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May 26, 2008

Thomas Hepburn Half Marathon Challenge

Every year our school, along with others in the area, take part in the Thomas Hepburn Half Marathon Challenge. This year Miss Georgeson and Mrs Huggins took Beech Class to Gateshead Stadium to compete.
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May 6, 2008

Traveller Community Poster Contest

Mrs Walton from EMTAS (Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Services) comes to Brandling every week to work with our children. This week she came to teach the whole class more about Traveller history.
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February 28, 2008

MetroCentre Maths

Year 4/5 were invited to take part in a fun maths day at the MetroCentre, Gateshead.
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February 14, 2008

Careers Day 2008

Our future careers are very important and we were very grateful to be able to talk to some more professionals about what we could do when we leave school.

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December 18, 2007

Christmas Productions 2007

The very talented children from our school put on two fantastic Christmas Productions this year.
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November 16, 2007

Balloon Launch

The whole school came out to watch our Balloon Launch, which celebrated our Outstanding Ofsted.
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September 21, 2007

Careers Advice at Brandling

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Years 5 and 6 had a careers advice day. Different speakers gave advice about four very different careers. This lady was from the National Trust.

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July 3, 2007

Sports Day

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Key Stages 1 and 2 had a fantastic time at Gateshead International Stadium for their sports day.

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June 7, 2007

Maths on the Quayside

Year 4/5 took part in a maths trail along Newcastle Quayside this week. The trail began at Guildhall Tourist Information Centre, and was a circular route which included a trip over the Millenium Bridge and a visit into the Sage Gateshead.

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May 25, 2007

Thomas Hepburn Half Marathon at Gateshead Stadium

At Brandling we love to keep fit and healthy.This week, Year 4/5 took part in the Thomas Hepburn half marathon at Gateshead Stadium.

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May 23, 2007

The Bard by John Martin

Year 4/5 pupils have recently been taking part in the Take One Picture: North, South, East, West project at the Laing Art Gallery.


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May 21, 2007

Bedesworld Visit

Year 4/5 have been studying the Anglo Saxons this half term. To find out more about their topic, they visited Bedesworld at Jarrow.
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April 18, 2007

Harry Potter at Heworth Grange

Year 4/5 visited Heworth Grange CLC to take part in ICT activities.
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December 19, 2006

Carols for the Community Centre

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Children and staff from Reception to Year 5 went to Brandling Community Centre this afternoon to sing carols and songs from their Christmas plays.

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December 14, 2006

The Sleeping Prince

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Key Stage 2 performed their Christmas play, 'The Sleeping Prince' to an audience which was delighted with all the songs, dances and acting from all of the children.

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November 23, 2006

Year 4/5 Beech Class visit Segedunum

Year 4/5 Beech Class visited the Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend to explore their Egyptian exhibit. The exhibit is currently on loan from the Hancock Museum, and contains a range of artefacts which helped the pupils to learn more about their topic, the ancient Egyptians.
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November 14, 2006

The Ancient Egyptians

Year 4/5 have been finding out about the ancient Egyptians.

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