Library visit
The Junior Leadership Team enjoyed a visit to Scholes Library last week and were welcomed by Madeline. It is the first time the children have been to the library since the start of Covid, so it felt very different and exciting.
Madeline explained how the system works within the library and explained how every child could register and get their own library card. The cards can be used at any local library and children and adults can borrow up to fifteen books at a time. Madeline explained where the fiction and non-fiction books were for key stage 2 and then the children enjoyed listening to a story before they were let loose choosing books. They selected five books to take back to school for others to enjoy – it was quite a tough decision as there were so many fabulous new books to choose from. These have been distributed across the classes for everyone to enjoy.
So, get yourselves along to the library and get registered. You can then enjoy an array of wonderful books to read at home. Happy reading!
Rehearsals Are Underway!
As our first week back comes to a close, Year 6 have been extremely busy rehearsing for their end of year play – The Adventures of Superstan! The children are working incredibly hard to pull together and make this thing work! So far, there have been many examples of skills we aspire to have at Scholes: creativity, initiative and detail when making props; voice projection when acting; and fantastic teamwork when creating some dance moves for our catchy songs!
With the casting completed and some fantastic directors in place, this is sure to be a performance you won’t want to miss!
We look forward to seeing you at the show.
Welcome back!
Welcome back everyone!
We hope you all had a lovely half term and you’ve recovered from all the Jubilee celebrations. Whilst this is the last half term of the school year, it might be worth a little reminder about learning the children can do at home. It is still really important that the children read daily at home. Each week the children will be set a task for their reading journals. This needs to be completed and returned to school each Friday. Parents, please sign the journals on a weekly basis. Those of you who are still regularly going on Times Tables Rockstars, well done! This really does help with fast recall of multiplication facts. Daily practise for those children who are wobbly on their number facts would really benefit from using this app.
Homework, including spellings will continue to be set every Friday. Don’t forget to visit our spelling strategies section of the website for some helpful tips on how to learn these.
Design Technology
Welcome back to school everyone – we hope you had a fantastic half-term.
Our final topic of the year is design technology. This week, the children will be looking into historical inventors and designers and how they have influenced the world we know today. Some particular designers/inventors of interest are Isambard Brunel, Lewis Latimer, George Stephenson and Jony Ive.
Underneath is our topic vocabulary. It may be useful to have a look through this regularly with your child to improve understanding of each piece of vocabulary. Another beneficial idea is to dive deeper into the designers listed above. Find out more about a specific person of interest and how they still have impact on the world today.
Platinum Jubilee celebrations
We had a fun-filled day today. All the children and staff shared a picnic lunch on the field, listening to some 50s music. We then all congregated on the field again, sang the national anthem and each class showcased a Wake Up Shake Up (WUSU) dance through the decades that the Queen has been on the throne. We went from 1950s (Mambo No 5/Lou Bega) all the way to 2020s (Blinding Lights/The Weeknd). It was so much fun! We hope that everyone has a happy and healthy half term.
Walk to School Week winners
Lots of families joined in with Walk to School Week last week. The Buffers and St Phillips car parks were busy with people walking some of the way, if they couldn’t walk all the way from home. Thank you for joining in and helping to make our school and community an even happier and healthier place to be. Here are some of our lucky winners!
Reading champion
We have been getting very excited about the KS2 Reading Champion Competition that is running across school and Leeds. They are searching for the best young reading ambassadors in Leeds, KS2 children who advocate reading for pleasure and encourage others to find their own love of reading.
Each class voted for a Reading Champion for their class. The nominations were brought to the Junior Leadership Team and they voted for an overall winner. They chose Ella from Year 6. She will now write a letter of support for the competition and she will be up against other schools across Leeds.
Good luck, Ella!
Living and learning: I know what consent is.
This week, the children have been talking about body image. We began by discussing what body image is. They came up with this definition:
Body image is our idea of how our body looks and how we think it looks to others. This can include our feelings and thoughts about our height, weight, shape, skin colour, appearance or attractiveness.
We discussed how our body image is influenced by a range of different things such as TV, social media, celebrities and many more. The children recognised that it is important to consider the positive aspects about yourself and when you pay someone a compliment it should be about their personality or something they’re good at, not about appearance. We should ‘fill each others buckets’ with positivity.
The children wrote on each others buckets with their compliments. There were some very happy faces by the end of the lesson.
Living and Learning: Reading Champions
Year 5/6 C have taken part in a demorcratic decision to nominate one person from our class to be a Reading Champion.
After a lengthy discussion about what makes a suitable Reading Champion, we agreed that it was someone who was passionate about reading. We were looking for someone to be a leader – a role model, and inspiration.
After two very close rounds of voting, we decided that Lenny was our clear winner.
Lenny’s enthusiastic nature and pure joy when discussing all books is a joy to see.
Walk to School Week 16-20 May 2022
Next week is Walk to School Week (or scoot or ride).
We hope you’ll all try to take part in this, even if you can’t walk from home. The Buffers Pub and St Phillip’s Church have agreed for us to use their car parks so everyone has the opportunity to walk part of the way.
Remember to bring your raffle tickets each day you walk to put in your class boxes to be in with a chance of winning a prize!
Let’s get active!
