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Friday 11 April 2025 Family Learning at Wardley
Friday 11 April 2025 Nursery's Easter Stay and Play This week we welcomed our parents into school to share some wonderful Easter activities. We had a lovely time making playdough nests, rolling Easter eggs down ramps and making patterns on Easter egg shaped paper.
Wednesday 9 April 2025 Easter Egg Competition
Wednesday 9 April 2025 Year 5b Arbeia Trip On Friday, Year 5b visited the Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields to end our learning on the Romans in Britain. The children learnt all about the main purpose of the fort and how the Roman soldiers would have lived whilst based there. They learnt about why the fort was situated where is was and how it would have been defended. The children really enjoyed our visit and having the opportunity to see what we have been learning about in real life.
Tuesday 8 April 2025 Reception visit the library The children from Reception visited Pelaw library last week and had a wonderful time. They listened to some new stories and they were given the opportunity to choose a book each to bring back to school. We have had lots of fun sharing these stories in our classrooms.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 6 at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 6 enjoyed the sunshine at Forest School while making bird feeders using jam and seeds. They also found out about woodland animals in their trail through the trees, and split wood ready for the fire using a mallet and bill hook.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 5a at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 5a used a bill hook and mallet to split wood ready for being used on the fire. They also made bird feeders and found out about woodland animals by completing a trail through the trees.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 3/4 at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 3/4 enjoyed their time at Forest School learning about woodland animals, making bird feeders, and using a mallet and bill hook to split wood ready for the fire.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 3 at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 3 found out about woodland animals on their trail through the trees, made bird feeders, and used a mallet and bill hook to split wood to use on the fire.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 2 at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 2 made bird feeders using jam and seeds to hang in the trees for the birds to eat. They also found out about woodland animals on their trail through the trees.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 1b at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 1b found out about animals that live in the woodlands during their trail through the trees. They also made bird feeders to hang up on the trees for the birds to eat.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 1a at Forest School (Spring 2) Year 1a made birds feeders using jam and birds seeds, and then hung them in the trees for the birds to enjoy. They also completed a trail through the trees to find out more about animals that live in the woodlands.
Monday 7 April 2025 Reception at Forest School (Spring 2) Reception loved their time at Forest School making birds feeders and hanging them in the trees for the birds to eat. They also found out about animals that live in woodlands during their trail through the trees.
Monday 7 April 2025 Nursery at Forest School (Spring 2) Nursery had a great time at Forest School making birds feeders, and then hanging them up in the nursery garden for the birds to enjoy.
Monday 7 April 2025 Charles McGee art in 1b Year 1b are very proud of their Charles McGee inspired 3D sculptures. The children have worked hard to create contrasting patterns using black pen. We have learnt that tone is areas of light and dark within an artwork and we have applied this in our patterns to create areas of strong and weak tone.
Monday 7 April 2025 Year 1a Computing Take a look at what Year 1a have been doing in computing.....
Wednesday 2 April 2025 Year 4 science trip. On a beautiful Wednesday, the year 4's had a fantastic chance to go to the Discovery museum to explore their light topic further.
Thursday 27 March 2025 Year 5 History
Thursday 27 March 2025 Y6 Nissan Celebration Event Year 6 had an amazing morning at Nissan, celebrating 10 years of the Nissan Skills Foundation! We’ve been working with Nissan for many years, and we were lucky enough to be one of the few schools invited to this special event. Since its launch ten years ago, the Nissan Skills Foundation has worked with over 100,000 children from across the North East. Today, they set up the biggest production line yet, with over 200 children involved in building Qashqai cars. The atmosphere was full of excitement, with the children dancing, cheering each other on, and even being interviewed by MPs and influencers! A huge thank you to Nissan for hosting such a fantastic event and allowing us to be a part of it!
Tuesday 25 March 2025 Year 5A NUFC Foundation On Monday the 24th March, the children in 5A went on a trip into Newcastle to join the fantastic coaches at the NUFC Foundation. They spent the morning playing and competing in multi skill events. It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to run around and develop their skills in activities they might not usually do otherwise.
Friday 21 March 2025 Year 6 PSHE In PSHE this week, the children have been learning about the dangers of smoking and vaping. To showcase their knowledge, the children created poster highlighting the dangers.
Wednesday 19 March 2025 Speech and Language Award We are proud to have received a Speech and Language Award from Gateshead Health
Monday 17 March 2025 World Book Day 1b Year 1b went to lots of effort to dress up as something from their favourite non-fiction books on World Book Day. We spent some of the day enjoying stories and creating our own non-fiction book all about animal that break world records! Following this, we went to Waterstones last week to spend our book tokens. The staff read us a story, challenged us to a scavenger hunt and helped us explore the range of books.
Friday 14 March 2025 Foody Friday Each week in Nursery is Foody Friday. This is an exciting part of our week and helps the children to develop many important skills which will help them as they grow. The children practise a range of cooking skills including grating, peeling, chopping and spreading. They use their language skills to talk about what they are doing and learn how to work alongside others whilst sharing resources. Foody Fridays also give the children a chance to try new foods which they might not have normally tried.
Friday 14 March 2025 Year 6 visit Nissan On Monday, Year 6 visited Nissan for the Monozukuri Caravan event. Throughout the day, the children learned about the origins of Nissan and its roots as a Japanese company. They discovered which cars are produced at the Sunderland plant and how many are made there each year.
Wednesday 12 March 2025 Year 1a visit Waterstones Take a look at our visit to Waterstones.
Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day in Nursery This week we celebrated World Book Day in Nursery. We read lots of different books and talked about the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. The children read a non-fiction book about animals and were very excited to learn some new facts.
Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day 2025
Thursday 6 March 2025 Year 4 World Book Day
Thursday 6 March 2025 Year 4 Hockey

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