Class News – We’re artists!
This week, we have closely observed building designs and drawn pictures of them freehand using sketching pencils and white charcoal. We’ve worked with care and precision.
Living and Learning – mental wellbeing
Over the last three weeks, our Living and Learning lessons have focused on mental wellbeing. We have discussed:
- the different feelings and emotions we may experience
- how we can deal with these feelings and emotions
- who we can ask for help (including trusted adults, the safeguarding team at Scholes and Childline)
- self-care techniques that we can use
- the importance of looking after our mental health as well as our physical health
Help at home by discussing the importance of looking after our mental health and how we can do this.
Living and Learning – Online Safety & Money
This week in Living and Learning, we discussed online adverts: what they are, where we might see them and what their purpose is.
We thought about ways to stay safe online including not giving out our personal information, not clicking through on pop-ups (knowing when something sounds too good to be true!) and speaking to our adult(s) about anything that worries us.
Help at home by talking to your child about adverts or pop-ups that they see.
Year 3,4 Skipping School
This week, we all enjoyed a skipping workshop where we practised our skipping skills, including the single bounce and double bounce. We all got the chance to skip using the large skipping rope.
We will continue to practise our skills over the next few months and some of the year 4 children will have the opportunity to take part in a skipping festival in the Spring.
Help at home by challenging your child to practise their skipping skills. It’s a great way to keep fit!
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?