White Mere Community Primary School

We are pleased to welcome 26 new additions to the White Mere family. We are having an amazing time in Reception and we have only been in for 2 weeks!!!!

Come and meet our new Reception Class!

We are pleased to welcome 26 new additions to the White Mere family. We are having an amazing time in Reception and we have only been in for 2 weeks!!!!

Come and meet our new Reception Class!

What a wonderful day out Reception had Down at the Farm.

Have a look through our video to see what fun things we got up to!

Well done to all pupils and staff for their efforts in this years boiled egg competition.

Take a look at the winners - we are sure you will see why they won!!

We have had a very busy half term basing our learning around Africa. Come and watch our video to find out what we have been up to...

We have been looking at the story of Goldilocks and have enjoyed basing our learning around it.

This week we have been looking at the Gingerbread Man story. Come and see what exciting things we have been doing...

In Reception our new topic for this half term is 'Once Upon a Time' and is all about traditional stories.

Reception, Year One and Year Two had the pleasure of welcoming The Music Team to school and had lots of fun joining in.

The season changing to Autumn was a great way to explore our sense of sight and touch. We went on an Autumn walk around the school and spotted many signs of Autumn such as leaves changing colour, leaves on the ground, berries on trees, mushrooms and cobwebs. We gathered many objects to create some beautiful Autumn collages.

Today we have enjoyed tasting lots of new fruits. Can you name any of the ones we tried?

Reception went on their first outing to Leam Lane Library on Wednesday to receive their free Booktime packs.

Thank you to all my wonderful children and parents for all the gifts, they were very thoughtful - I had tears in my eyes many times during the day. I even had so many pressies that I couldnt fit them all in the boot of the car!

I am so proud of every single one in the class and I cant wait to see how they progress throughout the school. Well done Reception - oops I mean Year One!

I hope you all have a wonderful summer, see you all soon

Lots of love

Miss Gillis xxx

The whole school joined in a water fight to see off the 2009/2010 academic year. And what a year it has been. Thank you to everyone who has supported the school and a big thank you to the children who have made this year so enjoyable. Have a wonderful summer!

Reception spent 2 weeks preparing for the carnival and summer fair.

There was more to it than making animal masks!

Making the animal masks was so much fun. We were able to choose the materials we needed and thought carefully about the colours we needed too. They are so life like aren't they?

So that was the carnival sorted but we needed to prepare for the summer fair. We decided to set up a bead stall. We bought thousands of beads but guess what... they were all mixed up so we had to spent ages sorting them into the colours and letters. We then started to make bracelets and keyrings to sell - we made some great repeating patterns.

We decided to sell the beads for 50p. We enjoyed exploring money and learning about the different coins.

We then needed to make posters advertising our bead stall. Make sure they are catchy, we need to win!!!

Reception enjoyed a visit from the Community Police Officer.

He talked about 'Stranger Danger' and gave us 3 rules to remember if a stranger tries to talk to us

Shout no
Run somewhere safe
Tell someone what happened

Reception really enjoyed their trip to Gateshead CLC. We were able to use the Bee-bots where are programmable 'bees'. We pressed the forward, backwards, left and right buttons to direct them around the maps. It was important to remember to press clear between giving it command if you didn't the bee-bot did everything your had programmed it to do - it was quite funny.

Reception have been looking at Minibeasts this week and we even found some in the school garden!!!!

We really enjoyed the visit from ZooLabs on Wednesday 10th March.

We were joined by other Reception classes from local schools to watch The Jungle Book show.

White Mere are taking part in a new initiative for PE lessons - Hula Hooping!!! Come and see what we can do.

Reception and Year One enjoy lots of outdoor learning. Come and see what things we have been up to this week.

To celebrate World Book Day Reception were involved with the whole school dress up day where we dressed up as a character out of our favourite book.

Come and see what fun we got up to throughout the week.

This half term we are basing our learning around animals.

Making use of the slushy snow last week, Reception enjoyed creating some snow art. Come and see what we come up with.

Unfortunately Pancake Day fell in February half term so Reception made pancakes a week late at school.

Reception were involved in planting bulbs which will be shown at Gateshead Flower Show.

Before Christmas Reception and Key Stage One visited Down at the Farm's Winter Wonderland.

Dawn and Dora visited us to talk about how to be safe outside in the dark and also how to be safe when we are out and about.