This term, the year 3/4 topic is 'Terrible Tudors'. We will be focussing on Henry VIII and his six wives, portraits of Elizabeth 1st and the Armarda. Please click below to find out more.
On Tuesday 15th December, the pupils from year 3 and 4 held their annual christmas party. The children played their favourite games including musical bumps and corners, with the children making the final receiving sweet prizes. After a huge feast and a well deserved rest for their dancing feet, the children finished their party off with a boys versus girls dance off.
We hope all of the children have a fantastic christmas with their families and best wishes for the new year from all of the year 3/4 staff!
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To complete the Year 3/4 'Murder down the Mine' topic, a mysterious murder has been solved with a little bit of help from our parents and carers. The Year 3/4 children sent the school back in time to 1913, when mining was one of the major industries in the north east of England. A murder had taken place at the local Wardley colliery. Inspector James, the local policeman, asked for the help of the Wardley community to solve the murder of a miner. After watching a film showing interviews of the different witnesses giving evidence in the murder investigation, the auidence had to workout:
Who was the victim?
Who was the murderer?
What was the motive?
The parents and carers were real sleuths and successfully solved the terrible crime.
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?
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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Last week, the Year 3/4 classes took a trip to Beamish Open Air Museum. First we took a coach to Beamish. When we got there, we got on a tram to take us to the train station. We walked to down to the train station to look around. Suddenly, a man came running over the bridge. The man said he was an inspector and there had been a murder in the ladies room. He asked for our help and took us inside so we could see the body and search for clues. Inspector James gave us the clues he found around the body and we all went to different places that linked to the clues. The places were the garage, the co-op, the bank, the print shop, the dentist and the place where the music teacher was working. Each group took their clues and talked to the people working inside of these places. We all come back together afterwards and solved a real murder from the past! After that we had some lunch and a rest. We then went down a mine with a real geordie miner! He told us about how tough it was working down the mine. We all had to wear hard hats because the mine ceiling was very low. When we were inside, the lights went out. It was really spooky!
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This term, the year 3/4 topic is Murder Down The Mine. We will be focussing on mining in Victorian times, with a strong link to local history. Please click below to find out more.
Year 3/4 visited the Great North Museum to investigate Egyptian life, After researching famous Pharaohs such as Tutankahmun, Nefertiti and Ramses, and learning how the Rosetta Stone helped to translate hierogylphics, the children were given the opportunity to be involved in a mummification of a body - not a real one of course! The pupils thoroughly enjoyed identifying the different internal organs and studying x-rays of a sarcophagus containing a mummy. Year 3/4 loved sharing the gory details!
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During the first part of the autumn term, the year 3/4 children will be learning all about ancient Egypt as part of our topic.
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On Monday 18th July 2011, the children from Year 3/4a visited the wildlife pond at Bill Quay farm. During science lessons this half term, the children have been working hard on a project about different habitats. First, they found out about the habitats in the school grounds and then a contrasting habitat at Bill Quay farm.
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On Tuesday 5th July 2011, Year 3/4 had a sports day. There was a red, green, yellow and blue team . The children had a very fun space hooper race, a skipping race, egg and spoon race, a through the hoop race and last but not least, the relay!
After the relay, the teachers added up the points of the teams and the Green Team had won! Miss English took a photo of the team captains of Green team 1 and 2 and Mr Malik congratulated them on their victory by giving them a trophy. After the team races, the teachers rounded up the fastest boys and girls in year 3 and 4.
The winner of the year 4 boys : Jordan Hutchingson
The winner of the year 4 girls : Sophie Colman,
The winner of the year 3 boys : Jay Hodgson
The winner of the year 3 girls: Sophie Roberts.
At the end everyone saw their parents and went smartly back into class.
By Josie Ball and Holly Swaddle
The Year 3/4 teachers would like to thank all the parents for their fantastic support and congratulate the efforts of the children, who were brilliant.
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During the last week of the food topic,year 3/4 went on a amazing trip to the Centre
for Life for a "Keeping Healthy" workshop. We went on a Metro to get to Central station, then we walked to the centre. When we got there we had to follow our leader who was called Emma. Once we got to the lab we put on our lab coats.Then we sat down in our groups.One group were making fake scabs on cotton wool,the other group looked at animal skulls and teeth,the third group sorted foods into groups and the last group looked at x-rays.The x-ray group plastered a mannequin arm. After that we took our lab coats off and we set off back to school. We had a FANTASTIC time!!!
By Mr Munday's class
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During our ready steady cook topic we looked at and made fruit salads. When we looked at them we looked at the colours of the fruit and how to chop them. We practiced chopping the fruit. The banana was the hardest to cut because we had to make each slice into a cross shape. The grape was the easiest to cut. Then we made our own fruit salad. We had kiwi fruit, apple, grapes, strawberries and lots of other different fruit. We made faces and different patterns. We sold them, took them home and ate them. They smelt as fresh as a daisy and they tasted wonderful with all the different fruits.
By Emma Dickson (Year 3)
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In March and April, Year 3 and 4 went on a trip to the Jorvik Viking Centre. It took us two hours to get there on the coach, it was very long! As we arrived at York, we split up into two groups to look at different things. One of the things was the dig and the other was going in the Viking Centre itself. In the dig you had to dig up bones and old objects it was cool to discover all these brilliant things! Next we went to the Jorvik Centre and we went on this ride that took you through a Viking village. It really was smelly! When we were going home, we were very sad the trip had ended but we had a lot of fun! Mr. Munday gave us some activity sheets so we didn't get bored. When we arrived at school it was 5:30 and we were all very tired. It was a great trip. I hope I can go back again!!!
By Josie Ball and Amy Porthouse (Year 4)
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Exactly 500 days before the Olympic and Paralympic Games are due to come to Great Britain, boys and girls from Year 3 and 4 amazed the crowd with their performance at the Sage Gateshead for the Gateshead Schools Dance Festival. In total, there were 24 energetic dances to watch during the morning show. Each dance followed the theme of 'Olympic and Paralympic Dreams', showing us a range of sports that will be coming to Great Britain in 2012. Team 'Go All Out' wowed the crowd with their twists and turns, jumps and poses to fit the athletic theme. For the past eight weeks, all of the children have been working incredibly hard, rehearsing after-school and at lunchtime. It was evident that all of their hard work paid off as the crowd cheered loudly and the children were beaming! After coming off the stage Jon Gavina exclaimed "I could go up and do it again, I feel like dancing again!" We are all really excited to do it again next year!
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To complete the 'Ooh La La!' topic, the Year 3/4 children took part in a Tour de Wardley cycle race, replicting the real Tour de France.
The children had to race on a route round the school grounds which they had designed in their geography lessons. The children had mapped out a route which had various slopes and terrains.
The children were placed into 6 teams:
*Team Renoir
*Team Monet
*Team Arc de Triomphe
*Team Louvre
*Team Eiffel Tour
*Team Bouchon
The team with the quickest total time would win the Tour de Wardley. After 9 fantastic races, the winning team were Team Bouchon. Their winning time was record as 7 minutes and 28 seconds.
A special prize was given to Sean Hardy for getting the fastest individual time.
It was a brilliant event which was an excellent way to complete the topic.
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As part of the French 'Ooh La La!' topic, the Year 3/4 children have been learning about the Tour de France. To celebrate their learning, Year 3/4 held a 'Bike It' breakfast. Working alongside Alan Barlow from the 'Sustrans' charity (Sustainable transport), the children were encouraged to cycle to school as a way of helping the environment, being healthy and to reduce traffic congestion. As a reward for cycling to school with their parents/carers the children had a french breakfast.
The breakfast was a fantastic success with over 100 children, parents and carers cycling to school. Year 3/4 staff would like to thank Alan for providing all the food and helping set up the breakfast.
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On February 9th 2011, children from year three and four went on a special visit to a French restaurant. This half term the children have been completing an Ooh La La topic about French culture. To allow the children to speak a little French in a real life context the children visited La Bouchon, recently voted the best local French bistro in the country by Gordon Ramsey!
This is what Aaron thought of the day...
When we went to the restaurant it was a long journey to Hexham. Everybody was tired on the way back. We went to the park before the French restaurant. It was fun. In the restaurant, first we had freshly made French bread. Of course everybody loved it! For the main we had mashed potato, pork and vegetables. All of it was really tasty with a lush gravy over the top. It was the best I've ever had. Finally for dessert we had this giant profiterole. The chocolate was not dairy milk sadly but it was still nice. The cream inside was delicious. I would love to go again!
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The Year 4 children took part in a multiskills competition at Heworth Comprehensive School. They competed against Roman Road in 10 different events, testing their skill, speed, balance and accuracy. All the children enjoyed the event and Wardley team D and A finished first and second. Both Mr Munday and Mr Evans were delighted with the behaviour of the children, setting a fantastic example. They were a credit to the school.
During the spring term, the year 3/4 children will be learning all about France as part of our topic.
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On Thursday 2nd December, Expo Chef came into Wardley Primary to show us how to eat healthy over the festive season with a healthy eating workshop. The children were given the opportunity to create a range of different dishes including; quick and easy appetizers, fresh salads, juicy smoothies and a tasty turkey stir fry. There was also a range of different and unusual fruit, vegetables and herbs for the children, parents and teachers to taste!
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On Friday 19th November, Wardley Primary went spotastic for the day! The children took part in a range of different spotty activities to help raise money for Children in Need. These included; the spotty copper challenge, where each class had to create the largest copper spot, a spot the celebrity quiz, a Pudsey colouring in competition and guess the number of smarties in the jar. The children and staff donated £1 to wear their own spotty clothes and visited the special children in need cake stalls. As well as having a whole load of fun, the children and staff managed to raise £565. We would like to thank everyone who helped support the event and make the day so memorable and in particular all those who generously donated cakes for the stalls.
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Over the last half term, Mr Evans' and Miss English's classes have been receiving tennis sessions delivered by a coach from Blaydon Tennis Coach. They have been learning how to grip a racket correctly, get into the 'ready' position, play a forehand and backhand. The children have thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and have really improved their tennis skills. The some of the children will have the opportunity to apply their new found skills at a tennis tournament around Easter time.
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On Wednesday 8th December 2010, the Year 3/4 children held their annual Christmas Carol service. The performance told the Nativity story and included the singing of traditional carols. Despite the late change of venue due to the wintery weather conditions, there was a large audience for both performances. The children sang beautifully and certainly put all those watching in a festive mood.
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As part of our Big Writing, Mr Evans' class had a competition to see whose recount of the castle keep visit could be used as an entry on the school website. In our plenary, we read our friends' work and choose the recount we thought was the best. Alex Kew's recount was the winner.
On Tuesday, my class went on a trip to the Castle Keep. We had went on the metro and we had to travel through 4 stops. After that we got off the metro. A few minutes later, we were nearly to the castle keep. It was enormous! It was really old. It was a 1000 years old. We had went all the way to the top. It was a little bit icy, I nearly slipped. We found all the masons marks on the top so we went back to the middle and saw if we could see any more marks and we did. It had lots of stairs, 133. Two minutes later, we had went down into the dungeon. It was a bit dark. We had went to the King's Chamber. We didn't see the King's bed but we did see his toilet. The King and Queen didn't live together.
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As part of the 'Catwalk Kids' topic, the children created their own 80s clothes. The children tie dyed a t-shirt and choose a slogan inspired by Wham's 'Choose Life' t-shirt. The chidren then took part in a fashion show and dance off. The children remade the introduction of the 1980s film Footloose. Then they became models by walking down the catwalk and producing many perfect poses. The fashion show ended with a dance off where the children showed dynamic dances and hip hop moves. All the children really enjoyed the experience of being a supermodel and dancer.
By Mr Evans' Class
During the second autumn term, the year 3/4 children will be learning all about castles as part of our topic.
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As part of the Catwalk Kids topic, the Y3/4 children have been finding out about clothes in the past. To experience clothing from the past 100 years, the children took part in a 'Fashion Works' workshop at the Discovery Museum. The children had the opportunity to feel various synthetic and natural materials such as polyester, wool, cotton, silk and lycra. The children then investigated lots of clothing from days gone by. They tried the clothes on and had to decide what they were made from and from which decade they were worn. . The children then had the opportunity to see the 'Fashion Works' exhibit, which showed how clothes have changed over time.
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The Year 3/4 Catwalk kids topic was launched today with Wardley's very own fashion show. With the help from some Year 2 and 6 pupils, Mr Evans, Miss English and Mr Munday created Wardley's version of London Fashion Week. The show presented a range of fashions: Formal wear, Sportswear, Clothes from around the World and Music through the ages.
To end the topic, the Year 3 and 4 children are to put on their own fashion show for their parents and carers. Over the coming weeks, the children will be finding out about clothes in the past, where clothes come from, designing and making their own clothes, composing their own music for the fashion show and creating their own dances and poses for their turn on the catwalk.
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Last week, the children at Wardley Primary School welcomed an Expo Chef. This was a very exciting event in school, where children were given the opportunity to learn about healthy eating. They even got the chance to prepare some delicious recipes by assisting our Expo Chef. Culinary creations included: homemade burgers, vegetable stew, salad and fruit smoothies. At the end of the session, the children were handed recipe booklets so that they could try out any of the delicious recipes at home. Miss Shields even tried out the vegetable stew in Healthy Eating club last week. We were delighted to hold the event in school because it encouraged children to try new dishes and to consider healthy choices when eating lunches at school or food at home.
Last Thursday was a very exciting day in Years 3 and 4. We had a visitor from the Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh. She came prepared with props and costumes that the children used to act out Grace's famous rescue mission. Curtis Mole was the captain of the Forfarshire and Bethany Wright was Grace Darling. Our topic this half term is Wild Weather and we hoped that this activity would help us to understand how people reacted to stormy weather conditions in the past. The children thoroughly enjoyed the session and they are looking forward to more visits and trips next half term to enrich our creative curriculum.
Thursday 4th March was World Book Day. The children had lots of fun participating in various activities in and out of school. The day started with the children arriving at school dressed as story characters from well known children's authors. Prizes were awarded to the best costumes in Foundation Stage, KS1 and KS2. Throughout the day, children were involved in book related activities. They had to design a new front cover for a brand new children's book and write a blurb. The winners were: Emma Dickson in Year 2, Casey Bencito in Year 4 and Rhys Prudhoe in Year 5. Activities were also organised out of school. For Years 1 and 2 this involved a trip to Waterstones where they used their £1 vouchers to purchase new books. Year 3 visited the fabulous St Mary's Heritage Centre where they were made puppets to retell Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. Year 4 went on a Beast Quest mission to Pelaw Library where they had lots of fun.
Joan Lennon, author of The Ferret Princess and Wag and the King, visited our school last Thursday. Throughout the day, Joan conducted workshops with years 3,4 and 5 in the school library. She promoted her new book: The Mucker's Tale, which is due to be published in the new year. It was an amazing event which has encouraged and inspired children in KS2 to read more of her books. Read on to find out how much fun we had!
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Year 3/4 went on an exciting adventure to explore the world of micro organisms at the Centre for Life in Newcastle. We investigated the micro organisms on our hands. This involved placing a sample on agar jelly and waiting to see what micro organisms grew. Lizzie from the Science Lab e-mailed our results the following week. This is what they looked like:
In class, we have also been conducting our own micro organism investigations. We used a special gel to find out how many micro organisms were present on our hands, even after we had washed them!
This demonstrated the importance of washing hands properly, using a good hand washing technique. This is extremely important to stop the spread of Swine Flu.
We all had a fabulous time and can't wait to do more science experiments!
Year 3/4 visited the Metro Arena on the 9th of July this year as an exit point for our fantastic Dinosaur Dynamos topic. We were amazed to see life sized robotic models of the creatures from the distant past brought to life with the magic of modern technology.
Everyone enjoyed the show and was not in the least bit scared of the terrible lizards, honest! Everyone cheered even when T-rex came onto the stage and roared at the crowd but she was frightened when Wardley roared back!
On the Friday before the Easter break, Mr Malik held an assembly to give out the prizes for our annual egg decorating competition. There was a winner and runner up for each year group and Mr Malik explained that it was eggtremely hard to choose the winners. "It was very clear that all of the children had tried their very best and this year the eggs were very creative and imaginative." he said.
On the 27th March, Barbara Wood, a librarian from Dryden came to Wardley Primary School to visit the children in year 3/4. The purpose of the visit was to enagage the children and to develop their love of reading. The children had hundreds of books to choose from and they were encouraged to browse and consider carefully which one they would like to borrow. The children chatted about thier favourite authors, characters and what they look for when choosing a book. Since the visit the children have enjoyed sharing and reading the books in the reading corner.
The children in year 3/4 have been working on a topic entitled Ready, Steady, Cook! The aim of this topic has been to investigate foods that contribute to a healthy diet. In February we started the topic with a pancake competition between the teachers in year 3/4 and to end our topic we invited parents and carers to come along to a workshop. The workshop aimed to show the parents and carers what the children had learned throughout the half term. Activities included: locating where different foods come from on a map of the world, evaluating packaging that the children had created, investigating healthy and unhealthy packed lunches, sorting food into food groups, making smoothies and creating a healthy sandwich. So that the ingredients were fully prepared, the day before the workshop, the children sliced, grated and chopped salad ingredients such as cucumber, carrots, tomatoes and lettuce.
On Wednesday 4th March, Year Three children went on a Maths quest to the Discovery Museum! They had to defeat the Phantom Claw...
On Thursday 18th December Y34 had their Christmas party. It started with dancing, followed by a few games and then party food. The children behaved wonderfully and everyone enjoyed themselves. It just went too quickly!!!
The teachers would like to say a huge thank you to all the grown ups who provided food; your generosity was very much appreciated by all the phase. Merry Christmas everyone!!!
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The children helped plan and perform a production of a different kind this year. We used the focus of our half term learning: 'Murder Down the Mine' as inspiration and created a play that reflected the importance of community spirit that was so strong in the 1900's mining community but is also applicable within this phase. The children developed their acting and singing skills as well as how to chant effectively. They choregraphed their chant and some stars, like Jake Robson, even added actions to the traditional carols.
The teaching staff were very impressed with their hard work and effort. To see more pictures click on the Gallery.
As part of our topic work about mines, we have been learning all about different types of rocks. In 3/4C, Mrs Dixon set us the challenge of using the properties of rocks that we have discovered to persuade the customer to buy a certain rock.
Oliver Barnett, from Friends Forever team produced the most persuasive letter about pumice.
William Crone, a guest for the afternoon, was selected by Cool Cidds for his letter on slate.
Jordan Evans, from Brainy team, wrote the best letter about marble.
Super Stars choice was Bethany Kendall's letter about chalk.
We have been learning how to half and quarter different numbers mentally as part of our Maths work. As we have become so good at this, Mrs Dixon set us a challenge.
This is how one group quartered each ingredient; they halved the amount and then halved it again
In September, the Year 3/4 teaching team put on a catwalk show of different fashions from across time periods, as well as different cultures, as a fun and exciting way to introduce our half term topic, named Catwalk Kids, that would enhance the teaching of the Foundation subjects through the theme of clothing.
The children gained an insight into materials used and the reasoning behind this as well as how cultures influence patterns and designs.
They created their own fashion magazine proformas using Microsoft Powerpoint based around observations made.
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Every week we have a 40 minute fitness session where we aim to complete 7 circuit activities. The aim is to work our bodies to the limit with rest periods slotted between each activity. As our fitness is improving, these are getting shorter but we still have time to rehydrate ourselves and measure our heart rate. After only 7 weeks, we are becoming fitter and more agile and we intend to keep improving next half term too!
Ian, a tennis coach, has come into school and has provided us with 6 weeks of highly skilled coaching. We have done a range of basic skills which have taught us how to control a ball with more confidence.
The Ian showed us how to use the ball with our racket to get used to holding it correctly.
As part of our Science learning this half term, we have been learning about different habitats. Mr Scott challenged the whole phase to choose a species and create an informative piece of writing on it.
We were also lucky to have a visitor, Rebecca, from the Hancock Museum who brought stuffed animals for us to examine to see how they are suited to their habitats to inspire the children even more.
