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Thursday 12 December 2024 Y2 Christmas Performance What a fantastic Nativity performance Y2!
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Thursday 12 December 2024 Y3 Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland's Carol Service Year 3 children were invited to sing at a special service held for the whole of Northumberland to celebrate the county's community spirit. We were one of three musical interludes. We sang carols with a brass band and listened to some fantastic singers from Vox Populi.
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Thursday 12 December 2024 Y3 Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland's Carol Service Year 3 children were invited to sing at a special service held for the whole of Northumberland to celebrate the county's community spirit. We were one of three musical interludes. We sang carols with a brass band and listened to some fantastic singers from Vox Populi.
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Monday 9 December 2024 Sele recognised at Sport Tynedale Awards Last night, Sele were awarded a certificate in recognition of outstanding achievement in sport, as a result of maintaining the School Games Platinum award.
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Friday 6 December 2024 Tyne Green parkrun Can you help us? We are a little over a week away from our second ever parkrun takeover and we are looking for more volunteers from our school community to help us marshal the event.
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Thursday 5 December 2024 Year Four RE This week Year Four had a visit from Hexham Community Grocery, as an example of a local Christian charity. As well as learning about how the grocery operates, they found out about why Christians are motivated to help others and discovered that the Bible can be quite a dramatic book!
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Thursday 5 December 2024 Year Four RE This week Year Four had a visit from Hexham Community Grocery, as an example of a local Christian charity. As well as learning about how the grocery operates, they found out about why Christians are motivated to help others and discovered that the Bible can be quite a dramatic book!
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Wednesday 4 December 2024 Y2's Queen's Hall Art Project Y2 were very excited to be invited to the Queen's Hall to take part in an art project with local artist, Cath Campbell. They cut out silhouettes from black card and used cellophane to add colour to their design. Children then hung their magic beans on the giant beanstalk that is growing across the windows of the Queen's Hall.
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Tuesday 3 December 2024 Year 3 - Nutrition This week children have been looking at Nutrition in Science. We have investigated the Nutrition Facts labels of some foods and compared them with each other. Children identified the nutrients that matched with foods and how the nutrients help our body. We talked about how our body needs a range of food to remain healthy - if all we ate was carrots, we wouldn't be healthy!
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Friday 29 November 2024 The Runaway Pea in Reception Reception continued their topic of Once Upon a Time with the well loved story of the Runaway Pea! Children created their own story maps, sequencing the perilous adventures of the pea. Reception made paper traps for the pea using DT skills and then used spheros and iPads to try and catch the ‘pea’ (sphero)!
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Thursday 28 November 2024 Eco Warriors with the RHS National Nature Park For our second session with the National Education Nature Park the Eco Warriors moved to the garden to map habitats.
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Wednesday 27 November 2024 Year 4 - English: Gender swapped fairy tales In Year 4, we have been studying the Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munich. This text aims to challenge the narrative of a princess. The children have used this idea to create ‘gender swapped’ fairytales or traditional tales in the style of a comic.
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Wednesday 27 November 2024 Year One Computing This half term, Year One have linked their learning in Science into their Computing projects and have created their own spider diagrams using the app Freeform, on the iPads.
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Thursday 21 November 2024 We're Going to Find the Monster This week Reception learnt the book, We’re Going to Find the Monster by Malorie Blackman. In order to build their oracy and storytelling skills, they retold the story in many different formats - from story maps to roleplay to talking about their own journey to find a monster. Children used language from the book including, ‘shimmering ocean’, ‘huge, high mountain’ and ‘bubbly bubble lake’. On Tuesday, there were some suspicious footsteps in the corridor and many children thought the monster had made his way into school!
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Wednesday 20 November 2024 Year 4 - Kensuke's Kingdom cinema visit Year 4 visited the cinema to watch Kensuke’s Kingdom today. All children came out of the cinema full of excited chatter, describing the events they had witnessed. We had discussions in school about some of the themes in the film. Many children could describe their favourite parts of the film and many said they’d love to see it again! Throughout the visit, all children showed excellent focus and were very respectful.
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Tuesday 19 November 2024 Santa Dash 2024
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Tuesday 19 November 2024 Y2 Movement Lab - Problem Solving Can you guess what the rules were?
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Tuesday 19 November 2024 Year 3 Orienteering In Year 3, the children have been developing their orienteering skills during outdoor learning sessions on the Sele Playing Field. Orienteering combines map reading and physical activity, helping children build confidence in their navigational abilities while staying active.
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Friday 15 November 2024 Odd Socks Day in Year One Today, children have been thinking about what makes them special and unique. They created a background for a piece of art consisting of their favourite colours and then attached a black and white picture of themselves. They then thought about traits that they have that they are proud of and wrote some positive affirmations about themselves. The children came up with some lovely ideas about each other as well.
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Friday 15 November 2024 Reception's Week Reception have done lots of writing this week! From how they would fill their bucket of kindness for Kindness Day, to odd sock designs and orders for the cafe, children have been using their phonics to spell simple words and emotions, e.g. happy, hug.
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Monday 11 November 2024 Year 4 Pantosaurus Day Last week children wore different pants for Pantosaurus Day. We investigated the PANTS rules; privates are private, always remember your body belongs to you, no means no, talk about secrets that upset you and speak up, someone can help. Great work Year 4!
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Friday 8 November 2024 Year 3 PE This week in PE, Year 3 had a blast with some dancing and running! They loved getting into the groove with some fun dance moves, and they also practiced their running skills, working on speed and stamina. It was great to see them so full of energy and having fun together
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Friday 8 November 2024 Remembrance Day 2024 In preparation for Remembrance Day, the children have been busy creating beautiful poppies for a special display outside our school. Using a variety of materials like paper, felt, twigs and wool, each child designed their own unique poppy, symbolising respect and remembrance for those who have served. They’ve been learning about the significance of the poppy and discussing why we wear them to honour the sacrifices made during times of war. The display is now filled with these handmade poppies, showing our school community's shared respect and gratitude as we commemorate this important day.
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Friday 8 November 2024 Pantosaurus Day in Year 2 Children began their day designing their own pants which began the discussion of the importance of the day. Children talked about respecting each other's private parts and how to do this.
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Thursday 7 November 2024 Sele First Park Run Takeover On Saturday 14th December, we are going to do our second TAKE OVER of the Tyne Green Parkrun.
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Thursday 24 October 2024 Y2 - Take One Picture Open Day What a fantastic day Year 2 had for this year's Take One Picture Open Day. Y2 used chalk to recreate the streets of London engulfed with flames. They made their own Take One Picture souvenir of something they had learnt from this half term. By the end of the busy day, all children had visited the Art Studio where they sketched, created a shadow puppet and moulded their own clay gargoyle.
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Thursday 24 October 2024 Year 4 - Take One Picture Studio Year 4 have had a fantastic experience in the Take One Picture studio, creating artwork inspired by ‘Courtyard of a house in Delft’ by Pieter de Hooch. They experimented with tone and shade at the sketching station, created intricate patterns with acrylic paint on tiles and performed mini plays using shadow puppets they had fashioned with lolly pop sticks and paper. We were lucky to be visited by a local willow weaver, Ruth Marley, who expertly supported the children in the making of our giant sculpture, soon to be revealed.
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Tuesday 22 October 2024 Hidden Nature Challenge with the RHS This year, Sele First became part of the National Education Nature Park, in conjunction with the RHS. To kick things off, the Eco Warriors welcomed Jane Pollinger from the Nature Park into school to take part in the Hidden Nature Challenge.
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Thursday 17 October 2024 Year 2's Visit to see the Arches As part of this half term's Take One Picture project, Year 2 took their Art sketchbooks on a local walk to spot and draw arch shapes in the centre of Hexham. Children were very surprised by the arch shapes they could see that they had previously missed when doing their homework menu task. Back at school, children finished off their art by adding detail using charcoal pencils.
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Thursday 17 October 2024 Reception in the Art Studio Reception thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the Art Studio on Tuesday. They took along their clay pumpkins to paint and loved making shadow puppets.