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• Thursday 16 January 2025 Penguins in Reception Continuing their adventure into frozen worlds, Reception’s text this week was Jonty Gentoo, the penguin who escapes the zoo to head to Antarctica (via an accidental detour to the North Pole!)
• Thursday 16 January 2025 Y2 Art - Day and Night Linked to work in Science, children created an image of day and night using oil pastels. They looked at creating a colour gradient and texture using blending. Children were proud of the work they had created!
• Wednesday 15 January 2025 Year 4 Garden Year 4 enjoyed a frosty morning in the garden, learning about fire safety, safety on frozen ponds and toasting marshmallows.
• Monday 13 January 2025 Strange beanstalk found in Year One corridor! There was a sense of mystery surrounding the Year One corridor this morning as a strange giant beanstalk and packet of magic beans was found outside of 1S and 1T.
• Monday 13 January 2025 Life in a Northumbrian Manor Last year, a group of current Year 4 children took part in a project with the Northumberland Archives, to learn about the history of Hexham. They created stop motion animations of life inside a Northumberland Manor, linked to a visit to the marketplace.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Y2's Timeline of Life Events This week in History, Year 2 were very excited to start their new topic Pocahontas. Children discussed the importance of evidence and how this can be a strong indicator as to who the person is and what they have done in the past.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Nursery's Frozen Worlds
• Friday 10 January 2025 Year 4 - Spanish Colours After some revision of common Spanish greetings and how to say ‘I like’, Year 4 learnt how to say and write the main colours. (Blanco, gris, rojo, azul, naranja, verde, amarillo and many more). We created watercolour patterns and then labelled them with the correct Spanish vocabulary. Great work Year 4!
• Thursday 9 January 2025 Animals in Cold Places This half term, Reception begin their work on Frozen Worlds. This week they learnt lots about animals who live in the Arctic. Children used a non-fiction text, looking at the contents page to identify which animal they wanted to find facts about.
• Thursday 9 January 2025 Voiceovers This week Children in Year 3 have been working on their voiceover projects in Computing. This activity is all about developing their creativity, confidence, and communication skills.
• Friday 3 January 2025 Join our club! New to Sele First this half term are two further before school sporting activities. Thanks to Full of Beans North East, Sele will be offering Y1 and Y2 a multi-sports club on a Wednesday and a multi-sports club for Y3 and Y4 on a Friday. Both clubs will run from 8:00-8:40 and throughout the whole of the Spring Term. For further information, please read the poster below.
• Thursday 19 December 2024 Celebrating Christmas in Reception Reception started the week with their Christmas Party! Since then, children have been busy making Christmas cards for family and friends, creating paper elves, making decorations for the Narnia Christmas Trail and discovering festive word hunts around the classroom.
• Thursday 19 December 2024 Y2 Dengineers Check out pictures from Y2’s DT day linked to our Maths topic, 3D shape.
• Wednesday 18 December 2024 Santa Dash 2024-25 Today we finally hosted our annual Santa Dash after suffering the disappointment of having it cancelled earlier in the month.
• Tuesday 17 December 2024 Y3 Masks Year 3 have been exploring the Amazon Rainforest in Geography. As part of their DT project, they created incredible animal masks inspired by creatures found in rainforests around the world. Each mask started with a simple paper plate, cut, shaped and secured using masking tape. The children then added colour and intricate details using tissue paper and glue. Take a look at the fantastic tigers and sloths they've made!
• Friday 13 December 2024 Christmas in Reception After a fantastic Nativity performance on Monday, Reception have been busy writing cards and messages for Father Christmas to put in the class post box. They’ve enjoyed lots of festive stories too!
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Y2 Christmas Performance What a fantastic Nativity performance Y2!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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!
• 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.
• 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!
• 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)!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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