Wellfield Middle School
23rd November 2018
Dear Parents, Carers, Friends and Governors
Celebration Assembly: House Heroes
Important dates for your diary
Y6 and Y7 Book Look - Tuesday 27th November
Y8 Book Look - Thursday 28th November
Y6 Beamish - Wednesday 5th December
KS2 Maths Award Competition - Wednesday 5th December
Carol Service at St Alban's - Tuesday 11th December
Y6 History Bloke - Wednesday 12th December/Friday 14th December
Peter Pan at Sunderland Empire - Tuesday 18th December
Wellfield Christmas Show - Wednesday 19th December
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS - Friday 21st December
Children In Need
Never before has Wellfield had a teacher crazy enough to sit for a whole day in a bath of lumpy custard. Sitting in the custard bath in a Pudsey onesie, Mr Whitelaw claimed to be very cold by break time. Each class visited Mr Whitelaw to write a story about the morning although it was Mrs Ridley's visit that Mr Whitelaw enjoyed most because she had cakes! The finished story was hilarious; Mrs Winter thought it was good enough to display.
Students were also asked to bring in copper coins for our first inter-house competition. A huge amount of copper was collected - although it was hard to judge which house collected the most (Mrs Kemp is going to have the bags weighed). Everybody represented their house (even Miss Stephenson who complained about having to wear yellow).
We all thoroughly enjoyed the day!
Lucy F and Emily M
Everybody wrote about Mr Whitelaw's custardy day...
The ill looking goop consumed his body. The slightest touch and it’s temper would rage. It climbed up the porcelain wall and flooded out as if it were an animal locked in a cage.
It grew and grew until the teacher’s head and beard became infested by the viscous mess and he was completely obscured by its body.
The man crippled and slowly wrinkled. Miraculously, his suit had endured much more than we first anticipated but was still dampened, torn and ruined.
His ill coloured boots filled with sickly liquid and his fur from his suit floated and drifted over the curdled surface.
Jonathan K (8D)
Scary Dance Moves at this Year's Disco
The costumes were fantastic this year (a special mention must go to Will, whose costume made him the height of Mr Turner)! Some reported that Miss McElderry still had green paint behind her ears the next day! The PTA were fantastic in organising everything with Miss Whillis; never before has the hall been so well decorated and spooky looking!
A massive thank you to all the families who attended and, above all, to Miss Whillis and our PTA for organising such a successful night.
WW1 Remembrance Day
Year 6 had the chance to look at some primary sources (including medals, postcards and a wound stripe) and their writing was based on a genuine handwritten inscription in a Michelin battlefield guide: ‘July 1st 1918 was daddy’s lucky day.’ They wondered why this day was so lucky and wrote flashback recounts of what could have happened.
Becky (Year 8) brought in a piece of trench art - which beautifully displayed the poppies that 8D made from wire. Mrs Winter also allowed Year 8 to have a look at some WW1 magazines - it was amazing to get information from another primary source!
Year 5 designed beautiful stained-glass windows, with intricate detail such as silhouette soldiers. The poems that were written in Mr Evans and Miss McElderry’s class were particularly emotive.
Year 7 chose the genre of diary writing to express how they may have felt if involved in the war (whether on the Front Line or on the home front). They also designed some wreaths which look lovely on display in the corridor. From Mrs Vincent’s room, came a haunting melody: Stillen Nacht.
The work we all completed was presented in assembly and is part of a lasting display dedicated to WW1. The money donated helped to fund the bench pictured above - can you believe it was made from a chainsaw?!
Mrs Ridley deserves a special thank you for organising the whole day as well as for sourcing the bench which will form part of a lasting memorial garden.
Secret Life of...Mrs Winter
What do you like to do in your own time?
I love reading, especially at night. I also enjoy walking my dog. In the holidays, I like to go skiing.
What is your favourite colour?
Blue. Purple is the worst!
What is your favourite animal?
An elephant.
What is the trickiest part of your job?
Getting everybody - students, staff, parents - to love being here all of the time.
Next Week: The Secret Life of Mrs Tarn
Enrichment
LinguoBus
Thank you to Mrs Vincent for organising.
National Young Mathematicians’ Award
Thank You
Seven charitable Year 8’s delivered the food to the food bank and had a quick tour around. Mia, who figured out how everything worked very quickly, and Gemma even seemed up for volunteering there.
Excellence
Computing: Decomposing a Problem
Y5 WW1 Poems
Guns and bombs screaming unhappily, commencing a day of death,
Fearless soldiers enter No-Man’s land,
Soldiers sit in sloppy trenches, writing home to family to waste time,
Or even carving souvenirs from bullet shells,
Fierce soldiers getting trench foot from staying in too long,
And seeing friends get shot right in front of them.
Wet, filthy dirt creeps into the solid soles,
As the war comes to an end.
Robbie J and Luke D (5E)
The constant cacophony of noise of the terrifying guns,
With smoke chasing after the malicious bullet,
Waking up the terrified soldiers.
The cold and horrible trenches where the soldiers have to sleep,
Through the menacing night.
The deadly, blood-thirsty maggots feeding on soldiers’ flesh,
Everything is dull,
Everyone is lonely
Isla Vesey (5E)
Y7 Model Cell Home Learning
Sport at Wellfield
Magpies Keeping Fit - Boxercise in PE
Year 8 Indoor Athletics
Year 7 League Cup
Player of match: Harrison Nisbet
KS3 Cross Country Running
32 of Wellfield's best cross country runners went to the recent North Tyneside cross-country competition. Between them, they ran over 2000m. The students put their best efforts in and all completed the track in phenomenal times. Tyne and Wear finals here we come! Well done to all runners involved! #TeamWellfield