Beach Party 20 July 2018
To celebrate the end of another fantastic year we are planning to hold a ‘Beach Party’ on Friday 20th July. Your child can come to school dressed in their own clothes (please make sure they are suitable to wear all day) and can bring along a snack and drink which they can have at the party. We are hoping to have some water fun so all children are welcome to bring swim wear and water pistols! A towel to get dried with is essential. The children are also welcome to bring any outdoor play equipment eg: bats, balls, hula hoops, footballs, frisbees, inflatables etc. As always, if you could name as many items as possible that would be really helpful (don’t send anything too precious!). Don’t forget drinks and hats and to apply suncream before school, particularly if it is a warm day.
Fingers crossed for sunshine!
Health Week Highlights 2-6 July 2018
What a jam-packed week! We focused on learning about our physical and mental health and engaged in a wide variety of activities including:
- Whole school sports roundabout
- Tag rugby sessions with 5 Star Sports
- Tutti Frutti production of ‘Keepy Uppy’
- Fruit tasting, drawing, smoothie and kebab making
- Living and Learning lessons – healthy choices and sun safety
- Crucial Crew – personal safety and risk assessing
- KS2 competitive sports afternoon
- WUSU Crew performance
- Dodgeball – Leeds City Finals
- Netball, rounders, football
- Mindfulness
- Yoga
- Change for Life – Train like a Jedi
- Visit from Doodles the donkey from the Donkey Sanctuary
- Flex Dance – World Cup dance workshops and dance-off in front of the whole school
- Whole school health related homework
- Leeds Rhinos Rhinestones street dance workshops
- Health Fair after school
Reading books
This week we will begin to collect your child’s reading book. This is so that we can audit all the reading books and get your child’s book ready for the next academic year.
Keeping healthy!
We have been talking about how to keep fit and healthy. We talked about 5 things we can do;
- Eat healthily
- Exercise
- Sleep well
- Keep clean
- Drink lots of water.
Today, we have looked at eating healthily. We sorted foods into food we should eat every day and food we should only eat occasionally. We looked at a fruit juice carton and had some interesting conversations about if we can drink it every day or occasionally. We decided because it had lots of added sugar we can only drink it occasionally.
Then, we tasted different fruit. The children were fantastic at tasting new fruit they had never tried before! We tasted mango, lychee, passion fruit, pomegranate and persimmon.
Returning books
Your child will be returning their library book to Scholes library on Tuesday 17th July. Please ensure your child brings their library book to school to return on time.
We will also shortly be asking children to return their books borrowed from the school library. Please start to return these to school.
Library visit – we need you!
We’re hoping to visit Scholes Library on Tuesday 17th July. However, we need your help to be able to visit.
Are you available on Tuesday 17th July at 10.45-12.00pm?
If so, please speak to your child’s class teacher about volunteering to help take Foundation to Scholes Library.
Moving and shaking – cancelled
Unfortunately, the moving and shaking stay and play on 5th/9th July will be cancelled. This is due to unforeseen circumstances with staffing – we just can’t move and shake as planned! However, we look forward to seeing you at the whole school sports roundabout on Monday 2nd July at 1.10pm.
Library competition – please vote!
Please vote for Scholes Elmet Primary in the National Book Tokens Competition!
Green fingers? Help needed!
Scholes in Bloom judging day is Monday 6 August this year. If you are available and would like to join the effort for gold, please come and collect a plant from Mrs Myers or Mrs Latham. All you need to do is look after it and meet us at the flower bed outside school on judging day at 10am. If you prefer, you could make a ‘scarecrow’ and bring it on the same day. The theme is ‘all creatures great and small’. Hope to see you there!
Pupil Voice – Friendship Benches
School Council had a really tough time deciding which designs would be used to decorate our friendship benches.
There were some lovely messages and creative ideas used to make these benches feel a positive and inviting place to be.
These are the chosen designs.
I love the message – friends are like rainbows they brighten your day.
I think the colours will brighten up our playground.
It has a happy vibe.
It has nice vocabulary on it.