Food Technology – Pitta Pizzas
This week, the children have cooked pitta pizzas!
Before cooking, we discussed:
- food hygiene
- how to use the equipment safely
Skills learnt:
- using a knife to carefully slice mushrooms and tomatoes using the bridge and claw method
- tearing the mozzarella
- assembling the pizza
Why not try this recipe at home?
Multiplication Tables Check
This week, Y4 will be completing their Multiplication Tables Check.
What does that mean? It’s a times tables check (similar to that on soundcheck on TTRS) where each child will have 25 questions and 6 seconds to answer each one.
Why are we doing it? Times tables are a key part of maths and secure knowledge and rapid recall will help your child develop their skills in other areas of maths in Y5 and beyond.
How can I help? Help your child practise on TTRS. Jamming mode works well as you can choose the tables they are less confident with and repeat! Practice makes permanent.
We already have lots of children getting 25/25! Keep up the awesome work.
Swimming and water safety
This week, the Year 3 children have been enjoying their daily swimming lessons.
The week started with the beyond the physical team providing a water safety assembly to all children in phase 3,4. The coaches talks about safe ways and places to swim and referred to the Water Safety Code:
- Stop and Think – always swim in a safe place
- Stay Together – always swim with an adult
- Float
- In an emergency, call 999
The swimming coaches have launched a competition for all children in phase 3,4 to design a water safety poster including the important four step Water Safety Code. Entries need to be handed in on 8th July.
Help at home by discussing the importance of water safety.
The beyond the physical team have also mentioned that there are still classes available after school for swimmers. Please book through the link sent out via text message. Please contact the office if you would like the link resending.
Living and Learning – Staying Safe Week
This week has been one of our Living and Learning themed weeks – STAYING SAFE WEEK.
- Being Safe
We’ve been learning about what is appropriate and what is not using Rachel Brian’s book ‘Respect: Consent, Boundaries and Being in Charge of YOU’.
We’ve also thought about boundaries when negotiating about space and objects. We’ve discussed about it not always being right to keep a secret if it relates to being safe. If something doesn’t feel right, in person or online, with someone we do or don’t know, we’ve talked about how we should Start Telling Other People (STOP.)
- Health protection and prevention
We’ve been learning about safe and unsafe exposure to the sun and how to reduce the risk of sun damage including skin cancer. We’ve completed some basic First Aid training to empower us to act calmly and effectively in emergencies. We’ve had a very engaging drug education session with d:side about the effects of smoking.
- Personal safety
- The Canal and River Trust led an interactive assembly all about water safety.
Louise Crossland (our PCSO) spoke to us about how to stay safe near roads, near water and at the park.
We’ve learned about hazards that may cause harm, injury or risk around water, on the road, with food and in the home. We’ve thought of ways to reduce these risks.
Help at home by asking your child to discuss their learning this week.
Year 3,4 Book Club
Last week during Book Club, 3,4C explored our class novel, ‘The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane’ through drama. We explored:
- the story so far
- how Edward has changed as a character since the beginning of the story
- how different characters have felt at different points during the story
Help at home by asking your child to retell the story so far and explain how Edward has changed as a character.
Topic: Why do tourists visit Venice?
This week, we became researchers in our geography lesson and used the iPads to find out more about the beautiful city of Venice. We were trying to answer the question…
Why do tourists visit Venice?
Before beginning our research, we discussed how important it is to use trusted websites with reliable information. We know that not everything online is accurate, safe or useful. As a class, we looked carefully at different websites and decided which ones would help us answer our question best.
The children thought about who created the website, who the audience was and whether the information included facts or opinions. We decided that websites designed for children, educational websites and well-known organisations were the most trust worthy to use.
During our research, we discovered lots of interesting facts about Venice. We found out that Venice is famous for its canals instead of roads, tourists travel on gondolas and water buses and the city is made up of over 100 small islands connected by bridges. We also learned that people visit Venice to see beautiful buildings, explore St Mark’s Square and enjoy the annual Venice Carnival.
Help at home: research a famous city with your child and discuss which websites you think are trustworthy. Can you explain why some websites are more reliable than others?
Living and Learning – Year 3,4
In Living and Learning we have been thinking about the physical and mental benefits to our health of being physically active.
We learned that it is recommended that we should be active for one hour per day. We thought about everything we do in a day and whether these activities were ‘more active’, ‘less active’ or ‘in-active’. We then wrote our ideas on to different post-it notes and put them into groups.
We discussed what we could do take activities from one group to another – for example, whilst reading – act out scenes, do ‘character walks’, or scavenger hunts for words/items. Or, when playing board games – add movement rules (‘do 5 hops before your turn’).
Then we made a list of all the times that we are active across a week and added them up. People who had a high level of active hours across the week gave feedback to the rest of the class about how they achieve it and top tips for getting active!
We were surprised by how quickly walking/cycling to and from school, wake up shake up, break and lunchtime added up! We reviewed what the biggest ‘contributors’ were to our active minutes and found that playing at school and ‘playing out’ after school were often the biggest chunk.
Help at home: discuss with your child how you make sure you stay active to look after your physical and mental health. You could also think about if there are any new ways of being active you would like to try together.
Times tables facts
The Year 4 children have been working hard to learn all of the times tables facts up to 12 x 12. In school, children are using flash cards to learn their facts during their daily Maths Fluency lessons. Opportunities in school time have been provided for children to use TTRS to help recall the facts quickly.
Knowing these facts will enable children to apply this knowledge to trickier calculations and new methods as they go into Year 5.
Year 3 have also been learning the 3x, 6x and 9x tables in lessons over the last three weeks.
Help at home by keeping practising learning the facts.
Year 4 – your scores are really improving! Well done and keep it up!
The Travelling Book Fair returns to Scholes Elmet Primary School
We have some exciting news. Our annual Book Fair returns to Scholes on Monday the 11th May.
It is a 3 for 2 event – buy 2 books and get the third (cheapest) for free. Books can be purchased either with cash or by following a QR code which we will have on display during the Book Fair. This event will run straight after school every day from Monday the 11th May until Thursday the 14th May. It will be held in the school reception office area. Please access school via the front doors.
All books sold during the Book Fair earn money for school to spend on new books for our library.
We hope to see you there! 🙂
Reading Groups
Every morning, children in 3,4 have a group reading session for 15 minutes.
They read their group reading book then have chance to discuss what they have read afterwards.
Each group has their book changed every two weeks and these are available to read at home on the Collins E Book website/app!
