School rules
This week in KS1, we are establishing our classroom routines and the school rules.
Talk to your child about our school rules and what they mean. They should be able to give you some examples of them in action!
Welcome back!
The children in Year 1 and Year 2 matched the sunshine and came in with sunny smiles and chatter.
They have all settled in well and are beginning to learn the new routines in their new classes.
Each child should’ve brought home an information sheet. It is here below too.
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 swimming days (school uniform PE kit can be worn all day on both days)
- Reading eBooks allocation day – Friday. Please bring reading record in on this day.
- 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 username and password is stuck on reading records
1A (Mrs Brown/Mrs Wilkins) – Tuesday (swimming) and Friday
1,2B (Mrs Latham) – Thursday and Friday (swimming)
2C (Miss Young) – Thursday (swimming) and Friday
Check out our Class News page for updates on what is going on in school : scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/category/classnews/year1-2showcase/
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 Brown and Mrs Wilkins – fionabrown@spherefederation.org / lydiawilkins@spherefederation.org
1,2B Mrs Latham – vickylatham@spherefederation.org
2C Miss Young – kateyoung@spherefederation.org
Please call the office for urgent queries or questions 0113-3649149
September 2023 – lunch menus
Beach Party fun, goodbye and thank you!
We had an amazing time at the Beach Party yesterday. The sun shone for us and we had sand, water, dancing, toys and snacks!
Thank you for all the support this year. A home-school partnership makes everything run smoothly and gets the best out of the children.
Have a lovely summer.
Goodbye from the KS1 Team : Mrs Latham, Miss Lowry and Miss Young
xxx
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Health education by D:side
D:side have been in school to deliver some health education sessions. Year 1 and 2 discussed and compared bodies, talked about what we need to keep our body healthy and also what body parts we have inside our body.
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Physical health and activity
Year 1 and 2 enjoyed some sessions delivered by 5 Star Sports this week. This helped us see how exercise effects our body and how we need to look after our body to keep it healthy.
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Yoga and mindfulness
Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 5 and Year 6 all enjoyed yoga sessions from School of Yoga this week. This helped us learn about the importance of mental wellbeing and wellness, as well as physical health. Time to be mindful is important for our mental health.
Health week
This week KS1 have been getting involved in Health week. We have been taking part in a personal best challenge. We picked 4 activities and have done each 3 times across the week in attempt to improve our scores by the end of the week. The activities included:
- Amount of star jumps in one minute.
- Amount of speed jumps (side to side) in one minute.
- Amount of skips in one minute.
- Laps of the playground in one minute.
Take a look at some of our attempts!
DT – baby bear’s chair
This half term we have been working towards making a freestanding chair that is suitable for ‘baby bear’. We have been trying to find out which 3D shapes are strongest for the legs of a chair. As part of the design process, we experimented with playdough as well as card and tape to research which structure was the strongest. The structures we made were cuboids, triangular prisms and cylinders.
After experimenting how many books can be balanced onto our structures. We even managed to get a child to balance on the structure.
Here are some of our finished products!
For the final part of our design process, we will be evaluating our chairs. We will be discussing what went well and what we would do differently next time.
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Soggy Sport Roundabout
A big THANK YOU to everyone who came to support our rather wet Sport Roundabout afternoon today.
We all still had fun, despite the rain. The winning team was France – but check out where your team came.
Another THANK YOU for sending children in fantastic coloured clothes to match their country team too.
1st France
2nd England
3rd Nigeria
4th Spain
5th Italy
6th Portugal
7th Germany
8th Colombia
9th Norway
10th Netherlands
11th Argentina
12th Brazil
