White Mere Community Primary School

Y6 are enjoying music lessons with Mrs Scantlebury from Heworth. They have learnt about rhythm , pitch and musical notation. In addition, useful ways for remembering the duration of notes such as : tea, co-ff-ee and co-ca-co-la. They have had great fun performing a range of nursery rhymes and well known songs.

We received some fabulous news recently when we were notified that we had won a prestigious national award. Miss Sykes entered White Mere in a competition in which she detailed our work throughout the year as a Climate Change Lead School. It certainly has been an action packed year! - designing solar powered cars , winning the Nexus 'Pop' smart card competition , creating CDs promoting the message about climate change and taking part in an exhibition at the MetroCentre showcasing our work during National Science and Engineering Week. A cheque for £1000 and a certificate are a great reward for all our hard work !

Y6 arrived back at school to some great news - they had won the Enterprise challenge - the whole school competition organised at the end of the Summer Term! They raised a staggering £206 ,beating all competition out of sight. They thoroughly enjoyed selling their Climate Change CD's and marketing them throughout the school and to the wider community.

Y5 and Y6 pupils have thoroughly enjoyed their Superhero topic recently. It culminated in a Cape making competition in which parents were invited to assist - as side kicks of course ! In addition, pupils had to submit a comic strip design on A3 card as part of their homework - with the winning entry to be recreated as a mural within school on a much grander scale by a local artist. Needless to say with such a prize at stake the competition was fierce !

CONGRATULATIONS TO LAURA & HER CREATION 'BULLET BOY!'

Y5 and Y6 performed brilliantly during a recent tag rugby tournament held at Joseph Swann School organised by Gateshead Thunder. Both teams came in the top three of the tournament narrowly missing out on playing each other in the final by the slimmest of margins - 1 try. Y6 as runners up progress to the regional finals held at Gateshead Stadium. Miss Sykes was extremely proud of both teams as they demonstrated excellent sportsmanship - a big thankyou to the Captains who were master tacticians - William & Lewis !

Well done to my fantastic class, for working so hard in preparation for their SATs. They were so focused in every test and should be very proud of themselves!So on Monday we went to the metrocentre for bowling and pizza, as a very well deserved reward!

The boys ready to bowl!!

Mr.Hudson took the game very seriously!!!

Then after a hard morning of bowling, time for pizza and ice-cream at Pizza Express!!Yum!

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!!

A huge congratulations go to four pupils in Y6 - Aaron, Millie, William & Benjamin who triumphed in a Gifted and Talented Maths competition recently ! The event was hosted at Wardley Primary school - they faced teams from Bill Quay and Wardley and by all accounts it was extremely close. It was fantastic to find out they had won - even though at first they tried to convince Y6 and Miss Sykes that they hadn't - but we weren't fooled! They received some lovely prizes and were able to explain what had taken place in Celebration assembly on Friday - cue huge cheers all round - Well done !!!!!!!

Y5 and Y6 worked together to solve a very complicated maths challenge recently - involving rabbits and rabbit hutches ! A huge congratulations go to Aaron for being the quickest come up with the solution. Well done to everyone - fantastic problemsolving. Some pupils have even given the problem to their parents to solve - Good Luck and no cheating!

On Tuesday 7th December, Y5 and Y6 had a great time visiting the Science Centre For Life, in Newcastle, with Mrs.Hutchinson, Miss.Sykes, Mrs.Parry and Mrs.Simm! We started our day with an exciting time on the motion ride! Next we enjoyed a science show all about ice, and then a lecture about 'forces in motion' watching some interesting experiments!!

Woo hoo!Fun on the motion ride!

Fun at the science show!

They called in a pilot to help explain how ice affects planes! Do you recognise him?

The highlight of the day though, was definately ice-skating!! Y5 and Y6 have some fabulous skaters, (although the teachers need a bit more practice!!!) Watch out winter olympics, here we come!!!

Y5 and Y6 have been comparing and contrasting religions around the world. The classes were invited to St. Andrews church where they learnt about the key features of a church as explained by Father Allan. Later in the week Y5 researched Islam while Y6 studied Sikhism.

A big thank you goes to Y6 for performing spectacularly in their 'Football Fever' Assembly - there wasn't a dry eye in the hall ! It was a fantastic end to their primary school career. Great fun was had by all during the water fight at the end of the day - I was indeed totally soaked much to the amusement of everyone! Y6 have been a brilliant class to teach this year and I'm sure that this is just the start of great things to come for them. Thanks for all the good wishes and presents and especially the messages in the Year Book that mean so much ! Take care and have a great holiday.
Miss Sykes

The glamour of Hollywood found its way to Heworth Golf Club for the Y6 prom. Entering like movie stars in their limos, there followeda star studded walk down the red carpet before entering the main event.

Congratulations go to the Prom King and Queen and all other award winners on the night.

Y6 had a fantastic time recently at Robinwood activity centre near Alston, Cumbria. They spent three action packed days doing activities including the awe inspiring Giant Swing, jaw dropping trapeze and death defying zip wire ! Great fun was had by all and 23 very tired children along with teachers Miss Gillis and Miss Sykes returned exhausted to school.

Congratulations to 'Starstruck Ideas' who won our 'Apprentice style' challenge at the Summer Fayre. They managed to raise a staggering £28.45 in their 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' game ! I'm sure Lord Sugar would approve of their business acumen.

Y6 enjoyed performing their Mexican dance at the Carnival last week - despite a few sombreros being blown away by the wind! The music was 'Hot! Hot' Hot!' as was the weather !

White Mere were visited recently by Olivier Bernard ex Newcastle player to highlight the issue of racism within society & take part in a football skills session - it was great fun despite the heat !

Y6 enjoyed their transition visit recently in which they used soldering irons for the first time. It was safety glasses at the ready.

Come and join us at our amazing Summer Fayre and carnival. It will sure be a blast !
From football shootouts to magic boxes it couldn't be any better. Everyone's certain to be a winner when playing the Y6 games - enjoyment guaranteed ! Which game is the best ? - you decide.....

School is rather quiet this week as the majority of Year 6 are spending the whole of the week at Heworth in preparation for their move to Secondary School in September. They are undertaking a variety of activities which they will showcase for parents and teachers on Thursday afternoon.It's certainly a great opportunity to make new friends in advance of Year 7.

Future West End Stars - surely !
Congratulations to all of Y6 for a fabulous performance last night ! It was a truly tremendous effort by all involved. A huge thank you goes to Heworth Drama Department , especially Mr Welch and Mr Robinson. We're anticipating the arrival of a DVD of the show soon .

Y6 were visited by the Northumbria Community Support Officers recently. They highlighted the issues of anti-social behaviour within the community. Y6 will be entering a competition in order to make a short film about the subject - the winning entry is eligible for £1000 worth of media equipment - an excellent prize so fingers crossed!

The School Newspaper Club have rolled out the very first issue of W. M. Express - an exciting new newspaper packed with gossip, class information, reviews, sport, puzzles and even a comic. I would like to thank Ryan, Olivia, Ross, Zoe, Ellie, Kate, Katherine, Beth, Milly and Lewis for their very hard work on getting our first issue to press and I am really looking forward to the new ideas they have for the next issue.

Y6 Girls were able to discuss the issue of Cyberbullying at a workshop recently. They made friendship bracelets and thought about ways in which they could raise awareness of the subject throughout the school. It certainly is an exciting project to be involved in.

Y6 enjoyed learning about online e safety at Heworth. Everybody created a poster using Microsoft Office Publisher in order to encourage pupils to keep safe whilst online. It was great to view a video which made us aware of possible dangers while using the internet.

A huge congatulations and big thank you to our fantastic swim team, for their excellent efforts representing our school at the Felling, swimming gala last Thursday! It was a fun and exciting night, as our girls swam to victory, winning 3rd place overall, out of the fourteen schools taking part!

There was also individual success as Amy Kyle from Y5 won silver in the 25m breaststroke and Rachael Dodds Y5 won bronze in the 25m backstroke. Well done!

Thanks again to our super swim team, who were...

Rachael Dodds Y5, Amy Kyle Y5, Sophie List Y5, Georgia Durham Y5, Laura Kelly Y5, Lauryn Slater Y5, Leianne Reay Y5 and Zoe Forster Y6!

Y6 performed a dance to Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' music in order to highlight the issue of racism within society . They showed their anti racism posters to the rest of the school. This work links to the Football Campaign 'Show Racism The Red Card !'

A truly memorable encounter!

HighamWeb Y6 SATs Revision website

During Art week, Y6 studied a series of landscapes from a variety of famous artists. The task was to enlarge the A4 landscapes to A3 size using a grid system. It proved to be quite difficult at first but as you can see Y6 have risen to the challenge , producing some marvellous paintings using a range of techniques.The standard of the work has been so high that Mrs Patterson has selected two paintings to be framed and displayed within her office!

Y6 are busy preparing for their version of 'The Dracula Rock Show' in collaboration with Heworth Grange. The show will take place after S.A.T.s and is set to be a truly memorable event for all those involved ! Be prepared to see spectacular dance moves as you journey through a world populated by zombies and vampires - Can Inspector Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the series of mysterious crimes that occur in Dewsberry or will they fail with disastrous consequences ?

The Show will take place on Wednesday 26th May.

We had great fun inspired by Miss Kellee - all the way from fabulous L.A.!

Can you recognise any of Y6's favourite book characters ?