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• Friday 28 March 2025 Year Three rugby stars win the Gold! On a weekend where Newcastle United will proudly show off their recent Carabao Cup victory, our Y3 Tag Rugby team made sure they weren't the only side in the North East with silverware. Taking part in the Sporting Journeys KS2 Tag Rugby festival, the young Sele team went unbeaten and finished as the competitions 'most outstanding team.'
• Friday 28 March 2025 Y2 Geography - Local Area Walk This week, Year 2 took their Geography lesson into the real world with an exciting fieldwork experience in Hexham. Using the mapping skills they’ve been practising in class, the children followed a route they created with Digi maps. They visited local landmarks such as the Hexham Abbey, the Queen’s Hall, the Monument and the Bandstand.
• Thursday 27 March 2025 Year 4 - Design Technology This week, Year 4 have been creating packaging for some Fairtrade brownies. Initially we researched different types of packaging, identifying luxury and budget brands. We then planned and created our packaging ready to contain our brownies which we will bake next week. Great work Year 4!
• Thursday 27 March 2025 Fruit and Vegetables in Reception To support our work on growing, Reception visited the Fruit and Vegetable stall in the Marketplace on Monday and bought different fruit and vegetables! They looked at the seeds inside fruit and .
• Friday 21 March 2025 Year One Footballers Win The Cup! This afternoon, seven of our Year One children took part in a football festival at Queen Elizabeth High School, arranged by Sporting Journeys. The festival was for Year One and Two children from schools across Tynedale, with Corbridge, Beaufront and Broomhaugh joining Sele at the event.
• Thursday 20 March 2025 Flying Kites in Reception This week Reception loved writing about themselves as babies and discussing how they had changed. Great excitement and giggles ensued when they discovered baby photos in their Literacy books. Children wrote short sentences such as, I had a cot, I drank milk.
• Wednesday 19 March 2025 Y2 Roald Dahl Fun Over the last two weeks, children have enjoyed listening and responding to some of Roald Dahl’s classic and ‘hilarious’ stories. Last week, children spent time exploring, planning and creating wonderful potions just like George from George’s Marvellous Medicine. This week, children reported live from Mr and Mrs Twit’s garden after ‘Four sticky boys’ became stuck to the ‘Dead Tree’. Classes created freeze frames to highlight the major event!
• Wednesday 19 March 2025 Year 4 Science Year 4 received an exciting request from Steve Backshall of Deadly 60 fame. He has asked them to join his team of researchers. Firstly, the looked a wide range of animals and their x-rays, then they looked into vertebrates and invertebrates. They are going to produce movies about an animal of their choice.
• Wednesday 19 March 2025 Year 4 Dance This week Year 4 began an exciting new Dance topic- James Bond! We have started with freeze framing and will be building up to a dance in groups over the next few weeks. The children were all and engaged and had lots of fun.
• Wednesday 19 March 2025 School Games Gymnastics This week, eight of our Year Four gymnasts took part in the School Games gymnastics competition in Haltwhistle.
• Friday 14 March 2025 KS2 BEE Netball This morning, 18 of our KS2 children took part in a netball skills festival hosted by Northumberland School Games and Hexham Middle School.
• Wednesday 12 March 2025 Writing in Year One This half term, Year One have been using the Old Bear stories as a stimulus for writing. We've learned lots about the characters and enjoyed listening to their adventures.
• Tuesday 11 March 2025 Year 3 - Maths Outdoors ?? Year 3 Maths in the Garden! ?????
• Tuesday 11 March 2025 Year 3 History Year 3 History – Exploring the Stone Age
• Friday 7 March 2025 Year 4 - World Book Day A fantastic effort from Year 4 for World Book Day! Despite being exhausted after our Robinwood residential, Year 4 came into school with some fantastic book themed costumes! During the day, we participated in the Footy and Booky live quiz, created book reviews, made book marks and redesigned famous book covers! Great work Year 4!
• Thursday 6 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 Today Sele First School, celebrated 'Read Your Way' encouraging children to share how they prefer to read and what they like to read. Empowering children and young people to discover reading on their own terms.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Y2 Adjective Hunt - George's Marvellous Medicine “Grandma is a hideous, old woman” Penelope
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Nursery World Book Day 2025 Nursery have enjoyed a week of reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Reception's World Book Day What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day! Everyone had fun coming to school dressed as their favourite characters from books. From brave adventurers to magical creatures, it was wonderful to see every costume.
• Friday 21 February 2025 Year One STEM 2025 Year One have had a brilliant STEM fortnight, from making bogey bottles and slime to visits from Zoolab and Professor Brainstorm.
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Reception STEM Week 2 Wow! Reception have had an action-packed week filled with exciting experiences. From meeting amazing creatures with Zoolab to witnessing mind-blowing science with Professor Brainstorm, curiosity and excitement were everywhere!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 STEMgineers in Year 2! STEM Open Day
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Nursery's visit from the mounted police
• Monday 17 February 2025 Year 3 STEM Visitor - DRONES In Year Three, we had the exciting opportunity to welcome Jason Magee to our school to share his expertise on drones. He brought a variety of fascinating models, from quadcopters to hexacopters, and our enthusiasm was palpable as we gathered to see these impressive machines up close!
• Monday 17 February 2025 Year 3 STEM Dress up! Our Year 3 students have embraced the excitement of our STEM fortnight with a fantastic Star Wars theme! The children showcased their creativity by dressing up as their favourite Star Wars characters, adding a fun flair to our activities.
• Friday 14 February 2025 Year 4 - STEM Witches and wizards have had a magical first week of STEM. They have used their capacity skills to mix magical ingredients into potions. They used spaghetti and marshmallows to construct snitch protectors (a structure which had to hold a crème egg) All children began to create their mandrake silencer. We have seen many wonderful designs with a variety of 3D shapes used. Sound proofing next next!
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Reception STEM Week 1 What an exciting week in Reception! After Evil Pea announced he had captured Supertato and taken him to a desert island, Reception swiftly set about designing and building boats to rescue Supertato. They have conducted floating and sinking experiments, measured amounts and lengths, written numerous wanted posters for the ever elusive Evil Pea and used DT joins to make cardboard traps.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Baking in Y2 - STEM As part of STEM fortnight in Y2, children have been busy baking their own ‘Banana Oatie Energy Bite’.
• Monday 10 February 2025 MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU And we’re off! Year 3 STEM kicked off with an exciting message from Yoda, explaining our mission to help the Rebel Alliance defeat the Dark Side. Our challenge? Designing and building a landing pad for the drones used in battle!
• Friday 7 February 2025 Children's Mental Health Week 2025 This week, we were delighted to have taken part in Children’s Mental Health Week 2025, joining schools across the country in exploring this year’s theme: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. Understanding who we are—our emotions, strengths, and values—helps us to build resilience, form strong relationships, and navigate life’s ups and downs with confidence.

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