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Friday 24 October 2025 End of Autumn term 1 2025 celebration Today marks the end of our first half term back! It has flown by. We celebrated the success of the children who have really thrown themselves into the new academic year.
Friday 24 October 2025 NUFC PSHE Workshops This half term, NUFC Foundation have been helping to deliver our P.S.H.E. lessons within Year 6. The children have been learning all about key issues such as stereotyping, discrimination and bullying. The children have found the sessions very engaging and have really improved their awareness about the topics taught.
Friday 24 October 2025 Year 6b Library Visit Yesterday, as part of our first Reading for Pleasure activity this half term, Year 6B visited Pelaw Library. The children had a fantastic time taking part in a Horrible Histories quiz, listening to a story, and exploring the wide range of books on offer.
Thursday 23 October 2025 Patterns and Pumpkins In our recent art topic, Year 3 explored the work of Yayoi Kusama. They have designed their own patterned pumpkins, inspired by the artist, and used clay to create their own version.
Thursday 23 October 2025 Sportshall Athletics Year 6a Today, Year 6a attended an athletics event at Gateshead Stadium organised by Gateshead Schools Sports Partnership. The children competed against children from lots of other schools in a range of events. They did an incredible job, not just in their performance, but also in their attitude and resilience. They should all be incredibly proud of themselves.
Thursday 23 October 2025 Pelaw Library with Year 3 Year 3 spent this morning at Pelaw Library. We played some games about the Horrible Histories book "Slimy Stuarts", linked to bonfire night. We then selected some fiction and non-fiction books to borrow and bring back to school.
Thursday 23 October 2025 NUFC Foundation mascot On Tuesday, one of our children had the amazing opportunity to walk out as a mascot during the Newcastle V Benfica game.
Thursday 23 October 2025 Year 4 Library visit On Wednesday 22nd of November, Year 4 enjoyed a trip to Pelaw Library. The children spent a morning listening to one of the wonderful members of staff read a book to them before then choosing their own books to bring back to school. For many of our children this sparked a sudden desire to read and chase down that all important 90,000 words before Christmas target they have each been set.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 6a at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 6 worked together during their session to make sure the Forest School area was clean and tidy. They picked up litter, trimmed overgrown areas, and collected sticks for the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 6b at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 6b spent their time at Forest School carrying out maintenance activities including litter picking, trimming back overgrown areas, and collecting sticks for the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 5/6 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 5/6 enjoyed their time at Forest School participating in maintenance activities to keep the area clean and tidy for us to use. They trimmed back overgrown areas, picked up litter, and collected sticks to be used on the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 5 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 5 spent their session as Forest School trimming back overgrown weeds and bushes, and litter picking to keep the trees and surrounding areas tidy. They also worked together to collect sticks for the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 4 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 4 enjoyed their time at Forest School making sure the area was clean and tidy after the Summer Holidays. They picked up litter, trimmed back overgrown areas, and collected wood to be used on the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 3 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 3 spent their time at Forest School making sure it was clean and tidy, and helping collect materials for the year. They picked up lots of litter, trimmed back overgrown areas, and collected sticks for the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 2 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 2 enjoyed their time at Forest School collecting sticks for the fire, and making sure the area was tidy for others to use by collecting litter and trimming back overgrown weeds and bushes.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 1/2 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 1/2 enjoyed their time at Forest School making sure it was clean and tidy everyone to use by litter picking, trimming back overgrown areas, and collecting sticks for the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Nursery at Forest School - Autumn 1 Nursery enjoyed their time at Forest School learning about how to be safe around the fire circle, exploring the trees, and collecting sticks to be used on the fire.
Monday 20 October 2025 Year 1 at Forest School - Autumn 1 Year 1 spent their time at Forest School collecting sticks for the fire, litter picking, and trimming overgrown areas to make the area nice and tidy for everyone to use.
Monday 13 October 2025 Reception Forest School
Monday 13 October 2025 Year 1, Autumn 1 RE Look at what year 1 have been learning about in RE this half term.
Friday 10 October 2025 Year 6 STEMfest Visit Our Year 6 pupils had a brilliant time at STEMfest this week! The event brought together around 60 local companies, all showcasing the exciting world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
Tuesday 7 October 2025 Year 5/6 - Reduce, Reuse, Recyle In our geography topic this term, the children in the Year 5/6 class have been studying the impact of climate change on the world. The children have been considering what we can do to help reduce our personal impact on the production of greenhouse gases which cause global warming. Sadly, only 10% of all the UK's plastic waste actually gets recycled. The children decided to make posters to encourage everyone around school to reduce, resuse or recycle plastic. Here is the definition of what this means:
Monday 6 October 2025 Year 2 Self-Portraits
Thursday 2 October 2025 Physical Day in Nursery This week we practised running, jumping and balancing as the children took on our ultimate obstacle course! They walked along a beam, rolled across a mat, crawled through a tunnel and tiptoed across a ladder.
Tuesday 30 September 2025 Year 3 Gymnastics
Tuesday 30 September 2025 Reception Music Lesson This week we had our 3rd music lesson with Miss Christie from the Gateshead Music Service. This week's lesson was jungle themed. The children learnt some new songs, they tapped to the beat and they played only during their team section.
Tuesday 30 September 2025 Reception reading meeting Last week, we welcomed lots of the children's grown ups into school to talk about the importance of early reading.
Thursday 25 September 2025 Year 4 Limericks To start our English Journey this year, we explored limericks in Year 4 and then had a go at writing our own. Below is a flavour of some of limericks we came up with.
Wednesday 24 September 2025 Nursery Rhymes in Nursery Over the next few weeks we will be learning lots of new nursery rhymes in Nursery. This week we have started with "I'm a Little Teapot". We have been learning the words and adding the actions. Why not ask your little one to sing it for you&quest;
Wednesday 24 September 2025 A New Year in Nursery September brings a new group of children into our Nursery and it is always very special to have so many wonderful new children and their families join the Wardley family.

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