We hope you had a happy and healthy half-term break.
Do you have a friend or family member looking for a Nursery? Along with Reception, our Nursery was judged by Ofsted (May, 2024) to be outstanding. If you know of someone looking for a place, let them know about us. We have places in Nursery available.
Thank you!
Did you visit our recent Book Fair?
We sold loads of books – a grand total of £1348.78. This means that we now have £737.43 to spend on Scholastic books for school – a win-win for all!
Themed week: Being healthy
Our next themed week is the week beginning Monday 07 July. This is the second of two themed weeks each year.
Learning will be based around how to be healthy physically and emotionally. A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of Living and Learning. Visitors include LS-TEN skateboarding (KS2), Flex Dance (KS1 and Reception) and d:side (Reception – Year 6). Due to the nature of the activities planned, children are allowed to wear PE kit all week. Please respect our Uniform Policy for what to wear on PE days.
Drug education
D:side will deliver drug education sessions to all classes on Thursday 10 July and Friday 11 July. Information for parents and carers about these sessions will be available from d:side on Thursday 10 July from 3.00pm-3:30pm. Weather permitting, you’ll find Dave in the KS2 playground or gazebo.
Sports Day
As part of the week, you’re invited to watch your child take part in our annual Sports Day on Friday 11 July:
- Reception and Key Stage 1: 9.15am – 10.30am – Sports Roundabout
- Key Stage 2: 1.15pm – 3.15pm – Sports Day
(You’ll notice this is different to our usual sports day organisation as our non-competitive sports roundabout is now only for Reception and Key Stage 1. This is based on your feedback about the day.)
Healthy way to travel to school
This themed week is a good opportunity to think about a healthy way to travel to school. We encourage children to use an active and sustainable method of transport, maybe parking further away from school, scooting, biking or walking to school. We’d love to see some active travel photos. Please send photos to scholesoffice@spherefederation.org by Thursday 10 July. There will be a prize draw at the end of the week for children to win a book voucher.
Voluntary contribution
Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, we’re inviting you to make a small contribution: £2 per pupil will help us to pay for visitors and ensure themed weeks like this one can continue in the future. If you choose to contribute, you can do this on School Gateway. Thank you for your support with this.
Can you help?
If your job involves an aspect of health and you can support our Being Healthy themed week by coming into school, please contact the office to pass on your details.
Keep up to date
We’ll keep you up to date about events during the week on the Class News pages on our website.
Thank you for your support to keep Scholes (Elmet) Primary a happy and healthy school.
Staying safe in the sun
Now that summer’s here, it’s important to remember to stay safe in the sun. Please remember to apply sunscreen to keep your child safe.
Every day matters
Our whole-school attendance figure is 95.9%. This means we’re securely above national figures: 93.3% for all schools and 94.9% for primary schools.
All the classes in Key Stage 1 and 2 remain above the national figures. Particular well done to Class 3/4A (Mr Wain’s class)…
- Sunshine Class (Miss Parling): 93.2%
- Rainbow Class (Mrs Allen-Kelly & Mrs Long): 94.2%
- Class 1A (Mrs Brown and Mrs Wilkins): 95.7%
- Class 1/2B (Mrs Latham): 96.7%
- Class 2C (Miss Young): 96.4%
- Class 3/4A (Mr Wain): 97.2%
- Class 3/4B (Miss Gilliland): 96.1%
- Class 3/4C (Mrs Wadsworth): 96.8%
- Class 5/6A (Mr Goodwin): 96.6%
- Class 5/6B (Mrs Hogarth): 95.2%
- Class 5/6C (Mr Lindsay): 95.7%
Thank you for making sure your child attends school as much as possible.
Finally…
Have you had a chance to complete our short annual survey? It’ll take just five minutes or so. You’ve still plenty of time – the closing date is Friday 20 June.