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Wardley Primary School in partnership with Wardley Children's Centre, launched a six week pre-nursery programme in the summer term for the children due to begin nursery this September. The aim was to support parents and children with the important first step of starting education.

The first week of the programme involved a meeting for the parents to attend and was to share the aims and structure of the programme. For the following five weeks, sessions were aimed at both parents and children. The programme was based around five main themes:

Week 1: Stories and books
Week 2: Nursery rhymes
Week 3: Number rhymes and songs
Week 4: Action rhymes and songs
Week 5: Mark making/ fine motor development

Each session involved a short adult led activity and then allowed the children and parents to engage in play activities related to the theme of the session. The children had access to the Early Years outdoor area for four of the five weeks and thoroughly enjoyed exploring the area. The fifth week allowed the children to have the opportunity to visit, explore and play in their nursery classroom.

The sessions allowed the children to become familiar with their new school and nursery environment. It also gave the children the opportunity to meet other children from their nursery class and meet their new teacher, Miss Gillie. The parents and children also received activity ideas, factsheets, a free book, colouring sheets, nursery rhyme and song words to carry on the educational fun at home over the holidays!

We look forward to the children beginning their education in nursery with us in September!

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The main event of the day was the Wardley's Got Talent show! Unfortunately Simon Cowell , Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan were not available to come and host the show but Mr Malik & Miss Gillie AKA Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden stepped in to host both the shows!There was a variety of acts from singing to the Cadburys advert.

The winners were as follows:
YEAR 3/4
1st Aaron Cook (Micheal Jackson)
2nd Laura Holden (dancing)
3rd Tamara Grey (singing)

YEAR 5/6

1st Lorielle Layson (piano)
2nd Lauren Richardson,Megan Burnett,Cydney Sloan,Courtney Cains,Paige Cowton (dance to JLS)
3rd Charlie Buckham (singing)

Early Years and Key Stage One held the second talent show and lots of children showcased their talents. Everyone was the winner.

Alongside the main show, a few other mini events were held, such as: a KS2 fair, making and selling biscuits and cakes and much more.

A special thank you to parents and carers who made very generous donations of homemade cakes and biscuits for us to sell at the Cake Stall after school. The stall proved to be very popular indeed!

Thank you to everyone for taking part and making the day a huge success. Wardley Primary School are proud to announce that £740.00 was made for the victims of the Haiti disaster.

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The Early Years children have just finished their Goodies and Baddies topic for this half term. The topic began with a dressing up day, where the children came dressed as their favourite goody or baddy character.

The teachers then followed the children's interests and planned the topic around the children's favourite characters. The themes the children were interested in were: Princes and Princesses; fairy tale characters; Monsters; Winnie the Witch; and C Beebies characters such as Sportacus and Robbie Rotten, Finley the Fire Engine and Fireman Sam.

The topic ended with a visit from the Police Community Support Officer, who explained to us about being a goody in and around the community and about the dangers of strangers. Some of us decided we might like to be a Police Officer when we grow up! To see more about our Police visit, see Goodies in the community- Police and Fire-Fighters in the EYFS!

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During our recent topic of Goodies and Baddies, we found out about Goodies in the community and learned about the fantastic work that Police Officers and Fire-Fighters do. To end the topic, the children really enjoyed having a visit from the local Police Community Officer. They learned all about what a Police Officer does and about keeping safe from strangers in the holidays. The children did some colouring work with the Police Officer and tried on some of the uniform too!

The children had a great time dressing up in our own Police and Fire-fighters costumes and role-playing the jobs. They even made a fantastic fire-engine to get to the emergency quicker and used old pipes as fire hoses!

A fantastic topic that was enjoyed by all of the children and lots of valuable information was learned.

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The children in reception made the most out of the recent snowy weather.

They made sure that they were dressed for the snow and put on their coats, hat, scarf, gloves and of course, wellies!
They did snow dances; made snow angels on the ground by lying down and flapping their arms and legs; did snowy art work on the ground exploring the ways that they could use their hands, fingers and feet to create pictures in the snow; they made marks in the snow and wrote their name and other messages for each other; they went into role pretending to be ice skaters; and they enjoyed sticking their tongues out to taste the snow- the children described it as: "icy cold", "freezing", "melty" and "tickly". The children had a fantastic time in the snow.

We hope it snows again soon!

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The children in nursery have been very busy learning about sounds.

They have been learning to use their ears and listen very carefully to sounds in the environment. We went on a sound walk and took photos of all the different sounds that we could hear. We then played a very exciting game called drum outdoors where we explored all the different sounds we could make with a drum beater outside. It was very noisy! We have been learning the names of musical instruments and experimenting with the different ways they can be played and the sounds that they can make. We have discovering lots of new sounds we can make and we have been learning lots of new words related to sounds too.

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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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Last year the children from Key Stage One and Key Stage Two were asked to take part in a competition to compose a short poem for three stone seats that were to be made and put into Wardley Park for the community to use.

Continue reading "Wardley Community Park Stone Work" »

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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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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.

Continue reading "Rocket Mars 5 flies from Wardley!" »

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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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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.

Continue reading "Who lives in a house like this?" »

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On Wednesday 11th June 2008, Gateshead Leisure Centre held their annual line dancing festival. After weeks of practising, Miss Gardner and Miss Allan took a team of 12 excited children along to show off their line dancing skills.

Continue reading "Line Dancing Festival" »

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On Thursday 12th June 2008, Y5/6 spent the day in the Ingram Valley, Alnwick, investigating the River Breamish / Till (the only river in the North East of England with two names!).

Continue reading "River Detectives" »

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