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• Friday 11 April 2025 Something eggs-tra special... What's an egg's least favourite day of the week?
• Wednesday 9 April 2025 Bronze class visit to Shipley Art Gallery On Tuesday, Bronze class visited our local gallery, Shipley Art Gallery, to take part in a workshop using clay. We investigated different kinds of pottery and used our Science knowledge to help us describe the properties of the material. We then looked around the gallery for inspiration for our own pieces of work, drawing pictures of what we liked. Then we created our own bowls using clay and added patterns based on what had inspired us. It was fantastic!
• Wednesday 9 April 2025 Blue Class visit to The Shipley Art Gallery
• Monday 7 April 2025 Easter Stay and Play! Nursery had a wonderful with their special grown-ups today at our Easter Stay and Play. They enjoyed completing Easter crafts and playing in the environment with their parents and carers. We hope you all had a wonderful time and enjoy the Easter break!
• Friday 4 April 2025 Repeating Patterns During Maths group times, the children in Nursery have been learning all about repeating patterns. They have spotted patterns in their environment and copied patterns using different resources. The children then replicated patterns in their own play! Super work Nursery!
• Friday 4 April 2025 Year 1/2 - March - Number Day For number day the children in KS1 took part in a number hunt around school. They found each number block and answered different questions depending on their class.
• Thursday 27 March 2025 Fell Dyke Shine at the Glasshouse. Miss Brown, Mrs Wilson and My Strassheim are so proud of our Tuesday dance club. The children have worked so hard over the Spring Term learning a routine centered around respecting themselves. The children showed determination and resilience throughout and shone like stars on the stage. The children's team spirt and encouragement was unmatched. So much so that it was commented on by staff at The Glasshouse. We are always so proud of our children at Fell Dyke but the team spirt and love for all, that we saw, was incredible.
• Thursday 27 March 2025 Fantastic Fencing Purple Class have had an amazing opportunity to take part in fencing lessons this half term with Gateshead SSP. All of the children have have been taught how to fence using the correct vocabulary and actions. They have practiced their salute for respect, the lunge and parry so far this half term. The children have all demonstrated excellent respect during our matches, which has been commented on by the coaches.
• Thursday 27 March 2025 Singing into Spring! Nursery had a wonderful visit from our friends at Tiny Tweeties. They sang songs linked to minibeasts and springtime. The children loved singing, dancing and playing the instruments all whilst learning about life cycles, practising their counting skills and developing new vocabulary.
• Wednesday 26 March 2025 Where Going on a Number Hunt! To celebrate Number Day, the children in Nursery took part in a number hunt around school. They searched for pictures of all the Cbeebies Numberblocks and completed a challenge left at each place they found one! After finding all ten Numberblock friends the hunt was completed! Well done Nursery!
• Wednesday 26 March 2025 Animal encounters This half term the children in Reception have experienced a very special animal encounter. We had 10 eggs delivered which we cared for in the incubator until they were ready to hatch. Throughout last week we hatched all 10 eggs and are lucky enough to be caring for 5 girls and 5 boys. The children have taken great care of the chicks making sure they are well fed, watered, warm and have had lots of space to run around. The children had a large paddling pool to observe the chicks from a far. As the chicks got a little bigger and we were sure we knew how to handle them we managed to have a little cuddle before they go off to their new homes outside. We discussed with the children the lifecycle of a hen and how normally the hen would sit on the eggs. They have loved learning all about this fascinating life cycle and understand how a hen hatches her chicks.
• Saturday 22 March 2025 Scarlet Class Win the Cup! Well done to everyone in Scarlet Class - we have won the prestigious attendance trophy! 100% attendance for week 1 in Spring 2 term.
• Saturday 22 March 2025 Y3/4 - March 2025 - Scarlet Red Nose Day! Well done to all the children in Scarlet Class for their efforts to support Comic Relief charity. The children did a great job of wearing red for Red Nose Day and their money and cake donations have gone to a great cause.
• Friday 21 March 2025 Chick, Chick, Chickens! Nursery made a trip to the big school today to see some special visitors....ten newly hatched chicks! The children used their gentle hands to stroke and hold the chicks. They noticed they felt soft and commented on the sounds they made. They are looking forward to another visit to observe how the chicks will grow and change.
• Friday 21 March 2025 Times Tables Workshops Thank you to all of the parents and carers who attended the times tables workshops this week. It was great to see so many parents and the workshops were a huge success!
• Thursday 20 March 2025 Save the Children Les, a fundraiser for Save the Children, came to speak to the children in KS1 about his role and some of the work the charity does to help children in developing countries. Les showed us ‘Plumpy Nut’, a high nutrient peanut paste which is used to treat malnutrition. He showed us how one pack of Plumpy Nut was around the same size, shape and price of a KitKat - yet it could save a child’s life.
• Thursday 20 March 2025 Ukulele Lessons This half term we have been having ukulele lesson from Miss Christie. We have been learning some amazing songs and some chords. We have also been learning to play along some traditional songs using the chords C and Am. Hopefully one day you might be able to hear us perform!
• Monday 17 March 2025 Story Raid! We were delighted to welcome Dominic Kelly and two of his fellow story tellers to Fell Dyke today for a 'Story Raid'.
• Friday 14 March 2025 Lovely Ladybirds! As part of their learning on minibeasts, the children in Nursery read the story of 'The Very Lazy Ladybird'. They enjoyed creating their own Lazy Ladybirds by decorating biscuits. They carefully counted out ingredients for the icing sugar and observed how it changed. They were challenged to use their counting skills further by finding the correct number of eyes and chocolate spots! The children enjoyed eating their biscuits as a reward for all their super maths work!
• Wednesday 12 March 2025 Revealing our World Book Day doors... As part of our World Book Day celebrations, each class was tasked with working with their teachers to decorate their classroom door based on a story the children enjoy.
• Tuesday 11 March 2025 Scarlet Class Tree Planting Today, the children in Scarlet Class were very lucky to take part in tree planting with Jess from the Royal Forestry Society.
• Monday 10 March 2025 Shrove Tuesday in Reception The children celebrated pancake day in Reception by mixing their own batter and making pancakes. We read the story of Mr Wolf's pancakes before deciding to make our own. We followed the recipe, weighed out the ingredients and then Ms Lawrie cooked them for us. We got to choose which topping we wanted on our pancake and the choices were delicious. The choices were... golden syrup, lemon juice or chocolate sauce! I bet you can all guess which topping went down the best. Of course it was the chocolate! After seeing our photos you will definitely be asking the Reception children to make your pancakes in the future.
• Saturday 8 March 2025 Purple Class Visit MakerSpace at Gateshead Library Gateshead Library is full of fantastic resources, including lots of advanced tech kit such as 3D printers, laser cutters and heat transfer printing.
• Friday 7 March 2025 World book Day Bronze class We had a fantastic World Book Day in Bronze class. We all dressed up in some fantastic costumes and then helped to create pictures for our classroom door that we are making into the 'Enormous Crocodile'. We sorted books into fiction and non-fiction and found out some interesting facts about crocodiles. Did you know that some male saltwater crocodiles can grow to be 7 metres long?!
• Thursday 6 March 2025 World Book Day 2025
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Nursery Celebrate World Book Day! Nursery looked fantastic in all their character costumes today. The children enjoying spending extra time listening to stories especially those that their friends had brought in to share.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Perfect Pancakes! Nursery had a wonderful time returning to school on Pancake Day! They enjoyed listening to the story 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes' before engaging in activities linked to the text . Of course their favourite task was eating the pancakes! Yum, yum!
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Reception's visit from 'The Bug Man' To kick start our new half term learning about mini beasts and life cycles, the children were visited by Guy Tansley also known as 'The Bug Man'. During his visit the children were introduced to a range of 'Megabeasts' some mini and some not so. We learnt about the habitats of the creatures that were brought, what they like to eat and where in the world they live. Some of the animals included... stick insects, tarantulas, snakes, cockroaches, a scorpion, leaf insects and many more.
• Wednesday 5 March 2025 Scarlet Class - Passover Seder Scarlet Class have really enjoyed exploring Judaism this half term. We love demonstrating our Fell Dyke value 'Equality' and learning about the similarities and differences between ourselves and people around the world.
• Friday 21 February 2025 Tree Planting Purple Class took part in a tree planting activity facilitated by the Royal Forestry Society. They had an amazing time and worked together in small groups to achieve their task. We planted over 40 trees in under an hour, showing an amazing team spirit!

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