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Our Year 4 leaver's assembly is at 9.10am on Thursday 22nd July 2010. Our Year 4 children welcome all family and friends into school for this event. Tissues are a must!

Several children have asked if they may have their polo shirt signed by friends and staff following their leaver's assembly. We think this will be a good memento of their time at Stead Lane. If you do not wish your child to have their top signed please inform Mr Whitehead before Thursday 22nd July. Thank you.

Could children in Years 1, 2, 3 & 4 please make sure they have their P.E. kit in school on sports day with a top the colour of their house: Endeavour - yellow, Voyager - blue, Explorer - green and Challenger - red. Thank you for your continued support.

Please click on the link below for more information about our 'Street Dance' club which begins on Thursday 29th April 2010.
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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.

Our Year 4 children invited their families and friends into school to join in with some fun activities during our 'Chocolate' topic! We dressed up as characters from 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.'

As above, our Year 4 family activity morning is on Thursday 11th February. We would like your child, if possible, to dress up on that day as a character from the 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' film.

As part of our 'Chocolate' topic we would like our Year 4 children to watch 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' in school, this film is a PG so if you do not wish your child to watch this film could you please inform Mr Whitehead on Monday morning.

We would like to offer our children in Year 3 and Year 4 the opportunity to visit Robinwood Activity Centre for 3 days in June. For further details please see a member of staff.

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.

Our Year 3 & Year 4 children are holding their Carol Service at Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church at 10.00am on Wednesday 16th December. All family and friends welcome.

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.

We have arranged a visit to the Hatton gallery & Seven Stories for our Year 4 children on Friday 13th November. Please call at the school office for more information.

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 planned a visit to Plessey Woods for children in Year 4 on Tuesday 20th October 2009. Please click on the link below for more information.
Y4 Plessey Woods.DOC

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.

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Tuesday & Thursday

Our Year 4 children held a very emotional leaving assembly!

Several children have asked if they may have their polo shirt signed by friends and staff following their leaver's assembly. We think this will be a good memento of their time at Stead Lane. If you do not wish your child to have their top signed please inform Mr Whitehead before Thursday 23rd July. Thank you.

Our Year 4 children would like to invite their families into our school at 9.15am on Thursday 23rd July to join them for their leaver's assembly. We hope to see you all there. (Tissues are a must!)

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 4 children thought about building a town - what buildings they would include in their town and what jobs peolpe would do. They then built their own mini towns!

Our Year 4 class visited the redevelopment of Sanderson Arcade in Morpeth. We took a look at what the Arcade will look like when completed and we had a tour of the site learning about all of the different people who are needed to do the different jobs.

Our Year 4 children have been invited to Bedlington High School on Wednesday 8th July. Please click on the link below for more information.
Y4 High School.DOC

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 4 children have been given a great opportunity to attend this workshop at Ashington Leisure Centre on Friday 19th June 2009. Please call at the office for more information.

On Monday 8th June 2009 our Year 4 children will be visiting the newly opened Great North Museum - Hancock. If you have not already done so please return the consent form on Monday as your child will be unable to attend the visit without it. Spare copies are available from the school office. Thank you.

As part of our 'What I want to be when I grow up' week Year 4 will be visiting Sanderson Arcade in Morpeth to look at the different jobs people do. Although these visits are funded by WEEN we still nedd your consent to take your child out of school so please print off and fill in a form below:
Y4 SANDERSON ARCADE, MORPETHl.DOC

Our Year 4 children are to visit the newly opened Great North Museum - Hancock in Newcastle on Monday 8th June 2009. Please click on the link belwo for more information.
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Next Friday Year 4 invites all children to bring their copper into school to make a money line to raise money for their Enterprise Africa Scheme. Each class will have the opportunity to make as many lines as possible. Please give generously.

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 4 children would like to invite their families into school at 10.00am on Thursday 12th March to take part in their activity morning. This term our children have been learning about a number of challenges that face Africa today. The children would like to raise money to send a charitable donation to help other children less fortunate than themselves. As part of this enterprise they will be selling refreshments during the morning. We hope to see lots of our families there to help this worthy cause.

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.

Please click on the link below to view our termly overview for Spring 2009.
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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 Years 3 and 4 children are holding their annual carol service at Bedlington Colliery Methodist Church on Wednesday 17th December at 10.00am. All family and friends are welcome to meet us there.

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.

For parents who attend our ‘Stepping Stones Reading Group’, our last session will be held on Tuesday 2nd December at 2.15pm. Please return all resources in the plastic wallet on or before Monday 1st. Thank you.

As Year 4 are visiting Segedunum on Friday 28th November, their final swimming session will now be on Friday 5th December.

Our Year 4 children are visiting Segedunum on Friday 28th November. Please click on the link below for more information.
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Our Year 4 children need boxes as they are going to reconstruct Hadrian’s Wall! Please hand any you have to a member of staff. Thank you.

There will be an early riser’s football club held at school on Thursday mornings. Any child from Years 2, 3 or 4 who is interested needs to return the reply slip which can be downloaded below.
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Our Year 4 children are to take part in a Kwik Cricket Festival at JJB Soccerdome. Please click on link below for more details.
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On Monday 3rd November Year 1 are to visit Blyth Fire Station, on Tuesday 4th November Year 3 are to visit Woodhorn Colliery and on Wednesday 5th November Year 4 are to visit Arbeia Roman Fort. If you have not already returned your child’s reply slip for any of these trips, please do so as soon as possible. Thank you.

Year 4 are going on two trips in November to tie in with their Roman topic. On Wednesday 5th they are going to Arbeia and on Friday 28th they are going to Segedunum. Please click on the link below to download more information.
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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 4'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.

Following the success of our residential last term, we are proposing a return visit to Dukeshouse Wood Centre, Hexham, next summer. By booking early, I’ve secured another excellent deal for our children in Years 3 & 4. Please call at the school office for a letter with information regarding our meeting, if you have not already received one.

Please make sure all children have their named P.E. kit on Thursdays and Fridays.( Swimming kit needed on Fridays this term). Thank you.

Year 4 held a very emotional farewell assembly. We were pleased to see lots of members of our families there to support us. Stead Lane wishes all of their Year 4 leavers 'Good Luck' for the future!

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.

Our Year 4 family assembly is on Wednesday 23rd July at 9.10am. We hope to see as many family members there as possible for their final assembly at Stead Lane!

Our Year 4 leaving assembly will be held at 9.10am on Wednesday 23rd July. All family members are welcome to attend.

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.

Years 3 & 4 are holding their sports at 1.30pm on Thursday 17th July.

Some of our Years 3 & 4 children visited Kingswood for a fun packed weekend!

Our Stepping Stones reading group will be held, as usual, this Tuesday 1st July, please meet at school at 1.45pm.

Year 4 are performing at The Sage on Wednesday 25th June. Uniforms must be worn on this occasion. Please ensure we have your consent slip as we cannot take your child out of school without it. Any parent attending the performance should arrive at the Sage for a 1.00pm start. Thank you.

As part of the process of transition to West Sleekburn Middle School our children have been taking part in a project with dancers and musicians from the Sage, Gateshead. Our children are to come together with children from other first schools and West Sleekburn Middle School at the Sage, to perform on Wednesday 25th June 2008. Parents are welcome to attend. Please contact office for more details.

For parents of children going to Kingswood, please find below some information which we hope you will find useful.

On Wednesday 11th June children in Years 3 & 4 will be taking part in a ‘National Walking Bus Guiness Book of Records Challenge’. Children all around the county will be walking around their local area on Wednesday to promote walking to school.

Year 4/5 TRIC funded Transition Project with The Sage

Work has now started in Year 4 on our transition project this term. Taking the theme “journeys”, our pupils are working with a number of dancers and musicians from the Sage in a collaboration with other children from Cambois, The Station and West Sleekburn. The theme is intended to represent their own personal journey moving on to a new school, exploring the feelings of fear and excitement that the children will experience at this point of change. The project will culminate in a final performance at The Sage on Wednesday 25th June. Parents and Governors will receive an invitation to the performance – details to follow.

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 4 visited Alnwick Garden and Carole told us all about how the different water pools of the Grand Cascade are cleaned and cared for.
Each group were given a quiz by Mrs. O'Connor and we had to look around the garden to find our answers.
We looked at the water features and had great fun jumping across the rope bridge in the tree house!

The police visited Year 4 to talk about stranger danger, the role of the police and drugs.

Welcome to our Year 4 class.

Working hard in Literacy.

Year 4 invited their families to join them for a 'Hot & Cold' Activity Morning.
They designed healthy meals for hot and cold days and made their own thermometers.

We visited Rising Sun Country Park to get ideas for our school garden. We made maps, built animal houses and used our senses to discover more about the outside world.

All of Year 4 children took part in a Kwik Cricket Festival at the JJB Soccerdome. We were split into two teams, the Rockets and the Terriers and the Terriers went on to win! Both teams played well and we all had a fun day!

Year 4 had an exciting day at Whickham Thorns Activity Centre!