Thinking Like Scientists in PE!
Year 5 and 6 have been using their chemistry knowledge of materials, and their properties, to help develop skills in PE lessons.
We have been using a variety of equipment (made from different materials) in our games and exercises. After feeding back our thoughts of the sizes, shapes and properties of the materials, we agreed the best and worst equipment to suit each task. Turns out it’s not easy to throw a rugby ball into a basketball hoop!
Pupils have thoroughly enjoyed exploring this aspect, using their inside learning in their outside activities.
Bike to School week and Let’s ride
Bike to School week and Let’s ride
Biking and scooting are one of the ways we encourage children to actively travel to and from school and next week we’ll be taking part in Bike to School Week (with Sustrans and the Bikeability Trust). We are pleased to be part of this UK-wide event, encouraging families to cycle, or scoot, to school. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate active school journeys and the positive impact it has on children’s health and wellbeing – as well as the environment.
Scooter storage facilities are available at the top of the playground near the gazebo.
Also, taking place this weekend is the free Let’s Ride session held locally at the Brownlee Centre.
This free family community event is ideal for the whole family to enjoy cycling in a safe and friendly space. At the Leeds Brownlee Centre, Bodington Playing Fields, you can ride at your own pace as many times as you like with volunteers on hand to chat all things cycling.
Sign up for the event here.
New Reading Records
This week, we’re excited for all the ways your child can engage with reading at home in these new Reading Records.
The new Reading Records offer the following benefits:
- it is a place for children to record the books/texts they’ve read and rate them out of five stars
- there are a range of activities your child will accomplish throughout the year based on what they’ve read (each week, details of this task will be on your homework letters)
- it gives children a chance to enhance their love of reading during our weekly Book Club sessions in school
- it gives children ownership and responsibility of their reading
- there are loads of exciting challenges to complete to become a Reading Challenge Champion
- it can be a place for parents to share with teachers the wonderful reading their child has been doing at home.
This week, the activity your child should complete based on their reading is…
Complete the front cover.
We’re very much looking forward to the children bringing them in next week for Book Club and signed by an adult.
Early Reading
The session will start at 6pm and last around 20-25 minutes, plus there will be a questions and answer session at the end of around 5-10 minutes.
The link to this zoom session will be emailed to all parents and carers by Monday 27th September. If you do not receive a link and would like to attend please contact the school office.
Help your child at home – recent workshops
Thank you to everyone who has attended our recent Zoom sessions to help you support your child at home. Watch the phonics session and the Early Years introduction.
Help your child at home – phonics
Thank you to everyone who attended our recent Zoom session to help you support your child at home. You can watch the phonics session here.
3/4 C Class News
What a fabulous week of learning!
Today, we have enjoyed using Kahoot to answer retrieval questions all about Edinburgh!
This week, we have been answering the question ‘Where in the world am I?’. We know that England has been split into different counties. Scholes and Leeds are in the county of West Yorkshire.
Finally, we have considered the 8Rs for learning. We have tried to decide which one was the most important – this was a difficult task because they are all important. What do you think?
Exploring Nursery
What a busy week! It was lovely to see our older children return to Nursery on Monday and hear all about their holiday adventures. They all settled back into Nursery brilliantly and were quick to notice the changes that we’ve made to the Rainbow and Sunshine Rooms.
We also welcomed our new children to Nursery for their first sessions this week. There were lots of happy faces and just a few wobbles! Try not to worry too much if your child has a little wobble or struggles to say goodbye in the morning. We often find that a quick hug, a big smile and waving good bye works best and children usually settle very quickly once you’ve gone. We will always give you a call if your child continues to be upset, so if you don’t hear from us, you can presume that your child is happy and busy playing!
Children have loved exploring their new environments, both inside and out. The climbing frame, sand and dinosaurs have been very popular in the garden and inside, children have enjoyed scooping water beads, rolling out the dough, cooking in the home corner and painting at the easel.
Over the next few weeks, we will continue helping children to settle in and become familiar with our routines.
Reminders
- Please make sure your child has a spare pair of wellies and a full change of clothes to leave at Nursery.
- Remember to bring a NAMED water bottle every day.
- Help your child to become more independent by… choosing shoes with Velcro fastenings (not buckles or laces) and ensuring that trousers are elasticated and can be pulled up/down easily when toileting.
Welcome to Reception: Week 2!
We are so pleased to have all of our children in full-time! They have all settled into Reception so brilliantly and we are very proud of them all. We are enjoying getting to know them and all of their unique personalities and interests.
Take a look at what we’ve been up to this week:
Did you know…
Your child has their very own named space on display in the classroom, where they can choose to display the learning that they feel most proud of!
School library visits and books for home…
Each week, your child will visit the school library with their class. When they visit the library, they will be able to choose a book to share with their adult/s at home. It’s important that alongside teaching the children the skills they need to become readers, we help to develop a love and enjoyment of reading too! Here are some fun ways that you can support your child’s reading at home:
- Have conversations about the pictures in the book- what can you see?
- Introduce the author, illustrator and blurb. Discuss whether you have read any other books together, written by the same author. Does the blurb seem similar to anything else you have read together?
- Ask your child to predict what might happen in the story? What happens after the story finishes?
- Ask your child how the character feels. How do they know? Do the pictures give us clues?
- Ask your child to retell the story in their own words.
Snacks and Water…
In class, we provide a healthy fruit or vegetable snack each day. If your child would prefer to bring in their own snack, please ensure this contains only fruit and/or vegetables and that it is in a named container, which your child can keep in their tray. We are a nut-free school, so no nut products in snack or lunch boxes please.
If your child brings grapes as part of their morning snack, please always ensure that they are cut lengthways.
Water bottles should contain plain water. Your child can choose to have milk with their morning snack, which is free until they turn five. If you would like your child to continue having milk after their fifth birthday, you can contact the school office. The cost of milk is £12 each term.
Home-link Activity- Week Commencing 20.09.21
Our current learning is All About Me! This week, we’ll focus on our families and the way that all families are different. Please send a photograph in, of your child with their family. You could email the photo to the email address below and we’ll print it in school.
Please also feel free to use the Reception email address any time, to share achievements and learning from home. We’d love to celebrate these in class!
Helping Support Your Child at Home…
Thank you to everyone who has attended our recent Zoom sessions to help you support your child at home. Watch the phonics session and the Early Years introduction. (And apologies for the distracting cursor in the latter – maybe that’s a nervous habit of Mr Roundtree!)
Isolation Home Learning Emails…
This week, you will receive an Isolation/ Home Learning Email. This will be sent each week, to provide home learning activities. The activities should only be used if your child needs to isolate and cannot attend school.
Reminders…
Please ensure all of your child’s clothing and property is clearly labelled with their name.
Diary Dates…
–Reception: Support your child’s reading– 6.00pm, Thursday 30 September 2021 (Zoom link TBC)
–Individual School Photographs– Wednesday 13 October 2021
Class novel – The Enchanted Wood
We have started our class novel, The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton, and all the children are enthralled already. It is a classic, which you may have read yourselves or have a copy of at home. Read along at home, if you like, or you could ask your child which characters we have met so far and what they like about the story.
