Dance for Daniel
A huge thank you to all involved with our Dance for Daniel. We have managed to raise, so far, £2, 500!
This is an amazing sum of money – thank you. I will be talking to the family, during this next week , about what we can now do to help.
News about Daniel is that he is doing well. After a few complications following the transplant he is making steady progress. The next big step is to have Daniel well enough so that he can be transferred to a Leeds hospital as the family are still travelling to Birmingham.
We continue to wish Daniel well.
Exciting library news!
Our library is up and running!
Yes, we need lots more books, but after lots of hard work we’re proud to say that our library is now being used regularly by the children.
To give our library a grand opening, we’ve invited a local author into school.
Conrad Burdekin is “A fun, unique, and enthusiastic writer, storyteller and poet who inspires children up and down the country to want to write. A lover of books, lego and cricket and a proud Yorkshireman”.
Our opening day will be Thursday, 28 June 2018. Look out for further details about how you can visit our library and meet Conrad.
Dance for Daniel!
We danced for a whole hour on Thursday in support of one of our pupils, Daniel, who has recently undergone an organ transplant. He will spend several months in hospital recovering and we thought it would be nice to show our support. The sun shone and it was a great way to end Spring term – with everyone smiling and feeling happy! If anyone has any sponsor money or donations, please send them into school after the Easter holidays.
Fab feedback
At Scholes (Elmet) Primary, we like to keep inviting people into school to share their views on our strengths and areas to keep improving. It helps to get other people’s opinions.
This week, we welcomed a headteacher from another Leeds school, an outstanding school with a strong record of high attainment. She visited most classes in school, spending up to about 15 minutes observing the teaching and learning, talking with some children and checking out the learning environments.
Our visitor offered three key strengths of our school:
- Very good learning behaviour: pupils are ‘calm, settled and engaged’
- Teaching appeared to be all at least good with some outstanding practice
- Learning environments are attractive and well organised
She also suggested an area for improvement: to explore a distinct editing process to allow to guide pupils when editing and improving their writing. This is a useful recommendation and one that we’ll work on in our final term.
Thank you, Platoon 14
A huge thanks to Platoon 14 and Mrs Myers!
Pond update
After two very busy days…
Before:
After:
What a transformation!
Thank you to all involved.
Watch this space...
Something exciting is happening at Scholes Primary School this weekend! We have a platoon of young people completing their Duke of Edinburgh Award, plus some Scholes in Bloom volunteers renovating our pond and sensory gardens. Mrs Myers, who is coordinating this, has taken lots of photographs of the transformation. I will share them next week.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone who is working at Scholes today – we appreciate your hard work and dedication.
114,530 skips at Scholes School today!
As part of our efforts to raise money for Sport Relief and our school charity, The Donkey Sanctuary, we aimed to complete 50,000 skips collectively today. We smashed our target and completed 114,530! We also enjoyed watching our Year 4 skipping team rehearse for the skipping competition in May.
Give Triathlon a try?
Marvellous Maths facts
At Scholes (Elmet) Primary, we want to be a happy and healthy place to learn. That includes making sure our younger children, in Year 1 and Year 2, know the key number facts that will help to secure fluency in Maths now and in the future – facts like 3+4=?, 2+?=10 and 17+?=20.
Our Addition Facts guide provides a guide to what addition facts we expect pupils in Year 1 and Year 2 to know (the table might look confusing – please ask us if you’re unsure). The aim is for children to be secure by the end of Key Stage 1 – that’s the end of Year 2.
In a recent assessment, we can see some great progress made by our children in securing these facts.
Our Year 2 children scored is now 15.3 out of 20 in the Autumn term, with 63% of children got 15 or more questions right out of 20. They’ve made great progress – now, the average is 19.2 out of 20 and almost all (95%) scored 15 or more.
Well done, everyone! And thank you for supporting your child at home.