Living and Learning: I can receive a compliment sensibly.
We’ve been thinking about how to receive compliments this week.
Giving and receiving compliments is a good way to make and keep friends and create positive relationships. We’ve reflected on how we react when we get a compliment. It can make someone’s day if we say thank you! Equally, it’s upsetting if you give a compliment that isn’t received well.
Chris the coach
We love having basketball coaching with Chris every Wednesday. Today, we learned how to pass the ball around the opposition. It was trickier than we thought!
Reading journals
Year 5/6 have been excited about using their reading journals at home. Here is a good example from Millie. She’s written a summary of a book she read at home.
Remember to record your thoughts about characters in them.
Topic book review
Thank you to the parents who were able to join the year 5/6 topic review session on Monday. The children were able to talk at length about their work, the work of their classmates and the learning that has taken place during this topic.
We agreed on some highlights:
- the Askham Bryan trip
- researching and classifying animals
- reading and following instructions to create a heart
This week, we shall be learning about adaptation and evolution as this ‘big topic’ comes to a close.
World Book Day
Although the snow tried to ruin World Book Day this year, children still found the time to share their books with each other.
Living and Learning
This week, class 5/6M thought about the different types of compliments we give and receive. We decided that you could classify them based on whether it was about a skill, your looks or a personality trait. Which one do you like to receive the most? The children also made a pledge about giving compliments.
Weekly skipping challenge
For the past few weeks, children have set themselves a skipping challenge: how many skips can they achieve in a minute? Most children have made good progress. Some have made outstanding progress. One child, who had never seen himself as a skipper, has gone from five skips to a super 70 skips per minute. Try to make skipping part of your 30 active minutes at home.
Askham Bryan Wildlife and Conservation Park
On Friday, year 5/6 visited Askham Bryan Wildlife and Conservation Park. We had a brilliant time learning about classification and evolution.
Cross Country Champion
A huge congratulations to Freya for her fantastic result in the second stage of the Leeds cross country event last week. After a brilliant performance in her first race a few month ago, Freya was selected to run in the final.
Freya placed 17th out of more than 100 competitors.
Well done and keep up the running!
KEIOTSUKE (attention) – we’re doing judo!
All classes in school enjoyed some judo this week. Reception and Key Stage 1 were introduced to judo by Glynn from Sportif Judo and were thoroughly active for the full session – foot grabbing, pushing, pinning and bulldozing each other!
The Key Stage 2 classes also experienced a second session, building on skills from last month. They improved and developed their pinning, rolling and throwing techniques. If you’d like to continue judo, fliers were sent in book bags.
