PE – gymnastics
Today in our PE lesson we started to learn about gymnastics. Our learning today was all about jumping. Ask your child if they can tell you, or show you, what our key learning points were.
Can your child name the jumps in the above images? For a challenge, can they tell you something that’s good about the technique and something that could be improved?
Over the next few weeks we’ll progress our learning into balancing, rolling, creating sequences of movements and using apparatus safely.
Living & Learning: staying safe (our own health)
Today, we wasted no time in carrying on where we left off in 2018 by getting straight into our learning. This afternoon, we focussed on our living & learning theme for the coming weeks: staying safe. Of course, there are lots of ways to stay safe but today we focussed on staying healthy – in particular, mentally healthy.
We started by sharing everything we knew about physical health.
Then, after some research (including a couple of videos), we shared everything we’d learnt about mental health.
Finally, we thought about ways we can look after our own mental health.
And practised a few mindfulness techniques.
Ask your child to reflect on their learning and how they can look after their mental health at home.
Book People Book Fair
This week, we’ve a Book People book fair at school. The Book People are an online book shop, selling books at up to 70% off RRP prices. We’ve a great selection of individual books starting from £4 and a wide range of boxed books, too. Tomorrow is the last day we will be selling the books in school. We will open the book fair at 3.15pm for parents to buy and browse before the end of school. The fair is located in the main reception area.
Thank you to everyone who has already paid us a visit and bought a book.
The school earns money for the sales we make, which helps us replenish the school library, guided reading books and books for the children to enjoy in their classrooms.
Eggs-perimenting
We had a smashing time this week! Children designed and made a parachute to guide an egg safely to the ground. After yoking around for a while, the children developed their own hypothesis: The bigger the parachute, the slower the drop.
You might want to design and make you own parachute at home. Just make sure you leave enough eggs for breakfast!
Living and Learning – I know who I am
Our Living and Learning statement this week was ‘I know who I am‘. In Year 5 and 6 this week, we’ve discussed the importance of having a sense of our own identity.
Every child could discuss their own beliefs and what makes them who they are. We all found that we have similarities (attending Scholes (Elmet) Primary School, for example) but also have a lot of differences that make us unique.
3 2 1 Dodgeball!
We entered a Year 5 team into the East Leeds dodgeball competition this week and they were fantastic! Mr Gledhill accompanied the children and was amazed by how brilliantly they performed, particularly commenting on their teamwork, resilience and determination. It was tough getting photos that weren’t blurred as they were moving around so fast! They came second in their group. Well done!
Reading workshop – thanks for attending
Thanks to the Y5,6 parents and carers who came along to our Reading Workshop this week – it is great to know your child is being supported at home in this core life skill.
David Owen, the Sphere Federation English Leader, led the presentation which was also attended by Y5,6 teachers. Read his PowerPoint.
The feedback was really positive:
- ‘We were really pleased we came along. It was a very informative workshop. The slides were great and explained well… All our questions were answered and we were given some great ideas…’
- ‘It was useful to go through the SAT texts… I did not realise how much they needed to read.’
- ‘The workshop was very informative. It set the expectations and explained how we (parents) can help.’
In the annual survey of parents and carers, respondents told us we could do more to provide you with information about your child and their learning. These workshops are an important way to gain understanding and awareness of expectations so you can support your child at home and track their progress alongside school. Please do keep making every effort to attend – thanks again to those who did come along.
“It’s awesome!” – multi-use activity wall
I love it. It’s so good having it on the playground.
Year 6 were pleased to be the first on the rota to use the new equipment. It certainly made playtime and lunchtime extremely active!
Children in Need
Children came to school on Friday in their pyjamas to raise money for Children in Need. The school raised £310.
Odd Sock Day
Yesterday was Odd Sock Day. Children wore odd socks to highlight and celebrate their differences. At home, you might want to discuss how our differences make us unique. 