Dates for your diary
Key Dates for the Year: Here’s a list of dates for your diary, including Stay and Learns and our Learning Journey drop-in sessions, to help you plan ahead. These dates can also be found in your child’s Reception Welcome Pack.
Class Novel
In Year 5 and 6 this term, our class novel is…
Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
This novel links to our current History topic which includes learning about Ancient Egypt.
Help at home: Ask your child to summarise the key points of the story so far. Support them to be succinct by playing the ERM challenge! This is where they can’t say ERM or take long pauses when summarising! This will help develop their oracy skills.
Class information and Numbots logins
Your child will have brought home a class information letter and their Numbots/Times Table Rockstars login information. Have a look in their bags!
The class info letter is below too.
KS1 class information
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day to day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine. Please name everything your child brings into school.
- PE and/or swimming days – see below (PE kit from uniform policy can be worn all day on both days)
- Reading eBooks allocation day – Thursday. Please bring reading record in on this day and it will be returned on Friday.
- Library/love of reading book – Friday
- Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required
- Lunch menus – on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website
- Playtime snacks – fruit or vegetables only please but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes
- Water bottle – should be in school every day (can be emptied and refilled in school)
- Children will have their own tray for suncream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack
- Coat – please send one every day as we may be learning outside
- Numbots/TTRockstars and Collins Hub eBook usernames and passwords are stuck on the back of reading records
- Each class will swim for 1 term during the year. Classes will be informed when it is their turn.
PE days
- 1A (Mrs Palmer/Mrs Brown) – Monday and Friday
- 1,2B (Mrs Latham) – Tuesday and Friday
- 2C (Mrs Paterson/Mrs Wilkins) – Monday and Friday
Homework and spellings are posted weekly too :
https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/homework/
https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/spelling/year1-2spelling/
Teachers emails for non-urgent questions :
- 1A Mrs Palmer / Mrs Brown – fionabrown@spherefederation.org / michaelapalmer@spherefederation.org
- 1,2B Mrs Latham – vickylatham@spherefederation.org
- 2C Mrs Paterson/Mrs Wilkins – joannapaterson@spherefederation.org / lydiawilkins@spherefederation.org
Please call the office for urgent queries or questions 0113-3649149
Welcome back
Welcome back everyone after the summer break. We hope everyone had a lovely summer. It was fantastic to see all the children returning to school this morning with big smiles on their faces. Parents looked pretty happy too!
Here are a few reminders to help everyone through the first term.
PE days
5,6A – Mondays and Wednesdays
5,6 B – Wednesdays and Fridays
5,6 C – Wednesdays and Fridays
If your child has PE on a Friday, please wear PE kit on Friday this week.
Just a little reminder of uniform expectations. Here is a link to the uniform policy to make sure your child wears the correct uniform. This also includes PE kit.
The children will be bringing a library book and journal home this week. Please encourage your child to read aloud at home daily. We will be explaining how to use the journals but if you’re still unsure, please feel free to come and chat with us.
Remember to get your child logged onto Times Tables Rock Stars. Playing daily on this will massively help their mental maths skills and help them feel more confident in maths lessons. Homework will be handed out on a Friday and will contain spellings for the children to learn at home.
We hope your child has had a great first day and that they’ve settled back into school life well. Feel free to come and chat to us if you need any support or even just to say ‘hello’.
Welcome to Reception!
Welcome to Reception!
We’re looking forward to welcoming children to Reception this week and next week. As promised, here’s a sneaky peek at some of the classroom areas.
If you look carefully, you’ll be able to spot a few of the Reception teaching team playing in the classrooms and outside.
Mrs Myers loves dinosaurs!
Mrs Palmer enjoyed some subitising in the maths area.
Can you spot Mrs Long hiding?
Mrs Cowgill enjoyed making a sandcastle.
What do you think Mrs Albrecht is building?
Miss Pennock loves reading stories.
We can’t wait for you to join us playing – see you soon!
Welcome back
What a fantastic summer! We hope that you managed to get out and enjoy the warm weather.
We’re looking forward to welcoming the children back to school today. Please take a minute to read through our uniform and PE policy.
PE days for all of year 3/4 are on Tuesday and Thursday. Children should come in their PE kit on those days.
Wednesday will be our Book Club day. For children and parents, this means that children will need to have their signed, completed reading record task and their library book in school. Each week, children will be set a reading task to be completed for homework. Help your child generate ideas as you read their library book to or with them. Get creative! encourage your child to consider their presentation and really explore the character, plot or author.
See you soon!
We hope you’ve had a great summer and are looking forward to joining us in Reception soon. We’re getting very excited!
We’ve been very busy getting your classrooms ready and can’t wait to give you a sneaky peek tomorrow! We’ll share some photos of Rainbow and Sunshine Class on Wednesday afternoon, so please remember to come back and have a look before your first day.
See you soon,
Reception Team
Important stuff – lunches!
Hope you’re all ready to come back. We’ve been busy in school today getting everything ready. We’ll all be ready for our lunch tomorrow – so here’s the link to the menus so you can decide what you’re having (or bring a packed lunch). Don’t forget a named water bottle to keep in class too.
Not long now – let’s get back to school!
We hope you’re looking forward to getting back to school on Wednesday 02 September.
Here are the class teachers in Key Stage 1 (year 1 and 2).
See you soon!
1A
Mrs Brown and Mrs Palmer
1,2B Mrs Latham
2C Mrs Paterson and Mrs Wilkins
Goodbye and see you soon…
We said goodbye to Miss Young yesterday – we are all very sad that she is moving schools and will miss her a lot! Also, two children in Year 2 are moving schools and we wish them well on their new journey.
To everyone else, we hope you have a restful, exciting, happy and healthy summer break and look forward to see you on Wednesday 02 September.
