Author: Mr Roundtree

Summer holiday competition

Each year, we invite children to enter a competition – last year, we enjoyed reading lots of postcards from around Yorkshire, the UK and the world.

This year, we’d like your child to get creative with a camera! We want our school to be a happy and healthy place to learn – and we want your child to celebrate this by creating the words ‘happy’ (for children up to Year 2) or ‘healthy’ (for children in Year 3 to Year 6) from letters that your child spots in the environment.

Here’s an example of a letter ‘h’ which we’ve found on the internet – somewhere in their surroundings, can your child find the five letters that spell ‘happy’ or the seven letters that spell ‘healthy’?

We found the example above on the internet, but it would be even better if your child were to take pics from real life – perhaps they could find all the images on one day out, or perhaps they set themselves a target of finding one letter every week of the holidays. Your child could spot ‘letters’ near their home or on holiday. They could make the letter shapes from their own body, stretched into different positions, or they could even ask different family members to create the shapes!

There will be four prizes of £15 book tokens – two for the best ‘happy’ words and two for the best ‘healthy’ words.

Please paste the words into a Word document – one side of A4 – and email to school ([email protected]) by Friday 06 September 2019.

Good luck!

Residential… finally!

After much editing, emailing and formating, I finally bring you a taste of what your children experienced on residential. Apologies for the delay! Year 6 had a great time and were a credit to the school, you and to themselves. Many members of staff at Robin Wood remarked upon their manners a number times.

We did all sorts over the three days and here’s an idea of what it was like.

Living and Learning: healthy choices

This week, we’re focusing on healthy choices – this could relate to maintaining good mental or physical health.

I can make healthy choices.

Can you encourage your child to make a new healthy choice every day this week? Or think about one new healthy change your child can make? Try to help them by making sure the choice is a realistic, achievable one, such as avoiding being on an electronic device after a certain time to help sleep, or adding one extra daily portion of vegetables to their diet each day.

Living and Learning: relationships

In Living and Learning, Year 6 have been discussing relationships. Here are the statements we’ve been discussing each week:
  • I see things from other people’s points of view.
  • I know the difference between laughing at and laughing with someone.
  • I tell the truth and say sorry if I need to.
As well as this, Year 6 have recapped their learning from Year 5 on Relationships and Sex Education. This was a useful session to iron out any misconceptions the children had and allow them the opportunity to ask any questions – of which there were many!

28 June 2019

The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect.

I can tell the time to the hour and half past. 

This week, we’ve been learning about time in Year One. The children have been telling the time to hour and half past and have got a sheet in their book to practice this even more.

The homework is due on Thursday 4 July.

What is Light?

It’s been getting spooky in the Year 6 classroom this half term while we investigate a very serious crime.

A laptop has been stolen from school and there’s a mountain of evidence to trawl through, most of which seems to require specialist knowledge of light and how it behaves. Therefore, we have all become physicists to investigate the evidence and find out ‘who dun it’.

We’ve explored how light can be reflected because it can travel in straight lines.

We’ve found out how the angle of the light beam entering a mirror affects the angle at which it is reflected.

We’ve also investigated what factors change the length of a shadow.

So far, we’ve eliminated two suspects from our investigation. We’ll keep you posted on how it progresses in the coming days.