Class News – Gymnastics and Art
This week in gymnastics, the children explored different ways of jumping and performed a sequence of jumps to the rest of the class.
In Art, we have started our Architecture topic. The children created collages using photographs of buildings designed by famous architects Christopher Wren and Zaha Hadid.
Help at home by listening to your child read regularly and providing opportunities to go on Times Tables Rock Stars.
3,4 Class News – Topic
This half-term, our art topic is focused on architecture! We have learnt that architecture is about the design of buildings and will be focusing on two architects in particular: Sir Christopher Wren and Dame Zaha Hadid.
We have started the topic by looking at features of different buildings and using these to help us put them in chronological order. We are also going to be using different practical art skills throughout the half-term, starting with collage.
Help at home by talking with your child about different buildings they see when out and about. What do they notice?
Living and Learning – Anti-bullying and Odd Socks Day
This year, the focus of Anti-bullying Day has been respect. We watched the CBBC online assembly to start the day.
We have discussed:
- being respectful
- how to respond respectfully to other children
- that sometimes people have a difference of opinion
- the definition of bullying
- the impact on a person’s feelings if they have been bullied
- how to STOP bullying (Start Telling Other People)
In addition to this, we have been wearing odd socks today to represent how we’re the same and we’re different.
Help at home by asking your child how we know the difference between being rude, mean and bullying.
Living and Learning – Me and My Community Week – Coffee Morning
Coffee morning and WUSU.
What a great success! Thank you to the members of the FOSP team who ran the coffee morning on Thursday. Thank you to the adults who supported our school community by coming to the coffee morning and joining the children at Wake Up, Shake Up!
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.