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Our Reception teachers are Miss Hutchinson and Miss Gibson.

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Reception G enjoy exploring the different areas in our classroom and outdoors. We like to use the construction materials to build and explore different materials and media in the creative environment.

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We love to play in the different areas of our classroom and to explore new things.

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We have learnt all about ourselves, different celebrations and have recently started our new topic 'Winter Wonderland'. They have been on an Autumn walk to look at the changes in seasons and investigated ice to help the penguins. We have created their own penguin fact books and have been excited and eager to write their own letters to Antarctica!

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Our Year 1 teachers are Miss Edwards and Mrs Wills (who job share) and Mr Thompson.

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The children in Year 1WE have made a fantastic start to the year! We have loved learning about the artists Roy Lichenstein and Andy Goldsworthy and used them as inspiration for our own art.

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The boys and girls in 1T have been exploring the art work of Quentin Blake. We recreated some of his art and then drew our own pictures using his techniques. We have, of course, read Roald Dahl books when learning about Quentin Blake. We really enjoyed Fantastic Mr Fox and also wrote a report about foxes which meant we explored foxes in fiction and non-fiction.

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All of Year 1 recently had a visit from Animal Antics who brought along a variety of animals for us to meet. They even left some stick insects with us  to look after!

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Our Year 2 teachers are Miss Moore and Miss Grewcock.

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Year 2G are very hardworking and enthusiastic class. They are always wanting to learn and put their energy and mind to everything they do.

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The children in 2G have really enjoyed learning about the Great Fire of London as well as Ernest Shackleton and the Antarctic. Furthermore they have really enjoyed painting a huge starry night picture in the style of Van Gogh and love rattling of facts to anyone who asks.

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Reception H have enjoyed learning about the different seasons and have recently been on an autumn walk and have began our new topic 'Winter Wonderland' where we investigated ice in our classroom.

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Our Nursery class is run by Mrs Harrison.

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Our Year 6 teachers are Mr Storey and Miss Donnison.

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Our Year 3 teachers are Miss Diamond and Mrs Wright.

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Our Year 4 teachers are Miss Cawthra and Mr Holmes.

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We are a Primary School based in the North East of England in South Shields and have 14 classes from Nursery to Year 6.

Our school week is 35 hours long and operates from Monday to Friday. We teach maths, literacy, french, music, art, design and technology, physical education, spelling, punctuation, grammar, ict, science, reading, history, geography and PSHE.

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South Shields is a coastal town at the mouth of the River Tyne in the North East of England. We have stunning beaches, coves and limestone cliffs, known as The Leas which are a National Trust protected area.

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This is the groyne which marks a safe entrance between the two piers

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The world famous Great North Run, ends at the coast in South Shields.

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Marsden Rock

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Marine Park

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Town Hall

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This is the conversation piece, known locally as 'The Weebles', which is a famous artwork produced by Juan Muñoz.

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We are so proud of Ridgeway and the journey we have been on. Ridgeway is now classed as a 'Good' school by Ofsted (November 2016) and have seen results improve dramatically. Our progress in writing is the best in the whole country (over 22,000 schools) and our reading and maths progress is in the top 1% of the country.

We also make sure we cater for children who have the potential to achieve top results with the highest % of children achieving a higher standard in KS2 in the whole of South Tyneside being at Ridgeway.

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Our Year 5 teacher is Mr Poulton.

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Nursery have been exploring lots of sounds this term, including environmental, body and instrumental sounds. We even made our own Ridgeway band!

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Year 2M are a fun and energetic class. We love learning by being active and getting hands on with lots of different activities. We are a super friendly bunch who love to be kind and respectful to each other.

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In Year Three, we have been learning about the Stone Age and we even made stone age poo! We have also been identifying different parts of the UK and we made leaflets advertising our local area and explaining everything South Shields has to offer.

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We have been working hard to build up the little muscles in our fingers too in preparation to use a pencil and start writing our names. We particularly loved hammering golf tees into giant pumpkins!

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So far, we have loved learning about the Great Fire of London and have even set some wooden houses on fire to see how quickly the fire spreads. We have also enjoyed learning how to eat healthy in science and written some fantastic letters from the Antarctic in English.