Living & Learning – 8Rs for learning
This week, we’ve introduced our new living and living theme: The 8Rs for learning.
These are 8 characteristics that help us to be effective learners – they apply to wider life, too.
We’ll be referring to these lots in school but for some practical tips on how you can help at home check out this parents guide.
We love reading!
Reading is super important. In fact, we think it’s one of the most important things you can do to support your child at home.
Some studies have found that children who read regularly are more likely to be happy in adulthood, more likely to earn more money and more likely to do well in all school subjects.
Whilst we understand life is busy, we’d love it if you could read with your child every day (ideally for about 20 minutes but anything is better than not reading at all).
This article has a handy reading for parents guide if you’d like any more information or tips.
Our Reading Activities leaflet will provide lots of activities to make reading an even more enjoyable and active experience for all. Check out the ‘Help Your Child‘ section of our website for a range of guides and tips for helping your child across a range of subjects.
Some common questions about reading:
When should my child have their reading book and reading diary in school?
3,4A (Miss Harker’s class) – Friday
3,4B (Mr Catherall’s class) – Friday
3,4C (Mrs McCormick and Mrs Wadsworth’s class) – Monday
Now my child is in Year 3 or 4, should I still sign their reading diary?
Yes. We want you to sign their reading diary and leave a comment at least once a week. We think it’s a really important link between school and home.
My child can read fluently. Should they still read aloud to me?
Ideally, yes. They can spend time reading on their own, too – we encourage this. However, it’s really important that children still practise the skill of reading aloud. It helps improve their confidence and improves their ability to read with expression. Being read to is really important, too – so don’t underestimate the power of a bedtime story!
The book my child has brought home is too easy / hard. What should I do?
This will rarely happen but if you do think your child’s book isn’t the right level please get in touch with their class teacher (our email addresses are at the bottom of this post).
If you have any other questions, comments or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with your child’s class teacher.
Welcome to 3,4B! (Mr Catherall’s class)
Hi everyone
It’s been great to be back at school and get together as a class for the first time. I’ve been super impressed by how everyone has come back with a positive attitude and dived into their learning head first. We’ve had a great first few days and I’m super optimistic that we’re going to enjoy a great year.
Just a few reminders:
- School starts at 8:50am – just walk in when you see the door open.
- PE days – Monday and Tuesday (wear your kit to school)
- Bring your water bottle everyday
- Reading books – Friday’s
- Library – Wednesdays
- Please check the uniform policy for your information.
On Friday this week, your child will be sent home with a reading book. Please make sure they have this in school every Friday.
If you have any questions, please come and ask Myself or Mr Goodwin.
Welcome Back Year 3/4!
Hello and welcome back to school!
We are so pleased to be back after a lovely summer break. Today, we’ve heard lots of stories of adventurous summer day trips and cool, relaxing evenings. It sounds like everyone had a good summer and a well deserved rest. The children were certainly feeling fresh, well-rested and ready for learning.
Well done to everyone for making the first day such an enjoyable one – I know it’s not easy getting back into a routine after a long break.
Just a few reminders:
- School starts at 8:50am – just walk in when you see the door open.
- PE days – Tuesday and Wednesday (wear your kit to school)
- Bring your water bottle everyday
- Reading books – Mondays
- Library – Wednesdays
- Please check the uniform policy for your information.
If you have any questions, please come and ask Mrs McCormick, Mrs Wadsworth or Mrs Kirby.
Lunch menus
PE days – which day to I wear my PE uniform?
We are going to continue with wearing PE kit on PE days – this cuts down on lost property and saves learning time, so we’re going to continue this for at least next year as a longer term trial. On the days your child has PE, they should come to school in their school uniform PE kit. (Track-suit bottoms instead of shorts would be good on colder days. Footwear : black/brown/grey/white flat shoes which are safe to run around in.)
Footwear on PE days could be children’s ‘school shoes’ which are often a plain ‘trainer’ style anyway, if you want to avoid having to buy 2 pairs of shoes.
Here is a link to our uniform policy.
Please find below the days each class has allocated PE times, which will be taught outdoors, except in extreme weather.
- F2 Sunshine (Miss Parling) – Monday and Friday
- F2 Rainbow (Mrs Allen-Kelly/Mrs Wilkins) – Monday and Friday
- 1A (Miss Lowry) – Thursday and Friday
- 1,2B (Mrs Latham) – Thursday and Friday
- 2C (Mr Gathercole) – Wednesday and Thursday
- 3,4A (Miss Harker) – Tuesday and Thursday
- 3,4B (Mr Catherall) – Monday and Tuesday
- 3,4C (Mrs McCormick/Mrs Wadsworth) – Tuesday and Wednesday
- 5,6A (Mr Freeman) – Monday and Wednesday
- 5,6B (Mrs Hogarth) – Tuesday and Wednesday
- 5,6C (Mr Lindsay) – Wednesday and Thursday
Go Go Go-Karts!
We tested our prototype Go-Karts today and what an exciting event that was! This is the final part of the design – make – evaluate process.
All of our efforts in making the go-karts came together in the big test!
It was great to see so many different types of go-karts, with different components, come together. The children went through a quick and steep learning curve when testing them, realising what needed to be strengthened or supported in order for them to function better.
The design criteria for our go-karts was:
- to roll
- to steer
- to keep a character safe inside the kart
We also evaluated our Karts – see Aaron’s great work below.
Farm…at school!
We were very lucky to have Ian’s Mobile Farm at school this week.
The children enjoyed petting the animals, watching ‘Meg the dog’ do her obedience tricks and we even got to brush the donkeys!
Scholes in Bloom – competition winner!
Over the past 5 years Scholes in Bloom have entered the Yorkshire in Bloom competition and have received 3 Gold Rose awards, a Silver Award and a Silver Gilt Award. They work so hard in our village to keep it looking beautiful.
This year, like most years, Scholes in Bloom asked children to create a flower bed design, which will be planted along Station Road.
Today, our lucky winner, had her design chosen and recreated in beautiful flowers.
Well done to our Scholes in Bloom ‘design a flower bed’ competition winner!
Scarecrow competition
We will be making some scarecrows in school. If anyone lives in the village, you can join in individually and display them outside your house. If not, and you want to make your own, bring your scarecrow to school on Friday 16 July and we will display it outside school over the weekend.
