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Just a quick message to let you all know that the Year 6 children and all of the staff have arrived safely in London and are currently enjoying themselves at the Science Museum! We hope they all have a fantastic time!!!

On Friday 29 January the children of St Augustine's came to school in fancy dress or their own clothes to raise money for the victims of the eartquake in Haiti. Children in Year 3 and Year 3/4 also brought cakes to sell. Overall £660 and counting has been raised, which is a magnificent total! Thank you to all of the children and parents for this super effort!

On the first day of the new term the children got all wrapped up for some fun in the snow! Take a look at some of the photos...

All of the children at St. Augustine's, from nursery to year 6, had a fantastic, fun-filled day on the last Monday of term. The children enjoyed discos, party games, Christmas crafts and a party food feast. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this day such a success!

You may remember that last year all the children in school were asked to submit a piece of writing to be included in our very own book.

Well...the time has come for the book to be released!

The book, titled 'We are Writers', will be available to view and order at the book fair which will run from Monday 16th November to Thursday 19th November before and after school in the hall. As well as providing a fantastic memento of your child's work, each book sold will raise funds to buy books for our new school library.

If you wish to find out more you can visit the We Are Writers website at www.wearewriters.com.

We look forward to hearing your comments!

'The two Steves', children's authors, Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore will be joining us on November 18, 2009 for a fun filled day of workshops for all of the children in Key Stage 2 as part of the Northern Children's book festival. Gateshead Library service will be providing us with a range of books written by the two Steves so that the children will be familiar with their writing before the big event however if you can get hold of any of their books beforehand that would be super!

Books will also be available for the children to buy at lunchtime on the 18th and 19th of November. If they would like their book signed by either of the Steves they must be bought on the 18th. The books cost either £4.99 or £5.99.

Happy reading!

Years 5 and 6 took part in a Science Easter egg hunt and had a great time searching for clues around school, learning about reversible and irreversible changes and eventually eating chocolate eggs (the hard work was worth it in the end!)

The Muslim festival of Eid has been celebrated with henna painting in Year 6. Our resident expert has patiently painted our hands and they look beautiful. Some of the teachers even had theirs done!