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!
I would just like to say a huge, huge, huge thank you to Y5 pupils and parents, for my wonderful 'wedding' surprise this morning! My gifts, cards and balloons were absolutely lovely and I am so touched by the thought, it was a gorgeous surprise and has made me even more excited to get married!Thanks for making my last school day as
Miss. Mcdonald so, so lovely!! I hope you all have a fantastic holiday and I can't wait to fill my new honeymoon album with lots of pics!
Thanks again! See you all in September!
Love Miss. McDonald soon to be Mrs. Hutchinson! Woo hoo!
Me and my girls, in my Minnie Mouse hen doo veil!
What a great turnout for Sports day this year. The children have been practicing hard and really enjoyed it. Thank you to all of you who turned out to support us. We really enjoyed a suprise visit from Mr Skilbeck too, it was great to see you sir!
To help celebrate Miss McDonalds up and coming nuptials, the White Mere team had a wonderful weekend away in Belfast.
We wish Miss McDonald and Mr Hutchinson the best of luck for the wedding and hope they don't change their mind as we are looking forward to welcoming Miss McDonald back as Mrs Hutchinson in September!
Who enjoyed the Carnival? We all did and we were delighted by the turn out of parents, carers, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, friends - you name it they were here! We have taken millions (well maybe just hundreds) of photographs - here are just a few but watch this space for more.
Thank you to all of the children, staff and parents who made the afternoon so enjoyable and we will do it all again next year!
We are pleased to say school will be open as usual on Monday 14th June.
All of the staff have worked hard to minimize disruption and on leaving school tonight the year 4 and 5 classrooms are ready to go. But dont get too upset Year 6, Mr Raynor is working this weekend to make sure your class is ready for Monday morning too!
We do apologise for the disruption this week but thank everyone for their patience.
See you all on Monday!
Due to the unforeseen circumstances with the water leak in school, our Coffee Afternoon is to be postponed until a later date. You will be notified of the new date as soon as possible.
Due to the water leak in school all afterschool clubs are suspended from Wednesday 9th June until further notice. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.
Due to a water leak in the KS2 end of school, school is closed for Years 4, 5 and 6 pupils Wed 9th, Thurs 10th and Fri 11th. School will re-open for them on Monday 14th June. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes but are working hard to get things back to normal as soon as possible.
Please remember school will be closed for the Local and General Elections on Thursday 6th May 2010 and will re-open on Friday 7th May 2010 at 8.45am (or 8.15am for Breakfast Club).
We are pleased to say Mrs Hulbert has returned to school after her maternity leave. She will be covering the teachers Planning, Preperation and Assessment time and will be working with all classes. We are really glad to have you back.
Also a huge congratulations to Miss Budd who was happily married in the Easter holidays. We all wish Mr and Mrs Short a very happy life together.
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.
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!
Last week the whole school entered the yearly art competition for Gateshead in Bloom. Each class painted flowers from specific months and we sent a selection off to be judged! You can see our entries in Saltwell Park this Sunday 29th March. I hope we win a trophy!!
We really enjoyed the visit from ZooLabs on Wednesday 10th March.
Can you recognise any of Y6's favourite book characters ?
On Wednesday 3rd March, Year 5 were chefs for the morning and had a fabulous time learning how to cook a healthy and extremely tasty meal! Cooking for life chef Nick taught Y5 pupils how to prepare and cook a chicken stir-fry safely. You can still smell the food now!! Yum Yum!!
Chefs at the ready!!!
We were joined by other Reception classes from local schools to watch The Jungle Book show.
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.
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.