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Our Year 1 children have been invited to attend a dance festival on Friday 26th March 2010 at Blyth Sports Centre. For more details click on the link below.
Y1 dance festival.doc

We have arranged a visit to Rising Sun Country Park for our Year 1 children on Thursday 25th March 2010. Please click on the link below for more information.
y1 Rising Sun Country Park.doc

Your child's class teacher invites you into school on either Tuesday 23rd or Wednesday 24th March from 3.30pm onwards to talk through your child's progress. Appointment charts will be outside the classrooms from Tuesday 16th March so anyone who would like to come along can sign up to a time slot.

Lots of our parents and grandparents joined us for our activity morning. We made scenes from Hansel and Gretel.

On Friday 18th December school will close at 1.30pm for the Christmas break. PLEASE NOTE: There will be no afternoon Nursery session on Friday 18th December. School will re-open on Tuesday 5th January.

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 invite all families and friends into our school at 2.00pm on Wednesday 16th December to sing 'Carols Around the Christmas Tree'.

The class Christmas parties are to be held as follows:
Nursery & Reception - Monday 14th December (NO MORNING NURSERY SESSION ON THIS DAY - ALL CHILDREN TO ATTEND IN THE AFTERNOON PLEASE)Years 1 & 2 - Tuesday 15th December
Years 3 & 4 - Thursday 17th December
School will provide a drink of juice for all children, could parents please provide some food. So we have a variety, could boys please bring sweet items and girls bring savoury. Thank you. Children are allowed to come to school in their party clothes on those days or they can bring them to change into.

Our Harvest Festivals were held in Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church with Key Stage 2 in the morning and Reception and Key Stage 1 in the afternoon. Lots of our families and friends came along to watch two wonderful services.

Just a reminder that our children will be working on a whole school Eco project next week. Each class will have a different focus:
Nursery/Reception - Endangered Species
Year 1 - Rainforests
Year 2 - Water Conservation
Year 3 - Recycling
Year 4 - Newsroom - reporting on events in school.
If you can help your child find any information for their project, that would be very helpful.
Also, please remember to keep collecting your junk for our model competition and send it into school.

We have had a case of head lice reported in our school, this time in Year 1. Could we just remind all parents/carers of the importance of checking your child's hair regularly and treating any found immediately. Thank you.

Our Year 1 children need cardboard boxes for an activity they will be doing on Tuesday, please send any into school with your child before then. Thank you.

Our Harvest Festival services will be held on Friday 16th October at Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church. For our KS2 children (Years 3 & 4) the service will be at 10.00am and for Reception and KS1 (Years 1 & 2) the service will be at 1.30pm. Family and friends are welcome to attend either service, please meet us at the Church. We hope to see you all there!

Your child's class teacher would like to invite you into school on the evenings of either Tuesday 13th or Wednesday 14th October to discuss your child's progress. From Monday 5th October there will be appointment sheets outside your child's classroom so you can sign up for an appointment.

Please click on the link below to view our overview for this term. We hope it gives you an insight into what we will be learning.

Y2.doc

Could everyone please check names in any cardigans with our school logo on your child has at home as 2 are missing already. Thank you.

Tuesday & Wednesday

Year 1 invited their family and friends into our school to see what exciting things they had been doing this term.

Our sports day will be held on Thursday 16th July at 1.30pm (weather permitting!) for all children in main school. We would like all children to bring a top in the colour of their house to wear along with their P.E. shorts for the sports afternoon. The house colours are: Endeavour - yellow, Voyager - blue, Explorer - green and Challenger - red. Thank you for your cooperation. We hope to see you all there!

Our Year 1 children are to visit the museum on Wednesday 15th July 2009. Please return your reply slip and payment as soon as possible as your child will not be allowed to attend the visit without them. Thank you.

Our Year 1 children visited QEII Park & Hotel. They looked around the hotel and restaurant and learned about the many jobs people do within the hotel.

As part of our Enterprise Week our Year 1 children visited Blyth Fire Station to look at all the different roles within the fire service.

During our 'What I want to be when I grow up' week our Year 1 children took part in a Guess Who Workshop dressing up as people who do different jobs.

For our sports day on Thursday 16th July we would like all children to bring a top in the colour of their house to wear along with their P.E. shorts for the sports afternoon. The house colours are: Endeavour - yellow, Voyager - blue, Explorer - green and Challenger - red. Thank you for your cooperation.

Our Year 1 children are to visit the museum on Wednesday 15th July 2009. Please print the form from the link below and return the reply slip and payment as soon as possible. Thank you.
Hancock Museum-Year 1.DOC

Our Year 1 children invite their families into our school on Thursday 2nd June 2009 at 9.15am to join them for their assembly. We hope you can make it to enjoy a look at all of the work our children have done in school this year.

QEII Park & Hotel:
Y1 QEII Park & Hotel.DOC

As part of our Enterprise week beginning Monday 1st June 2009 we are encouraging the children to think about 'What I want to be when I grow up' and to look into this further we have arranged visits for our Year 1 children to Blyth Fire Station and QEII Park & Hotel in Ashington to see the jobs people do there. These visits are funded by WEEN but we do need your consent to take your child out of school on these days so please click on the links below to print a copy of the forms or call at the school office. Thank you.

Blyth Fire Station:
Y1 Fire Station.DOC

We have received information regarding football coaching for children in Year 1 with Whitley Bay Boys Club. If anyone is interested please call at the school office for more information.

For those who have not already done so could you please hand in your completed reply slip and payment as soon as possible as your child will not be allowed to attend the trip without this consent. Spare copies are available from the school office if needed. Thank you.

Year 1 will be having a special visitor to look at earthworms and to help us we need as many 750ml bottles as possible and any other size plastic bottles. Please bring in any you have spare and hand them to a member of staff. Thank you.

On Thursday 2nd April 2009 we are holding our Easter services:
• Our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 service is to be held at Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church at 10am where parents are welcome to attend.
• Our Year 3 and Year 4 service is at 2pm in the school hall where parents are also welcome to attend. (Any parent wanting to take their children home after the afternoon service is welcome to do so).

There are still some appointments available for Parent's Evening next Monday and Tuesday so please see appointment chart for times.

As a staff, we are very keen to reward good work and celebrate excellent behaviour. Following the Easter holidays, we will be introducing a new 'house point' system at Stead Lane. The children will be divided into four 'houses' or teams. Each week merits will be earned for good behaviour, effort, work etc. Individually children will work towards earning Bronze, Silver and Gold certificates. Collectively each team will be competing to win a house treat which the children will choose.

TEAM NAME COMPETITION
We have chosen a 'Space' theme for our teams. Each team will be represented by a different coloured rocket. And now for your cooperation - can you or your child think of four imaginative names for our teams. If so, please complete the slip attached and return to school. A prize will be awarded for the winning suggestion

Our Year 1 children would like to invite members of their family to join in their activity morning on Thursday 12th February at 10.00am. Please meet at the main school entrance.

Our Year 1 children are holding an activity morning on Thursday 12th February at 10.00am when you are invited into our school to join your child in their class activity. We hope to see you there.

Following the success of our coffee morning this week, we look forward to an excellent turn out for our parent classes which start next Thursday, 9.00 – 10.30am. A free crèche facility is available on site for parents with pre-school age children.

Whitley Bay Boys Club are looking for year 1 children to join in their fun coaching sessions on Saturday mornings. Please contact the school office for more information.

As part of our topic, next week our Year 1 children will be spending some time looking around our local area.

Please click on the link below to download Year 1's temly overview for Spring 2009.
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Our Year 1 children are visiting Newbiggin on Monday. If you have not already done so, would you please complete and return the reply slip on Monday. Your child will not be allowed out of school without your consent. Spare copies of the letter are available from the office or by clicking on the link below. Thank you.
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We are in the process of planning a visit to Newbiggin for Monday 12th January for our Year 1 children. Your child will receive information regarding the visit on our first day back.

On Friday 19th December school will close at 1.30pm for the Christmas break. Please find attached a reply slip for you to complete and return.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be no afternoon Nursery session on Friday 19th December.
School will re-open on Wednesday 7th January.

Our Reception and Years 1 and 2 children will perform ‘Carols Around the Tree’ at 2.00pm on Wednesday 17th December in the school hall. All family and friends are welcome to attend.

The class Christmas parties are to be held as follows:
Nursery & Reception - Monday 15th December (NO MORNING NURSERY SESSION ON THIS DAY – ALL CHILDREN TO ATTEND IN THE AFTERNOON PLEASE)
Years 1 & 2 - Tuesday 16th December
Years 3 & 4 - Thursday 18th December
School will provide a drink of juice for all children, could parents please provide some food. So we have a variety, could boys please bring savoury items and girls bring sweet except Nursery who will be informed by Mrs Mallin or Mrs Athey of what to bring. Thank you.
Children are allowed to come to school in their party clothes on those days or they can bring them to change into.

Our main school children will hold their Christmas performances on Thursday 11th December at 1.00pm and Friday 12th December at 10.00am. PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are needed for both performances so please apply for tickets via the school office. Thank you.

Mrs Wing leaves today to begin her maternity leave, we wish her all the very best. Mr Eckford will be our new Year 1 teacher after the half term break.

In Year 1, 2 cardigans and a P.E. kit have gone missing. Please check that your child has not picked up someone else’s items instead of their own and return any to school as soon as possible. Thank you.

All of next week is ‘Looking After Ourselves’ week at Stead Lane and the children will be taking part in various activities so will need their full P.E. kit every day, suitable for indoors and outdoors. We are always trying to encourage the children to eat healthily and next week will be awarding the healthiest packed lunch with a prize. We have various leaflets to share with parents/carers and these will be displayed every day at 3.00pm in the hall.

Please click on the link below to view Year 1's topic overview for the autumn term 08.

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Just a reminder - we are holding our Harvest Festivals on Friday 17th October at Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church at Bedlington Station. Our Years 3 & 4 children will hold theirs at 10.00am and Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 will hold theirs at 1.30pm. Family and friends please meet at the church. We hope to see you all there.

As detailed in last week’s newsletter, we are holding our Parent’s evenings on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th October. Times are still available with your child’s teacher, so please sign up outside their classroom every day from 3.00pm.

If you have not already done so, could you please return the reply slip and payment to school as soon as possible. Spare copies of the letter are available from the school office. Thank you.

Please make sure all children have their named P.E.kit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Thank you.

There will be a final opportunity to claim any lost property in the school hall on Monday 21st July at 3.00pm. Any unclaimed items will be disposed of after this time.

School will close on Wednesday 23rd July at 1.30pm for the summer break and there will be no afternoon Nursery session on this day. Please fill out a reply slip (available from the office) so we know you are aware of this. Thank you.

Children in main school will be holding their sports day on Thursday 17th July. If your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 sports will begin at 10.30am, if your child is in Year 3 or Year 4 they will begin at 1.30pm. We hope you will come along and support our children. Could all children please have their P.E. kits in school all week, so they have them if needed.

Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 will hold their sports at 10.30am on Thursday 17th July.

We hope everyone enjoyed our family assembly.

Please remember our Year 1 family assembly is at 9.00am on Thursday 26th June. The children are really excited to share their work with you all so we hope you can come along.

Our newsletter dated 13.06.08 informed you that Year 1 is holding their family assembly on Thursday 19th June. The assembly is actually at 9.00am on Thursday 26th June.Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Year 1 parents are invited to attend their class assembly on Thursday 19th June 2008 at 9.00am.

We had great fun at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth. We looked at all of the different types of sea life - some big and some small then we went to the touch pool and were able to feel a starfish and a crab! After eating our lunch outside we went onto Tynemouth beach and looked for rocks and shells.

Year 1 are to visit Blue Reef Aquarium on Tuesday 20th May. Please call at the school office if you need more details.

Key Stage 1 held their Easter service at Bedlington Colliery Methodist church.

While Key Stage 2 held theirs in the school hall.

Our children had an exiting time on the 'Pride of Wansbeck' bus tour. We toured around our local area and earned lots of interesting things about where we live. We visited the iron works in Bedlington, the recycling centre at North Seaton, Newbiggin and Bothal.

Year 1 invited their families to join them for a busy activity morning. They continued their topic of ‘Fruit-tastic’ and planted pansies, made paper flowers and decorated fruit words.

Year 1 visited Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church and held a 'Christening' for their doll!

Welcome to our Year 1 class.

We work hard in Year 1!