Wardley News

• Monday 17 February 2025 Exploring shape in 1b In Year 1b, we have recently been learning all about shape in our maths lessons. We built our own repeating patterns and can identify the 'unit of repeat'. We explored a range of different 3D shapes and learnt their names. We compared similar 3D shapes according to their properties and we got to test if they have a curved face or not by seeing if they slide or roll down a ramp! We can find 2D shapes within 3D shapes by pressing them into playdough.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Chinese New Year in Reception
• Friday 7 February 2025 Year 5 Music Year 5 have really been enjoying their music lessons with Mr Parkin. They have learnt about pulse, chords, frets, pitch and the pentatonic scale. They have also been able to have a go at playing a wide range of instruments including keyboard, ukulele, glockenspiel, and percussion instruments.
• Friday 7 February 2025 Icy Investigations
• Friday 7 February 2025 Polar Art During the past few weeks, the children in Miss OIiphant’s class have been learning about the Arctic and Antarctica. They have enjoyed learning about the different animals that live there and their habitat. Here is some of the art work that they have created featuring polar bears with the Northern Lights as a background, snowy owls and penguins. The children used a variety of different techniques including printing, drawing and cutting. We hope you like our creations.
• Wednesday 5 February 2025 Year 6 DT - Fairground Rides Last week, Year 6 had an exciting two-day learning experience exploring gears as part of their DT topic. Using Lego, they discovered how gears work and how they can change speed and direction. They then applied this knowledge to design and create their own fairground rides. Throughout the process, the children not only honed their design skills but also developed strong teamwork.
• Tuesday 4 February 2025 Amazing Amusement Rides - Year 5b
• Friday 31 January 2025 Year 6 Safety Works This week the children in Year 6 visited the Safety Works which was a fantastic learning experience enabling us to participate safely in realistic situations illustrating everyday hazards and how to prevent them. The children learnt about water safety with the RLNI, Metro and trainline safety with Nexus, antisocial behaviour and peer pressure with Northumbria Police and antisocial fires and online safety with the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue service. All of the sessions were interactive and allowed the children to discuss real life dangers in a safe environment. They had excellent questions and showed a great understanding about how to keep themselves safe.
• Thursday 30 January 2025 Year 1a LEGO DT Year 1a have been fantastic playground designers…..
• Monday 27 January 2025 Year 2 at Forest School (Spring 1) Year 2 learnt about fire safety by completing a trail through the trees. They then safely toasted marshmallows on the fire to make s'mores.
• Monday 27 January 2025 Year 1a at Forest School (Spring 1) Year 1a enjoyed toasting marshmallows on the fire to make s'mores, and learnt about fire safety in their trail through the trees.
• Monday 27 January 2025 Year 1b at Forest School (Spring 1) Year 1b enjoyed toasting marshmallows to make s'mores, and learnt about fire safety on their trail through the trees.
• Monday 27 January 2025 Year 3/4 at Forest School (Spring 1) Year 3/4 enjoyed their time at Forest School toasting marshmallows to make s'mores, and learning about fire safety.
• Monday 27 January 2025 Year 6 at Forest School (Spring 1) Year 6 enjoyed toasting marshmallows to make s'mores, created some mindfullness drawings, and completed a fire safety trail through the trees.
• Friday 24 January 2025 Year 1 cricket festival Take a look at our cricket skills
• Friday 24 January 2025 Year 5 - Japanese art and culture workshop Today, Year 5 were lucky enough to take part in a workshop provided by Gateshead Libraries, which looked at Japan and its culture. As part of the visit the children found out about what life is like in Japan, learnt some new language and created their own chigiri-e bookmark. The children thoroughly enjoyed the session and made some fantastic creations.
• Friday 24 January 2025 Year 4 - After the fall In our English topic this half term - children are writing suspense stories following the events of Humpty Dumpty.
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Reception Multi Sport Festival Some of the reception Children travelled to Gateshead Stadium to take part in a circus themed multi sport event on 16th January 2025.
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Gymnastics in 1b Year 1 have been introduced to gymnastics this half term, exploring different shapes and movements. Their focus is to familiarise themselves with the apparatus, move safely, discover ways to create different shapes, and learn what it means to move like a gymnast. We have been focusing on ‘wide’ and ‘narrow’ shapes, where the children have shown different ways to interpret these movements. They have applied the knowledge in their warm ups and following onto the gymnastics apparatus. The pictures show the children using the beam and mats, exploring different ‘wide’ and ‘narrow’ shapes
• Tuesday 21 January 2025 Year 6 French
• Tuesday 21 January 2025 Measuring the Length of the River Tyne Year 5 have been learning about Rivers and how to measure them. Today, children were able to use their learnt skills to measure the length of the Tyne Bridge.
• Friday 17 January 2025 Spring Term in Nursery This half term we will be learning about 'People Who Help'. During week 1 we focussed on Firefighters and this week we have been learning about Police Officers. The children have settled back into Nursery very well after their Christmas holidays and we have welcomed some new children into our class.
• Wednesday 15 January 2025 Reception Duplo Club Last week, the children in Reception had an opportunity to take part in Lego club during their afternoon learning sessions.
• Wednesday 15 January 2025 Winter in Reception Our topics in Reception this half term have been based on the weather and winter.
• Thursday 9 January 2025 DT Award Winner Visits BBC Radio Newcastle It was great catching up with Anna Foster and her team at the BBC Radio studio at the start of January. There was lots to talk about - VEX Robotics and the World Championship in Dallas.
• Friday 20 December 2024 End of year award assembly Today marks the end of Autumn term and (almost) the end of the year. It has been another fantastic term at Wardley Primary school with so many children going above and beyond and being the "Best they can be". During today's assembly, curriculum awards were given to children who had impressed teachers across the school. Well done to them all.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Year 1a English - Little Red
• Friday 20 December 2024 Spreading festive cheer at Wardley Gate On Wednesday, a group of children from Reception visited Wardley Gate Nursing home to spread some festive cheer. They sang Christmas songs with the residents, showed off their Christmas jumpers and shared what they had written on their Santa lists.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Reception Christmas Party What a wonderful end to a brilliant first term for our children in Reception. They had such fun at their Christmas party, dancing, playing party games and finally meeting Santa Claus himself.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Year 5b Artwork This week, the children in 5b have been working very hard on creating an avatar which they could then use as an illustration. They used the laptops to create their own characters and practiced how to use different pen types and techniques to create their illustration.

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