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• Tuesday 15 July 2025 Ambic Manufacturing STEM Challenge Year 2 loved their STEM day today. The day started with the class talking about their career aspirations. After that, they learnt about Ambic Manufacturing and the different roles that exist within the company.
• Tuesday 15 July 2025 Ambic Manufacturing STEM Challenge Year 2 loved their STEM day today. The day started with the class talking about their career aspirations. After that, they learnt about Ambic Manufacturing and the different roles that exist within the company.
• Tuesday 15 July 2025 Year 2 win VEX 123 Challenge
• Tuesday 15 July 2025 Gearing up For Year 2 Mr Burfield really enjoyed spending a couple of days with his class for next year.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Hindu Temple Visit Mr Burfield's class enjoyed their visit to the Hindu temple on Westgate Road today. It was a great end to the term's R.E. lessons.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Reception at Forest School (Summer 2) Reception enjoyed cooking at eating breadsticks around the fire. They also did a great job collecting natural materials such as flowers, leaves and grass to add to a big natural weaving frame.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Year 1a Forest School (Summer 2) Year 1a found lots of bugs on their bug hunt, including butterflies, ladybirds, slugs, worms and bees. They also cooked and ate breadsticks around the fire.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Year 1b at Forest School (Summer 2) Year 1b cooked and ate breadsticks around the fire. They also searched the forest school area on their bug hunt and found bees, butterflies, worms, spiders and more.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Year 2 at Forest School (Summer 2) Year 2 cooked and ate breadsticks around the fire. They also collected natural materials such as leaves, flowers and grass to add to their class-size natural weave frame.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Year 3 at Forest School (Summer 2) Due to high winds, Year 3 couldn't have their fire at Forest School. Instead they went on a bug hunt and found lots of insects including butterflies, ladybirds, bees, and spiders. They also collected natural materials to weave into a class-size natural weaving frame.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Year 4 at Forest School (Summer 2) Year 4 safely cooked breadsticks on the fire, and made their own weaving frame using sticks and wool. They then collected natural materials such as leaves, flowers and grass to weave into their frames.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Year 6 at Forest School (Summer 2) Due to high winds, Year 6 were unable to have their fire at Forest School. Instead they made some weaving frames from wood and wool. They then explored the field collecting natural material to them weave through their frames.
• Monday 14 July 2025 Nursery at Forest School (Summer 2) At Forest School, the nursery children worked in pairs to complete a bug hunt. They looked under big logs, on leaves, and through the trees to find bees, worms, slugs, ladybirds, butterflies and more.
• Monday 14 July 2025 VEX Robots in Year 1 This term, Year 1 had lots of fun learning how to control and move a VEX 1,2,3 Robot in Computing. They used the buttons to give a direction, moving the robot forwards, left and right. They even had a go at creating a program to direct the robot to a finishing point!
• Thursday 10 July 2025 Year 5 Surf School Yesterday, Year 5 visited South Shields to take part in a surf school class. The experience for the children was amazing and really helped them to develop their skills of resilience and perseverance. A fun day was had by all and was a wonderful way to celebrate all of their achievements that they have made this year.
• Wednesday 9 July 2025 Reception Mini Beast Topic This half term we have been learning about mini beasts in Reception. We have studied the life cycle of a butterfly and even watched a group of butterflies go through metamorphosis in our classrooms.
• Wednesday 9 July 2025 Reception Craft Afternoon Reception were very lucky when one of our lovely parents offered to teach the whole year group how to cross stitch. Mrs Tribe came into school and showed the children the basic stitches used to create patterns. She even shared some of her own detailed work which the children were very excited to see.
• Tuesday 8 July 2025 Reception visit the Centre for Life
• Monday 30 June 2025 Year 5b at Forest School (Summer 2) Year 5b used pizza dough to make their own breadsticks to cook on the fire. They also made weaving frames using sticks and wool. The class collected natural materials such as flowers and leaves to weave through their frames.
• Monday 30 June 2025 Year 3/4 at Forest School (Summer 2) Year 3/4 made their own breadsticks using pizza dough, and cooked them on the fire. They also made weaving frames using sticks and wool. The class then collected natural materials such as leaves, flowers and grass, to thread though their frames.
• Monday 30 June 2025 Year 5a at Forest School (Summer 2) This Half Term Year 5a made breadsticks. They wrapped pizza dough around a kebab stick and cooked the bread over the fire. They also did some natural weaving using a frame made from sticks, wool and natural materials thread through.
• Monday 30 June 2025 Year 2 at Forest School (Summer 1) In Summer 1 Term, Year 2 helped tidy up the Forest School area by safely using secateurs to trim back overgrown areas. They also identified which tress we have at Forest School by collecting leaves and using an identification sheet. They used stampers to make pretty patterns in the leaves they collected.
• Monday 30 June 2025 Athletics On Friday, the children represented Wardley Primary at the annual athletics festival held at Gateshead International stadium. Though there was a bit of rain around, the children gave it their best.
• Friday 27 June 2025 Year 4 Mythology In art, Year 4 have been exploring mythology and collage work. Through the story of the Lambton worm, the children have created their own slaying of the beast.
• Friday 27 June 2025 Year 4 trip to Tynemouth On Monday 23rd June, the Year 4 cohort spent a wonderful day down at Tynemouth. This was part of their geography and English topics this term. Though the day started a bit cloudy, after a brisk walk the sun came out and they had a fantastic play on the beach.
• Friday 20 June 2025 Year 4, million words! Another million words in Year 4! Smashing it!
• Friday 20 June 2025 Year 6 DT Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed their DT topic this week making bread. After tasting a variety of different types, they followed a recipe to make bagels. The children worked together to follow the recipe, measuring out the ingredients and kneading the dough. Once the bagels were cooked, the children thought about what healthy fillings they would like to use and chopped and grated the ingredients. Once assembled, the children were able to enjoy their delicious creations. They went down a treat!
• Wednesday 18 June 2025 Wardley Sports day 2025 On Friday 13th, Wardley hosted our annual sports day with the support of the wonderful NUFC Foundation and Shay. It was a really successful day with children competing in a range of events that highlight the skills they have learnt across the year.
• Tuesday 17 June 2025 Bagels Today, Year 5b have been baking bagels as part of their DT lessons. First we began with a taste test of different types of bread to decide what we liked. The children then planned what they would make, before learning how to make a simple dough. They worked together and practised their measuring and mixing skills. They shaped their own bagels before baking them and then once they were ready, they prepared their own fillings before assembling them.
• Tuesday 17 June 2025 Visit to Gibside School 2025 Miss Oliphant's class went to visit Gibside School and everyone had a fantastic time. The children loved going on the climbing wall and they were so proud of how high they managed to climb. Some of them felt nervous at first but they came out of their comfort zone and did not give up. They really enjoyed playing seated volleyball with their friends. Here are some of the children's comments:

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