Let’s Get Active!
As part of our commitment to being a happy and healthy school, we’re continually looking at ways to increase the physical activity undertaken within school. The UK Chief Medical Officers found that, “the latest evidence shows there is a clear link between physical activity and chronic disease.” We want to reduce this risk by ensuring that our children can achieve the recommended 60 minutes, or more, of physical activity per day. The government wants schools to provide 30 minutes of this.
In response to this we have launched the 30:30 Wristband Challenge.
Y1-6 children should have brought a recording sheet home. We’ll be taking part in the challenge in school and are encouraging children to continue this at home as well. We already do 10 minutes of Wake Up, Shake Up per day (join in here). We are now striving for 10 minutes of running per day and a further 10 minutes using interactive online resources. The Change for Life website has fun ideas how you can achieve 30 active minutes at home, too.
SATs in May
The Key Stage 2 tests (commonly called SATs) are in May:
- Monday 14 May: English grammar, punctuation and spelling papers 1 and 2
- Tuesday 15 May: English reading
- Wednesday 16 May: Mathematics papers 1 and 2
- Thursday 17 May: Mathematics paper 3
New style National Curriculum tests were introduced in 2016. This video lasts around five minutes and gives you a useful overview of the tests.
As always, speak with us if you have any questions, comments or concerns.
Well done to our swimmers
Well done to our swimmers who represented the City of Leeds swim team at the Jingle Bells gala. They managed to get seven medals between them!
Times tables success!
Each term we carry out a screening check for times tables (out of 25).
In the Autumn term, the average score for Year 5 was 22.3. This has risen from the Summer term when the average score was 17.7.
85% of Year 5 children scored 20 or more. This is a huge improvement compared to 45% last year.
Results in Year 6 improved from an average score of 20.9 to 23.6. 90% of children in Year 6 scored 20 or more compared to 69% in the Summer term.
Congratulations! The homework each week is having a fantastic impact. Thank you for helping your child learn their tables at home.
Community Week 20-24 November 2017
As part of our themed week, Scholes In Bloom spoke to children about their work and awards they have received for making the village look so beautiful. They recently planted 3,000 crocus bulbs outside the library. They are hoping to plant more outside school. If anyone would like to donate any Spring bulbs, please leave them at the school office.
We had a visit from the Elmete Elderberries. They are a local group of older people who meet weekly to socialise and take part in various activities. Key Stage 1 enjoyed dominoes, jigsaws, card making, drawing and refreshments. We’re hoping to take some children to visit the group in the near future.
Beyond Inspired also provided a gentle fitness class, replicating what happens at the Elmete Elderberries.
Key Stage 2 enjoyed the ‘Zines’ workshop, using magazines, newspapers and comics to create collages linked to the community and identity theme.
In Scholes, the Posada is passed around families in the community to mimic the journey of Mary and Joseph in the Christmas story. It was brought to school by the Bliss family and will continue its journey around the village throughout December.
The School Council met to decide the charity that we will support throughout the next year. Each class discussed which charity they wanted to put forward following Talk Time homework and then the School Council made a final decision in a meeting this week. They wanted both an animal and human charity. They decided that The Donkey Sanctuary fitted this perfectly as they help animals but also humans, specifically young people with a focus on self-esteem, coping mechanisms, conflict management and empathy. We look forward to raising money for this worthwhile cause.
5/6M gymnastics
Children in 5/6M have been building on their gymnastics skills from last year. They focused on control and balance.
Sensational story-writing!
Kyra Davy, in 5/6C, certainly made an impression on judges when she entered the Yorkshire Evening Post’s Halloween story-writing competition recently.
Children, up to the age of 16 were invited to submit spine-chilling stories and let their imagination shine. Kyra’s creative side clearly impressed the judges and she was declared the winner of the competition – receiving £50 worth of White Rose shopping vouchers.
Her sinister tale was full of ambitious vocabulary and creative sentence structures which created an atmosphere that would make even the bravest break out into a cold sweat! It was fabulous to see Kyra apply all her learning from the classroom into this competition and we’re all very proud of her. Well done, Kyra!
Read the article in full, and hear Kyra’s spooky tale being read.
Year 5 Descriptive Writing
Year 5/6 have been writing their own setting descriptions this week.
Caring and Sharing – Explorers Topic
1,2V were visited by 5,6C this week so we could share what we had learnt during our Explorers topic. It was great having a real audience to share, discuss and reflect on learning.
School Council
The newly elected School Council have been given their badges by Miss Parling (School Council leader) and are proudly wearing them. They have also taken part in their first decision as elected members. They voted on the type of fundraising the school will do for Children in Need on 17 November. It will be a non-uniform day with a suggested donation of £1.
