Wardley News

• 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.

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