The annual Key Stage One Wardley Sports Day was held on Wednesday 11th July 2007. A fantastic time was had by the children, parents and all staff. There were seven different races: Running, Skipping, Hopping, Jumping, Quoits Balance, Bean Bag Balance and Through the hoop. After the seven competitive races, the Red team came out winners. It was an extremely close competition with the Red team only taking the lead with two races to go. The children were all very enthusiastic and brilliantly behaved.
1. Red 28 points
2. Yellow 23 points
3. Green 22 points
4. Blue 11 points

Red team captain presented with the trophy by Mr Malik.

Once the team event had finished, we held races for the fastest boy and girl runners in each year group.

Winner of girl year one race: Casey Bencito
Winner of boy year one race: Oliver Barnett
Winner of girl year two race: Rachel Bushell
Winner of boy year two race: Drew Hodgson

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In early July, the Year One and Two classes carried out a presentation of their fruit and vegetables topic. The aim of the presentation was to show to the parents how fruit and vegetables are an important part of a balanced diet and how fruit and vegetables can be great fun. The children sang a healthy eating song and then acted out a drama based on characters from a balanced diet, for example, Terri Tomato and Barry Burger. The children then took on the roles of teachers and led the parents through a series of activities. These included:
*Sorting packed lunch items into healthy and unhealthy.
*Creating a fruit salad that appeals to children.
*Creating a piece of fruit and vegetable art.
*Blind folded exotic fruit tasting.

This a piece of vegetable art work created by one of the parents.

This is one of the parent's designs for a fruit salad that would be appealling to a young child.

One of the children with their mum showing off their art work.

Two children checking whether the parents have sorted the healthy and unhealthy together.

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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.

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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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On Thursday 24th May 2007, the parents and grandparents of the Reception children came to watch the Healthy Eating Presentation. The children talked about their favourite healthy foods and ways of keeping fit. They demonstrated how to warm up for exercise. The adults had the opportunity to carry out activities about healthy eating with guidance from their child. Finally they were entertained by a fantastic dance routine. The event was well attended and enjoyed by all.

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From the data collected by the Year 6 children for the school travel plan, it was found that upto 70 cars can be parked outside school at the end of the school day. As there are so many cars, it led to 38% to be parked illegally. All the children and staff at Wardley found this to be a startling number. To tackle this problem, we have decided to try and reduce the number of cars parked outside school to make Wardley a safer, less congested and polluted place for all in the local community.

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Year One and Two have been learning all about the Easter story. Throughout the week, the children developed a greater understanding of the events that occurred in the last week leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. The focus was predominately on role-play and drama.

We began the week by re-enacting Palm Sunday. Each of the children made a giant palm leaf and waved them as Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey.

As Jesus rode in, we sang ‘We have a King who rides a Donkey.’

The following day, we studied the events of the last supper. We broke and shared the bread and wine (blackcurrant juice) and washed each other’s feet, just as Jesus’ did with his disciples.

Finally, we read the final part of the Easter story and discussed the symbols that remind us of Easter. This led us to produce an Easter card using either religious or non-religious symbols.

All the children visited Priory Court to give the elderly residents the card that they had made. This helped the children understand that Easter is a time of celebration for Christians in the wider community.

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