Year 1/2

The children in year one and two have been working really hard making Christmas cards for their friends in Kikajjo Junior School in Uganda. As part of the link, the children have been reading books set in Africa and have a display of all the things that they have found out about Uganda in the Key Stage 2 hall. The children know that the link isn't just about learning about another country but that they are also trying to make friends and that sending the children our festive greetings was an important part of the run up to Christmas. Merry Christmas Uganda!

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The children at Wardley Primary School are developing links with schools from all around the world. Most of the classes in the school are linked with a school from another part of the world. Our links are:

Year 5 and 6 - United States of America
Year 3 and 4 - South Korea and Taiwan
Year 1 and 2 - Uganda

The children in these classes have made a passport with information about themselves which they sent to their link school. Some of the children even went to the post box to send their passports on the way. Who will be the first to get a reply?

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The children at Wardley Primary School are developing links with schools from all around the world. Most of the classes in the school are linked with a school from another part of the world. Our links are:

Year 5 and 6 - United States of American
Year 3 and 4 - South Korea and Taiwan
Year 1 and 2 - Uganda

The children in these classes have made a passport with information about themselves which they sent to their link school. Some of the children even went to the post box to send their passports on the way. Who will be the first to get a reply?

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The staff in Key Stage 1 would like to thank all the parents who attended the recent Reading Workshops. The staff, parents and children all enjoyed working together on a number of different reading activities within the classroom. Children practised blending words, used a phonics website on the laptops, played phonics games and read books with their parents.

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On Friday 25th of November, the children at Wardley Primary School were all investigating Diwali together. As well as finding out about different aspects of the 'Festival of Lights' the children took part in a variety of practical activities. In Key Stage 1, the children made Diyas out of clay, which they carefully painted using bright colours.

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Tuesday afternoon was a glorious day for KS1 Sports Day at Wardley Primary School. The children were fit and ready to go and with all the spectators cheering, everyone was excited for the challenges ahead. The children all ran their hearts out and tried their absolute best in every single race. Some of which included: the hoop and beanbag race, the quoit relay race, quoit on the head race and the boys and girls sprint races. The children were lucky enough to be joined by a real sporting hero, Tom Denham, who is representing GB in the 2012 Olympics in London. A huge Thank You to Tom and all the spectators who made it a real enjoyable afternoon and a massive Well Done to all the children, you were all FANTASTIC!!!! A special Congratualtions to the blue team for winning the Wardley Primary Sports Day Trophy.

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During Key Stage One's trip to Whitehouse Farm the children were given the opportunity to get to hold different animals. The teachers were really impressed with the gentle way in which they handled the animals. It gave them a chance to show their caring side. At first, some of the children were understandable nervous but by the end of the session most of them were excited when Marmalade the corn snake.

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After a delayed start to the day, Year 1 and 2 arrived at Whitehouse Farm in good spirits. First stop was the lambing shed, where we got to give the lambs their bottles. They were very excited to see us and jumped all over us. Next stop was the stinky pigs. The little piglets were very cute. Feeding the goats was great fun. They were really greedy and nearly ate all the food. A few of them escaped from their pen to get more food from us. After lunch it was time to pet the animals. We were all so brave and held a variety of animals including rabbits, chicks, mice, a naked rat and even a snake!!! To top off a jam packed day, we enjoyed a bumpy tractor ride around the farm.

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Today has been the first installment of the Year 1/2 trip to Thornley woods. We hiked through th beautiful woods looking at the scenery and always keeping our eyes peeled for those infamous red kites. When we finally reached the clearing we were surrounded but the huge birds of prey. They were gliding all around us, we couldn't believe how close they were flying to us! We used our binoculars to get an even better view. It was pretty cold, be we managed to brave it. We walked back to the centre for lunch, we had definately earned it from all the walking we had done. After lunch it was off to the bird hide for some more bird spotting. We only managed to see some squirrels and robins. Finally we walked deeper into the woods and were set a challenge to create pictures using only the natural materials around us.

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Year 1/2 have been preparing for the greatly anticipated Wardley Primary School Easter Egg Competition today. We all brought in our eggs and got out the decorations. We designed our eggs first and decided to have a bird theme to fit in with our topic this term. We studied the birds to see what they looked like and then got down to the serious business of creating our masterpieces. We all worked so hard and concentrated on making the most fabulous birds. There were a few casualties along the way but thankfully we had spare eggs. Take a look at us in action and keep a look our for the winners at the end of the week.

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Last week Year 1/2 made some gorgeous collage birds using repeated patterns. We drew our birds and decorated them using a variety of materials. We used paints, tissue paper and card in all sorts of bright and beautiful colours. We're not quite finished yet so look out for the finished birds swooping and swerving around our classroom!!! We'll post the finished pictures on here once we're finished.

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Year 1/2 had an exciting afternoon making bird feeders yesterday. We've been collecting our bottles for weeks, and now it was finally time to get down to the making of the feeders. First we had to cut our bottles to the right size, which was quite tricky but we managed. Then we had to hole punch the bottles to thread the string through. Finally we filled the feeders with delicious bird food. The best part was taking them outside and hanging them in the bird garden. All we have to do now is wait for the birds to come flocking. We'll be waiting with binoculars.

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The children from Year 2 were doing 'Big Writing' about Red Nose Day today. They started the day with a range of different activities to prepare them for writing a recount of their day. The children worked in groups to generate the following: a range of sentence openers, different connectives to join sentences and a variety of expressive vocabulary. During the independent writing session itself, the children wrote their recount.

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This half term, Year 1 and 2 are going to be learning about Space. As part of the topic, we will be looking at the countries that have sent rockets into space and the life of Neil Armstrong. For more information click this link.

Autumn2 'space' Parent info.doc

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This terms topic was all about houses in Year 1/2, so we decided to see how good we would be at being builders. We gathered our materials and started building the frame, which was rather tricky. It was a good job we had our special helpers with us. We added the walls and the bricks and finally put on the roof. After adding all the extra touches of guttering and chimneys our masterpieces were finally finished. They were all fit for a king. We were all very proud of our hard work and want to say a great big Thank You to everyone who came in to help us.

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On Wednesday 20th October, the children from year 2 went to Heworth to compete in the annual inter schools multi skills event. They had to particitpate in a range of different physical and skill based activities. The children were awarded points at each station. There could only be one winner! Mrs Starling coached her team to a glorious victory against other teams from Wardley, Roman Road and Bill Quay. All the children tried their best and had lots of fun. Take a look at these pictures.

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Last week KS1 were entertained by the Gateshead Music Workshop. The theme for this workshop was musical patterns. We all had great fun learning about beats with the help of different minibeasts. We clapped 1 beat for an ant, 3 beats for a butterfly and 4 beats for a caterpillar. Take a look at our photos of us having lots of fun.

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With fine weather, the annual Key Stage One Wardley Sports Day was held on Tuesday 12th July 2010. A fantastic time was had by the children, parents and all staff. There were five different races: Running, running with a rugby ball, Quoits Balance, Bean Bag Balance and Through the hoop. After the five competitive races, the Yellow team came out winners. The children were all very enthusiastic and brilliantly behaved.

We also had some individual 50m sprint races. Here are the results
Year Two Boy Winner - Jay Hodgson
Year Two Girl Winner- Emma Dickson
Year One Boy Winner - Lloyd Barron
Year One Girl Winner - Mya Kane

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As part of the 'They think it's all over...' topic, the children in Key Stage One took part in a sweep stake to see who's drawn team would win the World Cup. The children were also set a homework task of creating a presentation all about the country they had drawn out of the hat.

The children who drew the eventual winners Spain were:

Mr Evans' Class - Bethany Hutchinson
Miss Fraser's Class - Mya Kane
Mr Burfield's Class - Kevin Brunning

Click below to see some of the presentation of the different countries:
Houndras

Ivory Coast

South Korea

Denmark

Slovenia

USA

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In August 2010, Hereford will be the host of fifth Blind Football World Cup. As part of our 'They think it's all over' topic and to celebrate this tournament, the Key Stage One children took part in a Blind Football training session provided by the Blind Institute of Sport.

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During the summer term, the year 1/2 children will be learning all about the World Cup as part of our topic. Click here to find out what the children will be learning about.

They think it's all over Parent info.doc

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The winning entry.

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The children put in a great amount of effort into their presentation at home to complete the task. After much deliberation the teachers decided on these winners.

Mr Evans' Class: Winner: Aaron Keegan Creativity Prize: Joseph Chrisp
Mr Burfield's Class: Winner: Callum Lodge
Mr Fraser's Class: Winner: Reece Moore

Hopefully the winners' of the goldfish will prove to be fantastic pet owners and stick to RSPCA Five Freedoms.

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As part of the 'Carnival of Animals' topic, the children have been finding out about how to take care of different animals. To support this learning, the children experienced a visit from Louise Close, an Education Officer from the Dogs Trust and her rescue dog, Bailey. The Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK. Their mission is to bring about the day when all dogs can enjoy a happy life.

Louise showed how to take care of a dog, like Bailey, in order to keep it happy and healthy. This included finding out about food, water, cleaning, grooming and how to exercise dogs.

The children enjoyed meeting Bailey and giving him lots of strokes. I think Bailey really enjoyed it too!

To visit the dogs trust website, click here.

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During the Spring term, the year 1/2 children will be learning all about animals and pets as part of our topic. Click on the link to find out what the children will be learning about.

'The Carnival of Animals' Parent info.doc

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As part of the 'Va Va Voom!' vehicles topic, the Key Stage One children participated in a vehicles themed music workshop. Teachers from the Gateshead Music Service planned songs and activities all about opposites in music; loud and quiet, fast and slow, high and low, long and short. The children had a fantastic time and all had the opportunity to play some instruments.

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The children in Year One and Two performed separate versions of 'The Sleepy Shepherd'. The play told the story of a shepherd who didn't do any work because he was always busy sleeping. One day, he got woke up by the other shepherds snoring. While he was awake, an angel came to tell him about a special baby being born in Bethlehem. He then made a long journey to visit the baby and meet Mary and Joseph.

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The Children in KS1 were all very excited when a package arrived from our link school in Uganda. Inside the package was: local craft work, pictures of children who go to Kikajjo Junior School and a lovely letter telling us about what life is like for teachers in Uganda.

Now we have to think about what we can send to Uganda to tell them about life in England.

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As part of the 'Va Va Voom!' transport themed topic, the Year Two children visited the Stephenson Railway Museum to find out about trains in the past. The children met a locomotive named 'Billy' which was built by George Stephenson nearly 200 years ago. They found out about how steam was used to power the engines. The children also got to sit in an old fashioned carriage. Here, they played a game where they had to guess a material when blindfolded, and then find the same material somewhere in the carriage. The children finished their workshop by designing their own trains.

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The Year 2 travelled up to Heworth Comprehensive School to attend a multi skills sporting festival. The festival comprised of the children using their running, jumping, catching, kicking, throwing and balancing skills. All the children were very excited as it was one of the first times they had all represented the school in a competitive event. The Wardley children were split into four teams and competed with eight other teams from Whitemere, Bill Quay, Lingey House and the Drive. The children throughly enjoyed the event and their behaviour was a credit to the school.

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Children from Kikajjo Junior School, Uganda.

The children in year one and two are linked with three schools in Africa. Two of the schools are from Uganda and the other is from Ghana. The teachers have been exchanging information about their schools via e-mail.

Last year some of the children sent letters to Roman Primary School in Ghana and are waiting for a reply.

This year we are going to send a Christmas message to all three schools in the form of a big Christmas card.

We look forward to learning about what Africa is like from our partner schools.

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As part of the 'Schools' topic, the Key Stage One children have experienced a victorian day to gain an understanding of what school life was like 100 years ago. The children dressed up in victorian clothing and carried out various lessons and activities just like victorian children.

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As part of our schools topic, the Key Stage One children have been learning about different schools from around the world. During our studies, we found out about some schools which had been effected by earthquakes and tsunami disasters. The worldwide charity UNICEF support these effected areas by providing a school in a box kit which enables children to continue their education until their schools are rebuilt.

Click here to find out more and donate to the school in a box appeal

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Children from Wardley Primary helped Go North East launch their special Red Kite Mark. At the launch, they met a Red kite and had their pictures taken by the local press.

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During the Spring term, the year 1/2 children will be learning all about birds as part of our topic. Click on the link to find out what the children will be learning about.

Parent info Spring 2 Twitchers.doc

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As part of our "Twitchers" topic we are learning about how people look after their birds with care and sensitivity. Becky a local falconer came to visit us with her Harris Hawk Mort. She explained to us about birds of prey and how she looks after Mort. She told us that Mort needs daily exercise and about what he eats, he even had his tea before he left - a chick! We were able to get up close and touch Mort and some of us who answered Becky's quiz questions correctly held him, but only after wearing a special falconer's glove to protect our hands from Mort's talons.

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Two members of the firefighters from our local community and their fire engine visited Year 1 and 2 for their annual fire safety talk. The children watched a video about the importance of not playing with matches. The children then had the opportunity to try on a firefighter's uniform and see what different equipment a fire engine has on board. The safety session ended with the children having a turn on the hose. Some of the chlidren expressed a desire to be firefighters when they grow up.

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The children in Key Stage One have been learning all about the properties of different materials. Using a Pirate theme, the children had to sort which of the materials were magnetic. They were introduced to a Pirate called Major Magnet, who would only find treasure that was magnetic. The children had to help him find the treasure on a desert island by digging for the loot and testing whether it was magnetic or not. They recorded their findings in a table.

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The Music Workshop teachers from Gateshead LEA invade Wardley for the afternoon. They came singing sea shanties, capturing pirates and telling tales of treasure. They taught the children all about keeping a steady beat and gaining a sense of melody. The children had a fantastic time. The Key Stage 1 teachers would like to thank the LEA music teachers as they prepared the 'Pirate' themed workshop especially for the beginning of our new topic.

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During the Spring term, the year 1/2 children will be learning all about pirates as part of our topic. Click on the link to find out what the children will be learning about.

Spring 1 'Land ahoy' Parent info.doc

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To end our space topic, the children from year 1 and 2 had their own space rocket launch competition. The children first of all designed a rocket and then worked in groups of three to build it. In our classes, we went outside and used a special pump to launch our rockets. The rocket that went the highest and furthest was chosen for the final. The finalists were Sputnik 3 from Mr Evans' class, Moon 2 from Miss Fraser's and Mars 5 from Mr Burfield's. Mr Malik came to watch the three finalists and had the tough decision of choosing the winner. The children really enjoyed the rocket launch and it was a fun way to end a topic that the children have loved learning about.

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Using their experiences in the snow, the children in Key Stage One wrote stories with a snow theme. Many stories included adventures with snowman and sledging on gigantic hills. To read two of the fantastic stories created by the children, click below.

The best day at school by Josie Ball

Snow by Reece Bell

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Throughout the Autumn term, the Key Stage 1 children have been learning all about space. They have been finding out all about the space race and the first lunar landing. As a stimulus for their artwork, the children had to imagine what Neil Armstrong could see from his rocket. The children created artwork which included the Sun, Earth and Jupiter.

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Bob Tweddell visited Year One and Two to discuss what it was like in Wardley in the past. Mr Tweddell, local resident and Grandparent to a child in the school, brought in a time line to demonstrate the changes to the local area over the last 200 years. He also answered some key questions about the history of Wardley and also how his childhood was very different to the children's at our school today.

The Key Stage One children have been busy writing a song all about Wardley. Using places and things seen on their walk around the local area as their inspiration, the children produced their own song.
Walking Through Wardley Song

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On Thursday 11th December, Key Stage One performed a Christmas Play called Donkey For Sale. The children performed magnificently in front of their family members. The teachers were delighted with the children as they all used clear and loud voices so that all the audience could easily follow the Christmas story.

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As part of our topic on Baptism, year 1 and 2 went to visit St Mary's church in Heworth. The children really enjoyed listening to Rev. Val Sheddon explaining what happens during a baptismal service and even baptized little baby Mary in front of her proud parents, Liam and Bethany. The children enjoyed investigating the church after the talk and got to handle lots of the artifacts that were used during the service.

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The Year One and Two children have been building models of houses in Wardley. After walking around Wardley to investigate the different types of homes found in the local area, the children had to design, build and evaluate a Wardley home.

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In Key Stage One, the children have been finding out all about Wardley. After a walk around the local area, we decided what we liked and didn't like about the locality.

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During our Be Healthy week, Stephen Turnbell, a professional footballer from Hartlepool United, came into Year One and Two to discuss with the children the importance of a healthy diet and doing plenty of exercise. He also delivered some coaching, wowed the children and staff with his tricks and skills, and refereed some 7 a side matches. The children had a great afternoon and discovered how much hard work and dedication it takes to be an elite athlete.

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