Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🫏 A fabulous day for Year 4 🫏 Year 4 had an amazing day at Acton Farm today. They fed some donkeys, chickens and a pig! The cows were a bit wary to come too close though! The main topic of the day was poo! Farmer Dan showed the children how useful it is for the crops and explained how the nutrients went into the soil making it richer and how it helped better crops to grow. The children also went pond dipping and went exploring and investigating in a field then examined what they found under the microscope. They also recapped learning from science lessons about vertebrates and invertebrates. Thank you to Farmer Dan and Debbie at The Country Trust for a great visit. 4 Comments 7 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post⭐️What a fantastic few weeks Year 5 have had!⭐️ We are so proud of the hard work, enthusiasm and determination they have shown across all areas of the curriculum. ➗ In Maths, the children have been developing their understanding of decimals, using their reasoning skills to solve a range of challenging problems. 📚 In English, they have written biographies about David Attenborough. The children worked hard to include key grammatical features such as relative clauses and possessive apostrophes, producing some impressive pieces of writing. 🎶 In Music, they have been learning to play the glockenspiels, developing rhythm, timing and performance skills. 🔬In Science, the children have been investigating forces through a range of exciting practical experiments. They tested friction by racing cars down ramps with different surfaces at the bottom and explored air resistance by testing how quickly parachutes fall from different heights. 🏀 In PE, they have begun learning the skills needed for basketball, focusing on dribbling and ball control. It has been wonderful to see the children showing curiosity, resilience and teamwork in all of their learning. We can't wait to see what they achieve next! ⭐ Well done Year 5! ⭐ 2 Comments 3 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🎓🎭 Year 6 Creative Arts Focus Week 🎭🎓 Our Year 6 class have had an amazing opportunity working alongside Into University Gateshead on their Creative Arts Focus Week. Together with the staff from IntoUniversity they have explored the career opportunities of working in the creative arts industry and we’ve been busy! 🎨 On Monday, we completed a carousel of activities looking into four different art types - including fashion design, sculpting, story telling and art to make a change. 🎭 On Tuesday, the children visited the Theatre Royal. They had the opportunity to explore four different careers, including marketing, lighting technician and a stage manager. They even had a backstage tour of the theatre and had the chance to stand on the stage. 🍃After a competitive prospectus race on Wednesday, the children thought about their own future and designed their university leaf. We loved seeing the big dreams of our children and know they can achieve them. ✍️ A local artist and gallery owner visited the children on Thursday. We looked at the work of Charlie Rogers and created our own illustrations using a biro like Charlie. 🎓 Finally, the children graduated from Newcastle University in front of our parents and carers on Friday. We wore our cap and gowns and shared our learning from the week with them. We’d like to thank Bonnie, Laura, Marcus and Carolynne from IntoUniversity Gateshead for the fantastic opportunity this week. We have loved it! 3 Comments 10 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post⛹️🏃🏻♂️ Key Stage 1 Multi Sports Festival ⛹️♀️🏃🏼♀️ A huge well done to the children from Year 1 and 2 who represented our school at Gateshead School Sports Partnership’s Multi-Sports Festival. They had a fantastic afternoon showing off their sporting skills and brilliant team work with one another. Our favourite challenge was definitely the long jump as we jumped into the sandpit. 2 Comments 4 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🐬 In Year 2 this week … 🔥 Year 2 have been learning about The Great Fire of London in History. They have learnt that the fire began on Sunday, September 2, 1666 and the fire started in a small bakery owned by Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane. A small spark from the oven fell onto some dry wood and started the flames while the family slept. The fire spread so fast because most houses in London were made of wood and straw or thatch roofs, which burned easily. The strong winds blew the sparks from house to house and people used leather buckets, water squirts, and axes to fight the fire. This week the children have been harvesting their knowledge by using books, facts sheets and pictures to create interesting posters about The Great Fire of London. 🔢 In Maths, the children have been learning about place value. They have been making towers of 10 with cubes to show how many tens make up multiples of 10. They now know that 2 tens = 20 and 9 tens = 90 and many more facts. They enjoyed making 10 towers and they know all of the multiples of 10! 💚 The children have also been exploring feelings. They talked about that we have feelings all the time and sometimes those feelings make us feel good, or comfortable and sometimes they don't. They played ‘Feelings charades’ – where someone stands in front of the class and mimes a ‘feeling’ with their face and body. The children were asked to think of an uncomfortable feeling. They shared ideas and made posters for how we could help someone feeling this way. Great work Year 2! 4 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post⚽️🏐🏃🏻♂️. Early Years Multi Sports Festival 🏃🏼♀️🏐⚽️ A huge well done to some of our Busy Bees who took part in Gateshead School Sports Partnership’s Multi Sports Festival. The children enjoyed completing lots of Disney themed activities with their friends. 3 Comments 4 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🐝Our little Busy Bee’s have settled into Reception brilliantly🐝 📚The children have enjoyed listening to lots of stories, including Bumble Bear. The children were able to talk about sharing, friendship and feelings. 🌳The children have loved working in forest school, picking apples and pears from the trees. They loved using the spades to dig holes and develop their arm strength. ✏️The children have been busy indoors too - counting, doing jigsaws, painting, drawing, reading, being shop keepers, making models, using play dough and lots more. 🍽️ The children have coped brilliantly having lunch in the hall with their friends too. They have been working hard to use their knife and fork. What a brilliant start to ‘big school’ for the Busy Bees. We are very proud of them 💛 1 Comments 3 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🌟 Year 3 – Brilliant Day at Beamish! 🌟 Despite the rain, nothing could dampen our spirits on our exciting trip to Beamish today! 😊 ⛏️Year 3 took part in a fascinating workshop called 'Just One Spark', where we learned about the Felling Pit Disaster and discovered how different life was for people living in Felling many years ago. The children were even lucky enough to hear from a retired miner, who shared stories about what it was like working deep underground and the challenging conditions miners faced. They also explored the pit village and learned how coal was transported around the area. 🏘️ Next, the children stepped back in time as we visited the Victorian Town. They found out how sweets were made, how beautiful dresses were created, and how families shopped for their groceries in the past. It was amazing to compare life then with life today! 🚋 To finish our adventure, we enjoyed a ride on one of Beamish's famous trams! 1 Comments 8 Likes
🥈⚽️ Year 4/5 Gateshead Girls United ⚽️🥈 Well done to our Year 4/5 girls who represented our school this afternoon at Gateshead School Sports Partnership’s Girls United Competition. For many of the girls this was their first time playing football as part of a team and they did us proud. They continued to play in the downpour, cheer each other on and score many goals along the way. 5 Comments 11 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🌟 Year 3 - New Beginnings 🌟 What a fantastic start to Year 3 we have had! ⏰📅In Maths, the children have been working hard learning how to tell the time to the nearest minute and recalling the number of days in each month. They have been practising lots of different ways to help them become time experts! ⛏️ In History, the children have started learning about the Felling Pit Disaster. They were excited by a visit from our very own 'coal miner', who helped us take a step back in time and bring history to life - they are looking forward to the visit down the mines at Beamish next week!👷♂️ 🧘 In PE, they have been training both their bodies and minds through yoga. The children have enjoyed learning new poses, improving their balance, and practising mindfulness and relaxation. 🌈✨ 🎃 In DT, the children received an exciting message from Greggs the bakers asking for their help! They have asked the children to design some spooky and creative Halloween packaging for their Halloween themed buns. The first step was to explore how boxes are made 📦👻🧁 ⭐ Well done, Year 3, for your enthusiasm, creativity, and hard work this week. Keep it up! ⭐ 1 Comments 4 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🦔 The Hedgehogs have had a fantastic week in Year 1 🦔 🌟The children have been very busy exploring lots of different subjects for the first time and have impressed Mrs Buckley and Mrs Errington so much! 🕒In Maths, they have been learning how to read the time to o'clock and have had lots of practice using individual clocks. 🎨The children loved showing off their creative skills in Art while exploring spirals, inspired by the artist Molly Haslund. Using oil pastels, they created some wonderful spiral artwork and enjoyed experimenting with different colours, patterns and shapes. 📖In History, they have been learning about how children change over time and in Science they have been identifying and naming different parts of the body. 👀👂👃🦶 🎨The children also decorated their class canvas using their fingerprints, with everyone creating their own little hedgehog! This will be displayed in the entrance to school. 🌿To top it all off, the children received a copy of the Nature Explorers book, which features their artwork that was entered into a competition last year when the children were in Reception. The children were so excited to see their wonderful work published!😍 ⭐Well done, Year 1 Hedgehogs, for all of your hard work this week. We are so proud of you all! ⭐ 4 Comments 3 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🐆 A Fantastic Start for our Year 6 Leopards 🐆 🫱🏻🫲🏼 In PSHE, the children have reminded themselves of our School Values and what they can do to demonstrate these in Year 6. We also looked at teamwork skills as we worked in groups to try and build the pyramid by only using string and an elastic band. 🧮 During Maths, we’ve used our practical resources as we created a pie chart to represent our birthdays and clocks to solve some tricky time problems, which included converting between the 24-hour and 12-hour clock. ✏️ In English, we’ve started to think about how we will create our non-chronological report on Mountains. We developed our reading skills by exploring our key text and retrieved key information from different sources on Mount Everest. We’ve had a very busy start to Year 6, we wonder what the next two weeks will bring us 🤔 2 Comments 2 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's postYear 4 have started the year with excitement, enthusiasm and a very hard working attitude! 🕘In maths the children have been recapping how to tell the time. They have also started looking at unitised counters to help them with multiplication facts. 📚✍️Year 4 have had great fun reading limericks. Some of them have been very funny and made them laugh! Now they are starting to write their own so they can make a class book of poems inspired by Edward Lear. ✏️The children had a great PE lesson with Mrs Crozier this week too! They drew lines on a piece of paper then made their bodies move like the lines - a bit like following a map and dancing all on one! The children loved it! A great start to Year 4, well done 👍🏻 1 Comments 5 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's postWhat a fantastic first week back Year 5 have had! After the summer holiday, the children have settled back into school routines brilliantly and have shown a positive attitude towards their learning. It has been wonderful to see them reconnecting with friends, embracing new challenges and setting a great example in class. In Maths, they have been learning all about time, developing skills in reading analogue clocks. Next week we will be converting to digital time. During PSHE lessons, the children have been exploring British Values, discussing the importance of democracy, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance, and how these values help us to be responsible members of our school and wider community. They also played snakes and ladders to help understand why rules are important to keep things fair. In Art, they have started learning about typography, investigating different styles of lettering and how we can design words to look like their meaning. We are incredibly proud of how well the children have settled back into school. ⭐️⭐️ Well Done Year 5 ⭐️⭐️ 1 Comments 8 Likes
Newsletters⚽️🏀 PE Days 🏀⚽️ A reminder that PE starts in school this week. Information about our PE Kit and PE Days can be found in our July Newsletter on the school website. 2 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's postIn their first week back after the summer holidays Year 2 have been busy! They started the new school year by reading the book by John Kelly called Can I can join your Club? This book is all about a heartwarming celebration of diversity, inclusiveness and friendship. Duck has started a club but there's ONE rule - everyone is welcome! Because when it comes to making friends, being yourself is all that counts! The children designed their own "Everyone Club" showing the importance of the values of inclusion and acceptance ❤️ #NoOutsiders 7 Likes
We hope you have all enjoyed the sunshine over the summer holidays 😎 We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school on the Wednesday 2 September. Staff will be on the playground from 8.45am to meet the children. School starts at 8.55am. PE will start in the second week of term so children will not need to wear PE kit next week. Breakfast Club reopens on Thursday 3 September at 8.15am. Please call the school office if you would like to book your child a place. See you all next week 😊 2 Comments 10 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🐝🌟 A Special Well Done to Our Reception Busy Bees! 🌟🐝 What a fantastic year it has been! We are so proud of our Busy Bees and all they have achieved💛 From learning new skills and making new friends to growing in confidence and independence, they have worked incredibly hard every step of the way. 📚✨ It has been an absolute pleasure to get to know and teach such a wonderful class. They have filled our days with smiles, laughter, curiosity, and kindness, and we are so proud of how much they have grown throughout the year😊🌈 Busy Bees, you have shown determination, resilience, and a love of learning, and now you are ready for your next adventure in Year 1! 🎉🎓 Have a fantastic summer. From all of your Reception teachers! 1 Comments 5 Likes
👏🏻 Thank You Mrs Codling 👏🏻 Mrs Codling has been our Chair of Governors for over 11 years and a Governor for many years before that! During that time she has been a huge support to both the staff and children in school. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Codling for her commitment and dedication to Falla Park over the years, school has been so lucky to have her. A big thank you to Mrs Codling, we will miss her. 5 Comments 21 Likes
👋🏻📚 Goodbye Miss McVeigh 📚👋🏻 Yesterday, we said goodbye to Miss McVeigh who has worked at school for over 10 years. We would like to thank Miss McVeigh for her hard work, dedication and commitment to our children over the years and for bringing lots of fun and laughter to our school. School will be a lot quieter without her! We will miss her very much but just know that her new school will love her just as much as we do. 8 Comments 37 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's postWhat an achievement! We would like to say a huge well done to our award winners in our final achievement assembly of the year this morning. The Good Friend Award was given in recognition of showing care, kindness and compassion to others and making sure everyone is included. The Governor Award this year was for achievement in writing and presentation. Mrs Codling, Chair of Governors, presented this award. The Classmate of the Year Award was give in recognition of excellent attitude, behaviour, hard work, determination and for being an excellent role model to others. Yesterday, Nathan was awarded with our Outstanding Achievement Award in his Leavers’ Assembly to recognise his hard work and determination both inside and outside of school throughout his time at Falla Park. All our award winners got some chocolate and holiday spending money to enjoy and our Classmate of the Year also got to take home the class canvas. We are so proud of them all. 3 Comments 15 Likes
👋🏻 Goodbye Year 6 👋🏻 Today, we said goodbye to our amazing Year 6 class. They have been a pleasure to teach throughout school and will be a huge miss in September. However, you will always remain as part of our Falla Park Family. We’d all like to wish you the best of luck as you begin your next chapter at secondary school. ❤️ 13 Comments 30 Likes
🎉👏🏻Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly 👏🏻🎉 A huge congratulations to our Year 6 class who performed their Leavers’ Assembly this afternoon. There was laughter, singing and a lot of dancing. We look forward to celebrating their last day with us in school tomorrow ❤️ 6 Comments 32 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post😎🏖️ Fun at the Beach 🏖️😎 Our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children had a wonderful day at South Shields Beach last week! The sun was shining, the smiles were everywhere, and the children had an amazing time exploring, playing and making special memories with their friends. From enjoying the fresh sea air to having lots of fun on the sand, it was a day full of laughter and excitement. It was fantastic to see everyone enjoying themselves, showing great behaviour and making the most of a brilliant day together. Well done to all of our children for representing our school so brilliantly, and thank you to all the staff and volunteers who helped make the day such a success. ☀️💙 1 Comments 11 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post📚📚We Love Reading 📚📚 This half term the older children have been taking part in reading assemblies with Miss McVeigh. Each week volunteers have chosen their own book from the school library and read it to the whole school in assembly. They have been amazing! 2 Comments 5 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🎉🥳 Year 6 Leavers’ Party 🥳🎉 What a fantastic evening we’ve had celebrating our amazing Year 6 class. There was pizza, dancing and singing. We even threw in a few pink ponies to make it extra special! Most importantly, there were lots of smiles as we enjoy our last few days with one another. Thank you for a lovely evening Year 6 ❤️ 5 Comments 28 Likes
⚽️🏴Come on England 🏴⚽️ Our Year 6 class absolutely nailed the John Stones shoulder joke 👏🏻 There’s only one thing left to say… 🎶 it’s coming home, it’s coming home 🎶 4 Comments 42 Likes
Photos from Falla Park Community Primary School's post🐧 Our Little Penguins 🐧 The Penguins have been very busy in Year 1! 🧘🏼♀️it was too hot for their usual PE session last week so they gave yoga a go instead. The children loved it! 🏏 In PE this term the children have been learning how to use rackets and bats to hit a ball. The children have really enjoyed and demonstrated some excellent skills. 🍎 In Design and Technology, they have been been practising their cutting skills making salads and kebabs. The best bit was eating them! 🧮 In Maths the children have been learning about money and also position and direction. The Penguins loved playing 'Simon says'! Keep working hard Penguins 🐧 1 Comments 6 Likes
