Wetherby High Taster Day
The Year 5’s got to experience a wonderful day at Wetherby High School. They took part in a range of lessons and met lots of the staff and pupils. PE gave the children the opportunity to play Basketball, Science allowed them to carry out experiments that included different substances and even explosions! They even got to taste the canteen food. They were praised by the staff for their lovely manners throughout the day- well done!
Scholes Gala 2019 – WUSU, Pop Choir and Skipping Crew
Scholes Gala was a rather wet affair this year but our children still did us proud. The WUSU dancers strutted their stuff, Pop Choir sang their hearts out and the skippers jumped with smiles on their faces! Well done and thank you to everyone who came to show their support.
Dance performance – KS2 Flex Dance group
The Flex Dance group performed for school and their families on Friday. They have worked hard perfecting their performance. Well done!
Living and Learning: Relationships Education
Thank you to those parents and carers who attended the recent relationships education information sessions.
‘A useful session to find out what my child will be learning and when.’
‘Lots of helpful information.’
‘Very helpful to understand what vocabulary the children will be learning.’
These sessions were aimed at making parents and carers more aware of some of the following aspects of our curriculum.
- What is our Living and Learning curriculum?
- What does relationships education currently look like throughout school?
- What is included in our Relationships and Sex Education policy?
Relationships education forms part of our Living and Learning for this half term and if you were unable to attend the session, our progression of learning (pg10) and the terminology (pg6) that may be used as part of this learning can be found in our RSE policy.
Our new topic: Breaking Barriers
This half-term, Year 5 and 6 are starting a new topic: Breaking Barriers. This topic is designed to help children better understand protected characteristics. It is against the law to discriminate against someone because of a protected characteristic. We have talked about these in school before and your child is aware of them already. However, we feel that this is a really important topic and will be focusing on each of the protected characteristics in more detail. For your information, here are the nine protected characteristics:
- age
- disability
- gender reassignment
- marriage and civil partnership
- pregnancy and maternity
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation
If you would like further information about what will be covered, or have any general questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher.
Money Matters
As part of our Money Matters week, year 5 have been detectives this week, investigating fraud. They worked in teams to scrutinise evidence and find clues in order to solve fraudulent activity. They successfully solved the crime- well done!
Triathlon Fun!
The Year 5’s had an amazing morning participating in the Brownlee Foundation Triathlon at John Smeaton. After the initial challenge of putting a bright orange swimming cap on, the children embarked on the race! They showed great determination and team spirit, with a dash of perseverance. They were rewarded with an amazing medal at the end. Well done!
Tour De Scholes
On Friday, exactly one week after the Tour De Yorkshire travelled past school, Year 5 took on their own mammoth ride: The Tour De Scholes. Arranged by Cycle North, who came into school recently to lead our Bikeability training, the ride was an opportunity for us all to don our helmets and explore some of the scenery on our doorstep.
Two children from 5,6SK wrote this news report based on the day:
On the 10th May 2019, Year 5 had the oopoortunity to venture out of school the memorable (and muddy) trip to Temple Newsam.
The 14 mile trip consisted of muddy fields, bridleways and especially hard hills. It was a great achievement to go on a bike ride that long and lots of riders agreed it was quite tiring (including Mr Catherall, Mrs Welsby and Mr Gledhill). During the day, there was a variety of emotions shown from the Year 5 crew. The most common: grit and determination!
Although some of our friends had to be persuaded to continue up the monstrous hills, everyone made it there in the end. One rider, in group 2, said: “I was determined to carry on and thought it would be easier than it was!”
Lots of riders said they would recommend the ride if you want to get out more on your bike. After all, you need to appreciate the marvellous world surrounding us.
Here’s some pictures of us enjoying the day…
Get active with orienteering – FREE EVENT
Your local orienteering club, AIRIENTEERS, are hosting a FREE orienteering event especially for juniors, families and anyone new to the sport.
PLACE : Millennium Field, off Barleyfields Ct, Wetherby, LS22 6FZ
DATE : Saturday 11th May 1:30-2:30
There will be courses with electronic timing for all ages.
See www.aire.org.uk for more information about the races.
Start any time from 1:30 to 2:30. Just turn up and run.
Living and learning: I use good table manners
Today, year 5/6 discussed what is meant by ‘good table manners’. After watching a video on etiquette, we practised setting the table for a dinner party and holding a knife and fork properly.
