games. After losing 5-0 to Wardley, the team went on with a fantastic positive attitude, showing amazing team work and determination. They went on to win their second game 3-0 against Windy Nook. Some fantastic goals were scored, including a magnificent free […]

The children in Year 4 look fantastic in their World Book Day costumes. We have taken part in lots of book day activities, the children enjoyed reading books to the younger children in Nursery and Reception, we visited Pelaw library and took part in a creative writing workshop.

We have had a great time today celebrating books and stories that we love. We have shared reading time with our younger children, visited the library to get books out, started a writing project with Susan Mulholland and dressed as our favourite book characters.

World Book Day in Year 6 has been wonderful! We have enjoyed reading with younger children, visiting Pelaw Library, and making posters advertising our favourite books.

Year 1 have had a lovely morning hearing stories at Pelaw Library. We then came back to class to share our new books with Y5!

The Angel of the North is 25 today! Over the next few months, we will be taking one of these gorgeous knitted angels on Adventures around Pelaw and beyond. I wonder where the Angel will go first?

Y1 invited their parents into class for liturgical prayer reflecting on the theme of our Mental Health & Wellbeing Week, ‘Let’s Connect’. The children shared the bible story of Jesus choosing his apostles as special friends to spread the word about God’s love. We are connected to these first friends of Jesus as we help […]

The theme of Children’s mental health week this year is ‘Let’s connect’. Today we made paper chains of all the things we feel connected to and the things that are important to us and joined them together as a class.

In Year 6 we have been praying for those who are sick.

Year 4 have been looking at playscripts this week in English and the features that are included in them. We have been finding out about stage directions and had a go at acting out short scenes, following the stage directions. We seem to have some budding actors and actresses in Year 4!

It’s Children’s Mental Health Week this week. We are encouraging the children to connect with others in healthy, rewarding and meaningful ways. Today we chatted about how we are all connected to each other and made a whole class paper chain to demonstrate this to the children. Well done Year 1, some fantastic input to […]

We have been learning about different styles of architectural art this term. today we have looked at the work of North East artist Jim Edwards. We have sketched North East landmarks and used watercolour pencils to add colour.

In History lessons this term, we have been learning about the Felling Mining Disaster. today we looked at the records of those who sadly died. We were interested to see family links, and were saddened by the young ages.

We enjoyed donating to raise funds for our Early Years!

In Y4 we have learning about the different roles people carry out in church. Mrs Sexton came to visit and told us about her role as a Minister of the Sacrament.

Through our Science learning we have been exploring sound and how we hear it. This week was all about pitch.

In Early Years, telling and sharing stories is one of our absolute favourite things! So, we invited some of our favourite people in to class to share stories with us!

As part of National Storytelling Week, the children in Early Years visited our local library to share stories!

Esther’s Grandad is a deacon at his parish church. He came in to tell us about all of the different celebrations held in church.

The children found a nest full of unusual eggs. We wonder what might happen next…….

In maths this week we are naming and sorting 2D and 3D shapes.

Year 5 have been exploring the different jobs that can do when we leave school. Some lovely friends and friends of the class come in to talk about how they chose their careers and what they do. We have had a Radiographer, RAF engineer, graphic designer, physiotherapist, financial advisor, a project manager, a theatre light […]

In Year 1 we have been looking at Paul Klee and printing techniques using a range of resources and materials.

Today in Maths, Year 4 have been working together to solve problems involving charts, graphs and pictograms. We tried hard to show our working out and explain how we reached our answers.

Year 3 are working with Bikeability to improve their cycling skills. Well done to all for showing resilience and perseverance.

Y4 are beginning to explore Thomas Bewicks work. He created many images of birds including intricate detail. We used view finders to help us focus in on various parts of birds which Bewick has created, we used pens to draw including as much detail as possible.

As well as loving participating in gymnastics with Grassroots we are also improving our fitness through a variety of activities 💪

We are really proud of our sewing and design efforts and hope our family enjoys our joke and little treat inside.

Well done to our fantastic violin students for their Christmas concert. Huge thanks to Mrs Coleman and all parents and families for supporting these talented musicians.

Here are our wonderful Early Years and Key Stage 1 children showing off their amazing talents. Thank you to Little Movers for helping prepare our talent show extravaganza.  

Our brass and woodwind musicians entertained us with their Christmas tunes this morning. Well done everyone for sharing your musical talents with us. You were all brilliant! Huge thanks to Mr and Mrs Blakey, our music teachers from Gateshead Music Service, and for all the support from parents and families.

A quick rehearsal before tonight’s big show!  It’s very exciting.

To enable our final week at school before Christmas to run smoothly, here are days and times for our main events:   🎄Monday🎄 10.45-11.15: Brass & Woodwind Concert 2.00-3.00: Time to Shine – Early Years 3.00-4.00: Time to Shine – Years 1/2 4.00-5.00: Time to Shine – Years 3/4 5.00-6.00: Time to Shine – Years […]

We are enjoying stitching our fabric Christmas crackers as part of our DT topic in Year 3.

Plenty of friends, warmth and a delicious Christmas lunch, we know we have much to be grateful for at Christmas.

  Year 1 have enjoyed a fresh walk out to Bill Quay Farm in the snow this afternoon. The horses loved the attention – next time we must remember some carrots!

Year 4 are having a very festive day in their Christmas jumpers and they have enjoyed their delicious Christmas dinner.

Year 4 led the school family in prayer for the second week of Advent, sharing the story of John the Baptist who urges us to Repent as we get ready to welcome Jesus at Christmas. The parents shared their thoughts afterwards.

The School Council worked really well as a team to collect, label and organise everyone’s filled cups to raffle at our Christmas Fair. Altogether, the Friends of St Alban’s raised over £1,000 for the children. Well done everyone!

Well done to all of the children who designed and made these fantastic stables. What a lovely way to welcome Jesus this Christmas.

Today in Year 6 we have been recycling old pyjamas by cutting them into bauble shapes and sewing them onto plain tote bags. Fabulous upcycling!

  It was wonderful to have so many parents join us, to support our Y1 children in completing their Christmas themed textiles project. The children have produced some marvellous pieces, using all of our new cutting, gluing and sewing skills. Well done Year 1!

Children in Year 6 have been practising their sewing skills, before they make their final products next week.

Well done Year 3 for your lovely, prayful  liturgy to start our Advent celebrations.

We made 3D shapes to then describe from a range of nets.

Early Years children had the most magical morning at Elf School at West Boldon Lodge. We created decorations, bird feeders, toasted marshmallows around the fire as well as meeting Santa himself! Merry C

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Year 4 have been sharing their prayer spaces at home. They have put them together using our class travelling crib. It gives the children the opportunity to reflect and be patient during this special time of Advent.  

We have been thinking about how to be safe when crossing the road. We know the safest places to cross and to Stop, Look and Listen.

  This is week our Year 1 children have been working extremely hard during their English lessons. We have been talking about how to layout a letter and writing a special list to Santa! The children can’t wait to take home their letters and post them to The North Pole!

Please donate any unwanted Chrismas jumpers/outfits to school, and we will organise a stall where you can come and choose something new to you. Often these are only worn once or twice before our children grow out of them, and this is a great way to avoid spending a fortune, while helping the environment. Hand […]

Year 5 have started the first stage in their Christmas DT project.  We can’t wait to see what they look like.

In our explorations of other faiths Y4 have been learning about Islam. We have found out about the Qur’an and it’s importance to Muslims.

Year 4 have been learning to accompany music using a glockenspiel. They can recognise different notes and how to read them.  

Year 2 led us in praying for all young people around the world. Pope Francis asked us to imitate Mary when she ‘arose and went with haste’ to tell others about Jesus. He asks that we use our passion and enthusiasm to spread God’s love in the world.

In Year 2 we have been learning about the points on a compass.  We had a go at making our own using a magnet, a needle, a cork and a bowl of water.  They worked!

The excitement was in the air during our movie night watching Elf.

Year 5 visited the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition at the Laing art gallery. This visit will inspire our next art topic.

This afternoon we have been learning all about how light and white are made up of the whole spectrum of colours.

The children from Year 6 have enjoyed a fun and informative morning at Safety Works in Newcastle. We have learned lots from the fire and police service, lifeguards from the RNLI and road safety provided by Gateshead Council. The children have all asked if we can go again! .

Children in Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed watching England play Iran in their first game of this year’s World Cup. They were hardly in their seats there was so much celebrating!

We have had a great week wearing odd socks at the start of Anti-Bullying Week and wearing our Pudsey accessories in recognition of Children in Need. We also enjoy planning our class Liturgical Prayer too.

We have been doing lots of different activities to practise measuring in cm.

‘That History Bloke’ came to talk to us all about the Great Fire of Gateshead.  We got to handle some genuine artefacts!

Many thanks to all who returned their parental survey. The results of this were overwhelmingly positive which we greatly appreciate. As always the ‘door is open’ so if anyone does have a problem of any sort please do ring or pop in to make an appointment – we will always try to help! Please find […]

This week in our Pastoral Houses our children have been learning techniques to ‘Reach Out’, if they’re worried about being bullied or think someone else may be feeling in need of some help. Our oldest and youngest children worked brilliantly together and came up with some great ideas for posters. Well done to all of […]

This morning Year 4 joined more than 6,000 children across the UK to take part in the Plastic Free Schools ‘Pupil Power Assembly’.  It was an online event where we explored ways in which we can protect our oceans and the planet.  We looked at alternatives to single-use plastics and explored some of the biggest […]

Helping fill up the clothing bank!

Come to our Open Day to find out what goes on at St Alban’s

Year 1 are having great fun in their new textiles topic! We have been exploring lots of different fabrics, describing them and using them to recreate our own hairstyles. Today the children worked on different joining techniques such as stapling, sewing and using glues. Great work Year 1, we are looking forward to making some […]

Buy your tickets from the school office for a night of movie magic!

Years 4, 5 and 6 children are still enjoying touch rugby after school. Despite the weather 🌨

We are all unique and different. Wearing odd socks highlights the need to recognise everyone and treat others with respect.  

Year four have explored the story of Zacchaeus, we thought carefully about speech that could be added to the story to show our understanding of forgiveness. We learnt the words absolution and penance in our learning journey about the sacrament of reconciliation.

We have learning to multiply by 10, 100 and beyond using place value boards.  

This week in Early Years we invited our parents to Stay and Pray as we marked Remembrance Day. We then took part in lots of poppy and red themed activities for Stay and Play.

In Early Years, we love to learn outside!  T   

We have begun our story map and enjoyed using them to retell a story to each other.

We really enjoyed looking at exactly what a cracker includes and evaluated a range of crackers. We can’t wait to crack on to start making and sewing our material Christmas cracker in our DT lessons!

Why not come along to school and get ahead with your Christmas shopping! £2 entry

We have been painting in the style of Clarice Cliff.  we created our own designs using feature of her work.  They are fabulous!

This morning children from Years 5 and 6 went along to Bill Quay Farm for their Remembrance Day service. Some of them laid the poppy wreaths that we had made. We were so proud of how they conducted themselves.

  In Year 1 we have been learning about the history of toys. We are discussing how toys have similarities and differences over the decades. Today the children brought in toys from home – some modern day and some retro (some children even brought Grandparents’ toys to show). We spent some time talking about the […]

  Our KS1 children have been working so hard at ‘Keep Fit’ club on Thursdays. We have been learning about exercise and staying healthy, talking about raising our heart rates and using different muscles. Keep up the good work KS1.

  Year 1 have been working really hard to partition two digit numbers into tens and ones. Today the children built lots of numbers using cubes, representing the tens and ones. Great job Year 1!

In Year 6, we are basing our writing on the short film Alma – we have lots of different theories about the content of the film and are enjoying linked activities.

We used lolly sticks to create regular and irregular shapes and revise how many sides they have.

We have been closely observing how Clarice Cliff draw trees.  We’ve then made our own designs in her style, using her colour palette.

Meet our school council who are full of wonderful ideas for the year ahead.

Y4, 5 and 6 had a great time learning how to play rugby, come and join us 🏉

At St Alban’s we always aim to be Eco-friendly and look after our environment.  Before half term, Helen from the Green Heart Collective came into school as part of  Great Big Green Week.  She talked to us all about how much waste goes to landfill and what we can do to help.  She showed us […]

We enjoyed learning about the Jewish synagogue with Mrs Van dear velde this afternoon. The children learned lots of new words (e.g. tallit, ark, kippah, bimah, Torah, mezuzah) and asked and answered questions too.

This terms important dates

There were so many brilliant pumpkins brought in for our competition. Well done to all who entered for showcasing such talent!

We have really enjoyed writing our biographies on Wilma Rudolph and putting our information together as a poster. We have learnt about Judaism and the synagogue in RE and have continued our colour mixing skills, painting like Van Gogh! Three children planned a wonderful class worship too. Happy half term everyone!

We love our brass lessons with Mr Blakey and are learning to play the cornet, tenor horn and trombone

Our children love to learn tunes on their guitars with Mr Strong.

Y4 have been painting using watercolours, thinking about colour tones. We used Georgia O,Keeffe as the influence for our work.  

The children are enjoying violin lessons with Mrs Coleman.

We have been reading about the inspirational Wilma Rudolph and used facts learnt this week to decide which were true or false. We also used our previous learning to identify conjunctions and proper nouns.

Congratulations to our new Mini Vinnies who will work together to ‘turn concern into action’ for our local community. Here they are, supported and encouraged by their families.

In Early Years, we have been exploring repeating patterns in lots of ways!

This week we have been exploring the world of dogs! We love the story of Hairy Maclarey! Mrs Dowling brought her puppy, Bonnie, to visit us! Our families joined us for a dog themed Fun Friday!

  Year 5 are delighted to become part of the Mini Vinnies today They thought about how to could give a helping hand

We have been looking at the artist Clarice Cliff.  We are using papier-mâché  and collage techniques to re-create her ‘Bizarre’ range of pottery.

Mrs Blakey teaches flute and clarinet lessons in school. Here are her dedicated students.

Year four have been working on their tennis skills over the past few weeks.

Early Years children dressed to impress this Fun Friday as we worked and played with bright activities for CAFOD.

Year 3 have been exploring what magnets can do. Magnets have a north and south pole so we experimented with putting poles together. Opposite poles attract each other but same poles REPEL. Then we sorted metals into magnetic and non-magnetic. We’re now going to investigate how magnets are used at home too.

We were certainly bright and beautiful as part of our Cafod fundraising for harvest. We have been learning in our RE Homes topic that we are asked to be generous to others. We also voted democratically for Tommy & Harley to be on our School Council this year. Well done!

The children shared prayers with their parents, asking Mary to pray with us for this special feast day.

During the month of October, we gather in St Alban’s Room to pray the rosary together.

We wore bright colourful clothes today to fundraise for CAFOD’s Harvest Fast Day. https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Primary-teaching-resources

In Science we have been sorting materials by their properties and using scientific language to describe them.

Reception have made an impressive start on their Read, Write Inc journey. We have been making delicious cup cakes for the ‘c’ letter sound and writing the ‘g’ letter in green glitter. Lots of fun! Well done Reception.

Over the past 3 weeks Year 4 have had their investigating hats on and have worked really hard. Through our states of matter learning we have learnt that air does weigh something. We have investigated the different states of water and today we made ice-cream!  

Children in Year 6 have been learning how to calculate angles in a straight line and around a point. They worked so hard!

We have certainly lived life to the full this week going to see the Coldstream Guards playing in the cathedral and our online meeting with the engineer from Ford – all inspiring us for our futures!

We have been using the apparatus to find lots of ways of partitioning numbers.  We are learning to find patterns and work methodically.

In Year 2 today we have been mixing colours to make new ones.

Year 4 have been reading the book The Happy Prince.  Today we imagined that we were the little boy in the story and we worked in pairs to make notes about how we would feel.  We then used these notes to create a diary entry about out thoughts and feelings.  We had to remember to […]

This afternoon, Year 4 enjoyed taking part in an online engineering workshop with Ford engineer, Linda Zhang.  The children had the opportunity to ask questions and to design their own vehicle of the future.  There were some brilliant ideas!

We have been lucky enough to take part in a workshop with a real life engineer from America today. She spoke to the children about her job at Ford, and set them a task to design their own car of the future. One of our children was even chosen to show his design on screen!

Year 1 have enjoyed their afternoon out of school, exploring our local area as part of our Geography topic. We spotted lots of different buildings on our checklists! We also popped into the library on our way back to school to choose a book to bring back to class.

Today in Year 1 we have been learning about ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ symbols. We took our learning outdoors to play the ‘Hungry Aligator’ game. The children took turns being the aligator, eating up the bigger numbers! The children were brilliant at making the ‘greater than’ symbol with their arms. Well done Year 1!

We are delighted to welcome our toddler group, Little Saints, back into school. It’s lovely to see so many little ones playing together.  

Year 6 welcomed our Reception and Nursery children into our school, surrounded by family and friends. We reflected on St Paul’s words that we are all God’s work of art and prayed that our new children have a happy time at our school, learning lots every day and living life to the full.

Year 3 and Year 6 musicians travelled to Newcastle Cathedral to listen to a fantastic concert given by the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They played some marches as well as tunes from Moana, Star Wars and Avengers and we clapped, sang and danced along. Hopefully, some of our children will be inspired to become […]

Year 3 are learning all about forces. Today’s lesson was all about testing friction in different surfaces. Rough surfaces slowed down our 2p piece more than smooth surfaces.

Learning the value of numbers is so important. The children used frames to partition and combine 3 and 4 digit numbers.

Today we used pencil and felt tip to practise the feathering and line textures but next week we will use oil pastels! We are keeping fit with our weekly circuit training and loved twirling with the hula hoops!

Today some of our Year 1 children have been exploring different mark making techniques using a range of brushes and rollers.

  We’ve been hot-seating George, the mouse from our story.  The children had lots of great questions for him.

We listened very carefully to patterns, then copied back rhythms on the note  C  on  glockenspiels.

Keeping fit with Thursday circuits and reading the news!  

  We have been using art pencils to practise our sketching skills.  We used pressure to change the tone and observed really closely.

We had fun today, playing a place value game in Y3 😃

Year 4 were exploring solids, liquids and gases in Science and became the particles that make them. We looked at how they moved within a solid, a liquid and a gas.

In Year Two we’ve been looking for different examples of materials around school.

Mrs Coleman is inviting Y3 children to sign up for violin lessons. They loved hearing her play Harry Potter and Baby Shark!

In Science, Y3 began investigating forces today. Can you see them using pushes and pulls to move objects? Then we learned about gravity and heard Isaac Newton’s story.  

It has been lovely returning to school seeing everyone again and looking forward to all the new learning in Year 3.

We’ve been practising  teen numbers in lots of different ways and playing a game at the same time!

In Year Two we have been looking at different adjectives with similar meanings. It will help us to be fantastic writers!

We gathered together to pray for Our Queen this morning. May she rest in peace

Dear children and parents, We are looking forward to seeing you back at school to start the new school year. Hope you’ve had a good summer!