We hold the keys to the future....

Year 5 led a very interesting and colourful Liturgy based on the harvest. the children read, sang and prayed together with parents using the harvest produce brought into school by the children as a focal area.

Children nominated an elderly person in their family or street and delivered the harvest parcel once it had been assembled.

The remainder of the food was sent to Hawkesbury House a local care home where we have developed excellent links throughout the last few years. Our head boy and girl were great ambassadors as they delivered the harvest produce to the residents.

Year 5 have been working hard in literacy, creating poems about the environment. They are taking part in the Big Green Poetry Machine which is a competition by the Young Writer's publishing company.

Congratualtions to the French club for hosting a brilliant French Breakfast morning on Friday 28th March! The event was enjoyed by everyone and over 70 chocolate croissants were sold as well as other delicious foods such as toast, cheese and crackers and baguettes. Everyone who attended the event commented on the excellent French spoken by our Year Five French club and the French club themselves were very impressed by how many children tried to order their breakfast in French! The morning was a huge success and we hope to follow it up with another morning for the whole school to enjoy! Once again a big thankyou to everyone who attended and supported the morning. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Check out the pictures from the morning and see if you can spot yourself enjoying some of our excellent french food!
Miss Alberts.

Years 3, 4 and 5 enjoyed a lively morning of music led by the Gateshead LEA Specialists Team. The theme was Food. The children throughly enjoyed singing a selection of songs from the Caribbean and traditional Britsih songs and rhymes. The children were invited to join the band and had the opportunity to play a variety of percussion instruments.
Rhythm and melody were the teaching focus of this very enjoyable session.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved for their expertise and guidance.

Bonjour!
Comment ca va?
The Year Five French club have had their heads down working very hard to prepare for the French Breakfast morning. The morning will be held at 8:30 till 9am in the school hall on Friday the 28th of March for all of Key Stage Two (sorry Key Stage One, we hope to hold a one for you later in the school year!) so come along and ask for your breakfast in French! Check out the menus in your class for prices and don't forget to look at the posters that tell you how to ask for food in French!
We hope to see you there!

Well done to all of year Five for their excellent liturgical dance to 'My Jesus, My Saviour' which formed part of our Easter reconcilliation service. The children worked very hard to learn the dance and put their own ideas into it. I think that it really helped us to reflect upon what Jesus did in sacrificing his life, so an extra well done to Year Five for helping the school do that. Lets hope that our next dance will be as successful! I'm really looking forward to doing more of this work with you Year Five!
Miss Alberts

Year Five have been up to so much recently! We had a fantastic day and evening performance at Cardinal Hume where we got to know lots of other children from the local Catholic schools. We thoroughly enjoyed singing in the choir and entertaining our parents. Thankyou to all of the parents who came and showed their support. The children worked incredibly hard and sang beautifully.

We hold this event to share all the hard work the children have been doing in class linked to Easter. This year as well as the eggs decorated at home there were cards, candles, pots, baskets, pop up chicks, boxes and much more - not forgetting the wonderful Easter bonnets traditionally made by our Year 6 children.
We opened on Wednesday night and Thursday morning so that as many parents as possible could see the wonderful crafts made by their children. Thank you to everyone who came.

The Easter raffle winners were - Alice Y5, Jack Y3 and Melissa Y2. Congratulations to all!

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Thank you to Year 5 for their wonderful pictures - these will really help the children to reflect on each station.

I Jesus is Condemned to Death

II Jesus takes up His Cross

To view the rest of the stations continue to read on.

Our Year 5 children were chosen to make the candles for the 'Angel of the North's' celebration of its tenth anniversary. Artists came in to work with the children for a full day and I'm sure you'll agree some beautiful artwork was created.

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Bonjour everyone, we are the members of the fantastic Year Five French club! We meet every Thursday night after school and we are currently learning an exciting poem about the local town. We have learnt some useful phrases such as, "la patinoire," "le cafe," "la discotheque" and "la gare" which are all words in our poem. As soon as we know our poem off by heart we will record it and let you have a listen so keep a look out to see how we are doing! We have even tried some delicious French food such as chocolate filled crepes.
au revoir from Jessica, Alice, Jon, Preet and Miss Alberts

Year Five led today's Ash Wednesday service at St Peter's Church which was dedicated to the memory of Mr Jim Murray, who was deputy head at St Peter's for many years. The mass was a brilliant success and was enjoyed by the whole school, Mr Murray's family and the parish. The children organised the whole mass themselves by choosing hymns and readings. The service was well attended and the whole school sang beautifully. Year Five read confidently and made their teacher, Miss Alberts, incredibly proud. Mr Murray's family who attended the mass commented on how fantastic the children were and how Mr Murray would have really enjoyed it.

The school will be visited by the 'Konflux Theatre Group' tomorrow. Four classes will be taking part in various drama based activities throughout the day. Reception Class, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 5 will each have a one hour session with the group. Make sure to find out how it went by visiting our brand new website in the next couple of days.