Light investigation
Year 5/6 S have been investigating the idea that light travels in straight lines and thinking about how shadows are made. They predicted what would happen to the size of a shadow if the light source was brought closer or further away from an object. The children measured changes in shadow size and recorded the data in a table and in graph form. At home, ask your child what they found out.
I can use OS maps
Today, year 5/6 studied OS maps. We learned about how the scale of the map can help us to find out the distances between places. The scale on OS explorer maps is 1:25000. This means every 4cm on the map is worth 1km on the ground. At home you could explore scales on different maps: Google maps or Earth, OS maps or even What3words from last week’s Learning.
Boccia club
Living and learning: self-esteem workshop
Many thanks to the volunteers from Dove, who ran our self-esteem workshops in year 5 and 6 today. All the children were able to talk maturely about body image and learnt about the difference between professional and personal media.
Living and Learning: Democracy
At Scholes, we democratically voted for our school councillors during the last week of term.
Here are our new school council representatives.
We look forward to their enthusiasm and leadership qualities.
3, 2, 1 DODGEBALL!
Well done to the Year 5 dodgeball team, managed by Mr Gledhill, who came third in the East Leeds heats this week. They were fiercely competitive and showed a real team work spirit. Lots of the photos are blurred because they were running around so fast!
Harvest assembly
We were amazed at how much food and toiletries we managed to collect for St George’s Crypt. Thank you for your contribution.
Year 5 reading – Plastic Problem
This week, Year 5 have been reading about plastic and its effect on the ocean. We practised our retrieval skills by picking out some key information (see the underlined bits in the image below) and answering questions.
We thought about plastic and the wider problem and made posters using the information we’d found.
Then, we had a debate: ‘Should plastic be banned?’
Even though we all know there are lots of concerns with plastic at the moment, we were all able to put forward some arguments about how plastic can be used positively. Ask you child their thoughts. Do they think it should be banned or not? Can they give reasons for both sides of the argument?
Reading is all about enjoyment and engagement. It was great to hear stories of people discussing their learning in the playground and at home. One of us even went home and made a poster to encourage others to think about their use of plastic:
Cross Country – Year 6
A massive well done to all the Year 6s who took part in the recent cross country competition at Brigshaw High School. Despite the grey weather, all those who took part had a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding afternoon.
Many of the children who took part had never entered a cross country race before but they gave it their all and never gave up – well done! We were super proud of all our runners and they represented our school excellently.
A particular well done to the girls team who have qualified for the Leeds City finals (helped hugely by a 3rd place finish by one of our super runners!).
One of the runners on the day, said: “Cross Country was a different and interesting experience. After I finished, I felt really proud of myself because I hadn’t given up at all. I’m not the best runner but I kept going and once I had recovered I felt really good about myself.”
Y6 information evening presentation
Following feedback from parents who attended our information evening, here are the slides used during the talk.
Y6 infomation evening presentation