Living and Learning – Me and My Community Week – Grandad Wheels
On Wednesday, the children enjoyed a fantastic and hilarious visit from Grandad Wheels, author, Brian Abram.
Brian, ‘Grandad Wheels’, delivered assemblies where he shared his story, told jokes and made us all laugh, as well as discussing what life is like in a wheelchair. We enjoyed listening to ‘Chaos at Cheapfoods!’. At the end of the assemblies, Brian set the children the challenge of designing a new wheelchair.
After reading a story to the Reception children in the school library, Brain visited each class so the children could share their designs. He was really impressed.
Thank you to FOSP for funding this wonderful visit.
Thank you to everyone who ordered a book from Brain – in total, £254 was raised through book orders – Brian puts this money towards two charities that support spinal injury.
@grandadwheels
Living and Learning- Me and My Community Week
Welcome back!
We’ve kick started our first week back into a themed week; Me and My Community Week.
We started learning about who makes up our school community and had a creative discussion about the meaning behind our school logo.
What do the trees/ colours/ railway represent?
Throughout the rest of the week, we’ve been learning about:
- a healthy relationship is a positive one
- Why are protected characteristics important?
- different types of family communities
- respecting others that are differernt to us
- British Values
- different types of bullying and how to seek help
- What is a charity?
- main rivers and mountains in the UK
- significant buildings in Leeds
What a fantastic and busy first week back!
Help at home: talk about what is mutual respect and tolerance, and how can we show it?
Our new school charity
As part of our Community Week, we have been discussing about charities and how charity is the act of giving help to those who need it. There was a list of charities for each class to research and consider. The children enjoyed discussing these with their peers. A democratic vote was made in each class and the result was brought to the Junior Leadership Team. They discussed the votes and settled on The Willow Foundation.
The main objective of the charity is to support 16-40 year olds in the UK who are newly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. When they should be enjoying the prime of life, they’re dealing with stress, isolation, medication and hospital appointments.
Willow believes that every moment should be precious. They’re dedicated to helping young adults take much needed time out from the reality of living with serious illness, creating magic moments that become lasting memories.
If you’d like to find out more about the charity, please visit the website below.
https://www.willowfoundation.org.uk/
Fundraising that takes place this year will be donated to this charity.
Thank you for your support with this.
Scholes Community Library
All classes in school have been lucky enough to visit Scholes Library this week. It has been a fabulous opportunity to support a great community resource which we are fortunate enough to have on our school’s doorstep. Each class had the opportunity to explore the library and to bring back five books to enjoy in class.
Help at home: Visit the library with your child. You can help to engage your child with reading new books and help to support our local community at the same time.
3,4 DT – egg pots
Over the last couple of weeks, the children have had a great time making an egg pot.
The children practised cracking eggs and using a knife safely to cut the tomatoes. The children also discussed the importance of food hygiene.
At home, why not make this recipe!
Well done for a fabulous half term of learning!
Enjoy the holidays and see you soon!
Team 3,4
Living and Learning – Democracy
In Living and Learning, we have been learning about the British value of democracy. We put this into practice this week by all having a vote in our Junior Leadership Team election. We listened to speeches from the candidates and posted our ballot papers into the box. Please see the post lower down for the results.
New Junior Leadership Team
Democracy is a key part of British Values and during this week, our classes have cast their votes for who they would like to represent their class on the JLT. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the number of children that wrote speeches. These were well written, full of ideas and showed off their best qualities such as leadership, good listening skills and initiative.
The votes were counted and the new members have been announced!
Here are our new members:
5,6A – Ben
5,6B – Lilly
5,6C – Jeevan
3,4A – Bradley
3,4B – Violet
3,4C – Adam
2C – Ted
1,2B – Mollie
1A – Rupert
Well done to each of you. I’m looking forward to working with you this year and can’t wait to get started.
3,4 Class News – Topic and Writing
Should the Elgin Marbles be returned to Greece?
This has been the topic of conversation in our classroom this week! The children have learned all about the history of Elgin Marbles and have used the information to decide whether they think they should be returned to Greece or should stay in Britain.
Today, they practised their debating skills in small groups. They will use this knowledge to write a discussion text next week.
At home ask your child their opinion about the Elgin Marbles.
Y3/4 Topic
This week, we’ve started learning about The Elgin Marbles as part of our topic on Ancient Greece. These were statues and friezes from the Parthenon that are still debated today, since many are housed in London and not in their native home of Athens.
We discussed the reasons put forward both for and against returning them. This links not just with our topic but also writing, where we’ve been looking at discussion texts. We always enjoy a healthy difference of opinion and we also see this in action in our weekly ‘Philosophy Friday’ discussions where we share our opinions on different topics.
Help at home by prompting a discussion with your child. Cats vs dogs? Winter vs summer? Ancient Greeks vs Romans? Can they give reasons on both sides and think about something from more than one angle?
Year 3,4 Class News
In Reading, we have explored the Greek Myth ‘Icarus and Daedalus’. The children summarised the events in the story and considered how the characters felt at different parts.
Help at home by asking your child to retell this story and discuss with them how each character felt.
In Science, we have collected data on invertebrates by recording the number of invertebrates spotted in the school grounds. After recording the data in a tally chart, the children presented their information in a graph. Why not try this at home?
