Whole School Events
2020-2021
World Book Day - we had zoom meetings with different authors and learnt how to illustrate our own stories!
We took part in Safer Internet Day - an internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world
Christmas Craft Day!
School had a visit from Hoopstarz!
We took part in the Winter Runderland Challenge to stay active, here's Year 4, who danced for their activity!
We used our great reasoning skills to solve this year's Barvember problems
Anti Bullying Week - we are United Against Bullying!
Jeans for Genes Day
Halloween
Our enrichment fortnight this year was Britain Through the Decades - check out our historical work!
2019-2020
Ceramics
Easter Egg competition
Thanks for all the fantastic entries. We have loved looking at them. Hope you enjoyed making them. Here are the winners:
Spring Sing at The Sage
Mrs Carr's choir took part in the annual Spring Sing along with other Gateshead schools.
Super Science Day!
The whole school took part in a variety of scientific enquiries. Some classes focused on research while others focused on fair testing and classification.
Safer Internet Day
Destination Judo
Book Week
During book week, children were invited to come to the library at lunch times to share a book with a friend. Then, on World Book Day, children were encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character or wear their pyjamas for the day.
Chinese New Year activities
Christmas Music Workshop
Autumn Term Attendance Reward!
Children with 100% attendance were rewarded with a trip to the pantomime to see Cinderella. It was so much fun and two of our amazing pupils were even invited up on stage!
Wear something Christmassy Day!
We had a lovely Christmas lunch!
We enjoyed the spooky Halloween disco!
Anti Bullying Week
2018 - 2019
We are so proud of you Year 6, thank you for everything you have brought to Brandling, good luck in Year 7! We will miss you!
Key Stage 2 garden.
Chris Hall is developing our garden area so the children can build shelters, climb around and generally have fun! Some of the KS2 children joined him today and they loved it!
Sports day!
We are proud and excited to support Soccer Aid for Unicef 2019! https://www.socceraid.org.uk/
Thank you for all your support of our Fiver Challenge activities!
Happy Eid Mubarak!
A massive thank you to children and parents for helping us celebrate the end of Ramadan with all the children. Every class had the opportunity to do some Islamic crafts and taste some delicious food made by our parents. Thank you everyone!
As part of our Futures Fortnight, Ceramicist Kirsty Adams came to our school today to show us how we could get a job as an artist when we are older.
Years 4 and 5 had a great time at Kingswood this year!
Wow! Well done everyone, you look amazing! Happy World Book Day! What's your favourite book?
新年快乐 - Chinese New Year
A massive thank you to everyone who came to our Carols Around the Tree service! The singing was gorgeous. We'll see you again at our church service at 1:30, take care and Merry Christmas!
Thank you KS2 parents and carers for a great turnout to our Christmas Crafts afternoon!
Everyone enjoyed our Christmas music workshop!
Brandling Choir
It's Christmas which means our fantastic choir have been out and about entertaining the local community!
First, they sang for the residents of Fellingate Care home then they travelled to Eldon Square to entertain the Christmas shoppers!
They are a credit to our school...well done everyone!
Extension Grand Opening!
On October 4th, Gateshead MP Ian Mearns officially opened our brand new extension! Big thanks to our school councillors for giving him the grand tour before the unveiling ceremony!
A huge thank you to all the lovely people at Christchurch for doing such great activities with the children today
Year 2, 3 and 4 had a great time at the Discovery Museum learning all about bridges, trains and boats as part of our STEM fortnight
Welcome back! 2017 - 1018
On Wednesday 6th September we had our first special assembly with a new visitor to the school for the first time.
Bishop Right Reverend Mark Bryant who is the Bishop of Jarrow came to introduce himself along with Reverend Worsley and Mavis (who we already know from Christ Church).
He told us one of his favourite stories and showed us his robes that he wears in Church. The children loved it and were fully engaged.
We had a fab time on the attendance treat!
The greatest crew you've ever seen, the pirates of the Curry Bean! Well done to children and staff for a very successful summer show and thank you parents for all your support !
The whole school have had a great day learning about and celebrating Eid. We've designed our own prayer mats, made Eid cards, danced and learned how to write our names in Arabic! A huge thank you to parents and visitors for supporting the day. Eid Mubarak!
The whole school had fun fund raising money and taking part in activities for Soccer Aid for Unicef .
Everyone had a fab time at the Fun Run! Well done to everyone for taking part and a special well done to our elite year 5/6 runners who finished 6th!
Xīnnián kuàilè! (Happy New Year)
Everyone had fun learning how to stay safe online for internet safety day. Create, Connect and Share Respect: A better internet starts with you!
The KS2 end of year party was great fun! Have a good holiday and a happy new year!
Lights Camel Action!
Years 1 and 2 performed a spectacular nativity this year. The theme was Strictly Come Dancing and the show was titled 'Lights, Camel, Action!' The traditional nativity was told through a series of songs and dances. Each and every child was superb and thoroughly enjoyed the show. We hope you all did too!
The whole school had great fun at the Christmas Music Workshop, thank you and Merry Christmas!
The Brandling Dog Challenge Route
Year 6 had a fantastic afternoon with Steve and Faye from Pattinson House. The children designed a mile route around the school premises. They mapped it out and it looked like a dog so that is how the mile route got its name. The children ran around the route in pairs and had a great time. When back in the classroom, the children made a list of the places in their route. Everyone is excited for the next session with Steve and Faye where they are going to work on markers.
World Book Day 2017
The children have made a fantastic effort this year dressing up as their favourite book characters. As part of this, the teachers have designed activities for all of the year groups to participate in. These have included fairy tales, Roald Dahl, word play, animal stories, picture books, play scripts, non-fiction and instructions.
Tracey Corderoy, the children's author, paid us a visit to tell us all about writing books. She read us one of her stories(Shifty McGrifty) and she showed us how to draw one of the characters. It was entertaining, informative but best of all Fun!
Halloween Disco. This year was the scariest ever! The children had a great time so a big thank you to those parents who organised the whole thing! Bring on the next one!
Pupils from Haskel Jewish School, Gateshead, paid us a visit in October. They were very impressed with our Forest school activities but most of all by how friendly our children are!
Firehorse Productions present 'The B Word'
Phoebe, Tom and Dannii came to our school to put on an anti-bullying play for the whole school. Although the workshop was very funny, it had a very serious message about being kind and treating others as you would like to be treated yourself. We take bullying very seriously at Brandling and this workshop taught us a lot.
Author visit
Craig Bradley is a local poet and author who visited our school in November. He was very entertaining and the children loved him!
Music Workshop
This term, we were lucky enough to have a music workshop all about different music around the world. Here is a video of the children and staff enjoying music from Greece!
