3,4O: Certificates
We had another super week and it was made extra special by welcoming back the children who’ve helped to keep us all safe by self-isolating recently.
Here are this week’s certificate winners.
For great learning…
Lacey & Amelie- You both made amazing progress with your arithmetic this week – well done!
For living and learning…
Maddison – you really understand emotions in yourself and others.
For sport and physical activity…
Tilly – great determination in PE – you always try your hardest. Well done!
For Times Table Rockstars…
Louis- you’ve massively increased your TTR usage this week – keep it up! Welcome to the TTR band!
Certificates – 3/4E
In 3/4E this week, there have been many moments for great learning and achieving highly.
Our Sports certificate went to Arthur for good dribbling, passing and sportsmanship in hockey.
The Great Learning certificate was awarded to Luca for trying hard with his arithmetic and showing progress in his test scores on Friday.
Tommy received a certificate for being ready to learn and showing responsibility for his learning all wekk – well done for all the effort!
Finally, out TimesTables Rockstars certificate went to Sam. Well done for extra effort – no doubt this will pay off in your maths.
Living and Learning: Antibullying
I know how to STOP bullying – this was our statement for the week.
We discussed the meaning of STOP in lessons and the two definitions for bullying. For homework, the children created something that showed their understanding of their learning this week. Here are some examples…
By Sadie
By Aaron
By Luca
By Stephan
History: Athenia vs Sparta!
This week, we’ve been learning all about the Athenians and the Spartans!
These are two of the city states of Ancient Greece. Lots about them is similar – but there are lots of differences, too!
Today, we learnt loads of each state. Each small group were given some information about a particular aspect of life in Athenia (Athens) or Sparta: the role of women, education, economy and government.
Then, we had to go around the room and find out the rest of the information for ourselves. This meant we were learning and teaching at the same time.
Here’s what we learnt…
We’ll be using this knowledge later in the week to practise the skill of debating when was find out once and for all ‘Who is the better city-state’?
Certificates in 3/4 E
Well done to everybody who received our certificates this week – you’ve obviously stood out to your teacher for extraordinary learning or effort. Here are our certificate winners in 3/4 E :
Bobby and William – fab skills: dribbling, passing, turning and shooting in hockey.
Thomas and Cameron – excellent remembering and achieving highly!
Lily and Georgia – demonstrating resilience when solving problems!
This week, we have also added a Times Tables Rockstars player of the week.
Well done to Esmae who has improved her ‘effort’ scores this week.
History: democracy
This week, we’ve learnt about democracy. We knew a lot about it already – mainly because of our School Council elections (Did you know that we’ve recently rebranded our School Council? They’re now the Junior Leadership Team).
Democracy is a legacy of the Ancient Greeks. In particular, the Athenian people.
We discussed what we already knew, and came up with our own definition (ask your child what democracy is).
First, we found out about Athenian democracy. We were really frustrated to find out that you had to be a citizen of Athens to have a vote; on the face of it, this seems OK. But then we found out that to be a citizen you had to be a male who was born in Athens and had completed one full year in the Athenian army.
In our next lesson, we compared Athenian democracy to British democracy now – ask your child what’s the same? What’s different?
We all agreed that we’re very lucky to live in a country that is so fair – even though we know it could be even better!
Anti-bullying week 19-20 November 2020
This week, it’s Anti-Bullying Week and the theme for this year is ‘United against bullying’.
We took part in Odd Socks Day this Monday to celebrate our differences.
STOP is a key message linked to bullying. In our school, STOP stands for two things:
- the definition: Several Times On Purpose
- the solution: Start Telling Other People
Recently, our school council (now called the Junior Leadership team) met to review our school definition of bullying and our child friendly anti-bullying policy. Thank you to the JLT for their valued contributions. As a result, our definition and policy have now been updated.
Child friendly anti-bullying policy
What is bullying?
In our school, this is what bullying means:
Bullying is where you hurt someone, physically or emotionally (including online), several times on purpose.
What might bullying look like?
If any of these things happen several (lots of) times, it is bullying.
- Hurting peoples’ feelings, for example, name calling, teasing, threatening, ignoring, leaving people out or spreading rumours
- Hurting peoples’ bodies, for example, hitting, punching or kicking
This could be in person or online (cyber bullying) and could be because of someone’s race, disability, gender, appearance, age or any other protected characteristic.
What could you do if you are being bullied?
Start
Telling
Other
People
Who could you tell?
- Miss Hague, Miss Pallister, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Beesley or Mr Roundtree (they are child protection staff)
- Any other members of staff
- Friends
- Someone in your family
- A trusted adult
- Childline (0800 1111)
- Write a worry slip and put it in your classroom Voice Box or the whole school worry box
- Email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org
Our views on bullying
STOP bullying – bullying is wrong! We’re a happy and healthy school.
Healthy eating assemblies
The whole federation joined together to take part in an assembly about healthy eating last week. It was very exciting to see the other classes in the other schools! We had these booked in for Health Week last summer, which had to be cancelled.
The Leeds Health and Wellbeing Team delivered the assembly where we learnt all sorts of interesting things about keeping healthy and finished off with an interactive quiz. 
We are Times Table Rockstars!
Wow!
Check out these stats from our Times Table Rockstars tournament…
Currently, 65% of children across Y3,4 have accessed Times Table Rockstars in the last 7 days! This is brilliant and will definitely help our times table recall.
Keep it up!
Living and Learning: Anti-bullying Week
Here are some fun photos from the start of Anti-Bullying Week. The children wore ‘Odd Socks’ to show how we can celebrate our differences but all be part of the same school community. Each and every one of us wore different Odd Socks and it was a great way of sharing and showing how we are all unique.
