Wardley News

• Friday 22 November 2024 Maths in Nursery Over the last year, we have developed a new curriculum for Maths in Nursery. Taking the lead from The Learning Trajectories curriculum, we have created a series of teacher-led small groups sessions were the children work on numbers within 5. The aim of these sessions is to increase the children's understanding of the numbers and how they are made up. The children are given a STEM sentence for each lesson which helps them to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts covered. For example, "1 more than 3 is 4". The children also carry out daily group work with Miss Nelson where they focus on skills such as counting, shape recognition and subitising (recognising quantities of objects on sight).
• Friday 22 November 2024 Pudsey Fun in Nursery We had lots of fun in Nursery for Children in Need last week. We decorated spotty biscuits, used stickers to make an eye patch for Pudsey, coloured in Pudsey pictures and used pompoms to decorate a giant Pudsey face.
• Friday 22 November 2024 30 Hour Nursery Over the last few weeks, our 30 hour nursery children have taken part in lots of different enrichment activities. They added their handprint to a giant heart to create a Friendship heart which is displayed in Nursery and shows that we are all friends. They have joined in with Cosmic Yoga, listened to many different traditional tales, create a massage circle and enjoyed some relaxation time complete with calming music.
• Friday 22 November 2024 Dance Explorers 1B
• Friday 22 November 2024 Interfaith week As part of Interfaith week, the children in Reception and Key Stage One were lucky enough to have a visit from Kirtadi this week, who spoke to them all about the Hindu religion. The children particularly enjoyed learning about the festival of Diwali, listening to the Indian music and hearing the story of Prince Rama and Princess Sita.
• 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

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