Last week saw the culmination of weeks of hard work and practice, the year six performance of ‘The Jungle Book’ finally took to the stage at Heworth High School.
This extravaganza of music, dance and acting was very well received by critics.

‘That was amazing; I can’t believe that they are only eleven years old!’ Mrs. L. Gillie
‘The hard work has paid off; there were some magnificent performances’ Mr. T. Scott
‘The dancing was incredible. The energy levels were out of this world.’ Miss D. Scott
‘Ga blo od a dad a.’ (I loved it, especially King Louie.) Miss G. Arthur (9 months)

Read on for photos.

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Gateshead Stadium played host to 48 Primary Schools from across Gateshead on Friday 22nd June 2007. It was a full day of sporting competition for the children selected from Year 4 and Year 5. They all demonstrated excellent team spirit and were outstanding with their effort and behaviour. We even managed to win medals in the Y4 girls 60m relay, Y4 girls 50m sprint, Y4 girls jumping, and the Y4 boys 60m sprint!

Representing Year 4 were:
Amy Barron, Jessica Kirtley, Nicole Dunlop, Emma Wells, Bethany Frizzel, Sophie McCulloch, Nathan Clark, Aidan Willis, Rhys Mitcheson, Ellis Green, Nathan Johnson and Jamie Hind.

The Year 5 crew were:
Lauren Elderbrant, Charlene Bastholm, Emily Bell, Terri Atkinson, Paige Mitcheson, Danyal Husnu, Ryan Elstob, Kieran Robinson, Jonathan Sembrano and Josh McCulloch.

And of course we could not forget about our excellent parent helpers who came along, A big thank you to Mr Frizzel, Ms Green and Mr Robinson!

Take a closer look at the effort and jubilation our squad showed.

The winning relay team: before

and after:

Semi-finalists

Amy didn't realise she had won the 600m and was ready to do another lap!

Aidan races his way into the 60m final.

Nicole skipped her way to the 60m skipping final.

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Tuesday 19th June did not bring a typical Literacy lesson for most KS2 children; instead it provided them with the opportunity to meet another author, this time Dutch Children's author, Jose Hofstede.

Jose has written five books in the Brave Hunter series and is currently touring England. The children were given an insight into the writing and publishing process before being given the opportunity to ask any reading and writing questions they thought she could help them with.

Visit the website at www.Brave-Hunter.co.uk

To read more about the experience Nicole Dunlop and Dylan Cook had, click on the link below
Download file

Jose asked the teachers to choose three children from each session who deserved to recieve a personalised signed book from her. They were chosen because of their listening skills and involvement in the session.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR BOOK WINNERS

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For the third year in a row, Wardley have been crowned the Year 5/6 Gateshead Schools ASDA Kwik Cricket champions. It is a wonderful achievement for the team, and the pupils and staff at Wardley are all extremely proud of the cricketers.

The festival was held at our local club, Felling. Wardley took both an 'A' and a 'B' team. The 'B' team performed admirably winning 3 out of the 4 matches. Unfortunately, this was not quite enough to lead them through to the semi-finals. The 'A' team won their group and the semi-final quite comfortably, with four comprehensive victories. The final was a tight affair but excellent bowling from the whole team saw the Wardley ‘A’ side home.

Mr Evans was delighted with the victory as it was a just reward for the children’s hard work in training throughout the cold, wet winter months in preparation for the tournament. The next stage of the competition is the regional finals, which will be held at the test match arena, The Riverside at Chester Le Street.

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