Mrs Latham, Author at Scholes (Elmet) Primary School, Leeds

Scholes in Bloom – winning design

A group of children went out to meet the Britain in Bloom judges today. The winning designer of the Scholes in Bloom competition was there and everyone admired the planted design in the flowerbed outside school. It looks fabulous!

Design Technology – perfect puppets

We have absolutely loved our design technology topic this half term. Sewing has turned into a new-found favourite past time for so many children! The finale of the topic was comparing and evaluating our designs to our finished products. I’m sure you are as impressed as we were with our puppets. The children can’t wait to bring them home to play with and show their families.

Living and Learning : drug education from D:Side

We had a visitor from D:Side this week telling us all about how to keep our bodies healthy and safe, as part of our Living and Learning lessons. The children (and adults) were all transfixed by the excellent workshop. Ask your child what they learnt.

Sports day – KS2 Competitive

The key stage 2 children in years 3, 4 5 and 6 enjoyed a lovely sunny sports day last week after a break since 2019 because of the pandemic. There was some very competitive races but also lots of support for everyone for joining in too. Thank you to all the families and friends who came. The adult races at the end were particularly entertaining!

Living and learning : Drug education

We have been talking about drugs this week – a substance that changes the way the body or mind works.

The children were very good at discussing different substances and whether they are helpful or harmful – lots can actually be both, in different situations.

We also looked at different scenarios and talked about what we would do in that situation.

Sports Roundabout

We had a successful Sports Roundabout this afternoon after a break since 2019, due to the pandemic. All the children enjoyed collecting points for their team and showed great teamwork and support for each other. Thank you to all the families who came to show their support too. The points are listed below.

1st Northern Ireland 507 points

2nd Iceland 518 points

3rd Germany 502 points

4th Portugal 493 points

5th Sweden 483 points

6th Italy 477 points

7th Belgium 454 points

8th Spain 394 points

9th Netherlands 379 points

10th Norway 366 points

11th France 360 points

12th England 346 points

Skipping School

Living and learning : RSE

Our Living and learning lessons for the next few weeks are all about families and relationships. We have talked about how each of our families are different and are made up of different people and sometimes across different households too. Lots of children shared how many people were in their family and could talk about their special people.

Reading, writing, maths design technology and art!

We try to make as many links as possible in our learning. The last couple of weeks have been particularly linked! We read a book about how to draw a cat and dog, which led us to writing instructions ourselves. The instructions have linked to our maths learning about position, shape and direction. We followed instructions to draw the cat in our art lessons and have also been following lots of instructions when we have been learning to sew!

Triathlon – winning team announced!

The red team were the winners for our inaugural Scholes Triathlon event, organised by FOSP. All the children reported enjoying the event and it raised over £250 for FOSP. All funds go back into school and providing extra enhancements for the children, so thank you to everyone who contributed!