Sele First School - News Listing

Thursday 23 October 2025 Week 8: Wood You Believe It? EGGER Visits Year 3! To finish our half term in style, Year 3 were visited by representatives from EGGER, our local manufacturing company in Hexham. The visitors explained how EGGER turns wood into a range of useful products, such as chipboard and furniture panels, which are used in homes, schools, and workplaces all over the UK.

Friday 17 October 2025 Week 7: Magic at Lilidorei Year 3 enjoyed a truly magical day out at Lilidorei, where imagination came to life among the twisting towers, secret tunnels, and enchanting stories of the mythical clans who live there.

Friday 17 October 2025 Gingerbread Houses in Reception The Reception bakers were busy making gingerbread houses this week! Prompted by the houses on the Venetian waterside in the painting, children wrote lists of ingredients, mixed, squeezed, rolled, baked and of course ate, delicious gingerbread.

Monday 13 October 2025 Observing changes over time We've started a really exciting project in Science lessons! We might have gotten a little ahead of ourselves and gone and planted our very own CHRISTMAS TREES!

Monday 13 October 2025 Outdoor SPAG To bring English out of the classroom, each Friday in Year One we've been doing our Phonics and SPAG outside.

Monday 13 October 2025 Sports Leaders begin their training Last week, our Key Stage Two Sports Leaders went to Haltwhistle Leisure Centre to undertake the School Games - School Sports Organising Crew - training.

Monday 13 October 2025 NSAA Cross Country 2025-26 On Tuesday, 24 of our KS2 children took on the challenging Northumberland Schools Athletics Association Cross Country County Championships at Temple Park in South Shields.

Friday 10 October 2025 Week 6: Buildings That Bloom Like Trees This week our budding artists have been diving into the world of architecture and imagination through our Take One Picture art project. Using drawings, paint, and mixed media, pupils studied the reflections and textures of buildings rising from the canals. They experimented with the idea of the houses in Venice growing out of the water like trees to create their own Venetian-inspired houses using branches.

Friday 10 October 2025 Starting to write in Reception! As we come to the end of our single letter sounds in phonics, Reception are starting to use their knowledge to write words! They labelled objects they could see in the Regatta on the Grand Canal, e.g. 'g' for gondola, 'bt' for boat. We are so impressed with everyone's skills!

Friday 3 October 2025 Week 5: Row, Paint, Repeat: Exploring Regattas This week, members of Tyne Amateur Rowing Club visited school to talk about rowing as a modern sport. They explained how rowers train, the teamwork involved, and what it feels like to compete in regattas today. Pupils were fascinated to learn how modern equipment compares with traditional wooden boats.

Friday 3 October 2025 Celebrations and Birthdays in Reception Inspired by the flags and bunting in our Take One Picture, Reception's topic this week was celebrations and birthdays.

Wednesday 1 October 2025 Painting in Year 4 This week, Year 4 have been working collaboratively to recreate a giant version of Regatta on the Grand Canal by Canaletto. The project began with each student sketching a section of the painting. Then, using primary colours, they carefully mixed and blended paints to match the tones and shades of the original artwork.

Friday 26 September 2025 Week 4: Crackers for Cricket! Cricket fever has officially hit Year 3! Every week, our students have been taking part in exciting cricket lessons as part of their PE program — and their skills are growing as fast as their enthusiasm!

Friday 26 September 2025 Masks! This week, Year 2 have been exploring Venetian culture through mask making, inspired by A Regatta on the Grand Canal as part of our Take One Picture project. The children began by learning about traditional Venetian masks and their role in festivals like Carnevale. They then designed their own masks, choosing between a full-face or half-mask style, and planned how they would decorate them. Using a shared mould and modroc (plaster bandages), they created their mask casts, learning how to layer, shape, and smooth the material. We're looking forward to seeing how they bring them to life with colour and decoration next!

Friday 26 September 2025 Mr Grumpy's Outing in Reception Inspired by the gondolas in our Take One Picture (A Regatta on the Grand Canal), Reception read Mr Grumpy's Outing. They used small world characters to walk through and retell the story.

Saturday 20 September 2025 Rosh Hashanah Interactive Broadcast On September 16th, Y4 took part in a live interactive Zoom call with the Jewish Museum of London. Sele First School came together with lots of other schools from across the UK to discuss Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is a Hebrew term meaning 'Head of the Year' and is when Jewish people celebrate New Year. After learning a little bit about Rosh Hashanah last week in our RE lessons, children were excited to spot some of the artefacts and images that they already knew about from their lesson.

Friday 19 September 2025 Week 3: Geographers on the Map! 🗺️ This week our Year 3 pupils took their geography skills to the next level as they explored map reading and distance measuring in the classroom!

Friday 19 September 2025 The Three Little Pigs in Reception This week Reception looked at houses and homes as part of their All About Me topic. They categorised different houses around the world, retold the Three Little Pigs by walking through the story and enjoyed exploring creative areas in the classroom.

Friday 12 September 2025 Week 2: Powering up with Place Value Following on from our work on ordering 2 and 3-digit numbers in the classroom, we took our Maths outside! One person collected a numbered stone from a large pile, they took it back to their waiting teammates, then they worked together to put the collected numbers into order. We practised organising the numbers into ascending and descending order.

Friday 12 September 2025 Worry Monsters! We've been learning all about worries – and how to manage them – with the help of The Very Hungry Worry Monsters by Rosie Greening. This fun and reassuring story helped us talk about what worries might feel like, and how important it is to share them rather than keep them bottled up.

Friday 5 September 2025 Year 2 - A fantastic start to 2025-2026 Year What a brilliant first week it's been for our new Year 2s! The children have settled in beautifully—full of excitement and curiosity for the year ahead.

Friday 5 September 2025 Year 3 – A Fantastic First Week Back! 📚✨ Year 3 have had a brilliant start to the new school year! The children have settled in beautifully and jumped straight into learning with enthusiasm and smiles.

Friday 5 September 2025 Reception’s Fantastic First Week 🌱 What a super first week! It's been great to see children growing in confidence in their new classrooms, making friends and sharing their personalities and interests.

Friday 27 June 2025 Y2 Beamish Visit This week, Year 2 enjoyed an exciting trip to Beamish Museum as part of their History topic on the Victorians. The children had the opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like over 100 years ago.

Wednesday 11 June 2025 Year 4 - Art - Modigliani Clay Heads Year 4 have been creating clay heads inspired by Modigliani. They observed Modigliani's unique method of extending the features of the face before moulding clay into the shape of a head. They used tools to carve hair and facial features into the clay. Great work Year 4!

Friday 6 June 2025 Reception Visit Hayes Travel As part of their work on 'Going on an Adventure', Reception thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Hayes Travel! They learnt about different currencies and how to book a holiday using a calendar. They loved looking through brochures talking about countries. Highlights included spotting the Glacier Express in Switzerland, river streets in Venice and of course, Disney Land!

Friday 23 May 2025 This week in Year 2... In Design and Technology, children designed and created their own traditional tale finger puppets by selecting characters, sketching designs, and using a variety of coloured felt to bring them to life. They then evaluated their puppets by discussing what worked well and what they would improve next time.

Thursday 22 May 2025 Looking at the local area in Reception This week, Reception focussed on Hexham and the landscape of where they live. They walked to the top of the Sele, noticing what was around them. They talked about all the trees and wildlife they could see and how they couldn't see sky scrapers and lots of cars. Children noticed different types of houses, the stream, the hills, Egger, the Abbey and how many things they could spot closer to school.

Friday 16 May 2025 Our Wonderful World in Reception Zooming in from Space, Reception focussed on Earth this week. They talked about what makes our world wonderful to them, writing simple sentences beginning with 'I like'. Their favourite things included picnics, friends, trees and animals!