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• Thursday 21 November 2024 Interfaith Week On Monday, as part of our inter-faith learning, Brother Khadim came into school to talk to us about the Muslim religion. In particular, he talked to us about the hajj and how this is an important pilgrimage to Mecca for Muslims. He also spoke about Muslim clothing, food and celebrations. At the end of the session, the children asked some excellent questions to further their understanding of the religion.
• Thursday 21 November 2024 Author Visit On Tuesday, the children in Year 5/6 were lucky enough to enjoy a visit from the author Steve Skidmore who has written over 200 books. The children found Steve hilarious and thoroughly enjoyed listening to his 'I Hero' book which is an interactive adventure story where you get to choose the direction the story goes. A huge Thank You to Steve and Gateshead Libraries for coming into school.
• Thursday 21 November 2024 Fancy Footwork Year 2 have been enjoying developing their footballing skills during their P.E. lessons this half-term. The focus of the lessons have been about using the side of their foot when passing the ball. It has been satisfying watching their skills progress.
• Wednesday 20 November 2024 Year 1a Music Miss Fraser's class have been learning about rhythm this Half Term in their music lessons. The children are learning how to spot long and short sounds that can be heard over a steady beat or pulse. Here the children are trying to clap rhythm using copy back clapping, and question and answer clapping.
• Tuesday 19 November 2024 Year 3/4 Visit to 'The Sill'
• Monday 18 November 2024 Year 2 at Forest School (Autumn 2) Year 2 completed three activities all about survival skills. A trail through the trees showed them what to pack in their survival bags, and they built shelters using tarp and rope to keep warm and dry. The children also tried to safely make little fires using a flint and steel, and a cotton wool ball on a shell.
• Monday 18 November 2024 Year 1b at Forest School (Autumn 2) Year 1b learnt about survival skills at Forest School which included shelter building using tarp and rope, and trying to make a little fire. The children worked in small groups to try and safely create a spark using a flint and steel, and a cotton wool ball on a shell.
• Monday 18 November 2024 Year 1a at Forest School (Autumn 2) Year 1a were learning about survival skills at Forest School. They built shelters using tarp and rope to keep them warm and dry, and used a flint and steel to create a spark. They worked hard to then try and safely create a little fire using cotton wool on a shell.
• Monday 18 November 2024 Nursery at Forest School (Autumn 2) Nursery learnt about survival skills at Forest School, and showed some great team work building shelters that would keep them warm and dry.
• Friday 15 November 2024 Odd Socks day As part of Antibullying week, lots of children came to school wearing odd socks to celebrate difference and diversity. The children learned the importance of 'choosing respect' and understanding that everybody is different but that we are all important!
• Friday 15 November 2024 Children in Need Our children have been amazing superheroes today to raise money for Children in Need. We have managed to raise a fantastic £258 for this worthwhile charity, as well as learning about all the brilliant work that Children in Need do to help others. Thank you for your generosity and continued support!
• Tuesday 12 November 2024 Year 3 Skipping Trip Year 3 had the amazing opportunity to go to the NUcastle foundation grounds to take part in a sporting event. They spent their morning working on their coordination, team building and most importantly skipping! They took part in a range of activities which taught them the different types of skips, how to skip with a partner and how to do group skipping activities. The pupils enjoyed it so much that when they came back to school, they continued to skip during their break time!
• Tuesday 12 November 2024 Year 6 Climate Change at Beamish Last week, Year 6 took part in a climate change workshop with Beamish. To start the week, Catherine came to the school to discuss how our carbon footprint has increased over time and how this impacts our world. The children used maps and pictures to explore how life has changed over the years and to understand how the use of fossil fuels, particularly coal, has declined in the North East. Then, on Thursday, the class visited Beamish Museum, where they experienced first-hand how life has changed.
• Tuesday 12 November 2024 Remembrance day
• Friday 8 November 2024 Wardley Pupil Scoops National DT Award
• Friday 8 November 2024 @WardleyRobotics enjoys NEAA Expo Visit
• Thursday 7 November 2024 Geography in 1b In our ‘Here I am’ geography unit we have been understanding where we live and the different types of settlement that people live in (village, town and city). We have explored photographs and maps, given directions using ‘left’ and ‘right’, and identified human and physical features. We went on a walk around our local area to explore the human and physical features in Wardley and turned this into a fieldwork sketch.
• Wednesday 6 November 2024 Free Scooters Exciting news about free scooters for nursery and reception children at Wardley Primary School.
• Friday 25 October 2024 Halloween Fun Miss Oliphant’s class have had great fun this week taking part in Halloween activities. They have enjoyed writing spooky spells, making collage ghosts, mark-making on pumpkins, dressing up in Halloween costumes and dancing along to the music. However, their favourite activity was making and eating ghosts on toast. They had to spread butter on their toast and decorate it to make it look like a ghost using bananas and chocolate chips. Yummy!
• Friday 25 October 2024 People's Kitchen Thank you to everyone who generously donated items for the People's kitchen over the last two weeks. Some of our Year 6 children helped with the big count this afternoon and we have managed to collect a huge 302 items. Well done Wardley!
• Friday 25 October 2024 Spooky fun in Reception This week the children in Reception have had lots of spooky Halloween fun. They have made potions, drawn around shapes to create Halloween pictures as well as exploring the outside and inside of giant pumpkins. They thoroughly enjoyed getting dressed up in their favourite costumes and singing and dancing together in the classroom and the garden.
• Wednesday 23 October 2024 Year 1a RE Take a look at our first RE topic in Year 1
• Tuesday 22 October 2024 Year 4 trip to the library On Monday afternoon, Year 4 took a lovely walk down to Pelaw library as part of our Reading for Pleasure (RfP). The children had a chapter of Dirty Berie read to them and then they spent some time exploring the books available to them. We all had a lovely time and many of us can't wait to go back during the half term!
• Tuesday 22 October 2024 Year 4 writing - The Legend of Spud Murphy. Over the last 7 weeks the children have been reading the book, The Legend of Spud Murphy and then writing some very nice character descriptions about the incredibly cruel (or is she!?) Spud Murphy.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 6 at Forest School
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 5b at Forest School
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 5a at Forest School Year 5a worked together to pick up litter, collect firewood, and trim back overgrown areas of Forest School.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 4 at Forest School Year 4 completed three tasks during their Forest School session - collecting fire wood, using secateurs to trim overgrown areas of Forest school, and litter picking.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 3 at Forest School Year 3 worked hard to pick up rubbish, trim overgrown branches, and collect fire wood.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 1b at Forest School Year 1b enjoyed their time at Forest school chopping some overgrown branches using secateurs.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Year 1a at Forest School Year 1a helped trim some overgrown branches at Forest School using secateurs.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Reception at Forest School During their Forest School session, both Reception classes collected fire wood, turned over the soil in the vegetable patch, played in the mud kitchen, and enjoyed a drink and biscuit.
• Monday 21 October 2024 Nursery at Forest School The Nursery children enjoyed their time at Forest School collecting firewood.
• Friday 18 October 2024 Year 3 History Year 3 are starting this new History topic by creating timelines that show the progression through pre-historic Britain. They have used their knowledge of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age to decorate signs and then worked together to place these in chronological order. Those with the key words Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic were also able to correctly order the times of the Stone Age. Great job Year 3!
• Friday 18 October 2024 Year 6 Hockey Year 6 have enjoyed PE with Shay this half term. Over the weeks, they have been learning how to play hockey and have thoroughly enjoyed their matches. The children have shown great skill and sportsmanship in their lessons.
• Friday 18 October 2024 Friday Funday superstars Well done to this week's Friday Funday winners. These children have been amazing role models this week and have all impressed their teachers with their ready, respectful and safe behaviour. They have enjoyed extra time playing games with Shay from NUFC.
• Thursday 10 October 2024 How do digital devices help us? Over the last few weeks Year 4 have been exploring how digital devices can help people in their day to day lives. The focus of our learning has been around input, process and output.
• Wednesday 9 October 2024 Year 1a reading rivers Look at our fantastic reading rivers - Year 1a
• Wednesday 9 October 2024 Year 6 STEMfest Yesterday, Year 6 enjoyed a fabulous day at the North East STEMfest at the Beacon of Light. To begin the day, we all had the opportunity to meet pilots from British Airways and experienced the flight simulator. After that, we spent the rest of the days engaging with exhibitors from a range of industries all relating to STEM. Days like these are designed to kindle enthusiasm and clarity among young minds about the wonders of STEM subjects and it certainly did that!
• Monday 7 October 2024 Year 1a Amazing Abstract Art We are amazing artists in Year 1a.
• Sunday 6 October 2024 Fun Time Friday Well done to this week's Fun Time Friday winners. They have been fabulous role models, working hard and following our Ready, Respectful, Safe school rules. To celebrate, they spent time playing their favourite games with Shay from NUFC.
• Friday 4 October 2024 Gateshead Parent Workshop A workshop to support parents and carers of children in Gateshead with SEND aged 0-5
• Friday 4 October 2024 Y1b Music
• Wednesday 2 October 2024 1b's Reading Rivers Following our reading workshop with our parents and carers, the children in Year 1b have made some amazing Reading Rivers at home to show what they have read throughout the week. This included shop signs, food packaging and story books. It's great to see the children reading so many different types of text and showing off their creativity with this homework project!
• Monday 30 September 2024 Y1b PSHE - families
• Monday 30 September 2024 Newcastle United Tickets Winner One of our Year 1 pupils had a great time on Saturday watching the Newcastle vs Manchester City game at St James Park.
• Friday 27 September 2024 Reading for Pleasure Year 1a Take a look at our wonderful Year 1 reading workshop.
• Friday 27 September 2024 Year 5b English This half term the children are learning about how to create a setting description. We are using the book 'The Kapok Tree' as our stimulus which tells the story of a woodcutter who decides against cutting down a tree which is home to many different animals. In today's lesson we collected ideas about how we might start our opening paragraph.
• Wednesday 25 September 2024 Year 3 PE What an amazing sporty start to Year 3! The pupils have been enjoying their first two PE topics: hockey and gymnastics. They have been focusing on creating a successful power pass alongside ball control, in hockey. In addition to this, they have created some great symmetric and asymmetric balances in gymnastics.
• Tuesday 24 September 2024 Reading Together in Reception
• Tuesday 24 September 2024 Fun Times in Nursery
• Friday 20 September 2024 Y5b Gymnastics
• Friday 20 September 2024 Year 6 Science - Forces
• Friday 20 September 2024 Y3/4 Music Wow! We have some fantastic musicians in Y3/4! The children showed how they were able to follow the music notes and keep to a rhythm to play their first song of the year on the glockenspiels.
• Thursday 19 September 2024 Year 2 Using Their Senses Key Stage One has been learning about their senses in Science this half term.
• Wednesday 18 September 2024 Boyle Family Art Gallery Today Year 2 have been learning that art doesn’t have to be beautiful.
• Wednesday 18 September 2024 Year 2 Forest School September 2024 See what fun our Year 2 children had this week in Forest School
• Sunday 15 September 2024 Year 1a - Marvellous Maths To support our transition from Reception to Year 1, our first maths topic has been working with numbers to 10. During the topic we have been recognising numbers, counting forwards and backwards to 10, counting to and from a given number within 10 and counting out sets. To support our maths we have also enjoyed singing a number of counting songs.
• Friday 13 September 2024 Nursery's Week Find out about what nursery have been enjoying this week...
• Friday 13 September 2024 Handwriting and Dictation in 1b In Class 1b, we have been working hard during our handwriting lessons to learn and practice forming the ladder letters. We have also been applying these letters in our dictation sentences to give us some extra practice. The children in 1b have been working on their focus and concentration for perfect handwriting.
• Friday 13 September 2024 Year Three's Kenning Success
• Friday 13 September 2024 Fantastic start in Reception
• Tuesday 10 September 2024 Lost and Found in Year 2 Year 2 have been enjoying reading Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. Here they are working in small teams to put the events of the story in order.
• Monday 9 September 2024 Class 1b's First Week This week Class 1b have had a great week settling back into school in their new classroom! We have worked hard to follow our 'Ready, Respectful and Safe' rules and completed a range of PSHE lessons. This included goal setting of things we can't do YET, participating in some mindfulness activities and using affirmations to adopt a positive mindset. On Friday, we reflected on our favourite parts of the week and look forward to the next one!
• Friday 6 September 2024 The return of Year 4 Year 4 have had a fantastic week settling back into school and routines. We have started our maths topic of addition and subtraction. We have drawn some wonderful self portraits and began our hockey in P.E.
• Friday 6 September 2024 Our first week back - Year 1a Take a look at our first week back .
• Friday 6 September 2024 Reading for Pleasure Assembly Find out about our Reading for Pleasure assembly on Friday 6th September 2024
• Thursday 5 September 2024 Year 3/4 Class' Self-Portraits Find out what wonderful self-portraits the Year 3-4 class have produced
• Wednesday 4 September 2024 Welcome Assembly On Wednesday, we had our first assembly together and talked about what a great start to the year everyone has had
• Thursday 11 July 2024 Year 5 Fuzzy Subjects Workshop Year 5 wellbeing workshop
• Wednesday 10 July 2024 VEX 123 Celebration Event Find our about the VEX123 Celebration Event last week
• Tuesday 9 July 2024 Year 1 - VEX 123 Our Year 1 children programmed the floor robots.
• Tuesday 9 July 2024 Year 5 visit to the Centre for Life Find out about our recent trip to the Centre for Life
• Monday 8 July 2024 Gateshead SSP Athletics
• Thursday 4 July 2024 Gateshead FC visit to Wardley
• Wednesday 3 July 2024 Bringing STEM home - Six Bricks Activity Why not try some of our Lego League challenges at home!
• Wednesday 3 July 2024 Year 1 STEM week fun! Find out what our children in Year 1 have been doing during STEM week
• Tuesday 25 June 2024 Year 2 Forest School Pizza making fun at Forest School!
• Tuesday 25 June 2024 VEX Go Champions Find out about our latest VEX Go competition.
• Monday 24 June 2024 Pupil Survey Results June 2024 Find results and next steps from our latest pupil survey.
• Monday 24 June 2024 Wardley Sports Day 2024
• Thursday 13 June 2024 Summer Fayre & Picnic Success Find out about our Summer Fayre and Picnic Event
• Wednesday 22 May 2024 Parent Survey Results May 2024 Please find results of our latest parent survey.

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